kaosslliator nifty production tool or gimmick?

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:34 pm

thinking of picking one these things up.

thoughts?

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:40 pm

depends on what you pay for it.

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:55 pm

b0unce wrote:depends on what you pay for it.

im pretty sure its like, 150

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:20 pm

too pricey man...
The most I could spend on that without being totally disgusted with myself would be about 65 yoyo

besides, korg are releasing a synth/sequencer for the nintendo DS ....

C.S. · Post by **C.S.** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:02 pm

Listen and draw your own conclusions.
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/01 ... album.html

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:08 pm

gimmick. All gimmick.

ThetaState · Post by **ThetaState** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:36 pm

Yep, gimmick. Korg's lower end stuff also tends to sound, ehrm...not so great compared to their mid and high range offerings and even most soft synths. Would second finding one used if you're heart's set on it, especially when one of Abelton's instruments is only $9 more than this thing new.

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:48 pm

well, i jumped the cue. this thing is rediculously fun.

me and a freind sat down and jammed with it and FL for an hour or so.

its pretty nifty. it sucks that you cant edit on it, but the sounds on it are actually pretty decent.

its totally a gimmick, but definatly a good compact way of releasing your creativity.

i've definatly found a home for it, it my dad stops playing with it..

kristoffer1989 · Post by **kristoffer1989** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:13 am

live tool;)

amigo · Post by **amigo** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:08 am

I nearly bought one on the strength of this video alone.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=gTD7bAz_3Xk

I went for the KP3 in the end.

littlepig · Post by **littlepig** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:24 pm

If you have got a Palm you could try Bhajis loops:

http://www.chocopoolp.com/bj_index.php

Just got the demo, seems pretty good.

bpbailey68 · Post by **bpbailey68** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:37 pm

i'm really enjoying using it going to be in my next show. for a 1st generation product its about 85% there and ii can't decide if i would want a version as big as a kp3 yet. it could use more than 8 beats of looping (although you can hack it for 16) and for all the scale choices it is strange that it doesn't have a harmonic minor scale.

you definitely need to have great ears to play it and to me the bottom line is that anything you have to 'practice' is not a toy.

here is a link to a trailer of my latest project using the kaossillator. i'm playing live with my guitarist using ableton with fcb1010 to control the background loops (its the last loop, so its hard to tell).

paul

http://www.vimeo.com/936614
http://twitter.com/pbailey

jesQuick · Post by **jesQuick** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:17 pm

amigo wrote:I nearly bought one on the strength of this video alone.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=gTD7bAz_3Xk

I went for the KP3 in the end.

Great performance...

I want one!

-j

Marx · Post by **Marx** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:08 pm

I haven't used this new gadget yet, but I have the KP3 and it's almost Impossible to get some nice effects recorded into live off of it. It's strictly a live tool.

To record it into Live I had to send an audio track out to the interface, which the KP3 was hooked up to. Then record the effects onto a separate audio track. Then combine these two tracks so I had my original track with the new effects on it. If I wanted the effect on each track I had to do them one at a time. And with the finger pad it's obviously almost impossible to make them all the same.

Too much work for some average to good effects

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:10 pm

If they'd have included a USB jack I would've picked one up, no question. Without true integration it's worthless to me....