Oh dear, I knew that this would happen rather sooner than later… But I have to tell you about these: I recently purchased the fantastic MPD32 (http://www.akaipro.com/mpd32) “Performance Pad Controller”, which I am really happy with, even though I haven’t yet explored it very much.

But now, there is something brand new from Akai that seems highly recommendable already before anyone has seen those devices in real life: The LPD8 “Laptop Pad Controller” (http://www.akaipro.com/lpd8) and the LPK25 “Laptop Performance Keyboard” (http://www.akaipro.com/lpk25). Of course, this is only relevant for all those mobile musicians out there, but since I am only having very little space in my bedroom home studio, I would certainly also like to see them there. And both the keyboard and the pads look much more convincing than Korg’s recent approach to ultra-mobile musical controller devices (http://www.korgnano.com/).  What do you think?