Korg today introduced the nanoKEY Fold, a foldable MIDI control keyboard that’s designed to be compact enough to fit in your pocket.
The Korg nanoKEY Fold is about the size of a smartphone when closed, but unfolds to offer a two octave range of silent membrane buttons with scalable velocity.
It’s available in 5 colors: Black, Alpine Green, Lava Orange, Sand Beige & White.
Korg nanoKEY Intro Video:
Key Features:
- Silent keybed – The membrane keyboard buttons have been designed to provide a comfortable action, with just the right amount of feel while remaining completely silent, so you can create music anytime, anywhere without disturbing those around you. Velocity can be customized to your feel with 13 different levels.
- Scale Guide – Choose from 15 built-in scales, and let the nanoKEY Fold LEDs guide your playing. “Easy Scale” mode ensures you play the right note with every key press. By assigning a scale to a touch slider you can easily play within the scale in new and creative ways.
- Chord mode – Chords can be automatically assigned to each key, based on the selected scale and key. Use it on its own or in combination with other modes.
- Flexible arpeggiator – The nanoKEY features a powerful built-in arpeggiator with a wide array of arpeggio types and rhythm patterns.
- Two touch sliders for performance and control – The touch sliders that control Pitch and Modulation can be assigned to control specific CC values or directly play notes in the selected scale.
- Split function – This versatile function allows you to assign and play different modes for the left and right parts of nanoKEY Fold, allowing you to play your own combinations of chords, scales, and melody, or Control / Program changes.
Pricing and Availability:
The Korg nanoKEY Fold is available now for $119.99 USD.
I was interested until I saw that it wasn’t velocity sensitive. I’d rather stick to the Korg Nanokey 2 for velocity sensitivity or give up on that and get a Wavy Monkey if I really needed tiny.