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When I received the product, I was very impressed with its design and it felt very sturdy and well weighted. As I plugged the USB cable in, I was worried I would break the plug because it is so flimsy and fragile. Once I got everything installed and loaded up, I tested the Nanopad in Reason, Toontrack, and Live and the pads simply do not function, straight from the box! Some of them stick when you use them and some of them just didn't work altogether.

My suggestion: Save yourself the money and the trouble, and buy something more durable. If you are looking for a pad midi controller with an X/Y pad, the Korg padKontrol is a very good alternative, is USB powered, and not enormous. The portability on the Nanopad is very tempting and it is a great idea altogether, but it simply does not function as it is supposed to. If you don't mind losing an X/Y pad, then go for the AKAI LPD8, but otherwise, avoid the Nanopad.Get more detail about Korg nanoPAD USB Drum Controller, White.

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oh my. so much fun. i have never used anything MIDI before so I was a bit skeptical about the learning curve of getting this thing to work and truthfully it did take a few days to really get it all going the way I wanted it. I wanted to use this unit to record drums, previously I had used a keyboard that had drum sounds but it went down.

So the first thing was to get the computer to recognize the thing, not too bad after downloading all the software and drives from the Korg website. Next i needed some drum sounds and software that would play the sounds. the nano comes with some Toontrack lite program that is lame. no toms, no ride...etc. so i downloaded the free version of FL studio (fruity loops) and then go to channels>add one>FPC and bang it loads up a drum set! sweet. from there you can change to the Tama or a Gretch and add a little verb and it sounds real good. now I play drums all the time. while sitting watching TV, while working with headphones on, or while recording actual songs!

The most fun toy I have gotten in years!Get more detail about Korg nanoPAD USB Drum Controller, Black.