An open answer to psw about Korg Nanokey durability.

Following my previous post psw asks-
“Dammit, this is just what I was worried about with the NanoKey...ever since seeing the official product images where you can see that the keys aren't aligned perfectly...

Do the keys easily pop back into place at least, or is it a catastrophic failure?

I want the black set of these Nano controllers so bad I'll probably get them all anyway and just not use the keyboard one much...how dumb is that?

Also why in the hell didn't they put a USB port on each of these and include short little cables so they could be daisy-chained? They would eat up all the USB ports on a laptop and having them running off an external hub seems to defeat the whole aesthetic of the cool little controllers, to me at least...”

As for the popping keys- it happened twice quite easily (don’t believe Ruddess who’s playing the Nano with sticks…- give me a break!).
The key just popped out.
Now, I figured out the hard way that there’s a way of putting these back as they were. However on your trial and error endeavours, you may find that you already broke it.
Another point is that you may pull out the nano from your bag to find that some bits are left in your bag…
The rubber contact just rests under the key and therefore may get lost pretty easily.

The concept is definitely good but I’m sure Yamaha would have done it much better.
As for your question why didn’t they put another USB socket at the other end of the unit, I guess they just assume that by the time you’ve plugged the other unit, the NanoKey would already be broken!