How come no one told me about this? Looks pretty sweet. Anyone used one?
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I’ve had a wee play when the original kaoss pad came out and helped with a guitar mixer mount. They can be very expressive.
Though is should say that you can do almost everything the kaoss does with an old mobile phone and free apps.
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tbh looks neat and the price is right
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They’ve only just come onto the market, so it’s going to be a while before I get to have a play with one, but I really like the look of this. I love the NTS-1, and I’ve had an original Kaoss Pad KP1 for years (I just checked my email, I got it on eBay in 2010), so this looks like it’s got my name written all over it.
I wonder if they’ve fixed the USB noise problem properly, because the NTS-1 sounds terrible when plugged into a computer. I can only have it connected to my MPC by having the USB cable loop through an enormous ferrite…
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Not too unreasonable, and those ferrite rings are still a useful shortcut avoiding hours of filter faff. The Kaoss can’t help being noisy and I doubt the design has changed.
An old but brilliant method for noise abaitment I use is to wrap an additional ground wire a few turns along the length of the usb cable or data wires, then find and ask a real physicist to explain the woo woo magic results when the noise significantly drops.
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Sorry, I’m retired.
I had a similar noise issue with my Arturia KeyStep at one time, and it was fixed using a $9 ground loop noise isolator. Not that there might not be cheaper roll-your-own solutions, of course, if you want to experiment with them.
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Same one i use.
The XY pad interface is neat for live performance and Korg makes good stuff, but seeing this makes me wonder what would be the best DIY option for a XY pad to rig up to a custom circuit. The Korg here doesn’t seem made of PCB material, but their promo material shows they use a very thin device for the pads
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