Cool concept, I like the folding aspect, the arp and scale features (can you add more than 15 scales - custom ones etc?). I'd have to try one to see if those tiny membrane nub keys are a deal breaker though. Hard to imagine how the velocity sensitive works/feels with those keys. If you'd have kept the original nano-type keys and made it fold 3 times for an extra octave and kept the lights and the cool features I would have bought one sight unseen. Blessings.
Important to remember that they’ve got half the thickness of the device to play with. It’d be a very small battery or would add a fair bit of bulk to the design. Probably not a set of trades most users looking for ultimate portability would make
@@DJThermite valid point, for sure. But we have folding smartphones these days, and BLE doesn’t use much power. They also could’ve gone coin cell, or made the ‘lump’ with the USB-C port end a bit bigger, like the full width of the device. Look up the Wavy Monkey - that’s a tiny tiny two octave (non folding) Bluetooth midi controller powered by a coin cell battery, has arpeggiator too. It’s basically a bare PCB with tactile switches soldered onto it. That with a fold and a plastic case is what I hoped the Korg was when I first saw it.
Same, especially because if you have to use the USB port on your phone/tablet for this controller, you can't plug low latency audio output (headphones!) in - without also carrying around a hub or something. If I'm already carrying around a full laptop, I don't need nanoKey Fold, a larger nanoKEY would be fine. Rare miss from Korg, this one, due to no BLE/battery. I forget who it was, there was a company recently with a tiny tiny PCB keyboard with BLE powered by a CR2032 coin cell battery I believe. nanoKEY Fold would be WAY better than that, if it could do the same basic function, which sadly it can't.
@@JumboDubby Works fine for me on iOS and macOS with OP-1 Field, OP-Z, Woovebox, CarryOn 49 and others. For audio, yes, it's useless, but for midi note entry it's fine. Especially in a mobile (compromised) setting like on a train or in a park. You just want better note entry than using the touchscreen etc.
@@darwiniandude Bluetooth tech has come a long way. Even audio is pretty good these days and is at least passable for convenience. I hardly notice any lag at all and I’d prefer to use it actually in some cases. Without a doubt though Bluetooth midi is great and hasn’t had any problems for me either.
Yeah except OP-Z is rechargeable and has BLE - you can actually use it in mobile settings. Sadly, nanoKEY has neither, and has to be tethered to a laptop with a cable, so it's barely better than pressing Capslock in Logic to bring up the qwerty midi keyboard overlay.
thank you for that 3.5mm midi port
I was not interested until I saw that
Yeah I was waiting to see if it would be there…now I am sold
Yeah same! I really want to pair this with my Roland P-6
But did you realise there is no internal battery, so you still need USB-C connected to a power supply or power bank?
@@darwiniandude if I'm using a portable dawless setup then I've already got a battery supply ya dink
I love it! But, wish somebody would make one with a headphone jack for us iPad users. I hate that Apple ONLY has the usb port
I want one. Hope it will be released soon to the public.
If you guys make a nanoKEY Fold with 37 keys, I'm buying immediately!!
I already have a low opinion of three-octave keyboards, but this plumbs new depths, two octaves of membrane keys! 😱
Cool concept, I like the folding aspect, the arp and scale features (can you add more than 15 scales - custom ones etc?). I'd have to try one to see if those tiny membrane nub keys are a deal breaker though. Hard to imagine how the velocity sensitive works/feels with those keys. If you'd have kept the original nano-type keys and made it fold 3 times for an extra octave and kept the lights and the cool features I would have bought one sight unseen. Blessings.
Love it. Yup, that's a win, well done team
A built in battery and Bluetooth would have been great but it still seems quite useful for jamming with din midi devices.
Yeah but then they would only make 90$ profit and not a 100$
With external power, too, of course.
Important to remember that they’ve got half the thickness of the device to play with. It’d be a very small battery or would add a fair bit of bulk to the design. Probably not a set of trades most users looking for ultimate portability would make
@@DJThermite Yes fair point.
@@DJThermite valid point, for sure. But we have folding smartphones these days, and BLE doesn’t use much power. They also could’ve gone coin cell, or made the ‘lump’ with the USB-C port end a bit bigger, like the full width of the device. Look up the Wavy Monkey - that’s a tiny tiny two octave (non folding) Bluetooth midi controller powered by a coin cell battery, has arpeggiator too. It’s basically a bare PCB with tactile switches soldered onto it. That with a fold and a plastic case is what I hoped the Korg was when I first saw it.
Shout out to NN I was watching him grind his beats forever on a daily
If James T Kirk was a music producer instead of a starship captain he would use this
Is the MIDI port isolated to the same specifications of a decent MIDI port?
*Phone Rings* Hello!? Looks to see why no ones talking.... realizes talking on Nanokey fold 😂😂😂😊 0:32
Oh that will pair nicely with the SEQTRAK
Imagine an 88-key version!
Membrane keys?!?! I thought we’d abandoned that idea sometime in the late 1980s…
Looks really fun to play .... 😂
Oooh im gettin this!!
Are these fully weighted keys?
lol
Weighted by angels
I don't need one. But I want one.
U know what, if you could daisychain them that would be an instant buy
Bluetooth midi would have made this an instant buy for me.
Nah. This is perfect.
Same, especially because if you have to use the USB port on your phone/tablet for this controller, you can't plug low latency audio output (headphones!) in - without also carrying around a hub or something. If I'm already carrying around a full laptop, I don't need nanoKey Fold, a larger nanoKEY would be fine. Rare miss from Korg, this one, due to no BLE/battery. I forget who it was, there was a company recently with a tiny tiny PCB keyboard with BLE powered by a CR2032 coin cell battery I believe. nanoKEY Fold would be WAY better than that, if it could do the same basic function, which sadly it can't.
Bluetooth connect ? 37 key version ?
They should have gotten a robot to sell this. Oh wait, they did.
You lost me at membrane keyboard. I'd rather play on my phone screen.
Give ChatGPT a break😂
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but why no bluetooth!!?? :sadface:
No battery
No bluetooth midi is a shame
Hard disagree. Bluetooth is awful.
@@JumboDubbynah, when you’re sending the information its actually good. I had xkey37 air and it was fantastic
@@JumboDubby Works fine for me on iOS and macOS with OP-1 Field, OP-Z, Woovebox, CarryOn 49 and others. For audio, yes, it's useless, but for midi note entry it's fine. Especially in a mobile (compromised) setting like on a train or in a park. You just want better note entry than using the touchscreen etc.
@@darwiniandude Bluetooth tech has come a long way. Even audio is pretty good these days and is at least passable for convenience. I hardly notice any lag at all and I’d prefer to use it actually in some cases. Without a doubt though Bluetooth midi is great and hasn’t had any problems for me either.
So this has split function…. But not the Keystage 🤔
£110!? No Thanks!
TE design language has finally crept into the inexpensive market
Yeah except OP-Z is rechargeable and has BLE - you can actually use it in mobile settings. Sadly, nanoKEY has neither, and has to be tethered to a laptop with a cable, so it's barely better than pressing Capslock in Logic to bring up the qwerty midi keyboard overlay.
Ewww, no thanks … and let’s hope their quality/QC doesn’t creep anywhere else, either …
This is definitely the least tempting product korg has ever made.
This needed Bluetooth, Korg … What a shame …
But you stay focused on the e-Kalimba and Accordians that nobody wants …