Help with me MIDI Comparisons
Hi there guys!
Anyways, I’m looking to buy a portable keyboard and drum pads.
Im deciding between the Nanokey2 vs LPK25 for keyboards. And then the LPD8 and the NanoPad.
Then, I have the at home systems, the M-Audio Axiom Series or the AKAI MPK25?
Please help me and advise me on what I should do.
Thank you!
Bump!
why a new thread? didn’t u get plenty of advice in the old one?
Its because I never really got any straight answer. I just wanted to compre the pads, lpd8 vs nanopad2 and the lpk25 vs the nanokey
the lpd8 is much better built than the nanopad2 and most people will say the pads are better. they’re also bigger and have led feedback. the advantage of the nanopad2 is more pads and the XY pad area. don’t expect the nanopad2 to last too long tho. my nanokontrol and nanokey are still fine - but they don’t get bashed like my lpd8 does.
if u want great pads with XYpad and led feedback, i.e: best of both feature sets, then u need the vextax padone - but it’s not as cheap.
no comparison between the nanokey1 or 2 and lpk25. the lpk25 has real keys, the nanokey has crap ones. the ONLY reason for going for a nanokey (like i did) over the lpk is that it’s super portable, uber thin.
edit: still no reason for a new thread tho, if i was a mod i would merge them
Thank you for the reply. Just a quick question.. does the lpk have an apregiator mod button?
the manual says it does - but u could have checked that as easily as me with a quick google search 
nice feature for such a cheap/simple controller and can be midi sync’d too
Sorry. Its just that I’m on my phone.. and would prefer to not use the data to open a new tab and search it on google. But in your standpoint.. you’d recommend the lpk25 and lpd8? And thoughts mpd16? I thought about that buts its a bit pricey.
if i didn’t have any controllers and wanted small drum pads and a small keyboard then yep, i’d go for a lpk25 and lpd8. better imho than the mpk mini - but that’d be cool too.
if i wanted an mpd i’d save up more and go for something like a 24, 26 or 32.
I tried the mpk25 at gc. But it wasn’t plugged in.. only as a model. Are the pads as insensitive as people say? Because I don’t want to have to add more padding to the pads. If they do I might stick with those two.
mpk’s pads are the same as the lpd8’s. they’re drum pads so designed to be used as such. i dont have any issue using my lpd8 for cue points too etc - tho i don’t tend to use it for that. for drum programming it’s perfect anyway.
Thank you so much! I have one final thought, the knobs on the lpd8, can we use those as faders and etc? Or are they just meant for the pads?
u can use them for whatever u want. they have nothing todo with the pads. they just send their own midi.
the pads send out note or cc or pc data depending on the mode, whereas the pots always send a cc. u can use the internal banks with all of them tho.
Oh I see. Thank you so much! I think I’ve come down to getting the akai lpd8 and lpk25.
But I don’t know, last thing I wanna think about is axiom 25 or the mpk25.. what are your thoughts on novation? Albeit the price
novation are fine, i have 2 launchpad’s so can’t complain axiom25 is much bigger with semi weighted keys but if i cared about them being semi weighted then i’d be looking for more octaves personally.
so it’s all down to what u need. u need to go and try some out for yourself i guess and download their manuals to see which have the features u need.