This has got to be one of the coolest things for keyboardist who’d like to have a laptop as their Digital Audio Workstation.  It can be wonderfully paired with your UMPC! It’s all midi powered.

It’s the Korg Nano series.

• nanoKEY: 25 keys, transmitting either as MIDI notes or (via a separate mode) Control Change (CC)  messages. Octave shift (natch). Pitch, modulation. And it’s supposed to be velocity-sensitive, too, although we’ll have to get our hands on one to see how sensitive it is.
• nanoPAD: 12 pads, supposedly inheriting the terrific sensitivity and feel of the padKONTROL, which is pretty much the favorite pad controller round these parts. Chord Trigger. Control Change mode (as with nanoKEY). There’s even an X/Y touch pad with roll and flam mode, favorite features of the padKONTROL.
• nanoKONTROL: 9 faders, 9 knobs, 18 switches, transport controls. (No, really.) MIDI notes, 168 CC messages. There are even attack and decay times for the switches, allowing them to work as faders, filter controls, effects settings, and the like – something I’d love to see on other (full-sized) controllers.

It’s VERY desirable. It’s gear lust for me again.

Bad news is no price yet, so we wait.

I finally found a plugin that integrates my Flickr account and my site running on Wordpress. It’s a nice and straightforward plugin that allows my photos from flickr to be displayed here as an album. So there, cheers!

View my photos here.

This is a glimpse of one of the guitar stores in Bangkok, Thailand. For less than 5,000php, you can get yourself a guitar that’s worth 10,000php here.

Sucks? That isn’t the end of it.

Anyway, there exists 2 galleries here and I will be maintaining my flickr one and transferring everything else there soon. For now, both Gallery and Photos will exist.