Consider what a PITA it is to record yourself at the steel and work the mouse with picks on. This takes care of some basic functions such as transport, solo, mute and arming.
It took me quite a while to get it configured---I'm using it with Reaper. I simply cannot say how much of the difficulty was because of the product, because of Reaper or because of me (there's my vote).
60 bucks----pretty cool.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/nanoKON2bk/
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