Hi I'm Chris from Music Radar.com and we're here on the Korg stand to look at the new
Kaossilator and the new Kaoss Pad mini. Jeffery is going to give us a demo of all the newest
features, so I'll hand you over to Jeffery thank you.
>>Thank you, so the Kaossilator 2 has been, both of these have been scaled down considerably,
they're ergonomical they fit in your hand very comfortably, they're running on batteries
instead of 4 and using all touch gestures so anyone familiar with a smartphone that
kind of thing, it's all very very familiar. We've added 50 sounds to the Kaossilator 2
so now 150 different sounds you can use the X Y axis on the control pad to change the
sounds. What's very cool they've added is,there's now 2 loopers built into this and so there's
drum pad which you can play manually there's also predesignated loops, I can show you,
I can build up some of these ideas, I can take a loop pattern and store that,
save that, I can add another percussion part if I want. I can do 1 loop, then I can add, can step
through plus and minus one at a time or very quickly scroll through the different sounds.
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2 loops, I can isolate one if I want.
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Then play on top of that.
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And loop number 2
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So it's a great little companion for compositional exercises, it's a great little tool, the cool
thing about that is if you come up with something and you want to save it. What's nice is
they've added a mini SD card, which is huge, you can just save your ideas, save them, come
back to them manipulate them some more, you don't have to lose them when you turn the
device off. >>What do they get stored as?
>>MP3 or WAV files. So you can save all your settings and come back to them whenever you want.
Now I can run that right into the mini Kaoss pad, this is set up with 100 different programmes
in here, different filters, echos, delays, hi pass and low pass filters that kind of thing.
I get a sound I like and just hold that, can be played on top of that, release it.
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It's a very cool too they've added with the SD card, you can load sounds, your own songs
into here and manipulate those, you don't necessarily have to have an external device, you have
songs you're working on or certain grooves you can load those in, I have a song here
I can pull up
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>>And can you, is it possible to then save what you just recorded back to that WAV or
MP3 file? >>Yeah, that's actually a song that's in there
as a demo, but you would normally have your own sounds.
>>But can you save that manipulation I mean? >>Yes. If you wanted a hard line on top...
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>>That's great and when are they out and what's the retails?
>>These will be released in May is what I'm told at least in the States, they'll be selling
for $149.99 each in the States and UK prices are £168.