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Better Late Than Never: Korg Gadget Production
I finally picked up Korg Gadget only a month or so ago, after exploring most of the other DAWs. For some reason I started off in this app with the plan of only working on a song at a time until they were finished. I’ve found it fun to tap around in just one app, with a limited toolset. This is the second piece I’ve made.
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With a few IAPs, you basically have everything inside one app to sketch and work out great songs.
Gadget is still one of my favorite songwriting platforms.
I'm very glad i took the leap of faith and tried Gadget in 2020. I'm sure I can figure out a groove for song completion in other DAWs, but I've started dozens of loops/tracks in Nanostudio, Beatmaker and Cubasis 3 and never made as much progress in fleshing them out as I did in the first two songs I made in Gadget. I have feeling it's a pretty ergonomic setup for the iPad, duplicate full sections out, insert, mute and modify, repeat without needing to drag out cycles, select alot of regions. I guess I've used Ableton on desktop alot, so that vertical stacking is also comforting and tricks? me into (more) rapid development.
Tell them about the Rex files... That will get a few converts. I keep waiting for Reason (nee Propellerheads) to make another move outside of Gadget. It's just got to be coming.
Definitely. Yet I wonder how many actually have a collection of REX/RX2 loops though and I also wonder how many do build their own loops for it.
Are you going to create your own?
I can't keep up with the apps I already own. The sliced audio file approach is just a bridge too far for me but I get the logic of it. It always sounds quirky in a good way since the sounds have unusual envelopes that seem surreal. I like the results but probably won't go down that rabbit hole.
I was watching a TV show and the samples the composer is using are so pristine: marimbas and other percussive choices driven by very fast MIDI patterns. I always hear music and think: I should try to make something like that.
There's a massive Percussion Library in StaffPad that keeps calling to me... buy me... buy me.
You want marimbas in Stockholm? 😉
BTW @McD, percussive arpeggiated marimbas were part of my first song made on a Roland S-50 + SYS-503.
No. I'm sure I have the right number of marimbas but this StaffPad Library is huge and
covers all kinds of orchestral kit... crotales, gamelan, lots of snare drum types, etc.
@McD OK, got it.
If you can't resist then make sure the library contains dry versions of the samples, otherwise you'll be stuck mainly with orchestral and cinematic 😁
It's often the libs with rather mixed reviews (because dry does not sound fancy itself) that are the most flexible and valuable.