Korg - nanoKONTROL2 - Slimline USB MIDI Controller - White

Delivery - Excellent. Build quality - better than expected. Performance ? Read on.... I have a Korg nanoKontrol 2. Great product. Slightly short faders but fits on the bottom of a Macbook real sweet. Also works with several KORG apps on iOS - iMS20, iElectribe and Gadget. Best is iMS20 by far. One button switches between mixer and synth. If the app had Link it would be the total business. Only drawback is the USB lead. Not good on an old school 32 pin iPad with a camera adapter, better on a Lightning equipped model. So the wireless version should provide all of the functionality of the USB only model right ? Maybe a bit more ? Wrong. All my KORG iOS apps recognise it and flag it as connected. So let's try some of them.... iDS10 ? No. Well I could hope.... iMS20 ? No. iElectribe ? No ! Gadget ???? After all, there is a button on the front panel labelled "SCENE" - maybe you could cycle between scenes ??? Very limited mixer control only. Jog wheel, scene buttons and FF/FR buttons are redundant. The track buttons are duplicated by the Select buttons above the faders and don't illuminate.... Leave them alone. And why is there a label with Wireless on it painted out ???? I will keep it. In a few years time, secondhand iPAD Pro's will be within my grasp and a Link locked 8 track version of Gadget will run like clockwork. Oh dear KORG it could have been so much more..... How about some downloadable profiles for the editor ??? TIP - If you connect this unit to the editor on Mac, the SCENE lights will come on and the unit will no longer talk via Bluetooth. If you can find a factory reset mentioned anywhere on the net, you are well clever. I used the same routine as described for the wired version ? Hold down CYCLE and the two TRACK buttons and power up using USB. Worked for me. UPDATE 20/5/22 I HAVE UPGRADED TO IPAD AIR. WITH KORG ELECTRIBE WAVE, THIS UNIT PROVIDES FULL CONTROL. 2 BANKS OF 8 FADERS INSTANTLY. WELL DONE KORG FOR IMPLEMENTING. INCREASED RATING TO 5 STARS

This is a great little keyboard. I hoped that it would be set up in Windows 7 without drivers needing installing (as a USB composite device) but the Korg software needed installing before my DAW (Reaper) would recognise it. After that it was just a case of letting the DAW know what it was and I was entering MIDI note data into the program literally in minutes. It's obviously nowhere near as lush as a proper controller keyboard, and there's no niceties like aftertouch available, although there is rudimentary velocity sensing, and the small keybed needs careful playing if you're after any kind of subtlety or nuance - but it does try. For me, its a way of entering melodies into the DAW as a kind of MIDI notepad, and it does a grand job of that. It's small enough to slot into your laptop case, probably along with the other Korg nano controllers. So long as you're not expecting to emulate Chopin using this keyboard you'll not be dissappointed. It will be pretty good for entering basic synth elements into club music and electronica - it just won't offer you the expressive capabilities that aftertouch can provide. If you're good with that limitation and need a go-anywhere keybord this is certainly worth a look. Korg also offer a download code for various software components to get you going, together with introductory versions of DAWs like Ableton Live Lite. This bundle isn't quite as good as the one I received with a NanoPad a year or two ago. If you buy this you might want to check what the bundle presently is. It's possible that Korg changes it from time to time, or perhaps there's a different bundle depending on whether you buy the NanoKey, NanoPad or NanoController. I already have a Samson Graphite full-function controller keyboard, and also use a Yamaha digital grand piano (88-key) for playing, but realised I have a need for something that is as portable as possible for a mobile setup. This is that keyboard - basic, useable, sometimes even fun!

My nanoPAD2 arrived this morning and I must admit I was intially caught out by the packaging. The USB lead is tucked neatly at one end under a cardboard flap so it appears the box is empty, hopefully that tip will save you a couple of minutes. Installation was swift, the drivers seemed to install well on Win7-64 even though the site suggests a fix would be needed for Win7 32/64. My tool of choice is Propellerheads Reason 6. Adding the nano2 to the Reason set up was simple and I was tapping away drums and messing about with synths in no time. The construction seems solid and the device itself is bigger than I expected which makes it very comfortable to play (for scale purposes the touchpad is similar in size to that of a notebook's). The 'Kaos' pad can be used in a number of modes which will be fun to play with even though I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet... The note-pads themselves have a decent - velocity sensitive - response and I had a lot of fun tapping out beats with it and I'm no drummer. One thing that seems to be a bit of a gripe is the apparant inability to change the octave of the pads themselves. While the touchpad is in 'touch scale mode' it is affected by octave shifts. This may be a limitation of my understanding of how to use this but I thought it was worth mentioning as I didn't even think of this when I bought it. I is perhaps possible to do this within the Korg Kontrol Editor but my brief experience with this software wasn't plesant. I will endeavour to flesh this part of my review when I have more experience. All in all though my 4* is based on the fact that this seems a quality bit of hardware for a very reasonable price.

Ik gebruik hem voornamelijk voor de verschillende audio kanalen te besturen van mijn Desktop. Hier is deze zeker geschikt voor. Snelle handelingen in samenwerking met Voicemeter Potato werken goed.

Wanted it to work with iPad Pro so had to do the upgrade. Had fun trying to get the upgrade to work on a pc. Found I had another keyboard in an the upgrade program did not like it. It all worked fine when I plugged the Nanokeys into the same usb port that the other keyboard was in. Works a treat on the iPad talking to Gadget 3 is really good.

この手のフィジカルコントローラー、Avid、Mackieはじめ色々買いましたが場所を取るわりに出番が少なく、結局マウスでやるのが早いので全て手放しましたが、今回VST instのHanz Zimmer StringsのMIDIデータ入力用に購入してみました。 マックOS BigSur11.6.1でドライバー不要で、電源を入れるときに、キューベースモード、ミディコントローラーモードなど選んで立ち上げると、すぐ認識し、初期設定は簡単でした。 音量とビブラートを同時にスライダー入力したかったので、とても便利になりました。 BlueTooth接続用にエネループも購入しましたが、こちらのレビューにあるように、電池の取り出しが不便そうです。 そこで写真３のようにナイロンの端切れを乾電池の後ろに挿入するようにして、取り出しやすく一工夫しました。 ムービングフェーダーの入った重く大きなものより、手軽に持ち歩けるし、必要なVST inst関係のデータ入力にはこれで十分でした。 フェーダーのタッチもいいです。 おそらくキューベースのミックス作業には使わないと思いますが、もし使ってみて便利だったら？？こちらの情報アップデートします。

Eu tava procurando um primeiro controlador pra começar a produzir e o Nanokey 2 atendeu muito bem o que eu precisava. Ele é bem completo, 25 teclas, sobe e desce até 3 oitavas, tem controlador de pitch, sustentação e modificador que acredito ser customizável. É bem pequeno, super leve, muito bonito esteticamente. As teclas ficam levemente balançando, parecem ser levemente mal encaixadas e às vezes parece que não vai clicar do jeito esperado, mas o clique acontece. No geral, achei um ótimo teclado.

Works perfect. I really dont know why its taken so long for me to get one.