Korg NanoPAD/NanoKONTROL

[Aez]

EDIT: Okay i worded that wrong, what i meant was that the durability is not really that big of a deal as long as you treat your gear right.

[amplex]

i got a nanopad off of ebay for 50$ brand new and one of the pads didnt seem to work well at all when I got it. I wrote the guy and he supposedly wrote korg and rma'd it (but they didn't ask for the original back, he told me they would just send me a new one)... Never got anything from korg, wrote the guy a few times again asking him whats up with the rma nanopad, he hasn't answered.. this is about a month ago.. I got ripped off!!!!! I'd say don't buy one of these nanopads unless you get to play with it a LOT beforehand and all the pads work. And just hope all the pads work a month or two down the line.. Maybe mine was just defective, but if not, a sturdier device might be the answer.

[deadly_habit]

Deadly habit - did you program your nanokontrol?
You should be able to use 3 scenes at least.

I have 2x nanokontrol and 1x nanopad.
I would recommend the akai small pad controller over the nanopad - it has backlit pads and 6 knobs instead of one .

Nanokontrol is pretty sweet. I'm using it for live pa with 2 launchpads.

yea i programmed it, but what i'm after is the fader and knob features that the nanolive offers for ableton users
multiple scenes are useless for more than one scene due to the position jumps say if you're using it for mixer levels

[deadly_habit]

i got a nanopad off of ebay for 50$ brand new and one of the pads didnt seem to work well at all when I got it. I wrote the guy and he supposedly wrote korg and rma'd it (but they didn't ask for the original back, he told me they would just send me a new one)... Never got anything from korg, wrote the guy a few times again asking him whats up with the rma nanopad, he hasn't answered.. this is about a month ago.. I got ripped off!!!!! I'd say don't buy one of these nanopads unless you get to play with it a LOT beforehand and all the pads work. And just hope all the pads work a month or two down the line.. Maybe mine was just defective, but if not, a sturdier device might be the answer.

why wouldn't you get one from a real store?

[decklyn]

Deadly habit - did you program your nanokontrol?
You should be able to use 3 scenes at least.

I have 2x nanokontrol and 1x nanopad.
I would recommend the akai small pad controller over the nanopad - it has backlit pads and 6 knobs instead of one .

Nanokontrol is pretty sweet. I'm using it for live pa with 2 launchpads.

yea i programmed it, but what i'm after is the fader and knob features that the nanolive offers for ableton users
multiple scenes are useless for more than one scene due to the position jumps say if you're using it for mixer levels

Yeah then the nativekontrol drivers are it except they don't seem well suited to live PA.
I just bought multiple controllers

On the issue of durability, if your controller is so cheap that breaking it would only mean spending another $60USD is it REALLY an issue?

[cloak and dagger]

EDIT: Okay i worded that wrong, what i meant was that the durability is not really that big of a deal as long as you treat your gear right.

That's fair enough, although I if something isn't durable, then how you treat it doesn't really matter. Case in point is my NanoPad, which never got used in my live PA, never left my desk, didn't get used very much, and was never used even remotely harshly, but broke after just over a year of buying it...also taking into account that I've heard a fair amount of stories of Korg Nano products breaking over very small things.

[Aez]

Fuck, you guys were right. Just got both, NanoKONTROL works perfectly. Only 3 pads on the NanoPAD work... Last time i've bought korg
Seriously, wtf is this shit? 9 pads work if i hold that thing upside down. But i don't think this thing is made for upside down drum playing.