Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2S
Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2S
The number of Korg Mini Kaoss Pad 2S gadgets is becoming a tad confusing to us, we must admit, but the KP2S represents a refinement in a technology that has been around for more than 15 years now. It is described as ‘a powered-up Mini Kaoss Pad 2, the Mini Kaoss Pad 2S is a powerful DJ effect unit that fits in the palm of your hand’.
It includes a touchpad in the centre, and retains the large number of effects of its predecessor (100 in total), but adds sampling (explaining the ‘S’) to the mix, so you can use the device as anything from simple recorder to mobile vocoder. When we reviewed it we said: “Using the device is tremendous fun, of course, and it is perhaps more a mobile gadget for the performer than producer.
But the recording option adds to the studio experience, and the more you work with it (and the smaller your fingers) the more you will sonically reap. It’s an evolution of an ageing concept, but the KP2S is small and perfect in many ways.”
music technology is the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or performmusic; to compose, notate, play back or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music. The earliest known applications of technology to music was prehistoric peoples’ use of a tool to hand-drill holes in bones to make simple flutes. Ancient Egyptians developed stringed instruments, such as harps, lyres and lutes, which required making thin strings and some type of peg system for adjusting the pitch of the strings. Ancient Egyptians also used wind instruments such as double clarinetsand percussion instruments such as cymbals. In Ancient Greece, instruments included the double-reed aulos and the lyre. Numerous instruments are referred to in the Bible, including the horn, pipe, lyre, harp, and bagpipe. During Biblical times, the cornet, flute, horn, organ, pipe, and trumpet were also used. During the Middle Ages, music notation was used to create a written record of the notes of plainchant melodies.
