{"id":609,"date":"2025-06-22T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/?p=609"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:34:11","slug":"control-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/uncategorized\/control-column\/","title":{"rendered":"control column"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MIDI controller keyboards can be pretty hard to love, but I&#8217;m really liking this Korg nanoKey Fold. First, and most importantly, it&#8217;s orange and looks like anime tech. It&#8217;s not going to be suitable for real pianists (careful how you say that word) but since I actually like the keys on the OP-1, it&#8217;s fine as a note input device for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biggest revelation about this thing is the arpeggiator: it&#8217;s really good, inspiring and playable. I&#8217;d actually been looking for a compact and <a><\/a>usable standalone arpeg for a while, and I was somewhat surprised to find that this ticks so many of my boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, paired with the Bastl MIDI Looper this is a pretty full-specced orchestration deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I mention that it&#8217;s orange?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/P1060481-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/P1060481-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/P1060481-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/P1060481-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/P1060481-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/P1060481-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDI controller keyboards can be pretty hard to love, but I&#8217;m really liking this Korg nanoKey Fold. First, and most importantly, it&#8217;s orange and looks like anime tech. It&#8217;s not going to be suitable for real pianists (careful how you say that word) but since I actually like the keys on the OP-1, it&#8217;s fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entropy-circus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}