For Christmas my brother got me a gift certificate to ThinkGeek and I bought myself two of the three Korg nanoSERIES controllers.

I got the nanoKEY and the nanoKONTROL, which they just started selling on ThinkGeek, and am anxiously awaiting their arival. I am going to try to use them with FruityLoops, which I hear works fairly well.


The nanoKEY is a 25-key, velocity sensitive keyboard that can communicate via MIDI with a USB slot. Its not something up to scale and sturdiness as a full proper keyboard, but the price is right and its extremely light and portable.


The nanoKONTROL comes with 9 knobs, 9 faders, and 18 switches. Once again it’s not up to snuff as a full and proper unit, and its not motorized, but for the stuff I am looking to do it is more than enough and an awesome price.

Here is a review of the nanoKONTROL which shows it being used with the nanoKEY:

SonicState review

I also want the nanoPAD, but will wait to get that after a month or so if I am still interested in making music and performing. Here is a review of the nanoPAD:

SonicState review

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