Korg nanoKONTROL 2 black

I was struggling to find a cheap MIDI controller that had a couple of faders. All I would ever find is extremely well made controllers, with 2-4 faders, but that would start at 100€+.
My use case is for orchestral writing, so faders are extremely handy for being able to control CC1 or CC11 while playing, and the ones on my MIDI keyboard started giving out.
Since this product wasn't created with just that in mind I do feel like, in my use case, there are a couple of extra, unnecessary things, and the range of the faders themselves is pretty short.
That being said at this price point I haven't found anything close to this, and I imagine that if you intend to use the other features, like the rotary controls, you will find this product ideal.

I bought this because I needed a midi controller to control my orchestral libraries(expression and dynamics)and it works great.
It has a bunch of different modes for different DAWs you choose them with a combination of the buttons.(the manual goes through this for almost every daw and if your daw is not on the list it has a "universal" mode)
In ableton the first three channels or the first two are pre mapped to the corresponding controls in the Korg Nano. To bypass this just map the controls that are already mapped to something else and then delete the new mapping you just made and they should be clean.

Pros:
The faders feel great
It has pause, stop, play, record buttons
Solo, mute ,rec for each channel separately so you don't even have to use your mouse when recording
Its used a lot by many djs/producers both live and in the studio
its built really well it feels solid
You can't beat the price!
Cons:
The only con that I can think of is the potentiometers feel a bit too easy to twist so be careful.

Overall a really good controller and all most of us are ever going to need. And with a great price!