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Dazzle
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 Posted: Fri 10/Oct/08 12:30am Post subject: Musicians: Korg Kaossilator / Mini-kp Opinions? |
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Vorb musical/techo types, anyone had a play with the Korg Kaossilator and or Mini-Kp?
Opinions?
http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2008/02/01/kaossilator-pocket-synthesblahblahblah
http://remixmag.com/performance/dj_gear/korg_minikp/index.html
I am going to have a bit of a hands on demo during the weekend, and am interested in opinions from anyone that has had a play with them.
I have been kicking around an electronic theremin type device that uses a similar interface, an X/Y surface tied to predefined synthesizer guff. Instant 80's sci fi TV sounds.  Quite enjoying it. I know Korg does a higher end touch surface that can be software mapped via midi, but those two units linked above look like fun little plug and go units with a lot less ca$h outlay.
Opinions? Experiences? Irrelevant faecal flinging?
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JaredTheAmazing
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| Posted: Fri 10/Oct/08 7:49am Post subject: |
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 Never used but looks fun. Pity they've only implemented 2-axis but; I'd like to see pressure sensitive giving 3rd variable (volume maybe)
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jeremyb
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| Posted: Fri 10/Oct/08 8:43am Post subject: |
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Matt Bellamy from Muse has some guitars with the kaos pads installed in them, makes for some gnikcuf cool noises.
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E Dogg Capizzle
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| Posted: Fri 10/Oct/08 9:07am Post subject: |
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| jeremyb wrote: | | Matt Bellamy from Muse has some guitars with the kaos pads installed in them, makes for some gnikcuf cool noises. |
Ya, he's really impressive generally on the live album dvd. 
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Dazzle
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| Posted: Fri 10/Oct/08 11:01am Post subject: |
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Another dinky option, the Nintendo-Ds/Korg Ds -10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KORG_DS-10
The youtube demo's of it look pretty nifty. 
As for the 3 axis stuff - one of the theremin plug ins I have played with lets you do x-y and assign another value to the mouse wheel.
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Dazzle
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| Posted: Sat 11/Oct/08 7:44pm Post subject: |
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After a hands on, the question has gone from 'should I' to 'how many'.
Pretty much instant turn it on - touch the pad - make musical things happen.
Gonna need to stock up on some cables to run a bunch of different things through it.
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TheRealHotKarl
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| Posted: Wed 15/Oct/08 6:16pm Post subject: |
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Looks awesome.
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jeremyb
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| Posted: Wed 15/Oct/08 7:04pm Post subject: |
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Matt Bellamy also uses one of these: http://www.museresearch.com/receptor.php great alternative to guitar rig on a laptop, I love guitar rig btw, it gnikcuf rules, my lappie has a basic sound card but with ASIO4ALL I can get really low latency and it sounds great... will get a proper firewire interface at some stage but in the meantime its grouse
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Dazzle
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| Posted: Wed 15/Oct/08 7:27pm Post subject: |
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In a not entirely related question, anyone know anything about recording directly to an Ipod?
I know you can get hardware plug ins to the data socket to take xlr mics or go direct off a mixer, but can you just whack a line in directly to the 3.5mm socket and press record?
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