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offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-09-18 11:00 [#02327688]
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link


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2009-09-18 12:05 [#02327717]
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a tad to toyish


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-09-18 12:18 [#02327725]
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yeah. with that design i think they shouldve included
onboard speakers. same for that microkorgXL


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2009-09-18 12:35 [#02327736]
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At first the buttons/dials look bad, but I think they are
designed to be less crappy then their previous toyline
equipment. Hopefully the keys aren't that tiny crappy keyset
that has been on their synths as of late. That vocoder and
microXL are unusable to me cause I got bighands/long fingers
:P


 

offline khrimson from the fridge on 2009-09-18 12:37 [#02327739]
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lol @ mic


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2009-09-18 12:40 [#02327740]
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i seriously hate this line i'm hearing lately in every
single commercial about musical gear "now everybody can make
music" i mean come on.

besides i think the case of this is absolutely horrible. i
mean black plastic ? the microkorg was stylish as hell
comparde to that, and the xl was already a turn-off for me.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-09-18 18:36 [#02327916]
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tomorrow i'll buy a new midi keyboard, congs to me


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-09-18 23:05 [#02327966]
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Everyone seems to be criticizing the design. I don't think
its that bad. Its actually pretty useful for what the
machine needs. However, its kind of ridiculous that they
decided to make a keyboard sampler.

A whole bunch of people are going to go out and buy it, and
flood craigslist with it in 6 months because they will
realize that a hardware sampler without a sequencer is a
fucking pain in the ass. Editing samples on a tiny screen is
a pain in the ass. Loading and saving samples without a card
is a pain in the ass. Hardware samplers in general are a
pain in the ass.

There is a reason why ensoniq only make videocards, and akai
only makes MPC's now.


 

offline oxygenfad from www.oxygenfad.com (Canada) on 2009-09-19 00:39 [#02327973]
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Beefed up SK1 ?


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-09-21 09:02 [#02328515]
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it has a sequencer but i dunno how good


 

offline retape from http://retape.net (Norway) on 2009-09-21 09:16 [#02328516]
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it's a good thing that everyone can make music.

btw, the interface on this looks kinda bad.


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2009-09-21 09:28 [#02328522]
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i just can't think of a person who might actually buy this.
i mean it's cool for jamming along on it but the sequencer
seems insuficient to make decent tracks on it - so you
connect it to your pc to use your daw but then the whole
thing gets useless. it doesn't really seem suited for live.
i could imagine some beatboxers using it creatively live
sampling their voice and playing on it but it seems that
might be too difficult to pull. i'd personally rather buy an
esx-1 which has a decent sequencer capable of making whole
tracks, very good effects and is really nic for playing
live.

yeah speaking of esx-1 - why has korg stopped making
beatboxes? right now where you have only the machinedrum and
monomachine, the roland mc's and an awful lot of 909 and 808
copies (yuk) a newer esx-1 or emx-1 for half the price of
the machine drum would be just a big bang.


 

offline Quoth from Sweden on 2009-09-21 09:49 [#02328526]
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I think it's a little more beefed up than an old Casio SK-1
or SK-5, for that matter. Loads of memory and why does Korg
insist on putting the Kaoss Engine into all of their stuff?
Why can't they come up with something else for effects? This
thing looks fucking toyish, but how big are the actual keys?
If it's like a 3 year olds Casio SK-1, then no.

The only thing that I might be ok with, is it's USB
interface to a computer for further audio
manipulation/editing. That being said, all of this could be
done on a laptop... who would take this with them and not
bring a laptop?


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2009-09-21 11:12 [#02328548]
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exactly my point - imho companies that make musical gear
should make a clear line between professional standalone
hardware and stuff for the homebrew-laptop-musician.


 

offline Advocate on 2009-09-21 14:11 [#02328583]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2009-09-21 14:17 [#02328587]
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sickest fucking beat ever


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2009-09-21 14:44 [#02328595]
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uan! tu! sri! fo!


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2009-09-21 15:12 [#02328615]
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It's a toy, but looks like it could be a fun toy.
Seems to have a function to auto chop then assign to
keyboard!

I think there's a big market for this sort of thing for
drunk people. Seriously, how much fun could a room full of
drunk students have with one? And unlike a MPC or whatever,
the owner probably isn't too fussed if it gets some abuse
(I'm guessing it's not too expensive, haven't checked)



 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-09-21 15:49 [#02328642]
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id have it just cause its portable and leave it in the
living room for fun when people come over... "hey whats that
thing do!"

unable to EQ sounds after recording makes it not worth the
money to me. how does the sequencer work? can you mute
sounds? does the kaoss engine have an equalizer? if i had
to plug it into the computer to equalize sounds id be very
upset


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2009-09-22 02:51 [#02328691]
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doesn't really look like it has eq at all. you are right
actually - i should sell my consoles, dancemats, and itoy
cameras and put somehting like that into the living room


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-09-22 05:12 [#02328699]
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すごい


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-09-22 09:11 [#02328753]
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supposedly has a 4band EQ thing but you have to do it
through the software editor, LOL


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2009-09-22 09:39 [#02328761]
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that's sooooo gay


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-09-25 14:52 [#02329885]
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ah. Well, even still, this doesn't look like something that
people would want as the center for their studio. Most
samplers that have sequencer integration kind of act like
that. The thing that the mpc's have is the 2x/4x midi out
and useful sequencing interface. You can use it as your
studio brain, and it works really well for live work because
you can trigger different sequences with the pads. This
doesn't seem to be the same thing. I could be wrong. Even
with all its features the mpc is a bit too much of an
anachronism to be useful these days.


 


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