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spaceman3 · Platinum Member Joined: 25 Jan 2015 Posts: 520

Just ordered a new nanopad 2 (black).
This is gonna be so cool.
A new toy for my KRONOS.

mikeyd · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:00 am Post subject:

I got one about a month ago on the advice of someone in the forums. You won't regret it. It's awesome.

holdsg · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:29 am Post subject:

ok, I'm too lazy to do a search, what's the advantage to the nano pad? thanks.
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spaceman3 · Platinum Member Joined: 25 Jan 2015 Posts: 520

For me the advantage is bieng able to trigger the karma pad's, so i wont have to use the touchscreen.
Sometime's i might want to trigger those pad's fast, and im afraid if i do that
on the touchscreen i would have to use more pressure,and that might damage the screen.
Plus i prefer the tactile feel of real pad's.
Also i can use nanopad2 to trigger drum's, among other thing's.
Dont know yet what the nanopad2 x y control's will do.
Something cool i would guess.

mikeyd · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:24 am Post subject:

****Need to clarify this>>>As a former M3 owner (still pissed I sold it) Very Happy

the pads were awesome to have. I'm sad I didn't keep both keyboards...but I love my Kronos!

And as stated it's a lot easier to use them from the nanoPad2 than to use them on the Kronos. I don't like using the screen either.

Not to mention the X/Y capability etc. Do a search...it's not that hard
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and I think you'll find you will be intrigued.

StephenKay · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:33 am Post subject:

I agree - if you like to use the KARMA Pads (Chord Triggers), it's a must have. Also, great for playing drums.
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karmathanever · Platinum Member Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 10404

Sadly, IMHO, the M3 pads were 1000% better than the NanoPad 2 - if you use the NanoPad a lot you'll get frustrated with the "hardness" of the pads sensitivity - some achy finger joints (but maybe that's just me Wink

).

I now use key assignments (low) to activate the pads (using a larger MIDI controller makes this very useable feature).
Now the new OS has SETLIST transpose options - this doesn't interfere with the pad-to-key assignments.
Good one Korg - forever looking after us.

(Wish I'd at least kept my M3….. BUT love love love my Kronos)

Pete Very Happy

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NuSkoolTone · Approved Merchant Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 1069

I LOVE my nanopad2. 16 pads. For live I assign the bottom 8 to percussion and the top 8 to chords.

What's also nice is if I have small parts that only happen a couple times in a song often I can use the pads and keep my keyboard real estate not dedicating a split to it.

I can even use the pads to play additional parts (2 with one hand) allowing me to keep my show 100% live that would be humanly impossible otherwise!
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McHale · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:19 pm Post subject:

I love my nanoPAD 2 for the Kronos. I use the top 8 pads for chords and the bottom 8 pads I use for functions. I've been meaning to create a video on it because you can do some REALLY cool stuff with it that I haven't seen anywhere else.

Korg's adding of nano support was HUGE.
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Liquid_Metal · Joined: 16 Sep 2014 Posts: 36

Funny, I just bought one yesterday. Plan is to have the singer of my band use it to access the Karma pads when I'll play a guitar solo. I have not thought of a way of using the other 8 pads or the x y pad yet.
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enigmahack · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:23 pm Post subject:

I also have the Nanopad 2 - Bought it for the pads, kept it for the X-Y pad!
(They control volume vibrato and filter vibrato by default I believe)
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ferchis · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 10:28 pm Post subject:

I've been using MidiPads, an Ipad app which works wonders with the Kronos, only cost u$s 5 and I can have a multiplicity of different functions assigned. haven't used it live yet, though

just my 2 cents
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