Korg has announced a brand new pocket-size KAOSS Pad, which it’s calling the Kaossilator dynamic phrase synthesizer. It ships with 100 sound programs that combine Korg’s modeling synthesizer engine with effects from the KAOSS Pad series. Its horizontal axis is assigned to the pitch of a note, while the vertical axis is assigned to parameters such as cut-off, feedback, or modulation depth, giving you a wide range of performance possibilities. In addition to classic synthesizer sounds, there are faithfully simulated piano, guitar, and trumpet sounds as well as looped and one-shot drum sounds. The Kaossilator also includes a Gate Arpeggiator which enables you to produce specific patterns of notes in sync with user specified tempos and a Loop Recording function that allows you to record a phrase with a specified number of beats to a maximum of two bars (or measures) and add layers to it.
