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willbe
Published on 11/21/06 at 04:42
A small UFO with Korg has a hard life, it's already the third edition. This is a stereo effect processor coupled to a 4-way loop sampler, all can also act as MIDI control surface.
I / O stereo RCA
Microphone input jack 6.35mm
Midi in / out
USB port to connect to a PC or a Mac
Headphone jack 6.35
A product with no real competition.
UTILIZATION
My Profile: home-studio owners to electro house. I'm not a DJ, this is my first Kaoss Pad. on the other hand I've experienced a lot of Korg products before.
Unpacking, pleasant surprise for materials, metal is good! Even the knobs and fader are metal, which is quite rare and pleasant to be reported.
Opening the manual, ouch! It is poorly illustrated, it seems thin to an effects processor. Obviously it's less complicated to use than Electribe. See directly on the machine to get an idea.
Wiring and power, yes! It responds really well, the pad is very nice, is not afraid to abuse a little thanks to a protective adhesive plastic to put it right out, well thought Korg.
SOUND QUALITY
The sound is really nickel, a little breath on the input line (really honest work), for against the microphone is less pink (unless we talk about pink noise, then it makes perfect sense), avoid at all costs. In any case, a microphone with a 6.35mm jack is not oriented pro.
Amazing for an effects processor, you can not assign the effect you want on the X and Y axes of the pad. This gap in programming, it seems too complicated for a DJ (target marketing of the product) is largely compensated by the profusion of well designed presets, versatile enough for a lot of uses. My favorites are the loopers, you can manipulate beats on the fly very efficiently.
Side "Radias heritage," there are some drum rhythms of electro, with a soft kick and snare a lot. There are some synth waveforms (saw, square, noise), and that's a shame we can not turn over the huge delay plated. In practice, moving his finger on the pad from left to right to change the note, impractical to play a melody, but to tweak sounds and resampler is very attractive.
The vocoder follows the same principle, we play the note on the pad and talk into the microphone to produce the form. The rendering is so-so, not very bright. To add teeth can actually use the mic and get into the red to the barbarian. Station when the background noise which will also be taken up by the vocoder.
The sampler in turn comes from a great idea, it's 4 channels synchronized to the tempo. With the pads can mute tracks, they are always in sync to the beat. The KP3 can sample on the fly, and resample a loop with an internal effect of the bike (what is meant in fact, can act as the pad), it's really flexible and open to hack. on the other hand I find it lacks a button play / stop.
MIDI controller side, it's party. After installing the software KP3 editor, it has access to customization parameters fairly easily, with also the choice of the behavior of the pad (if you want 8 faders in a column or line, or other reasons). Very impressive, I have not had time to test it seriously, but under the Reason KP3 is recognized and works fine on my devices.
Side communication with the computer, either with the SD card or USB cable (not supplied with the KP3, a little disappointed), it is very convenient because it can safeguard its samples-hacks without resampling it with the the computer's sound card.
OVERALL OPINION
Finally after a weekend to discover the beast, I am delighted. It is a simple and very versatile bike. I fly a little too fashionable effects (filters the daft, the aphex glitches) which we quickly recognize the machine, and I still find my happiness in the rest of what it offers.
In fact, the KP3 is so versatile that I find myself especially the head to find a wiring diagram with my mixer that allows to exploit all the possibilities
I / O stereo RCA
Microphone input jack 6.35mm
Midi in / out
USB port to connect to a PC or a Mac
Headphone jack 6.35
A product with no real competition.
UTILIZATION
My Profile: home-studio owners to electro house. I'm not a DJ, this is my first Kaoss Pad. on the other hand I've experienced a lot of Korg products before.
Unpacking, pleasant surprise for materials, metal is good! Even the knobs and fader are metal, which is quite rare and pleasant to be reported.
Opening the manual, ouch! It is poorly illustrated, it seems thin to an effects processor. Obviously it's less complicated to use than Electribe. See directly on the machine to get an idea.
Wiring and power, yes! It responds really well, the pad is very nice, is not afraid to abuse a little thanks to a protective adhesive plastic to put it right out, well thought Korg.
SOUND QUALITY
The sound is really nickel, a little breath on the input line (really honest work), for against the microphone is less pink (unless we talk about pink noise, then it makes perfect sense), avoid at all costs. In any case, a microphone with a 6.35mm jack is not oriented pro.
Amazing for an effects processor, you can not assign the effect you want on the X and Y axes of the pad. This gap in programming, it seems too complicated for a DJ (target marketing of the product) is largely compensated by the profusion of well designed presets, versatile enough for a lot of uses. My favorites are the loopers, you can manipulate beats on the fly very efficiently.
Side "Radias heritage," there are some drum rhythms of electro, with a soft kick and snare a lot. There are some synth waveforms (saw, square, noise), and that's a shame we can not turn over the huge delay plated. In practice, moving his finger on the pad from left to right to change the note, impractical to play a melody, but to tweak sounds and resampler is very attractive.
The vocoder follows the same principle, we play the note on the pad and talk into the microphone to produce the form. The rendering is so-so, not very bright. To add teeth can actually use the mic and get into the red to the barbarian. Station when the background noise which will also be taken up by the vocoder.
The sampler in turn comes from a great idea, it's 4 channels synchronized to the tempo. With the pads can mute tracks, they are always in sync to the beat. The KP3 can sample on the fly, and resample a loop with an internal effect of the bike (what is meant in fact, can act as the pad), it's really flexible and open to hack. on the other hand I find it lacks a button play / stop.
MIDI controller side, it's party. After installing the software KP3 editor, it has access to customization parameters fairly easily, with also the choice of the behavior of the pad (if you want 8 faders in a column or line, or other reasons). Very impressive, I have not had time to test it seriously, but under the Reason KP3 is recognized and works fine on my devices.
Side communication with the computer, either with the SD card or USB cable (not supplied with the KP3, a little disappointed), it is very convenient because it can safeguard its samples-hacks without resampling it with the the computer's sound card.
OVERALL OPINION
Finally after a weekend to discover the beast, I am delighted. It is a simple and very versatile bike. I fly a little too fashionable effects (filters the daft, the aphex glitches) which we quickly recognize the machine, and I still find my happiness in the rest of what it offers.
In fact, the KP3 is so versatile that I find myself especially the head to find a wiring diagram with my mixer that allows to exploit all the possibilities