I went to Tom Lee Music in Vancouver. Just browsing. Window shopping really. I stumbled upon the Korg Nano Pad 2. This is a very small usb powered trigger. It has 16 pads on it and one large touch pad which you can use to affect two midi control options. $59. Dirt cheap, so I bought it.
I realize this is a very low budget option. It took me a little while just to get my OS to recognize it. In fact it took some registry editing. That's a little extreme if you ask me. I mean totally ridiculous! I shouldn't have to go into my registry just to get a driver to install properly. That was the solution that was posted in their forums.
Now, I'm no genius but I would think that it doesn't take a whole lot of work to get USB drivers working properly. Or, maybe I'm delusional. I don't know. I know that I've had products from Behringer.........BEHRINGER that have better support than this. That has got to be a stain on your reputation.
On top of that I tried to authorize the free software bundle. So, I carefully follow the instructions. I download Kontrol Editor, install it and run it. Lo and behold! It doesn't even recognize the Nano Pad 2. Should I be surprised? Well, I think so since the Kontrol Editor is supposed to be specifically for the Nano series. In fact I manually set the input and output and I get this error: "unsupported midi device". What? The device that this software was created for is unsupported? What kind of glue are these people smoking?
You're probably thinking that I'm the only one who has these issues. No. Not at all. In fact, go to their user forums and you find that anyone who has driver issues is entirely ignored. Seriously! The only people responding to their post are themselves trying to bump up their post in the hopes that someone will acknowledge them.
Check out Korg User Forums HERE.
I do understand that these are budget products but if you don't support them, who will want them? Get your head out of that stink hole!
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