KAOS!

So I was at Sam Ash yesterday. I had a gift card for $100 so I was either going to buy Outer Limits, a virtual synth software dedicated to dark ambiance, or the Korg Kaossilator. You can't test out vitrual instruments so I was playing around with the Kaossilator... FOR TWO HOURS. I didn't even know I was using it that long, eventually I looked at my watch and it said 8:00 and I was thinking, Oh damn I had better buy this thing and get my dinner. So once I bought it the guy who rung me up said to me, "Enjoy the heck out of that thing! I just can't wait 'til I get mine." Then the guy at the front said to me, "My friend showed this to me the other day, this thing is awesome!"
It truly is awesome. It's got PacMan and Space Invaders voices - SAMPLES FROM THE GAME! - and the whole thing is battery powered so in all honesty I could take this thing to school and play around with it whenever I felt like it. It's got synth voices, percussion line voices, drum voices, bass voices, etc etc etc. The percussion lines are amazing, put your finger on one part of the touch pad (that's right it uses a touch pad) then move it around and the percussion line will change depending on where you put your finger. There are 100 voices total, which seems like nothing compared to my Novation Xiosynth which has 200 voices, but in all honesty it seems like there could be 1000 voices in this thing. The beast is powered by either 4 AA batteries or a DC4.5 V AC adaptor which is not included. To me that's no big deal, why? because I probably have one laying around here, and you could purchase one anywhere on the internet anyways. Size.... this thing is so small, you wouldn't believe it could do all this when you see the size of synthesizers so that is a plus as well. The price was a bit steep for me because I don't have a job so my account was drained after using the gift card I had. Overall I'd recommend this to ANYONE that is interested in or does create music because this is the MUST HAVE tool for music creation. Sure the price tag of $200 is a bit steep for some in these hard economic times (fuck you economy), but once you use it you'll know it was WELL worth the $200.