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Korg iKaossilator: First Look and Review
Ean Golden reviews the Korg iKaossilator app for iPads and iPhones. It’s the normal Kaossilator, but cheaper and on your iOS device!
Learn more at http://www.djtechtools.com/2011/10/18/ikaossilator-for-ip…
iKaossilator for iPhone Highlights :
● Play sounds by simply stroking, tapping, or rubbing the screen with your finger
● Bold Visual Effects move along with your performance and add excitement
● 150 diverse built-in sounds cover any style of dance music
● Scale/Key settings allow anyone to perform with musical precision
● Easily create tracks with the loop sequencer using up to five parts
● Control loops in real time for DJ-Style live performances
● WIST capability allows wireless sync-start with other apps such as the iELECTRIBE
☐ Perform Using A Single Finger
iKaossilator uses the unique X-Y interface made famous by Korg’s entire Kaoss Line, including the original hand-held KAOSSILATOR. Create melodies and phrases simply by stroking, tapping, or rubbing the touch screen with your finger; no musical knowledge is required.
☐ Bright, Colorful Visual Effects
iKaossilator is also focused on its graphic design, which shows up beautifully on the iPhone’s high-quality display. The visual effects on the iPhone’s display move along with your performance and add excitement. These bold, colorful graphics provide an exciting performance experience.
☐ 150 Diverse Sounds Covering Many Musical Styles
Use the 150 built-in sounds to perform and produce a broad range of dance music styles including hip-hop, house, techno, dubstep, nu-disco, and electro. Enjoy the synth leads and synth bass sounds you expect from a synthesizer, as well as acoustic sounds that simulate piano or guitar chords, even the popular sound effects used by DJs. The drum sounds let you play and manipulate various patterns simply by moving your finger.
☐ Loop Sequencer
The built-in loop sequencer lets you layer up to five musical parts. To create a track, simply assign a loop such as synth, bass, chords, sound effects, or drums to each part. Fifty loops created by professional musicians are built-in to help you get started quickly. In addition to its track-making capabilities, this loop sequencer is also a great feature for live performance. The Mix Play feature makes it easy to enjoy live remixing; you can switch seamlessly to another loop or extract a specific part from another loop while the playback continues.
More insight into the iKaossilator for iPhone/iPod Touch
As announced earlier, but here’s a new video demo of the app. Given how perfectly suited the iPhone is to being used as an X/Y pad, a mobile version of Korg’s Kaossilator was always a no-brainer. And so we have the new iKaossilator, which has appeared on the App Store this very day.
The full details are below, but the bottom line is that you can make music with the app just by “stroking, tapping or rubbing” your Apple mobile device’s screen, which also displays visual effects.
There are 150 built-in sounds, scale/key settings and a five-part loop sequencer.
The Korg iKaossilator is available now from the App Store priced at £6.99 (the price will double as of 30 November). There’s no native iPad version at this time.
Korg iKaossilator official details
Korg has revolutionized the musical instrument world with their dynamic line of Kaoss products, using an intuitive X-Y pad to provide expressive musical control. The palm-sized KAOSSILATOR synthesizer placed modern music-making in the hands of thousands of musicians and non-musicians alike. Now that same excitement has been captured in the iKaossilator app for iPhone!
iKaossilator for iPhone Highlights:
? Play sounds by simply stroking, tapping, or rubbing the screen with your finger
? Bold Visual Effects move along with your performance and add excitement
? 150 diverse built-in sounds cover any style of dance music
? Scale/Key settings allow anyone to perform with musical precision
? Easily create tracks with the loop sequencer using up to five parts
? Control loops in real time for DJ-Style live performances
? WIST capability allows wireless sync-start with other apps such as the iELECTRIBE
Perform Using A Single Finger
iKaossilator uses the unique X-Y interface made famous by Korg’s entire Kaoss Line, including the original hand-held KAOSSILATOR. Create melodies and phrases simply by stroking, tapping, or rubbing the touch screen with your finger; no musical knowledge is required.
Bright, Colorful Visual Effects
iKaossilator is also focused on its graphic design, which shows up beautifully on the iPhone’s high-quality display. The visual effects on the iPhone’s display move along with your performance and add excitement. These bold, colorful graphics provide an exciting performance experience.
150 Diverse Sounds Covering Many Musical Styles
Use the 150 built-in sounds to perform and produce a broad range of dance music styles including hip-hop, house, techno, dubstep, nu-disco, and electro. Enjoy the synth leads and synth bass sounds you expect from a synthesizer, as well as acoustic sounds that simulate piano or guitar chords, even the popular sound effects used by DJs. The drum sounds let you play and manipulate various patterns simply by moving your finger.
Loop Sequencer
The built-in loop sequencer lets you layer up to five musical parts. To create a track, simply assign a loop such as synth, bass, chords, sound effects, or drums to each part. Fifty loops created by professional musicians are built-in to help you get started quickly. In addition to its track-making capabilities, this loop sequencer is also a great feature for live performance. The Mix Play feature makes it easy to enjoy live remixing; you can switch seamlessly to another loop or extract a specific part from another loop while the playback continues.
Link : KORG iKaossilator by [?] – Download KORG iKaossilator in the iTunes App Store
Enjoy
KORG iKaossilator for iPhone : Preview
Available on the App Store : http://bit.ly/nNlZeE
More info : http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Dance/iKaossilator/
Here’s what KORG Japan is writing about the product (Googlish):
Palm-sized synthesizer KAOSSILATOR breathed new wind musical instrument industry, has emerged as a long-awaited iPhone app! Familiar interface simply by touching the touch pad that can be played, of course, with the new sequencer with loop at will make tracks and live performances. Biyakana also provides sparkling visual effects enliven the play, KAOSSILATOR is a whole new “iKaossilator for iPhone” reborn as.
Trace your finger on the screen, or hit, a synthesizer can play freely or simply rubbing.
Groove representing the visual effects in conjunction with the play.
150 built-in sounds of every leading dance music.
Features set scale / key anyone can play without removing the pitch.
Easily make a loop sequencer track up to five parts.
The DJ can also be like a live performance and real-time control loop.
Wireless Sync app and play instruments such as function iELECTRIBE WIST.
KORG Kaossilator performing Aerodynamic
If you’re a fan of Daft Punk and the Korg Kaossilator, then you’ll probably like this. This is the first time I’ve ever tried playing the thing with TWO HANDS and a pencil. It’s quite tricky.
Anyway, I know the riff isn’t EXACTLY the same as the original, but that’s only because there isn’t a scale setting on the Kaossilator which can do it in one go (I know, I tried them all).
CLICK HERE to download an album of eight of my live Kaossilator tracks in high quality: http://johngarner.bandcamp.com/album/tailors-oaks
http://www.myspace.com/johnjamesgarner
Circuit Bent Korg Kaossilator KAOSS BOX
Circuit Bent Korg Kaossilator – KAOSS BOX. Complete with a break-out box that contains switches used to circuit bend the memory rom chip thus creating distortion and glitches in the synthesizer playback. Also inside the break out box is an LTC precision oscillator used to speed up and slow down the fixed frequency crystal, this allowing for analog pitch control via a knob. It is also possible to use a Photo-resistor instead of the potentiometer this allowing for theremin like operation of the unit.
The mods are:
Full Kaossilator Bolted onto box
Pitch Down
Switchable Pitch down LDR
LFO with Rate Control Knob and Rainbow LED indicator
Two Types of LFO on three way switch
4x Ring Mods switches
3x Glitch Switches (the unit does need to be switched off/on when your finished with these bends to get everything back to normal)
The Switch in the middle of Glitch switches gives a nice double up thing on the sounds!
1/4″ Jack to hook up to Homemade sequence
I’ve been struggling to come up with a video for this, so I decided to just go for it and do a simple jam to show what the unit can do. It starts of a bit slow but gradually gets better. The glitch bends can do alot more but I think you get the idea. I will do another vid with it hooked up to my sequencer soon.
Pretty girls working the Kaossilator
Fun music video from the album Kaossilatron by Crystaline: http://crystaline.bandcamp.com/
Featuring: CG (Crystal Gals), Korg Kaossilator Pro, Korg Monotron and several Indonesian Traditional Bamboo Instruments, such: Angklung, Gambang, Suling and Pripitan.
Firing up the Kaossilator
New Korg video directly from the heart of Japan
Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer / loop recorder KAOSSILATOR PRO to showcase the whole picture, movie popular series is back!
Have a high potential KAOSSILATOR PRO. Still pursuing the possibility that the Secret! Second.
Use Kaossilator as midi controller
The Korg Kaossilator has no midi output which limits it use severely. But using a audio to midi program it’s possible. Here’s a how-to video. Reaktor is needed however….
Frippertronics style demo of SynthPad
This is a Frippertronics style demo of SynthPad - a new iPhone instrument inspired by the interface of the Korg Kaossilator family of devices.
Instead relying on piano keys to register notes, SynthPad uses a dedicated touch surface to control the sounds. Additionally the Y-Axis on the touch surface can be used to control different parameters, like filter cutoff and LFO values, making it an “expressive little toy.”
Its sound engine is a fully programmable monophonic virtual analog synthesizer. Among its parameters one can find:
- 2 oscillators with different wave shapes
- Fine tuning of the second oscillator
- Volume Envelope
- LFO modulation
- A Low-Pass filter
- Filter Envelope
- Arpeggio
Additionally, the scale and the key on the touchpad surface can also be configured, for live improvisation.
SynthPad is available now in the App Store for $1.99.
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