Thank you for purchasing the Korg mini kaoss pad 2 dynamic effect processor. To help you get the most out of your new instrument, please read this manual carefully. Controls and connectors. VALUE slider. HOLD indicator. Mini kaoss pad 2 Owner's manual - Read more about mini, kaoss, manual and korg. Korg MINIKP Mini Kaoss Pad. Run a stereo line-level source into this compact Kaoss touchpad, and tweak your sound with 100 different effects -- great for DJs or electronica live sets. (23) Read 2 reviews for this product Rate and review this product. Ships to: Can ship to United States. Korg MINIKP Mini Kaoss Pad, New,.

Korg give their creative real-time effects processor a face-lift, adding new algorithms, extra sampling power, and tempo-matching facilities. When the original Korg Kaoss Pad was launched, it offered a radical new take on multi-effects.

Although only 60 preset effects patches were provided, the square touch-sensitive controller pad allowed effects parameters to be controlled creatively in real time. Furthermore, a single sample memory was provided, which could be recorded and mutilated in a variety of ways using a set of dedicated patches. Elektra Beckum Planer Thicknesser Hc260 Manual Treadmill. Photo: Mike Cameron Since our review back in SOS August 1999, Korg have been collecting feedback from their users and have now introduced an improved version, the KP2, which leaves the original appearing rather lacklustre by comparison! The moment you pull the new Kaoss Pad from the box you can tell that there has been a complete redesign — the lightweight plastic has given way to a much more solid aluminium casing. The Mic input has scampered round to the right-hand front edge, making it as reachable as the headphone socket, and both level controls have been enlarged and contoured so that even fingers as blunt as mine can adjust them easily. There's also a new MIDI In joining the MIDI Out on the rear panel, allowing operation of effects parameters under sequencer control.

Korg KP2 £285 pros • Hardware updated to 'well hard' status. • New pad lighting looks much better. • Existing facilities expanded and made more easily accessible. • Significant extra facilities, including flexible bpm-matching functions and synth patches. Cons • Same old wall-wart power supply. • Still no sample backup.

• No Local Off facility. • Size of pad limits resolution/range of pitch control in synth and vocoder patches. Summary Even more fun than the original, for very little extra cash — you owe it to yourself to give it a try! Once you've powered up the unit from the wall-wart supply (no change there, sadly), the pad glows a subdued blue colour which brightens when you touch the pad, as well as changing colour according to where your finger lies on its surface. You get a range of colours from purple through to orange, and this dramatically improves the aesthetic appeal of the unit. The controls of the original Kaoss Pad all appear on the new unit, and the buttons are now brightly backlit so it's easy to tell at a distance what's going on. However, things have been slightly rearranged to make room for a variety of additional features.

For example, the memory buttons are smaller, allowing Korg to squeeze a couple extra in, and the Hold and Record buttons have shifted to the more accessible front edge. There's a new FX Depth control (which frees up the pad to control different parameters in some delay and reverb patches, for example), two new dedicated Sample trigger buttons, a Tap/BPM button, and a sprung lever labelled Pad Motion/Mute. The sampling facilities have been expanded to provide two six-second sample storage memories which can now be recorded and triggered from within any effects patch, although only one at a time. Samples are recorded through the effects, if they are currently activated by the pad or Hold switch, and also play back through them — you can of course switch to a different patch for playback. Holding down one of the Sample buttons and pressing Hold loops the sample until you press either Sample button again.

Although you can now store two samples, the dedicated sample-mangling patches only allow one of the Samples to be manipulated by the pad at any time. In these patches, the sample buttons don't trigger the stored sample, but simply select the sample to be tortured. A couple of loop-length manipulation patches are available, as before, but there is still no sample editing available for tight looping within the normal effects patches. The upper position of the sprung lever, labelled Pad Motion, also provides a type of 'sampling' function, but it records your actions on the pad, allowing you the chance to relive any particularly virtuoso hand motion after the fact. You have to hold the lever in position while recording, and thereafter pushing the lever to the Pad Motion position will activate the required modulation.