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Kaossilator For Fun

Imagine how you can release all of your musical creativity with Korg Kaossilator, making your own beats, synthesizer, bass, anything in one single pad. The Kaossilator’s user-friendly touch-pad lets you create musical and rhythmic phrases using any of its 100 synth programs, such as leads, basses, realistic instrument sounds, playable drums and drum patterns. Each time you add a phrase, Kaossilator stacks it on top of the previous phrases you created.

This amazing little box is a tiny sequencer/synth that is about as big as the average guitar tuner. It has 100 audio presets which are basically generated sounds synthesized using an X/Y touchpad. For example, for synthesized wind instruments you can change the pitch and loudness by pressing on different parts of the touchpad. For drums you hit different quadrants for different instruments – tom, high hat, etc

The results are as simple-or complex-as you desire. Choose from the 31 available scales, and play in any key. Lay down your groove with any 50 gate-arpeggiator patterns for even more KAOSS! The portable, travel-friendly Kaossilator runs on batteries or a 4.5v adapter. Use the it as a multi-instrumental musical instrument, sample source, live rig addition, or just a fun way to get your groove on!

Features:

100 Playable Synth Programs
The Kaossilator synthesizer offers 100 unique patches for you to play, from nautral instruments to synth basses and leads, including ten drum patterns and 31 musical patterns. Sounds include:

Preset drum/bass grooves with flexible effects
Fat synth lead sounds
Acoustic instruments like trumpet, digeridoo, sitar, and more
Tap-able drum voices
Extra thick and juicy basses
Complete chords with filters and other effects
Space-age sound effects to send your loop beyond the cosmos
Innovative Touch-Pad Control

Moving your finger from side to side changes the pitch of tuned sounds, while sliding up and down affects filters, delays or other effects. It’s all set up so it’s virtually impossible to hit a duff note or veer off-key, but as there are no markings on the pad to show where one note stops and another starts, you’ll never play the same tune twice.. Then you create loops. You can set the loop length, between 1 and 8 beats, and record for that length of time. It overlays the recording and repeats it until you tell it to stop, thereby allowing you to create a backbeat and then play over it. It has a headphone jack and RCA audio out and runs on four AA batteries, included. The best thing about the Kaossilator is that it stays in pitch no matter what you do. If you pick the key of C, everything you swipe, tap, or tickle will be in key. There are no bum notes.

This means you can feasibly tune your real instruments correctly and then play along to your Kaossilator-made beats, something I’ve always wanted to do.It takes a bit of practice to actually make music but initial noodling is quite easy. It’s essentially an instrument you can pick up and play immediately but to master it – meaning use it in compositions with a mix of instruments – is a bit trickier. If you don’t know how to play an instrument, the Kaossilator is a great place to start. Expect my cover of Don’t Fear the Reaper with Bluegrass guitars and drum and bass backbeat soon.