KORG Gadget for Nintendo Switch -

[Hikikomori-Yume]

KORG Gadget for Nintendo Switch - MUSIC PRODUCTION STUDIO | KORG (USA)

Play Games. Make Music. A Music Creation Studio That Feels Like a Game. - KORG Gadget for Nintendo Switch

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So basically this is like MTV Music Generator for the 2010s and beyond, only even better.
It's a DAW that is designed to play like a game, there is even a challenge mode where you have five minutes to create a song.
Has anyone here tried it?

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

jeeze. are kids gonna have to do anything at all that doesnt involve staring at screens in schools anymore?

 

[Recoil]

Korg used to be a wonderful company. They made versatile and affordable synths & drum machines with a unique flavor.
Then someone in design came up with the "Kaossilator" - a cheap touch pad attached to varying X & Y parameters of a shit ROMpler synth.
By raiding the archives of its own machinery, Korg was able to fill this cheap ROMpler synth with stock sounds that they'd already developed for use with previously released synths.
TLDR, what Korg had done was figured out how to turn 99 cents worth of plastic into a pocket sized unit that could be sold for 99$.
By using old stock sounds and parts from preexisting units, there were no fabrication or sound design costs.
It was like pure profit!
Unfortunately, the higher ups at Korg looked at the Kaossilator, selling millions, and they got the idea that they likely get away with dumbing down the rest of their product line. They began to do just that.
Wires were made thinner, less glue was used. Metal components became plastic ones and Korg began to forgo shit like sturdy button membranes in their desktop units, which still cost as much as always but were now being made with the shit tier production ethos defined first by their cost cutting kaossillator.
It was profitable to be cheap af with their builds. More products like the cigarette pack sized kaossilator began being cranked out. Samplers and synthesis went by the wayside. Instead, we got Nintendo DS apps and shit like the KORG Gadget, all of which are just rehashed sounds and infrastructure ported to the system du jour.

 

[The_Mormons]

Good to see they're hard at work on the next mumble rap album. Can't wait!

Korg used to be a wonderful company ... Instead, we got Nintendo DS apps and shit like the KORG Gadget, all of which are just rehashed sounds and infrastructure ported to the system du jour.

I'd put money down that it's just a glorified stripped down 4 bar sample looper, of which many already exist on both the iOS and Android appstores. I use the nanoKontrol2 as a very portable DAW control surface and while you can configure every knob, slider, and button to do literally everything you'd never want a control surface to do, I'd say it was worth the $60 I paid for it.

Nevermind the fact that their half-assed programmers couldn't be bothered to configure the device to work on Sonar the same way it works in Ableton, which continues to be a fetid thorn in my ass to this day. I'd say I've given them enough money.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

When it first came out you couldn’t even export music and currently it’s not much better:

 

[The Shadow]

The Peasant Korg vs The Moog Master Race

 

[Recoil]

The Peasant Korg vs The Moog Master Race

I wish I could give you 5 more "Agree" reactions.

 

[NerdShamer]

When it first came out you couldn’t even export music and currently it’s not much better:
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Yet another reason why Nintendo is behind the times...