In 2008, the flagship MIDI keyboard Studiologic Music Numa Nano was released. The 88-note weighted Numa Nano keyboard has a TP/100LR keybed mechanism of very high quality, mainly owing to the solid black "Full Body" keys. The keyboard is equipped with higher white keys, and Studiologic Music describes them as a complete imitation of a concert grand piano. The wheel, aftertouch and the two controller jack sockets all operate in positive/negative polarity, and are freely assignable to any controller number from 0 to 127.
The main mystery of the instrument is the wheel: its physical location makes it uncomfortable for use, since the user will be forced to reach out to it almost to the rear side just to find it. Numa control panel includes a 128x64 pixel blue backlit LCD, and below there are 4 buttons surrounded by 2 round buttons that act as elements of a user interface (mute, transpose, program change). On the left, the control is divided into 4 segments functioning as up/down, left/right, and on the right is a standard endless rotary encoder - it is enough to slide with a finger to change the values.
Long-term keyboard makers, Studiologic Music, gained and put together all its experience and made Numa, is it as refined as it looks? It seems like the 88-note weighted Numa keyboard is aware of its own attractiveness. Despite the fact that the entire...