Korg nanoKEY Fold MIDI Keyboard Controller Folds To Fit In Your Pocket
Today, Korg introduced the nanoKEY Fold, as its name suggests, a foldable MIDI control keyboard that’s designed to make it even smaller 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. In fact, we’re told that it’s designed to be ‘as mobile as your smartphone’.
It’s available in 5 colors: Black, Alpine Green, Lava Orange, Sand Beige and White.
Korg nanoKEY Fold Intro Video:
Taking design cues from the new wave of foldable phones, the nanoKey Fold genuinely can be transported in your pocket, ready to be unfurled whenever you need it. What’s up, the silent membrane keybed is said to be silent, so you won’t annoy your fellow passengers if you whip it out on a train or plane. You can adjust the velocity settings of the keyboard to suit your playing style.
The nanoKey Fold might be small, but Korg has still managed to pack in quite a few of the features that you’d hope to see on a full-sized contemporary keyboard. These include Scale and Chord modes – always useful for non-players – and an arpeggiator.
Although the midi keyboard controller has only 25 keys, you still have the option to split the keyboard and have each side operating independently, so you can play two parts at once.
The nanoKey Fold has both USB-C and TRS-MIDI outputs, and comes supplied with a TRS-to-MIDI DIN adapter. There’s no Bluetooth connectivity – a cost-saving measure, perhaps? – but the keyboard can be bus-powered over USB.
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 slid ers 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.
The Korg nanoKEY Fold is available now for $119.99.
