Kaoss Pad V – or KPV – is an interesting evolution of Korg’s XY pad product line – not just because they improved and added effects, sampling, and looper features, but also because they made the effects completely customisable.
It’s got the effects you’d expect from a KAOSS PAD – filters, modulation, delays, reverbs, vocal effects, a vocoder and even a few drum and synth sounds, but, if you’re brave enough to dive into its menus, you can customise its effects or make entirely new ones of your own. Improvements have also been made on the hardware side, the screen is now a dual-touch RGB screen, it’s got USB audio, better I/O, and more.
In this video, I take a look at it in detail, and pros and cons compared to the competition:
TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
1:35 Overview
4:20 Effects demos
7:20 User FX
8:10 Sample banks
9:10 Panel tour
10:15 Tempo
10:50 Fader
11:40 Gated FX
12:55 Pad motion
13:25 Buttons 1-8
13:40 Build & I/O
14:40 Loading samples
15:40 Pre-sampling
16:40 Sampling
17:10 Phasing loops
17:40 Synced loops
19:50 Overdubbing
20:40 Resampling
21:05 One-shot params
22:05 Loop params
23:55 Slice playback
25:45 FX toggle
27:15 Editing FX
27:50 FX params
29:10 FX mixer
30:35 Creating a patch
32:10 Mod params
33:20 Misc settings
34:00 Pros & cons
37:20 Outro