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CharlesFerraro · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:01 am Post subject: Korg Gadget on Nintendo Switch!!

Nobuyoshi Sano, the developer behind the DSN-12, M01D, iMS-20 and more posted this yesterday on his facebook:

It's totally official, Detune Ltd. already has a page up! http://www.detune.co.jp/Korg_Gadget_fir_Nintendo_Switchhtml.html
Looks like it's slated for release in Spring 2018.
Price is TBA. It's a safe bet to assume it'll support downloadable content. The Switch is more like an iPad than a Mac so the price will probably be around $40 for the software and then $10-$15 bucks for various Gadgets.
This will be the first full fledged DAW for a home gaming console. Unless you want to count stuff like Mario Paint back in '92.

Also in other news, Katsunori Ujiie was showing off this upcoming portable workstation by a company called Cyberstep.

Here's the website for that: http://www.kdj-one.com/home#first
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Koekepan · Platinum Member Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Posts: 617

I'm a kickstarter backer for the KDJ-ONE. If you like, when I get mine, I'll post a full report! It's a couple of years later than anticipated owing to manufacturing issues, but other than that it is taking shape in a form even better than the original prototype, so I'm not too unhappy with that. It has its limitations, but within them it appears to work very well.

The Switch/Gadget combination? That's already on my personal shopping list. I have the DSN-12 and the M1d on my 3DS already, and Detune does a good job making usable software, so I'm on this like a politician on a lobbyist.

CharlesFerraro · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:15 pm Post subject:

Koekepan · Platinum Member Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Posts: 617

What I know so far:

It's basically a shrunken, portable workstation along the lines of a reduced-footprint Krome. It uses acid-type samples for rompler duties, but its synthesis functions include ringmod, FM and some sort of unison (among others). Each instrument has a few (four?) modulation elements that are built into it, plus filter with noise function.

Six tracks is a limitation, of course, but if you remember that a track can be a drumkit, or a multi-sample kit, or a polyphonic synth voice, it is plenty of room for a surprisingly strong set of sounds. Given that it can also import your own sounds, or take its own samples with its mic/line in ports, it's quite a potent little tool - or very nearly the ultimate musical sketchpad.

More details will obviously be forthcoming later.

The Switch, on paper, is about as powerful as a recent iPad, so I'm sure that they'll have lots of scope for making Gadget sound great. I have a lot of faith in them, and I would buy it on cartridge if they offered it.

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Koekepan · Platinum Member Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Posts: 617

Yup, of course I've seen that video.

That said, from what I understand they've been tweaking the software since then, and for example the arranger view is substantially updated. In a way it'll be cool to get new hardware, with non-beta software already on it. Other manufacturers *cough*Apple*cough* take note!