XY Pad MidiFighter?
So, there is a new Korg NanoPAD out, and it has 16 buttons and a nice XY pad.
May I be crazy, but those buttons on top could be effects presets and the xy pad would be whatever. You guys think this would make a nice midifighter clone?
i heard the pads on these suck.. and that the build quality is not up to par to its competition (Akai LPD8). plus, the pads aren’t backlit..
idk… i’ve seen Korg PadKontrol’s go for like $80 and those are pretty good.
the smaller buttons on top only change pages and what-not, can’t be midi assignable.. SOMEONE CORRECT ME if I’m wrong..
In theory though, yeah it would work as a MF
thats why wer are replacing the buttons and turning into a MF
I would think so, though the midi fighter does have some functionality built in that would be kind of hard to duplicate with that (thinking 4 banks mode) without custom firmware.
true… but with modifiers and what not its probably still possible
Possible, but with limitations. Ever try duplicating the instant gratification mapping on the x1? You can only have two modifiers per control so it gets limited pretty quickly if you’re using modifiers for banks in addition to their normal functionality.
You could build something like this
The arcade button above the x/y pad could be used to change scene / bank with led feedback. 
You could add some led’s for the bank of 16 buttons too but they would only be momentary.
If you can map the extra buttons at the top of the Nanopad then you could you could spice things up even more.
I would love to build one of these myself 
i love you…
this should definitely be a collab project of some sort
Thanks.
Everything in the drawing is to scale (sanwa OBSF-24 and 3mm led )so let me know when you’re ready to start and I will send you the files 
yea well im not sure if im gonna do this first or actually buy a midifighter. But since you have files and well im somewhat good at soldering- it could be done in about a month.
the instant grat mapping is already pretty complicated - i wouldn’t like to mod that to run on a controller that doesn’t have 4 banks internally. you can just use software that sites inbetween the controller and traktor tho ofc.
no problem if you want to run the deckalized mapping or any other that doesn’t need 4banks mode ofc.
I think what you need is a Vestax PAD-One.
The drum pads are as responsive as the arcade buttons, see the example @0:44 in the Vid below:
I don’t think he wanted it like that. . .I get where he’s going with it. . .and I kinda like it!!!
@DJ_Pabloco
The problem I see is that touchpad. . .I own 3 nanopads (v1), and they just were not as functional as they should have been.
i’d love a combo of arcade buttons and xy pad - tho the padone would be very cool as a drum programming interface. don’t really see the need for an xy pad tho… there again i’m a drummer so would rather tap fast than use a roll/flam thing on the xy pad.
The buttons of nanopad are velocity sensitive… I already try it…but all toll me that is impossible to replace velocity sensitive buttons with arcade buttons…
here’s my topic : http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21754
P.s. sorry for my english…I’m italian
A possible workaround could be to mod a NanoPad (only the x-y stuff) and a NanoKontrol (for arcade buttons and eventually some extra faders/rotary pots to control fx dry/wet for exemple) in the same box.
I’m quite interested in this project, I think I’ll give a try.
I like that design