Tricking the Korg Nano Kontrol
I'm constantly looking for ways to duplicate the "16 Velocities" function found on the Akai MPC series. What this is basically is that it assigns the same MIDI note number across the pad bank (16 pads), and then assigns a different velocity to each pad. That way you can do expressive percussion parts such as hi-hat without having to overdub multiple passes, or do a bunch of editing after the fact.
Since Project5's mouse paint-in feature only paints in at velocity 64, you're basically forced to use a controller of some sort. Of course you could use the Akai pad controller, which has the multiple fixed velocities feature. But here's another option:
The new Korg nanoKontrol offers 2 buttons across 9 banks. Each button can actually send a MIDI note number at a fixed velocity. So you could assign the same note a different fixed velocity across all 18 buttons. Would this not serve the same purpose I'm talking about?
The funny thing is that this feature is not available on the nanoPad, where it would be even more useful. You can tell the pads to send out MIDI notes, but you can't set each one's velocity.
Anyway, for $60 it seems like a pretty good deal.
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