Buy Korg mini-KP Kaoss Pad Dynamic Effect ProcessorKorg mini-KP Kaoss Pad Dynamic Effect Processor Product Description:
- DJ practice at home, or DJ performance in a club
- Performance with synthesizers or other instruments (indoor or outdoor)
- Listening to your portable audio player, or using your portable audio player to rehearse a DJ mix for a party (indoor or outdoor)
Product Description
The Korg MINI KP has been enormously popular with artists around the world for its intuitive touch-pad interface and its revolutionary effect programs. While providing the same interface in which multiple parameters of the effect program are controlled by a single fingertip, the mini-KP brings the advantages of battery operation and mobility, making it an ideal choice for DJ club performances, home studio applications, as well as outdoor live events or for use with a portable audio player. Wherever you are, the mini-KP brings new possibilities to any music scene. The KAOSS PAD series lets you control the effect entirely from the touch-pad in realtime. Different effect parameters are assigned to the X-axis and Y-axis of the touch-pad and can be controlled simultaneously, meaning that you can vary the delay time and the feedback at the same time, or simultaneously change the cutoff and resonance of a filter. This means that complex effect operations that otherwise would require two hands on a conventional knob-based controller can be performed easily and intuitively with just one hand. It’s also easy to apply complex effects by rubbing or tapping the pad with your fingertip as though you were playing a musical instrument. The mini-KP features the smallest body in the KAOSS PAD series. It can be operated on batteries, and provides a strap attachment hole for easy portability. This means that you can now use the KAOSS PAD series' unique and intuitive one-finger operation with a wide range of instruments or sound sources, in an even greater variety of situations.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Crazy sound processing, man!
By Casey Holmes
Buy the red and black Mini KP to run your sounds THROUGH. If you want the one to make sounds WITH, you buy the yellow "Kaossilator". That's the short of it.I have both and both are good for different reasons. The yellow Kaossilator is for making phrases. In otherwords in an electronic synthesizer and phrase machine. It also has a beat maker in it and you can modify, record and layer the sounds any way you'd like. The yellow Kaossilator is pretty much a "One-Man-Band" device! Very powerful and I would not consider it just a toy IMO. People can write entire music albums with that one device. Now for the Mini KP Kaos Pad.I Bought this through Amazon for $109 SHIPPED at the time so shop around and you could get lucky. It came the business day after Christmas and I had ordered it a day or two before so the free shipping was amazingly fast and awesome!The Mini KP is for modifying existing sounds. Yes, it does have a few synthesizer like sounds in it (I believe about 10 or twenty) but the other 80 channels are for running sound "through" to modify those sounds when you press the pad. It won't play any sounds you run through it on the RCA input to output unless you press the pad and let the sounds through. When you move your finger around on the pad the sounds are modified according to that effect parameter, as shown in the manual. (pitch, frequency etc etc etc the list goes on and on)So you can't really use the MiniKP as a stand alone one man band device like the Kaossilator. It is more along the lines to modify sounds than create them, although it does have a very very small slice of some built in sound effects that are pretty cool on their own like one I relate to sounding like " evil harsh wind" that you control the depth and pitch of. Much unlike the Synth like qualities of the Kaossilator.As you can see they go hand in hand nicely. I'd even recommend hooking the MiniKP up to a Bliptironic 5000 and using the kaossilator separately and you have some crazy meditative grooves to be made! See my other reviews for the Bliptronic 5000.I hook all these little instruments up to my 5 channel dj effects mixer and get jiggy with it. I also hook the miniKP up to my bass guitar sometimes for some funk! Have fun with it folks! You know you need them both!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A kaoss pad !!!! at this price???
By Judge ADGG
This is practically a Kaoss Pad at a fraction of the price. a very interesting and useful tool for adding real time special FX to any type of music. Though intended mostly for the DJ or electronic musician this can be very creative and useful any more conventional type of music! you get 100 effects and two memory locations to store your favorite Fxs and settings.a BPM control button that sets the right tempo for the music you are interacting with, very simple to use with spectacular effects at a very reasonable price. For the complete music at your fingertips experience the mini Kaoss pad can also be combined with the Kaossillator finger synth!!!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Very useful, with a couple of minor complaints
By Shawn C. Standiford
This device is brilliant. I've been a DSP tweaker for years, mostly working with virtual environments such as Reason. While there is no real substitute for the deep processing capabilities of a program like Reason, this little box comes as a breakthrough and a much needed efficient effects processor for anyone interested in sound design and manipulation.The effects are grouped by type, including some classics and some pretty far out digital mangling effects. If you want a complete list of effects, the Korg website has a user's manual that lists all 100 effects. This was something that did not come with the unit, and I'm grateful for the reference. Memorizing 100 effects by number is not my bag, and when I have something specific in mind it's helpful to look up the effect, spin the dial, and start processing. On the other hand, if you're working with unique audio clips it's always a nice surprise to see that some unpredicable twists are made.One major caveat: using the line out will drop your audio by about 50%. This is a real downfall. Instead, I just patch a 1/8 cable to the phone jack, route that to the recorder, and I have no drop in level whatsoever.There is little information on the effect that changing from "direct" to "send" will have, but most seasoned users know what that means. I found that running drum patterns through the KP while in send mode, and then touching the pad, I could create new drum clip variations, with effects. That alone makes for hours of fascinating experimentation.Bottom line: this is a very affordable, reliable audio effects processor that cuts some of the guesswork and theory out of DSP and allows just about anyone to dive into some crazy effects.
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