Korg 25-Key Midi Controller for Beginners (NANOKEY2WH)

The Nanokey2 boasts an advanced and up-to-date design, blending the great-feeling "touch" developed by Korg for its professional MIDI keyboards and the low-profile "thinness" of recent computer keyboard innovations. This combination provides the Nanokey2 with a superior keyboard response for its class and size. Designed with ample key width and plenty of space between the keys, the Nanokey2 reduces the chances of playing a wrong note. The touch and velocity response have been carefully tuned by Korg's expertise, ensuring that your expressive performances are accurately conveyed to your software.

The Nanokey2 features octave shift buttons, borrowed from Korg MIDI controllers, which allow the overall pitch to be shifted four levels, either up or down, in octave increments. For enhanced performances, the Nanokey2 also provides pitch bend buttons, a modulation button, and a sustain button – indispensable for piano or electric piano performance. The on/off switching speed of these buttons can be specified over four levels using the Korg control editor, ensuring smooth changes appropriate for your performance.

The Nanokey2 works seamlessly with the "Korg control editor" software, available free on the Korg website. By loading this software onto your computer, you can make detailed customized settings, such as choosing from a total of four velocity settings: three velocity curves or fixed velocity, and specifying the control change messages transmitted by the modulation button and the sustain button. Connecting a single USB cable from your computer to the Nanokey2 creates a quick and portable music production system, with power and USB-MIDI data traveling down the same wire for a clean, efficient workspace.

In summary, the Nanokey2 is a low-profile, 25-key USB-MIDI keyboard, ideally suited for use with laptop and netbook computers. Its advanced design, with improved accuracy and velocity-sensitive keys, and the inclusion of a sustain button make it an excellent choice for entering piano parts and other expressive performances.

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