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Korg recommend five gadgets as a maximum for normal operation on an iPad 2 while, at the other end of the scale, an iPad Air should handle between 20 and 25. There’s a freeze function that would give me three more, but at the expense of dynamic interaction. KORG Gadget iM1 Gadget 'Darwin' iM1 can be used together with KORG Gadget, the music production DAW app that won the App Store Best App of 2014 award in Japan. If both apps are installed, you can use iM1 as a sound module within KORG Gadget, taking advantage of the program sounds you created in iM1 for use in your own song production.
When you install both apps, iMono/Poly appears as the “Montpellier” gadget within KORG Gadget (.). This means that your KORG Gadget-based music production system can now enjoy the limitless potential of four VCOs and virtual patches. Audiobus and Inter-App Audio are also supported, allowing you to use this as a sound module for GarageBand. In the case of KORG Gadget for Mac, this is expected to be added in a future update. Korg’s Gadget suite is a fun and surprisingly powerful collection of dedicated synths and beatboxes running on iPad. As well as providing instant music-making enjoyment it has some hidden tricks up its sleeve that can help you make great tracks. Read on to find out what they are 1. Use the Function button. R/KorgGadget: A place to share, get help, learn, and stay up to date. All for arts welcome. I use korg gadget to make music in sync with gifs. Lots of Darwin in this one. I’ve been trying to learn how to use gadget on my iPad Air and honestly I understand everything aside from just recording a song. I’m so confused with the whole.
Korg already have an enviable track record for making high-quality apps, but in Gadget they’ve made their most serious step yet towards full music production. Gadget borrows an idea Korg have used before in which, instead of complex, daunting synths, you’re presented with a collection of simpler instruments, each fine–tuned for a specific role. These are collectively known as 'gadgets'.
Dublin's second panel features MS20-style patching.
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There are 15 individual gadgets (most with built–in effects) and more are promised in future. In one of Korg’s cheerier innovations, they’re named not after boring numbers and acronyms, but after cities. Three are drum machines, while the remaining dozen are synthesizers. Whichever way you look at it, Gadget packs in a lot of choice.
Within seconds of firing up Chicago, the tube bass machine, a few notes were enough to convince me you can have both quality and quantity. Its silver faceplate and 303–style knobs are a dead giveaway that there’s more scope here than mere bass line worship. There’s a full ADSR and an arpeggiator; plus, how can you not love a synth with knobs labelled Bite and Gnaw? Chicago’s gnarly tones are further boosted by integral effects that recall Korg’s EMX1 Electribe. If you’re into squealing, wibbling bass lines, this is an ideal place to start. In complete contrast, Chiang Mai is a gadget that uses Variable Phase Modulation to produce its chilled catalogue of bells, plinks, glassy pads and FM–style basses, all tamed by a low–pass filter.
Switching smoothly back to analogue emulation, Berlin is a lead synth with ARP–style sliders. Its controls were noticeably steppy, but this can be forgiven because of the sweet oscillator sync implementation and built–in delay. Indeed, the synth sounds so warm and fuzzy my forgiveness temporarily extended to Korg’s coders and their enduring start–at–zero envelope fixation.
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To cover the full depth and variety of every gadget would require a minor novella, so I’ll mention just a few more random favourites, starting with the semi–modular analogue monster Dublin. Adorned withLondon, a general–purpose drum machine packed with samples. Moog–style knobs and an MS20 patch panel, Dublin soon established itself as my big fat bass gadget of choice. It’s shipped with enough patches to inspire contemporary dance tracks or prog excesses. Moving on from analogue squelch, I recommend checking out the yellow ‘army surplus’ panel of Kiev to discover a wonderful digital pad machine brought to life by vector synthesis and Kaoss Pad–inspired filter controls. Great stuff.
If anything I was even more impressed by another digital gadget, Marseille. This is a polyphonic PCM synth that forfeits programming depth in favour of a bank of 128 classic patches. These include passable versions of the M1 piano, Mellotron strings and flute, plus Korg’s patent breathy choirs and saxes to die for (well, somebody should). Further gadgets supply analogue polysynths, 8–bit games machines, wobble–prone bass synths and anthemic unison blasts — enough to keep you occupied for a very long time to come.
The trio of drum machinesKiev: vector synthesis Korg–style. may not seem generous compared to the broad selection of synths but the most comprehensive is the eight–voice PCM–based London, stocked and ready to go with over 400 samples. Or there’s my personal favourite, Tokyo, and its analogue modelling of kick, snare, tom and percussion. However there’s definitely scope for more adventurous drum gadgets in future. For example, one glaring omission is any form of user sampling or a sample import function to build original kits.
Having inspected the gadgets, I could no longer resist diving in and making tunes. Initially, I felt hampered by the fixed portrait mode; mostly because it left so little room for a playable on–screen keyboard, but also because Korg added the tiniest transpose buttons I’ve ever been challenged to prod. My fingers are slender and work–shy but even they proved too wide to reliably hit every on–screen object. However, button tapping was a minor inconvenience compared to the biggest issue I encountered: latency. This had been automatically set to its lowest valueMarseille: a mini–Triton thrown in! (‘Safer’) on my iPad 2 and while the next option up (Standard) gave a better response, it taxed my poor machine too much and it wasn’t long before the inevitable crackles and stutters began.
Korg recommend five gadgets as a maximum for normal operation on an iPad 2 while, at the other end of the scale, an iPad Air should handle between 20 and 25. There’s a freeze function that would give me three more, but at the expense of dynamic interaction.
With a MIDI keyboard attached, the latency still took away a fair chunk of the pleasure, but other than that, song creation was mostly plain sailing. The random song-name generator earned a big thumbs up — all music–making software should include one! Having started a new song, it’s then a familiar process of creating and arranging scenes, each consisting of as many tracks (each track hosts a gadget) as your iPad can cope with. Via a function key you set the scene’s length, time signature and number of repeats, the building blocks of a basic linear structure. If, after recording, your notes aren’t exactly where you intended, note and automation editing cover the expected options with the minimum of head–scratching.
A Gadget song. The mixer can be folded away so you can access more scenes at once.
In performance, Gadget takes its cue from other looping, interactive software, in that you can trigger new scenes from the list and reorder the song on the fly, looping any scene at will as you interact with synths, drums or the mixer. New scenes kick in when the current one ends, but I’d have liked additional options to swap on the next beat or bar too.
There are some limitations, with the most annoying being the need to return to the main screen whenever you want tomute or solo tracks. Similarly, undo is not always available when needed, as I discovered when I deleted a scene I really meant to duplicate. I’d also love to have a slicker way to multiply the length of patterns in order to add variations. That said, there are tools for most common operations, including a (basic) song export function. Songs can also be shared via Soundcloud.
Gadgets was not cheap even at an introductory £19.99$28.99 (25 percent off its regular price) and prior to purchase iOS 7 needs to be installed. The new OS totally failed to invigorate my plodding iPad 2, which my wife is now eyeing as I scrabble to justify an iPad Air. As someone who bought Garageband and used it twice, a more important consideration even than the cash outlay is simply: would I use it? I reckon the quality and variety of Gadget’s instruments make it a tempting and inviting proposition, especially as Korg promise future updates that will introduce new gadgets and support for audio tracks. Personally I expect it to run and run, just not on an iPad 2.
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Korg’s Gadget suite is a fun and surprisingly powerful collection of dedicated synths and beatboxes running on iPad. As well as providing instant music-making enjoyment it has some hidden tricks up its sleeve that can help you make great tracks. Read on to find out what they are…
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1. Use the Function button
At the bottom left corner of the Transport area is a Function button. In either Scene or Song mode this allows access to some useful tools. Here in Scene mode for example it lets you change the number of bars in the scene, the play mode of this particular scene, and the grid that is used to snap notes. It also provides shortcuts to deleting notes and automation data. In Song mode it can be used to copy and paste data between tracks as well as deleting parts.
2. Explore automation
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In a scene, if you tap on the automation lane you can expand it to reveal all the automatable parameters for that particular gadget. These will vary depending on what controls the module has, but there will always be things like level and pan, plus some specific to the gadget. Use your finger to paint in automation data as the scene plays back. Some data is stepped based on the pattern resolution and other types are simpler on/off switches. Draw it out to delete it.
3. Choose FX within gadgets
Most gadgets have some effects that can be tweaked to alter the way they sound. A few like Amsterdam have a range of selectable effects that you can access by tapping on one of the four effect slots. This reveals a grid from which you can choose any slot 1 to 4 and then choose from a wide range of different effects. Each one can then be further tweaked using the smaller controls on the effect slot itself.
4. Use the Select tool
In Scene mode you will be accustomed to using the default Draw tool to enter notes into the grid. If you switch to using the Select tool you can drag with your finger to draw around multiple notes and then using the controls that appear underneath the grid, edit them all at once. These controls let you delete the selected notes or alter their velocity or pitch in steps using the plus and minus buttons.
5. Export your finished projects
When you have built up a track from multiple gadgets and scenes and created a whole song, you can export the resulting project in a number of ways. Click on the File button at the top left and choose the Export option to see your choices. The GadgetCloud button will export a mixdown of the track to Korg’s own special online gallery, powered by FaceBook and SoundCloud. Audio File will create a local copy that can be accessed via the File Sharing tab in iTunes. Dropbox allows you to send a mixdown to your linked Dropbox account, and AudioCopy makes the file available to be pasted into another app that supports this, which many mobile DAWs now do.
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