Korg Kaossilator – The Kaossilation Station

You know what they say – something borrowed, something blue. Well this is blue and it’s borrowed from Jeezny on Flickr.

A great picture of the classic Korg Kaossilator, and man those colours pop!

Korg’s latest must have gadget is the Kaossilator Pro launched at NAMM earlier this month. Taking the form factor of its cousin the Kaoss Pad, the Korg Kaossilator Pro is like the classic Kaossilator on steroids. With 200 sound banks, audio input for sampling and vocorder functionality, four loop banks for unlimited recording and layering, [...]

Have you ever wondered what the term “Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer” actually means? This is the phrase which manufacturer Korg uses to describe its revolutionary pocket synthesizer the Kaossilator. Having searched the internet high and low this seems to be a description invented by Korg’s marketeers and is a unique term used only for this unique [...]

One of the magic things about the Korg Kaossilator is the touch pad or control surface. Unlike conventional synthesizers, the Kaossilator is played by running a finger across the touch pad.
The Kaossilator touchpad provides the player with a monophonic touch sensitive input method, that is to say that touching the pad will only trigger a [...]

A great shot from Flickr of the Korg Kaossilator with the Roland SH-101, a classic synth from the eighties. These are two totally different beasts with 25 years between them, but the SH-101 is still popular today.

A very nice Korg Kaossilator photographic study found on Flickr.

It’s what we’ve been waiting for – the Korg Kaossilator with optional YOWL module. It will add unparalleled warmth and fuzziness to your Kaossilator, apparently. Purrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I want one.

The Korg Kaossilator is an ultra-portable pocket synthesizer. About half the size of an average paperback book, you really can take the Korg Kaossilator anywhere.  Instead of a keyboard the Kaossilator features a touch sensitive control service which is easy to play, and the one hundred preset programs sound amazing, making the Korg Kaossilator much [...]