my strange avenue forward for portable midi controller(s) is as follows:
- general purpose:
- a nanokey2 w/ a midi usb host interface and small battery velcroed to it
but i was also on the hunt for some sorta chord controller and i stumbled onto the chordmonger (has trs-midi, but no battery) which i was really interested in, but alas, they’re hard to come by / so i started looking for other iterations (already having the theoryboard, but not exactly portable). the hichord looked sorta interesting, but overpriced and i didn’t want the synth part of it then i thought about the kortbot, but again, not too portable. i eventually stumbled upon 64 pixels’ le strum, specfically the:
- le grand strum
^ which is also battery powered w/ a 9v battery “and” has 5-pin midi <3
and i also saw the new chord feats in the mk4 iteration of novation’s launchkey line (trs-midi, but no battery):
- launchkey mini25 mk4
i’ll most likely keep both as i don’t have a proper portable midi kb except for arturia’s keystep black edition / not the most portable.
ps i am really curious about the launchpad pro mk3, but i’m curious to see what’s on the horizon for the mk4 edition of the LP line.