If your the guy who needs to get a little more midi control without sacrificing precious booth space or beer money you may have reason to rejoice. Korg has announced a clever line of midi controllers that will fit right in front of your laptop and theoretically perhaps sit on the same laptop stand
The slider version looks perfect for those wanting to mix in a little Ableton Live action on the side.
These pads should fit the Serato guys needs for extra cue point control perfectly.
Perhaps you want to jam out on a keyboard during your set?
There are reports that each of these Korg “nano” controllers will set you back about $125 but the exact selling price and release date remains to be seen.
They are so fucking awesome!
I’ll probably end up buying all of them! Haha. Not even that big a cost to get them all either.. damn thats awesome. This is pretty much axacty what ive been wanting, my remote SL is 2 big to carry round in my backpack easily.
omg, - sounds great!!
hopefully they’ll be able to daisy chain or something so you don’t need to use up all your usb ports…
dang! is that a track pad on the second one… I am still looking around to purchase my first controller…Im open to suggestions I kinda want to get the new VCI-300 but thats kind of outside my spending limit. Ean if you could get your hands on one and give us some feedback, that would totally rock!
See also the thread in the forums :)
http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3670#post3670
I hope they will be available for 99$
Every time I see one of these exciting new USB controllers, I’m wondering, where on my MacBook I’ll connect this. With two USB ports it’s sometimes pretty challenging to deal with many devices on Apple laptops and I’ve had very bad live experience (huge unresponsiveness) when I connected a few of them through a powered USB hub.
I now use 1 port for the Audio 8 DJ which is an excellent card (but would be even better with FireWire) and the second for my midi controller. Then I use the MIDI inputs of the sound-card to connect my Nuo4 to add some controls.
What do you think? Is now Mac’s USB2 mature enough to handle more than 3 devices, including the audio card, at the same time if connected with a hub?
I run two four-port hubs on my macbook at home and get pretty solid performance with an audio interface, an external hard=drive housing all my music, two midi controllers and a mouse and keyboard all plugged in among other things. When I play live I run the interface through one port and use a hub for all the other things I need and that works fine. I guess it depends on your equipment and software configuration as well.
I use Traktor and Ableton at the same time, and cheap $10 unpowered hubs. It can be done.
I feel sorry for Kenton who basically pioneered this with their killamix but charged too much money for it. Their’s is probably better quality too, being metal.
The pad version looks like it’s an elongated version of PadKontrol so that’s probably an XY controller.
Still, I’m happy with my new MPD24 since it combines the knobs, faders and pads all in one
I can’t see deticated DJ controller among thiese. KORG is still oriented towards musicians, unlike Vestax. They should make something with 4 sliders, 6 pots, 2 jog-dials and few buttons (like a CD-player contol). That would be worth my booth-space.
I have had the image of something that looks like the nano pad in my head for a few months that would sit in between the mixer and the turntable to use with my existing traktor scratch setup. Most clubs have a few inches to squeeze a controller in. Its always fun to show up and pray its all not bolted down!
I use a wireless keypad from logitech at the moment…
ah, finally! finally!
I’ve been looking for a small controller like those for months and never found anything that really satisfied me. the Kontrol with the knobs and faders looks perfect for basic track control of Live.
I emailed their customer service, and they said to expect these units for sale in the US this fall. I can’t wait.
i have looked on the korg site to see some bigger images…
i think the nano?s only run in one midi channel like the vci.100 (is it true???)…if the vci and the nanopad (for example) run on channel 1 and have the same cc-notes, this might be ****…because they would act against each other…finally i love the innovation of korg?s nano?s but i always had trouble if i run 2 cntrollers on one midi channel….or am i totaly wrong???
can i route them into another midi-channel?
For sure, the reason why there are midi channels is that multiple midi-instruments don’t conflict…
Looks nice… I like the first 2 but the keyboard looks like a toy! Hehehe
2 Pri7z:
But do the korg nano?s have multiple midi-channels or just 1 channel like the vci-100???
Oh yeah…them nanos lok nice. BUt that keyboard reminds of that cute little toy keyboard kids play with. Looking forward to them.
Don’t you just love the way this revolutions is growing in leaps and bounds? And is just me or is the font on this comment form a bit too small to read compfortably…
On safari- it really sucks. Firefox is better- not sure about IE. Can can try and work on that a little bit.