Kaoss pad Quad

djwazo · Post by **djwazo** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:15 am

anyone like this new thing??

i think it looks crap and does not look like it will be a cut above the KP3 by any means.

What you think?

OhioBuckeye · Post by **OhioBuckeye** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:06 am

No one is going to argue with you that the Quad overall is not on par with the KP3. It simply doesn't have the feature set. Fortunately they did call it the 'Quad' and not the KP4. That's a good sign.

But for what it's designed for, Real time, live effects processing it will be a good tool. Personally I'm waiting to see for myself if I'll be adding it to my K Pro and KP3. I want to see/hear some reviews.

I will say that given the Kaoss name I defintely expect a 'cool' product and the looks of this one has cheese dripping off it. I don't like that. I miss the realtime light feedback for the touchpad. Maybe I'll get used to it somehow. I would love for a Korg employee to try to explain to me why they went with this four lighted corner system instead. I'm hoping they did it just to insure people didn't think it was the new KP4. Who knows. Maybe this is a preliminary KP4 and we'll see a a future product that combines the features of the KP3 with the effects system of the Quad. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

OB

signal2noise · Post by **signal2noise** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:03 am

it looks like it belongs on a TV truck. did they fire all their designers? the big white numbers made me cringe. hopefully the new chassis signals a KP4 in the works.

Miggz McFly · Post by **Miggz McFly** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:01 am

^^ i bet its going to be a chassis for the kopro2 instead, the kp4 (aka the k3's successor) will prob have a new design

xmlguy · Post by **xmlguy** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:21 am

The Kaosspad Quad is the KP3 for dummies version. They should ship it in a bright yellow box with black lettering.

SMK · Post by **SMK** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:48 am

Well I am a Kaoss junkie and this does solve the problem of having 2 KP2's in my collection. The Quad has better quality converters. one Pad to do multiple sounds makes sense to me.

phillwilson · Post by **phillwilson** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:27 pm

seeing as this one seems to be a stab at non-dj effectors (guitarists and the like).... WHY STILL NO 1/4" JACKS!!!???

thats mental!!

OhioBuckeye · Post by **OhioBuckeye** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:13 am

Yea I love to tinker with the sounds so for me to have this between the KO Pro and the KP3 could be really cool.

Still waiting on some reviews and such first though.

OB

OhioBuckeye · Post by **OhioBuckeye** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:41 pm

I see a pre-order link here:

http://www.djdeals.com/korgKAOSSPADQUAD.htm

Corbytender · Post by **Corbytender** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:21 pm

I'd love to have more Kaoss effects in my rig, and the Quad seems perfectly suited for spontaneous effect processing. However, if Korg is gonna price this thing at 400 bucks, I'd rather have two miniKPs.

OhioBuckeye · Post by **OhioBuckeye** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:06 pm

One real concern I have is this. I just attempted to use the Auto-BPM feature between my K Pro and KP3. Keep in mind as far as I understand this means it just attempts to determine the BPM on the audio in. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in my thougths.

Well I've always used the MIDI BPM timing and it has worked perfectly. So to test Auto-BPM I removed my MIDI cable and then pressed auto-BPM on KP3. I then played a beat on my KPro and the Auto-BPM never kept up and way off. Does anyone else see this?

And that leads me to my concern. Will the Auto BPM of the Kaoss Quad be able to truly determine the BPM of the K Pro or another device it's connected to? Without MIDI your 100% reliant upon this right? I felt the effects greatly suffered because of the timing. Maybe I was imagining this but it appears that the BPM does impact the effects on the incoming sound right? wrong?

Thanks

OB

Corbytender · Post by **Corbytender** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:54 am

I've never really been able to get the KP3 auto bmp function to work. The tempo always jumps around, even with something simple like a click track.

OhioBuckeye · Post by **OhioBuckeye** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 5:57 am

yea well that will rule out the Kaoss Quad for me if the Auto BPM acts in any way similar to the KP3 AutoBPM. Really a 2nd KP3 would would be a better purchase and can be had for cheaper than the Quad Pro on Ebay

OB

Aciphecs · Post by **Aciphecs** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:43 pm

It seems the auto BPM function that Korg uses is useless! I get the same from trying to use it on my ESX, it's not reliable at all. I think the Quad has a tap tempo too, but no MIDI is a HUGE leave-out!!

Way to drop the ball Korg

Crystalmsc · Post by **Crystalmsc** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:08 am

Seems like the Quad was inspired by the ModFX. It offers something I wish out of my Bitrman. Not perfect, but a very nice addition.

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