Thanks for Francis Preve for consulting on this story. Plus, because apps are portable, you can sketch ideas to bring back to finish later in the studio or at home. And KORG have here thrown in their usual KAOSS-style X/Y pad, which works even better. But with touch, they create the illusion of being able to really use the interface. Fake knobs on a screen, with a mouse – not the best.
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The iPad is uniquely suited to vintage software remakes.
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(Though, of course, you’re just as free to use whatever MIDI hardware and apps you want.) Integration with KORG’s own DAW/synth environment should appeal to lovers of that tool. No excuses for not creating your own presets with basic sounds …why the heck doesn’t every darned soft synth in the world have this feature?! That of course may also lead you to new sounds. Formant shaping, multi-tap spatialization delay with chorus, and more. Couple this with something like the Modstep app and you can sequence complex transformations of sound, live.ĭeep effects. In addition to routing modulation, you get MIDI Control Change for almost everything. (Hey, the ballpoint pen hasn’t evolved much since 1981, either – so work on your drawing skills.) Route loads of envelopes and inputs to loads more sound and envelope features. This might be a 1981 synth, but it still offers advanced sound possibilities today. And Duran Duran fans, yes, there’s a random mode. This is actually my favorite feature of the Mono/Poly, partly because you can arpeggiate across voices.
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Korg already have an enviable track record for making high quality apps, but in Gadget they ve made their most serious step yet towards full music production.Gadget is finally here and it brings Korgs innovative music making system to the Mac desktop. It could be called the Mono/Poly/Para – you get all three modes in the app. Review Korg Gadget Review 2015 Korg Gadget Review 2015 May 17, 2017. (That also opens up the usual possibilities of making an iPad or iPhone a satellite to your desktop studio rig.)īut on iOS, there’s particular reason to rejoice. (I’m still holding out for a hardware remake, but I mean in software.) The Legacy Collection plug-in version is a nice enough recreation of the original for the desktop, and it seems if you were a user of that plug-in, you can exchange presets with the new iOS app. Sending pitches separately, you also get unique sequencing effects, generating melodic ideas that dance across those four oscillators. And then, most interesting, you can use paraphonic mode, where the four oscillators use a single filter and amplitude. Using those four oscillators separately for chords, it’s a near-perfect polysynth. Playing one voice at a time with its four oscillators, it’s a fat monosynth. The KORG original is really three synths in one. The latest app from KORG brings the 1981 vintage synth to iOS – and there’s reason this particular remake is interesting in 2017.