Korg Nanokontrol Studio Bluetooth/USB MIDI Control Surface with 8 Faders & Backlit Switches

As a musician and producer, finding the right tools to bring my ideas to life is essential, and the Korg nanoKEY2 MIDI Controller has quickly become a staple in my setup. Sporting a sleek white design and compact form factor, this 25-key MIDI controller packs a punch in terms of functionality and versatility. Here's why it's earned a permanent place in my creative arsenal. First and foremost, let's talk about portability. The nanoKEY2's slim and lightweight design makes it the perfect companion for musicians on the go. Whether I'm working in the studio, jamming with friends, or composing on the road, this controller slips easily into my bag, allowing me to take my music wherever inspiration strikes. Plus, the USB bus power means I can plug it into my laptop or tablet and start making music without the need for an external power source. Despite its compact size, the nanoKEY2 doesn't skimp on features. The 25 velocity-sensitive keys provide a responsive and expressive playing experience, allowing me to capture every nuance of my performance with precision. Plus, the Octave Shift buttons give me instant access to a full range of musical pitches, making it easy to play melodies, chords, and basslines across multiple octaves. But where the nanoKEY2 truly shines is in its versatility. With a range of assignable controls, including knobs, buttons, and a touch-sensitive XY pad, it offers endless possibilities for creative expression and experimentation. Whether I'm tweaking synth parameters, triggering samples, or adding effects to my tracks, the intuitive layout and customizable settings make it easy to tailor the controller to my workflow and musical style. Setup is a breeze, thanks to the plug-and-play compatibility with a wide range of music production software. Whether you're using Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, or any other DAW, the nanoKEY2 integrates seamlessly, allowing you to start making music right out of the box. Plus, with native support for Mac, PC, and iOS devices, you can use it with all your favorite software and devices without any hassle. In conclusion, the Korg nanoKEY2 MIDI Controller is a powerful and versatile tool that's perfect for musicians, producers, and anyone looking to unleash their creativity. With its portable design, responsive keys, assignable controls, and plug-and-play compatibility, it's a must-have accessory for anyone serious about making music. Highly recommended for beginners and seasoned professionals alike!

I use my Korg NanoKontrol2 for more than just music production. I am able to use it when mixing in FL Studio, Serato DJ to macro FX and toggle samples and have found use as a stream deck to toggle scenes and trigger sound alerts when streaming through OBS. I did have a problem with a driver and Windows registry that needed a little adjusting but got it up and running with help from watching a YouTube video on how to correct the problem. Korg really made a great product with many uses beyond music production. And if you look elsewhere to find this item you will see Amazon is the place to shop!

I hope musicians read this article before buying this device. This device is not supported on Big Sur. Nobody who's writting reviews know this because it's was not on the korg site till recently. They are working on updates even for Monterey version so it's going to take some patience before we can use it. Wait and check the site before buying. The device itself works ok. You can use it any how but have to go and set it up as generic remote controller in your studiosetup in Cubase 11 pro. After that you have to use the learn function and go true each midi program number to see and set it up. It's easy but it takes some time to get it running but it's worth it. there's no latency in the faders or knobs so if you have this issue there's something going wrong. For people who bought this to use with logig X and Garageband they have made a driver for this. You just have to search the site a little bit. If you mess up use these function to factory reset: Press <,stop and scene buttons when turning on to usb. You have to wait at least a couple of minutes and don't turn the device off. You can reset with scene and cycle botton to when turning on. It's like a lite reset. when the buttons your holding flashes let them go. There's a driver that works for the nanokontrolstudio I don't know were I got it today 3 Nov 2021. It's called advKorgUSBMIDIDriver.plugin. with this plugin the Korg nanokontrolstudio works perfectly. when your done and the Mac 2018 see it you must hold down scene and marker buttons at start up and the Korg goes in cubase mode. In studio setup choose the Mackie control in the top of the same screen choose nanokontrolstudio control both midi in and out press ok and your done. Mine works now without any problems all function work only the individual rec arm button does not work but I think I can set it in the Korg editor what I have not used because it doesn't communicate with the device. Hope this will help a lot. 10-11-2021 I have reset correctly now and all funcions work perfectly. I'm using it with Cubase pro 11 and have no problems. To put it in Cubase mode hold the scene and <marker button it lights all scene buttoms up. Let it go and be sure in the studiosetup the midi in and out is set to your nanokontrole and your set to mackie control and that's it. There is a driver for Garageband and one for Logic X so it should work now in those DAW to. Go to Korgswebsite to download them.

Because I use a DAW that doesn't recognize the automatic configuration, I had to do it manually button by button, but once I did this, the operation was glorious! I felt like a real sound operator again. Having the REC button and analog faders back is incomparable, it speeded up my recording process a lot, everything was excellent.

IF YOU'RE USING CUBASE AND IT KEEPS RESETTING, DO NOT RETURN IT. These device is not defective, Steinberg's engineers are. There is a fix. You need to go into the midi device manager and disable the scripts for the NanoKontrol2. This is a Steinberg/Cubase issue and not a Korg issue. The device works just fine. When you disable the scripts, the NanoKontrol2 goes back to working like a normal MIDI controller. If you google how to disable midi controller scripts, you'll find the solution easily. I don't think Amazon will let me post a link.

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.

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。

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

Ich liebe das Ding! Tatsächlich ist es fürs Live-Looping zwischendurch mein Controller Nr.1 geworden und wird - dank der Flexibilität der Bluetooth-Verbindung - häufiger verwendet als mein geliebtes APC Mini. Für "richtige", komplexe Arbeit an der DAW findet es bei mir keine wirkliche Verwendung, einfach, weil das Setup an meinem Studiotisch bereits fest besteht, aber ich sitze oft mit Laptop, Keyboard und Nanokontrol auf dem Sofa und bastele und loope ein wenig vor mich hin - dafür ist es einfach perfekt! Mithilfe von Control Surface Studio (Software-Empfehlung!) habe ich mir ein genau auf meine Bedürfnisse zugeschnittenes Ableton Live Script erstellt und kann mit dem Nanokontrol durch Abletons Session View navigieren, Clips und Scenes abfeuern und stoppen, das Metronom einstellen, automatisch auf die Bedienelemente gemappte Spur- Instrumentalparameter steuern, u.v.m. Die zusätzliche Arbeit hat ein wenig Zeit in Anspruch genommen, war aber nicht besonders kompliziert und hat sich definitiv gelohnt. Verglichen mit dem Nanokontrol2 fällt mir vor Allem eine Verbesserung der Fader auf. Sie sind etwa 1,5cm länger und laufen mit ein wenig mehr Widerstand - bei beidem ist zwar noch Luft nach oben, aber man kann gut und recht exakt damit arbeiten. Auch die Mute, Solo, Record Arm und - neu dazugekommen - Select Buttons sind nicht mehr zwischen den Fadern angebracht, sondern darüber, was die Bedienung deutlich erleichtert und einem versehentlichen Verstellen der Fader bei allzu hastiger Benutzung vorbeugt. Die Potis sind etwas größer und angenehmer zu greifen, dasselbe gilt für sämtliche Buttons, was jetzt keine weltbewegende Verbesserung ist, aber die ganze Sache etwas weniger fummelig macht. Wirklich begeistert bin ich vom Jogwheel und der stabilen Bluetooth-Verbindung, bei der ich keine hörbare Latenz wahrnehmen konnte. Bei meinem Macbook Pro 2019 / MacOS Monterey war keine Einrichtung notwendig: Batterien rein, anschalten, Verbindung herstellen und los. Alternativ lässt sich das Nanokontrol Studio auch per Micro-USB-Kabel betreiben - eine USB-C-Buchse wäre mir da persönlich lieber gewesen, ist aber kein Beinbruch. Eingestellt wird die bevorzugte Betriebsart an einem Schalter, der das Gerät auch in den Standby-Modus versetzen kann. Benötigt werden 3 AAA-Batterien, über deren Langlebigkeit ich noch nichts sagen kann. Meinen Testzeitraum von circa 10 Stunden haben sie aber schon mal durchgehalten ;) Gibt es Negatives? Da fällt mir nur eines ein: Die von einigen bereits erwähnte, seltsame Lichtshow, die nach einigen Minuten Inaktivität einsetzt und die aktuellen Einstellungen "überstrahlt" Bewegt man irgendein Element des Controllers, wird das Blinken gestoppt und alles leuchtet wieder wie gehabt. Für mich persönlich ist das aber kein wirkliches Problem - im Gegensatz zur Lichtshow meines Launchpads zieht mir das Nanokontrol nämlich keinen Laptop-Akku weg. ;) Neutral bewerten würde ich Korgs Editor. Er ist zwar recht umfangreich, aber auch recht umständlich. Das gleiche gilt für den internen Scene-Speicher des Gerätes: Mit einer einzigen Taste lassen sich der Reihe nacht fünf indivduell belegbare Scenes durchschalten, was angenehm simpel, aber mitunter auch nervig sein kann, wenn man von der zweiten zur ersten Scene zurück möchte und den Knopf viermal drücken muss. Ich habe dieses Problem in meinem Script umgangen und einfach die erste Scene mit verschiedenen Modes belegt, die es mir erlauben, unterschiedliche Funktionen auf die Bedienelemente zu mappen, ohne den MIDI CC-Wert tatsächlich ändern zu müssen. Fazit: Mit ein klein wenig Bastelarbeit und Know-How ein wirklich guter Controller, der einiges draufhat! Ich bin sehr zufrieden und würde ihn nochmal kaufen.

Followed the instructions Owner’s manual, initialized the unit and was able to interface with Cakewalk by Bandlab (initialized as for SOPNAR) and Ableton Live 10 Standard. Only used in DAW Mixer Control Mode and works out of the box. I would recommend it for Cakewalk by Bandlab. A cute little companion for home studio at this price point. Tried to interface with to ACID Pro 10 with no success.