MATTHEW PRESTON: Hi. I’m Matthew Preston, product specialist for Open Labs. Today, I’ll be showing you the MiKo Workstation.

The MiKo Workstation is our continuation from our NeKo, just smaller compact size and more toward the digital artist, DJ, VJ. It features a three-octave keyboard, DJ controls [INDISCERNIBLE] crossfader, new master controller with five faders and numerous buttons that you can assign to all your software programs. It also features a touch screen. [INDISCERNIBLE] With our customizable shell, you can set it up any way you wish.

When you install new programs, you can add them to the tiles like so, and the MiKo features a four-in, six-out audio interface, two mic preamps with phantom power, a cue-able headphone output, controls like adjustable gain for your pres. It also features an optical out for home theater. You have Ethernet, USB 2, FireWire, and optional wireless adapter. Under the hood, you’re running a single core AMD64 processor with a 512 RAM, upgradable to 4 GB and also upgradable to a dual-core model as well. You have a 180-GB hard drive. You can upgrade it to a 250- or 500-GB, whatever you wish.

The MiKo starts at $2,495 for the single core model and $2,995 for the dual core.