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These things are the best things ever made when it comes to musical creation especially or basically only if you have the ability to utilize your perfect pitch or at least be able to hear the differences in scales and since I received training in that from the time I was too young to remember at gunpoint practically am more than happy with everything made by Korg and this particular koss anything I Byam as I break them because I use them almost every single time I perform I use them for effects on multiple instruments and I use them for piano accompaniment since accompaniment midi connection various ways to manage typing out all I can say is I’ll probably buy more of these than any other affects/synthesize midi/musical instrument created I only wish these were placed on synthesizers or basically if I had one automatically connected to my Synthesizers I mean it would be a hell of it timesaver not to have to connect all the wires if it was already on the side of my keyboard probably on both sides because I have two Full sized pads on Stan’s where I can reach them on either side of my first and second keyboards unfortunately I cannot find a way to connect them to the third one without having them be too awkward to utilize Just an FYI I also use my own version of a guitar attachment for the full-size affects unit that offers me a lot more versatility and accessibility than the one offered I believe Buy one of the guitar companies has a lower end guitar single pick up job that somebody created well after most of us already created our own versions with Touch Sensitive connections attached to our guitars it’s not hard to do it’s just I’m not gonna grind a hole in one of my guitars and I’m not gonna buy a single pick up Beginners special or whatever but the idea of connecting a guitar to the effects pads is solid as it gets and I stand by everything created by Korg in this genre and almost every other ! I even on several Korg wind instruments or wind controllers I only wish they were easier to clean out because who wants to slobber inside in electrical midi controller and have it basically turn into a mess and have it difficult to strip down and clean out but for the usage and for the price I just chuck it and buy a new one it’s a lot easier than cleaning it if maybe the higher Exmore higher-priced ones Are easier for us to clean out but the ones under 500 bucks are slobber gunk machines but until you can’t take the smell anymore they’re incredible so yeah if you can deal with the lack of punctuation in this message I am a fan of everything and this is five stars and I’ll give it 10 if I could! Excuse my absolute lack of punctuation and I didn’t even attempt to look at the screen to check the spelling I’m voice typing while driving to my next student have a good one take careRead full review
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I love it, but I wish I could have longer loops and be able to subtract some on the fly.
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For what comes packaged in this small piece of hardware is certainly top of it's class when you consider price with functionality. Let's explore the interface a bit. Primarily we have a touchscreen synthesizer that musically interacts by the touch of your fingers. As with most typical X-Y interfaces, you change the notes of the chosen synthesizer by sliding your finger left or right, while you can alter the modulation of the synth by moving your finger up or down. There's a whole slew of virtual instruments you can select by turning the silver knob in the top right of the chassis. On the right hand side of the touch screen there is button marked "SCALE". If you press this button it cycles through a wide variety of scale types that will alter the scale of the notes you play. This allows the synthesizer to easily blend in harmony with several different styles of playing, be it minor, pentatonic, dorian, chromatic etc. Directly below we have a button labeled "KEY". Pressing this will change the overall key of the scale in a range of 3 octaves. This is also handy for easily blending with live performances on the fly. On the left side you have a silver slider with a button below it marked "GATE ARP". If you press the "GATE ARP" button it will automatically chop your played notes in steady stream at the speed of the set BPM(beats per minute can be changed by pressing the "TAP TEMPO" and tweaking the top right silver knob). If you slide the slider above the "GATE ARP" button downward it will increasingly space the silence between the chopped notes. Now here's where it gets interesting. You can create an accurate arpeggio of the scale you are playing by alternating between different fingers up the scale on the left and right of the touchpad. The arp plays at a rhythm that can be easily set to whatever you are playing with, so I'm sure you can imagine how this can be marvelous for trance sounding jam sessions. Included in the synth bank towards the end of the cycle is a series of drum sequences that play whenever you touch the X-Y pad. What makes this drum sequencer unique is that you can alter the way the sequence sounds depending on where you move your finger on the touch pad, creating almost limitless combinations to help your drum sequences sound less repetitive. The drum sequence pack offers a variety of 20 different styles or so that all vary in dependence to how you decide to play. Now let's get into recording loops. On the bottom of the chasis, below the touch screen, we see 4 buttons labeled: "A, B, C, and D". Each of these buttons are "sound banks" that can store whatever you play in 4, 8, or 16 beat sequences. You record your playing by first pressing the "REC" button on the lower right side of the X-Y pad and then selecting which sound bank of the 4 you want to record into. If you so choose, you can record infinite loops on top of each other into each bank, which may indeed get a little KAOTIC if you aren't precise with your fingerings on the touch pad. If not recording, you can have any of these banks play the stored loops by simply pressing the selected bank buttons at any time. And yes, all 4 banks can be played simultaneously. You can also record external instruments as well by hooking them up via 1/4" jack through the "MIC "input at the bottom right of the chassis, or via stereo cables at the top left above the volume knobs. Overall, I believe this to be a great instrument, but only a fair looper.Read full review
I did not purchase the "Pro" version as pictured. I have the original Kaossilator. It has an amazing bank of sounds and the variety you can produce is barely limited. I love the loop feature! The only draw back is it has no internal/external memory to store songs. A very fun, sophisticated little instrument!
This is an interesting product. You have to spend some time with the manual to get it do what you want. For an accent instrument, it is easy to use right out of the box. To use it as a stand-alone or more refined instrument, you have delve deep into the manual, to tune, time, adjust, move or transpose things to get it play rhythms and beats. Over-all I like it, it sounds great, once you get the hang of it you will love using it over and over again for live, or studio use.
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