At the 2016 NAMM Show, Korg announced the nanoKontrol Studio – a wireless DAW controller that offers eight channels of faders, knobs and buttons. There are also transport controls and a jog wheel.
Here’s an overview from the NAMM Show floor by Korg’s James Sajeva:
The nanoKontrol Studio is battery operated and can connect wirelessly with your iPhone/iPad or Mac/Windows.
The nanoKontrol Studio is expected to ship in April. See the Korg site for details.
I always wonder what are these jog wheels useful for? I know I can assign it to anything I want, but I see no reason it would be more functional or precise than a standard encoder. It’s not a snarky comment – I’m just fishing for some cool use cases. Especially related to Ableton Live as it’s my DAW of choice.
@Kamil
Jog wheels are not just bigger knobs, they work differently.
They suppose to give more precise control over certain parameters, like timeline location in DAW/video editor or value of certain parameter. While letting you be more precise, at the same time they let you do very broad/quick changes. That is why they are used I.E. in samplers like MPC for setting parameters or studio controllers for manipulating timeline location and thousand other things.
I hope it makes sense to you 🙂
(korg site answered my question)
midi over usb, charges and operates while connected.
YET, another DAW controller that has no Master Control slider.
I like it it… except I never could get the nanokontrol 2 I picked up a year ago or so to work with reaper properly…
If the faders were motorized, that would make this perfect.
Yup, one day people will learn that all we really want is 9 motorized faders, pan controls, record/solo/mute etc buttons and transport controls for less than a mackie MCU and whoever makes it will make a shedload of money. Behringer xtouch looked good on paper but reports are not good so far
presonus faderport is about as close as you can get on a budget. had one for a while but the rotary encoder went haywire.
as for master out control, map it to jogwheel.
“… and has a traditional MIDI port as well (points to USB port).”
Get. Off. My. Lawn.
Long live the original nanoKontrol.
(Can’t beat the open design with 4 scenes and 9 faders. For me it’s what makes my portable VB3 setup possible. Not every nano device needs to be a mixer. Korg – please don’t stop making these!)