Korg nanoKEY 2 black Reviews

Good for getting started

It's good for getting started in MIDI controllers world I would highly recommend it for the beginning plus it's not that expensive and it comes with software code for free

KORG drivers ruin this controller

I'd say stay away from this if you're on a PC. The KORG USB drivers are horrible and, assuming you have a bunch of other USB devices (which all of us do) you WILL need to jump through several hoops to make this work. And none of these hoops are documented by KORG, you will have to figure it out yourselves... The reason this does not work with a generic UBS-MIDI driver baffles the mind...

nanoKey2

Good small keyboard for the price. Unusual key layout lets it double as pads. But they are quite plastic to the touch.

For a small protable device it's good.

Useful

This tiny keyboard will never replace any serious instrument, but it’s still very useful for entering a few midi notes into yor daw or, as I mainly use it, for checking out and adjusting software sounds before I move to my 88 key Roland for recording.

The keys are a bit ”shallow” with a pretty uninspiring feel, but they serve their purpose. You get used to them after a while.

The underside of the device was slightly bent upwards, so it wouldn’t sit flat on my desk if it wasn’t for those tiny rubber pads in the corners. Not a big deal, but a bit weird, though.

ok for a beginner

it's quite cute and ok for a beginner. I tried using it on a drum plugin, but cannot make the bass drum work. good for keys and synths plugins though.

I thinkk..

I just placed an order. He has a very sexy look. I hope it is so useful.

Nice for travelling

Got one of those and didn't really enjoy the pc keyboard style which is too noisy and quite hard to get used to it.

However, it is really nice in terms of travelling perspective, you can put it in your bag very easily.

At the end it's all about what type of midi controller you are looking for.

More favorable than other 25 key midi keyboards for drumming

Relatively accessible and nice touch keys. Sensitiveness works fine, really handy for quick midi stuff. However its not for real piano thing for sure.

I like it

It's not great to the touch as it's very plastic-y but overall it does exactly what it says it'll do. Maybe more appealing in a different colour - I went for black to match my other gear though.

nice compact bit of gear

Very compact bit of gear, I use this with some (DIY) synth instruments. Compatibility is as advertised (used it on Win, OSX, Linux, iOS -garageband and Arduino Mega ADK) Touch sensitivity is working, but don't expect a lot of expressiveness there. Key size is large enough to play (sort of blind). Rather noisy. Anyway, good, robust, compact bit of gear.

Great price/value ratio

It's a decent product for it's price. The compactness gives it a lot of extra value. The velocity sensors do not feel like they have a big range, which is something to take into account when using or creating patches that are very dependent on velocity. All in all I had lots of fun with this feller.

A keyboard that fits in your pocket

Now this is cool! A software-customizable keyboard that is so small you can fit several of them in your laptop bag!

Use with any software, as a keyboard, playback control or drum pad - or anything else you can think of. The keys feel good and have surprisingly good response for something so small and made of plastic. You can put a couple of them side by side if you need more octaves at once, so as long as you have enough USB ports you can just keep adding on.

For quick recordings of ideas, sample playback or backing keys (like string chords or such in the background) this is fantastic! It will most likely be good for live use as well, though I have yet to try that. But remember that it is really small - which is both to its advantage and to its disadvantage.