Korg nanokontrol

I'm looking for a midi controller, mostly to program my VSTI's cause I'm tired to do this with my mouse only. I'd like something cheap and small, so the Korg nanokontrol seems to be what i need.
But i was wondering if this works good for programming VSTI's, cause it only has 8 knobs. Anyone using this thing in the same way that I plan to do? Does it work fine?
Thanks!

...external knob control for a daw is one thing....

...for different vst plug ins it's quite difficult without lots of extra work on the layout...
no matter which controler u use....

i realised, first of all, to get a better and much faster workflow.....kill your mouse....
trackpads and trackballs are way better to handle....

yes, the first 3 weeks are a pain in the ass....but then, promise, you never look back...

once you're there....you realise, you don't need decent knobs for each function in all these plug ins.....
then you gonna realise that you always just need THIS ONE knob you really want to touch per second....

and then you end up with the griffin powermate....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf83AfR4JU


and by the way....the old rule....end of the day, cheap is more expensive....
is, specially in case of the nano series, more than wise words.....
if you're anything near to a power user, you gotta buy a new one every six month...

In essence you've said buy cheap, buy twice and then recommend a single knob that's $45 and then suggested he replaces his mouse. You must be off your rocker. What if he wants to control two parameters at the same time? Filter cutoff and resonance for example, at different rates?

Regarding the Nano series, they're fine I've had the NanoPad for aaaaages, and it's great. Very useful, very portable, USB MIDI/powered of course. I don't really use any external VSTs so I can't comment on mapping there, but with Ableton's FX it's a doddle. If you have to replace it every 6 months you're obviously a heavy-handed moron not a "power-user".

You might also want to check out something like the Novation Nocturn which is cheap and will give you the automap technology, might be useful for you.

The Nocturn is getting bad reviews from what I've read concerning Automap and the overall quality. Any controller like the Nanokontrol will work just fine in most DAWs when assigning MIDI CCs to specific parameters of whatever VSTs you'd prefer to use (depending on the limitations of the specs of the VSTi that's being used). I may just add a NanoKontrol to my existing setup to control the SSL 9000 in Reason 6, while the Axiom 49's knobs and sliders can remain in use with Thor, and the MPC1000's pads and 2 Q-links assigned to Kong. I've been pondering this solution for a minute and I can't go wrong with a $35 investment.

distortedtekno wrote:The Nocturn is getting bad reviews from what I've read concerning Automap and the overall quality. Any controller like the Nanokontrol will work just fine in most DAWs when assigning MIDI CCs to specific parameters of whatever VSTs you'd prefer to use (depending on the limitations of the specs of the VSTi that's being used). I may just add a NanoKontrol to my existing setup to control the SSL 9000 in Reason 6, while the Axiom 49's knobs and sliders can remain in use with Thor, and the MPC1000's pads and 2 Q-links assigned to Kong. I've been pondering this solution for a minute and I can't go wrong with a $35 investment.

Yes, the nanokontrol seems to be better than the Nocturn. I first thought about buying a rack synth with a lot of knobs for programming, but since I'm quite happy of the sounds of my VSTI's, the nanokontrol will do the job