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Kaoss Pad 
Korg Kaoss Pad KP3Manufactured by Korg Dates 1999 - Price ~$300 Technical specifications LFO Yes Aftertouch no Velocity sensitive no Memory 2 memory banks Effects 128 Input/output Keyboard none - XY-pad External control none The Kaoss Pad is a touchpad MIDI controller, sampler, and effects processor for audio and musical instruments, made by Korg.
The Kaoss Pad's touchpad can be used to control its internal effects engine, which can be applied to a line-in signal or to samples recorded from the line-in. Effects types include pitch shifting, distortion, filtering, wah-wah, tremolo, flanging, delay, reverberation, auto-panning, gating, phasing, and ring modulation.
The Kaoss Pad can also be used as a MIDI controller, with the x- and y-axis positions of a finger on its pad being output via a MIDI out connection as two continuous controller streams. The sum of the x and y positions can also be outputted as a third continuous controller stream.
The original model, released in 1999, is the KP1 Kaoss Pad. Korg has since released updated versions of the Kaoss Pad: the KP2, with a number of new features; the KPE1 Kaoss Pad Entrancer, a Kaoss pad that can process both sound and video; and the KP3, which began shipping in October 2006.
In the spring of 2007, Korg released a newer version of the Kaoss Pad, entitled the mini-KP. This new Kaoss Pad was based on the KP3, using many of the same essential elements. As the name suggests, the mini-KP is a smaller size version of its big brother, the KP3. The mini-KP offers 100 effects/programs and two memory banks. It may be powered by 4 AA batteries so that users can fully utilize the portability of the mini-KP. However, the mini-KP does not have MIDI output, and its touchpad does not have a display.
Korg unveiled a new Kaoss Pad, the Kaoss Pad Quad, during Winter NAMM 2011. It is able to process four effects at once, though it does not have MIDI output.
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Users
- Matt Bellamy of Muse has XY Pads similar to the ones in Kaoss Pad's built into some of his guitars which he uses as midi controllers to control a KP2 while playing guitar.
- Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead uses a Kaoss Pad on live performances of "Everything In Its Right Place". He samples Thom Yorke's vocals and makes loops which he distorts and manipulates.
- Beardyman uses the Kaoss Pad extensively; his live performances consist of nothing but his voice, sampled and modified through up to eight Kaoss Pads.
- John Linnell of They Might Be Giants uses both a KP2 and KP3 in live performances and in a psychedelic improvisation feature he refers to as "The Future of Sound."
- Brian Molko of Placebo used a KP2 during live performances of "English Summer Rain".
- Roughton "Rou" Reynolds of Enter Shikari uses both KP2 and KP3 in most songs.
- Vadim Pruzhanov of Power Metal band DragonForce uses a Kaoss Pad during live performances.
- Nels Cline of Wilco uses a Kaoss Pad during live performances.
- Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers uses a KP3 during live performances.
- Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter of Phantogram use a Kaoss Pad each, during live performances.
See also
- Kaossilator, a Korg synthesizer with a Kaoss pad interface
References
External links
Categories:- Samplers (musical instrument)
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