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I'd say thumbs up, but it has no business being $500 with all the basic features that it lacks. It is fun to work with. Since the Teenage Engineering OP-1 came out, I'm tempted to think that hopefully soon the microsampler won't be the only low-cost hardware keyboard sampler on the market. If you can wait a year or so, I'd advise seeing if anything better comes down the pipe. -- Matt Davignon mattdavignon@gmail.com www.ribosomemusic.com Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > So, in the final analysis, a thumbs up or down on this keyboard, > Matt? > > Are there any cool experimental functions or way to get the keyboard > to freak out, interestingly? > > > rick walker > > > > On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Matt Davignon wrote: >> >> I have a microsampler too. It's another one I haven't figured out much >> yet. >> >> This keyboard has its uses, but feels like Korg tragically missed the >> opportunity to make something wonderful. I would expect a modern >> sampling keyboard to have these basic features: >> --The ability to adjust start, end and loop points for the selected >> sample on the fly with dedicated controls. >> --ASDR envelopes (attack/sustain/decay/release) >> --a pitch wheel and a mod wheel. >> >> The microsampler has NONE of these things. I believe there's a way to >> edit start, end and loop points, but you have to hunt through menus to >> get there. >> >> It's a great tool for making hip-hop beats that use samples. In fact, >> the feature set is completely steered towards this. It has a nice peak >> detection feature so you could run a drum beat through it, and it >> would split each hit into a different sample automatically. Another >> nice feature lets you sample and assign a key to a sound at the same >> time. When you turn the mode on, you simply hold down the selected >> note for as long as you want it to record a sample. The sample is >> saved to that key. I then use a dry-erase marker on the keys to remind >> me which sample is on each key. >> >> Once you have samples, dedicated switches let you loop and reverse >> them. You can't loop/reverse the samples all at once - only for the >> keys that you're holding down. >> >> One really annoying thing is that the default samples are all >> beatboxing sounds. Apparently whoever designed this keyboard is either >> a beatboxer, or was sleeping with one at the time. I haven't yet >> figured out how to get it to start up with a "blank slate" on the keys >> - or even better, the samples I had previously loaded. >> > >