Korg’s Kaoss Replay takes inspiration from the XY-pad-centric interface of their old Kaoss products, but is really it’s own thing.
It has 16 velocity-sensitive pads; it can sample, resample and play back samples and whole songs, the Kaoss pad is now a hi-res touch screen and lets you use Replay as a live processing machine with 128 built-in effects, it’s got DJ-style mix, cue and group controls with two faders, and it can also, with some limitations, be used as a basic live looper.
In this video I take a detailed look at what it can do, and explore its pros and cons in light of the competition, including the SP404 MK2, MPC One and others:
0:00 Intro
1:30 Overview
2:40 Pad, banks
4:55 Faders, groups
5:20 Program, Cue
7:05 Native, Ref BPM
7:45 I/O
8:50 Monitor
9:40 SD import
12:20 Pad edit
14:25 Time-stretch
16:30 Quantize
17:15 Vari pitch
18:15 KAOSS FX
18:35 Filters
19:00 Mod fx
19:25 LFO fx
19:55 Delay, verb
20:35 Loop fx
21:20 Vocoder fx
21:50 Voice fx
23:25 Synth fx
24:30 Sampling
25:45 Looper?
28:15 Live rec
28:45 Misc
29:10 MIDI
29:20 Pros, cons
33:30 Outro