In his latest loopop video, synthesist Ziv Eliraz reviews the new Korg KAOSS Replay – a flagship take on the classic KAOSS concept.
The KAOSS Replay goes way beyond the OG KAOSS Pad, but also is priced around $1000. Is it worth it?
Check out the review and share your thoughts in the comments!
Topics covered:
0:00 Intro
1:30 Overview
2:40 Pad, banks
4:55 Faders, groups
5:20 Program, Cue
7:05 Native, Ref BPM
7:45 I/O
8:50 Monitor
9:40 SD import
12:20 Pad edit
14:25 Time-stretch
16:30 Quantize
17:15 Vari pitch
18:15 KAOSS FX
18:35 Filters
19:00 Mod fx
19:25 LFO fx
19:55 Delay, verb
20:35 Loop fx
21:20 Vocoder fx
21:50 Voice fx
23:25 Synth fx
24:30 Sampling
25:45 Looper?
28:15 Live rec
28:45 Misc
29:10 MIDI
29:20 Pros, cons
33:30 Outro
This could have been really good and hit a perfect price point. All im seeing is limitations and a high price. Maybe they’ll put out a more “focused” version like the Kaoss Quad, multi-fx, motion sequencing and thats it. Just chop off the whole bottom half, everything doesnt need to be a sampler. Thats what samplers are for and there are plenty.
Nothing wrong with another take on a sampler. The limitations and price are of course not acceptable.
Which limitations?
No envelopes, 1 Kaoss effect at a time (for the price and cause Kaoss Quad), Not portable (almost every new sampler is portable at a similar ot lower price point), RCA’s (like WTF), No sequencing, so sampler= yes, but everything else that makes a sampler usable= no. Probably some more stuff but thats just from the video.
I kind of agree.
For the £1000 Korg are asking, you can do all of this (plus a LOT more) with a MPC One and still have enough change to buy Roland SP-404 MK2.
However, I’m more of a producer / beat maker than a DJ.
I think for DJ’s this will be a fair bit of kit.
The Kaos Pad 3 had sample playback capability so it’s not entirely out of wack for the prduct line
It’s completely half baked though
yo cuz
you have KOASS in the title instead of KAOSS!
Kinda fitting though in this case.
The lack of response may indicate he’s not actually your cousin.
Absolutely not. There are so many other options on the market for less, or an equivalent price that beat it on almost every front.
Floppenheimer. In theaters now.
For almost a Grand to much for less features
power connection is usc-c but trandering files is done with usb micro, very strange
transfering files*
$1000 sampler and can’t even play samples chromatically
Be much cheaper to just hook a real sampler up to any old kaoss pad, they all basically have the same list of fx
Hey Korg, please make a stripped down version without the sampler for 400 bucks. A lot of us just want a cool effects box for our synths and drum machines. I’ve never even used the sampling functions on my KP3. I have an MPC for that.
Why don’t you get a Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2S then?
Only about £150 new and you can record onto it.
That new kaoss pad aimed at DJs is here now.
Still hope for a new hardware electribe (!?)