So if you saw my post from last year, you’ll know I’m a sucker for a good case. I like Nanuk cases because you can get great inserts from Foama to custom match your compartment needs (not a paid shill, I just like what I like and I’m Canadian, so I try to support wherever I can!). I’ve been toying around with the Nano Cortex at home, and got comfortable enough with it to actually use it on the road. Snapped these pics from the place I was staying at yesterday after playing, so enjoy my loadout 
Travel-wise, the whole weekend was: laptop in my guitar gigbag + strings and things, backpack with clothes/toothbrush/essentials, and this little Nanuk 910 with all my charging, adapters, all usb configs needed and SparkLINK wireless (I play with actual patch cables; the wireless is just for fun in the hotel). The gig required 3 sounds in total - clean, dirty, solo. And between my captures I was covered, and since I’ve woodshedded at home with it, here are my thoughts for anyone interested about how it translates when you take it out and about.
It’s a great alternative to the QC, but it’s not the QC (obviously). But if you’ve got a main sound and can leverage the controls on your guitar, then this really hits about 90% of everything you’d need. The QC is king for me, since its routing options, UI, and tweakability are way more expansive, beyond question. But the Nano is still great, and I enjoy playing it very much. Feels like my QC, so that’s the win there. Now, I had a solo take that I wish I could’ve engaged a drive block with. Can’t do that with the Nano unless you get cheeky with your presets, or just add a physical pedal into your signal path. But since this is supposed to be a rig solution, we should have the options. Therefore if this unit could allow us to swap out the modulation block, for example, and replace it with another effect/capture block, that’d be great. I could say the same thing about compression as well. My profiles have a nice threshold, but I can imagine people will find the lack of a dedicated compression block to be a tad of a let down. There are work arounds to this, but for guitar players, I think we would see a need for this. If you played bass I imagine you’d agree especially.
Like I said, it gets top marks as a unit, but it is not perfect. It worked well for me, and I am thrilled with the sound — as in, it sounded just like the captures I made with my QC, which is good 
TL;DR = for travel and compact rigs, this is fantastic. But, it could be perfect if we got dedicated drive and compression effect blocks, and it is screaming for a tap tempo. Tap tap tapparoo, Neural. Perhaps these will be addressed in time. But for now, I am somebody who sees the Nano as a wonderful addition to the line. A few tweaks with the necessary updates and it will be near-perfect. The QC has only gotten better with each update, so it’s reasonable to expect the same for the Nano. Cheers!
