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I like Akai's MPK Mini, I've spent time with the korg nanokey. The MPK has a decent scaled-down two octave keyboard that feels pretty good to play. The korg nan
by hecanjog 4y ago
I like Akai's MPK Mini, I've spent time with the korg nanokey. The MPK has a decent scaled-down two octave keyboard that feels pretty good to play. The korg nanokey got me by for years, but I always thought of it as a stick with a bunch of shift keys on it.
A friend has the arturia keystep pro 37, which seems pretty nice. I'm considering a switch right now so I was happy to see this thread actually. It has aftertouch which is unique for a portable midi controller, though the aftertouch isn't polyphonic IIRC.
- iancmceachern 4y agoI second this, it's nice and affordable.
- jerrysievert 4y agoI have a keystep 37 and love it, and don't even use all of its features. one feature I do make use of (and the primary reason I bought it) is the CV/Gate output at 1V/Oct. highly recommended, great hardware.
- jnovek 4y agoKeystep 32 is also excellent and even smaller, and also has CV/Gate as well as velocity and (!!) aftertouch. I don’t like the touchpad mod wheel, though.
- jerrysievert 4y agoI keep hitting that too - I think that's probably the worst thing about it, which definitely isn't a deal breaker for me, just makes me need to be more cautious compared to the wheel.
- Marazan 4y agoThat Akai MPK mini keyboard, out of the box, is absolute garbage. Unusable. Almost returned it. Amazingly the editor software does not expose the keyboard velocity curve for the keys (unlike the pads which are fully customisable). However if you hold Full Level for 5 secs then the display shows the curve as 4 values and you can twaek it into something useable. There is no documentation for this so the numbers are totally opaque and it will take experimentation.
- hecanjog 4y agoIt's really not garbage out of the box, it's a better-than-average MIDI controller, but if you hate it that's cool!