Total Kaoss!

I've really had my eye on one of these lately:

The Korg Kaossilator!

It's kindof like a baby brother of the Kaoss pad and has the advantage that it runs on batteries.

All you need is a pair of headphones and you can compose the next dance anthem while on the train to work :-)


Not sure why they didn't include either MIDI or USB on this thing though: my cynical view is that they don't want you to be able to include it in your set-up - they want you to buy the Kaoss pad instead. Hmmm. I still want one though. I'm hoping Santa will remember me...


The Yellow Album - 100% Kaossilator




Lately I have been tinkering with Arturia's virtual Prophet 5 classic analogue synth... excellent fun. OMD and Ultravox type noises have been reverbing round the house. I've been having problems with latency though, so I think I need to run them on a more powerful laptop... Santa again? I may need to get a Mac. :-)
Also, there are some preset patches that use an arpeggiator, but I can't figure out how to work the arp... it's an analogue synth, so it can't be rocket-science! There must be a knob or something...



I'd rather have the real thing mind.


There must be loads of these things (and similar vintage gear) knocking around in peoples garages and in the back of cupboards in recording studios... the prices on eBay are crazy!

I wish I hadn't given away my Yamaha DX7 :-( I think it qualfies as 'vintage' these days. Ah well.