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Well in at least one of two updates that I’m going to post from the Mid-West Clinic this year, I ran into our good friends Dr. James Frankel and Brad Smith at the SoundTree both and they introduced me to the Korg Nano series of USB Midi devices.   Wow, was I impressed.  So much so that I bought the entire bundle on the spot which consists of three USB MIDI controller products and a USB hub.  I am going to include a couple of brief descriptions about each of the devices and some info from www.korg.com about them as well.

The products are the Korg Nanokey:

When Korg set out to build a slim-line MIDI controller keyboard, they utilized their years of experience in manufacturing innovative MIDI keyboards to create a great-feeling, velocity sensitive keyboard based off a laptop keyboard. The resulting 25-note keyboard on the nanoKEY will transmit your playing dynamics to your software accurately and expressively. In CC (Control Change) MODE, the keys become MIDI controllers, allowing you to control any MIDI assignable parameters within your software.

The Octave Shift function offers immediate access to the entire MIDI note range. Pitch and modulation buttons are also provided, giving your performances the kind of expression that you would expect from any controller regardless of its size.

This is an incredible keyboard controller that will fit anyone’s budget and has advanced functions and keys that make this quite possibly the best compact controller in this class.

The Korg NanoPad:

When Korg set out to make a drum pad controller, they did their homework - with unique features and exceptionally responsive pads, the resulting padKONTROL became and remains one of the most highly sought-after pad controllers on the market. Enter the nanoPAD, offering 12 excellent feeling and highly responsive pads in a new, smaller footprint. In addition, a new Chord Trigger function lets you enter chords onto a single pad, helping you to make the most of the work surface as you create. The pads are also able to transmit control change messages, making this a great interface for soloing or muting mixer tracks, turning objects on and off, or triggering clips during your live performances.

NanoPAD’s X-Y pad offers ‘Roll’ and ‘Flam’ modes, to help you lay down ultra-realistic drum grooves. The X-Y pad will also send MIDI CC (Control Change), making it a go-to interface for any parameter within your software that requires full range MIDI control such as pitch, cutoff, volume and beyond.

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C-MuSE is a Custom Music Education Search Engine utilizing the Google search indexes and is another beta “lab” project by myself.  Currently I’m indexing every Music Education Blogger Site in this highly customized Google search engine in an attempt to cut through the “junk” when indexing sites that contain information that I want to report vs. information that I don’t want or find confusing.  This custom search is another way to return a better percentage of focused results about a particular subject when they are returned to the user after inputting the search query.

I can easily see this turning into a self-hosted site and it may in the future.  I plan to add about 150 useful music education related sites to this index in the near future.  As a related music technology project, I am going to have my college music undergraduates begin to compile a list of very useful, related, and current music education sites as candidates for inclusion with this list in the future.

I’ve also toyed with Rollyo a number of years ago and posted my thoughts about it on MusTech.net and you may find that articles in the archives if you’re interested…it’s another great custom search platform.

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