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Korg nanoPAD2 Slim-Line USB MIDI Pads - Black

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Color: Black


Style: Slim-Line USB Drum Pad Controller


Features

  • Low-profile pad controller excellent for playing or entering drum data
  • Sixteen solid, responsive, and velocity-sensitive trigger pads
  • Control multiple MIDI parameters via the X-Y Touchpad

Description

Like all Nanoseries2 controllers, the Nanopad2 had to be compact, lightweight and sized to work well with any laptop or desktop computer. In addition, the Nanopad2 also had to pack in 16 great-feeling and dynamic-sensing pads – as well as leaving room for the X-Y touch pad! The Korg Nanopad2 does all this and more. In fact, there are four banks of pad assignments, providing a total of 64 pad assignments. The sixteen velocity-sensitive pads provide excellent response to your fingertips, and also realistically convey the playing feel to your sequencer or DAW software, ensuring that your drum parts will be full of life. By switching between the four scenes, you can experience 64 different pad assignments. The X-Y pad can be used to control multiple synthesizer parameters. In addition, the new "touch scale” function lets you intuitively play phrases on the X-Y touch pad, just as on the kaossilator. You can choose from sixteen different scales, and specify the root key and note range to ensure that your performance stays within your song. The "gate ARP” function, borrowed from the kaossilator Pro, transmits note data based on tempo; tap tempo and tempo sync are supported. Combined with the touch scale, The gate ARP allows you to play tempo-synchronized phrases and rhythms simply by stroking the X-Y pad or playing the pads. The Nanopad2 works with the "Korg control editor" Software – available free on the Korg website. Load it into your computer, and use it to make detailed customized settings. Choose from A total of four velocity settings: three velocity curves or fixed velocity. You can also specify note numbers, create user scales for the touch scale function, assign chords, assign control change messages, and save your settings. Just connect a single USB cable from your computer to the Nanopad2, and you've got a quick and portable music production system. Power and USB- MIDI data travels down the same wire for a clean, efficient workspace.

Brand: Korg


Number of Keys: 1


Connectivity Technology: USB


Special Feature: Portable


Model Name: NanoPAD2


Item Weight: 12.7 ounces


Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 1.6 x 3.7 inches


Item model number: NANOPAD2BK


Batteries: 1 Unknown batteries required.


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: April 25, 2011


Color Name: Black


Compatible Devices: Laptop


Connector Type: USB


Hardware Interface: USB


Musical Style: Electronic


Number of Keyboard Keys: 1


Mixer Channel Quantity: 16


Voltage: 9 Volts (AC)


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Well Made, Solid and Fun!
This pad controller is extremely compact, low profile and packed with very interesting and useful features. I also like the feel of both the sixteen pads and X-Y pad very much. The pads are great for drumming with good sensitivity. The downloadable editor software is pretty easy to use( as far as the basics go) but the documentation is a bit confusing, so a lot of discovery through experimentation is needed, but that is normal in the world of digital audio. The scale on the sixteen pads can be set to anything you like, with each pad individually adjustable for any note or cc value. But there are also some preset scales that you can choose from including major, minor, etc. The default scale setup is whole tones from left to right in each row with the top and bottom rows separated by a semitone, giving it a transposing arrangement by a shift of the hand(as long as you don't shift off the edge!). You can also select any midi channel for each pad, as well as choosing between momentary or toggle modes. The X-Y pad has several tricks of its own and gives some fun effects when combined with the arpeggiator. You can also assign the X and Y control to any cc value. Given that having sixteen pads and an X-Y pad is a useful tool to have in your midi arsenal and this is a well made instrument for a low price, it is a must have! You may wonder if you should spend more and get a sampling pad controller. Instead of spending a lot more, you could use this with sampling software, some of which you can get for free. After all, what makes a pad controller a sampling controller is the software. One excellent free sampling program is TX16wx. It is used as a plugin to your DAW and is superb! Another no cost option is the use the free DAW, LMMS which has a built in sampler(the sound file processor) and is an excellent DAW. LMMS does not do audio file recording so you can just add the free AUDACITY program which is also excellent. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014 by jack wilinsky
    • Awesome pad great price.
I'm still learning how to use it but wow this thing is great. The pads are very responsive, I love the pressure sensitivity. I am just learning how to play music so I'm just basically having a little fun and learning quite a bit every step of the way. It's pretty sturdy dosen't feel like it'll break very easy. Seems to be made of good quality materials. I really wish there were backlights behind the pads but I guess if I wanted something like that I should've forked out a little more money. For now at my level I think this is the best. I also have a matching Korg Nanokey 2. Very happy with the design and quality of this line of Midi controllers. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2023 by Big Will
    • It works but there are better products
The touch pads are as sensitive as I’d prefer and it a pain to get it connected if you’ve already connected midi devices to your computer. Outside of that I do like it and i do get plenty of use out of it messing with digital drums.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024 by nick
    • It's all right for PC-based setups, but...
I've had this a couple of years now. It has spent most of its time back in its box because it mostly does not suit my needs. I own a lot of Korg gear, and this is the only Korg thing I've bought that I wish I hadn't. But first... The pros: 1. It's solid. You can smack the heck out the pads and not worry about it breaking. 2. It's ultra lightweight and will fit into a large handbag, backpack, laptop case, nor will take it up very much space on your desk. 3. You can hit anywhere on the pad, such as the barest smidge of a corner and the pad will work. 4. If you own a Korg Kronos, and I do not, you can connect the NanoPad directly to the Kronos via the USB port and the NanoPad will work without a PC or Mac in between. 5. The pads can be configured on a per-pad basis, meaning some pads can send out note/velocity data, other pads can send out CCs (see also the cons below), and some more pads can send MIDI program changes, along with each having the ability to be a momentary switch or a toggle switch, all within one scene. In addition, each pad can send up to four notes, CCs or program changes at once. All of that is pretty decent and worth the price of admission. You can also enable or disable the Gate Arp/Touch Scale options if those features appeal to you. The X-Y pad, too, is configurable with the software, and you can choose between pitch bend or MIDI CC transmission on either axis. You can set both to CC if you want. There's not much point to sending both to pitch bend unless your pad swiping skills are messy, because the pitch bend on both axes is not additive, and you can only pitch bend one whole note anyway. And that's about it for the pros. The cons: 1. The velocity sensitivity of the pads is spotty at best. There are only three velocity curves available plus one constant velocity value option in the Korg Kontrol software. To get the most sensitivity out of the pads, you'll want to choose the "Hard" curve option. If that doesn't seem much different to you than the other two curves, you're not alone. With the absolute lightest touch I can manage, the pads typically send out velocity values between 5 and 45 on the hard curve. That isn't particularly expressive and you will struggle to play with any kind of nuance. 2. You'll need a computer and some kind of DAW or other MIDI software like MIDI-OX for this to work (unless you have a Kronos -- I don't know if the new Korg Nautilus will work with it straightaway). This is the most annoying thing for me. If you don't work ITB (in the box, i.e. on a computer), then you'll need to get a USB MIDI Host, and those cost between $50 to several hundred dollars. I do not recommend buying a NanoPad if you plan to work DAW-less, because why spend more money on a USB Host just to get your NanoPad to work with your gear? If you already have lots of class compliant controllers and a USB MIDI host, then getting this might be OK for you. If Korg ever updates the design of the Nanopad, I hope they consider adding some 3.5mm MIDI jacks like what you get on a BeatStep Pro. 3. The X-Y pad. While the Korg Kontrol software lets you configure the pads on a per-pad level differently in its four different scenes, the X-Y pad can only be configured on a global level, which carries over from scene to scene. That limits its functionality greatly. When the X-Y pad is configured to send out CCs on either axis, the pad becomes unipolar on that axis. It would be better if it let you specify unipolar or bipolar behavior for CCs, along with giving you two CCs per axis (to work like a Korg joystick controller). There is also no option for each axis to send on a different MIDI channel, the pad can only send on one channel. There is a Touch/Release mode that activates when you simply touch the pad, but I don't find that particularly useful for me. It might work for you. Finally you can't set the amount of pitch bend the pad will do (unless I have missed that option somewhere). 4. There is no aftertouch (AT) on the pads. For the price of this, that's fair enough, but it would be nice. If channel or polyphonic AT is important to you, get another pad controller that does it. 5. When the pads are set to transmit CC data, they can only send out a full data value of 127. You cannot configure this to send out a certain value to be used as a threshold value for instance, or to respond to velocity as input. That's a shame, in my opinion. This severely limits the usability of CCs on the pads. But you can set a threshold value on the X-Y pad when in Touch/Release mode. You can forget sending out any kind of NRPN to your gear too. 6. It's lightweight but the rubber feet don't hold the NanoPad in place very well on some surfaces, like aluminum on a keyboard panel for instance. I use a piece of non-slip shelf liner to keep the NanoPad from moving when I use it. Summary: If you're looking for a decent, basic pad controller to beat on indiscriminately, and you don't mind working via your computer, then this might fit the bill for you. If you're looking for nuanced play, a full MIDI spec implementation and tons of configuration options for controlling your extensive MIDI gear, then you'd be better off spending a bit more money on a pad controller or sequencer with pads. After trying to get on with this thing for a few months, I ended up getting a BeatStep Pro instead for the finer pad work, but I do use the X-Y pad on the NanoPad for pitch bending one of my synths. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2021 by J.R.
    • Useless because Korg Kontrol Editor won't recognize their device
I'm a former programmer at Microsoft so I'm better than the average bear at this sort of thing. Plugging it in, my DAW does recognize it. However, reasonably enough, you have to use their Korg Kontrol Editor to program the nanoPAD2 to your requirements. Korg Kontrol Editor simply won't recognize my nanoPAD2. I tried everything I could think of to make this work, without success: freshly booted machine with no other programs running, nanoPAD2 plugged directly into my PC (no hubs), etc. No luck. I'm stumped, and I give up -- better things to do. Which is too bad -- I really wanted this to work. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2024 by William Zeitler

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