![]() Both controllers offer an inexpensive and portable way to get a MIDI keyboard but only one - the LPK - actually gets the job done. This was an easy fight to predict from the outset, as the smaller and less robust NanoKey got seriously beat up by the larger and more mature LPK25. For $40 street price, the NanoKey is a decent value, and an inexpensive way to get a mini keyboard, but a $20 bump in price on the Akai LPK25 provides what I’d judge to be a 200% increase in performance. It’s responsive, but hardly the feel you want while playing a musical keyboard. The NanoKey on the other hand has the same key action as a typical laptop keyboard. The Akai is obviously structured in a more traditional keyboard layout and does look and feel like a real keyboard, including the ability to naturally play chords, which is significantly more difficult on the NanoKey. The key difference in performance is the keyboard layout and feel of each controller. The Akai keyboard has a clear range of velocities, making it easy to play soft or loud notes, while I found it impossible get the Korg to play anything lower than 40% velocity. The LPK has a sustain button for great expression, while the Nano has a mod button for single-direction modulation.īoth controllers boast velocity sensitivity, but just as with the pads, the accuracy of that sensitivity is very different on each of these controllers. The NanoKey is the only keyboard with pitch bend capacity, and both have the ability to move up or down the full octave range. Its equipped with a fully-functional arpeggiator with tap tempo, 4 types of arpeggiation and 8 different note values. The LPK boasts one of the only clear features of these minimal devices. The extra height also means you might actually be taken seriously playing on the keys, while the nano key is truly a glorified computer keyboard with large black and white keys. Korg NanoKeyīoth controllers can take a beating, but the aesthetic choices of the LPK25 make it a much more attractive and robust-looking controller. Read on to learn who won our mini MIDI prize fight. To help you decide which controller might be the strongest, we pit them against each other in a battle of performance. In the battle for portable MIDI controllers that will fit in front of your laptop and not bust your budget, there are 2 clear contenders: the Korg NanoSeries and the new Akai Laptop Series of controllers.
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