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March 13, 2008
Korg DS-10
I love my DS, it's fun and easy to open up anywhere and have a quick play. It's just about the perfect portable gaming device, and accordingly, I also think it has the potential to be the perfect portable music creation platform.
And then, there's the very new, Japan Only (won't be letting that affect me) DS title announced called DS-10. It looks hot. You can see for yourself here.
Did you see that? We get to draw the patch cords on the touch screen. LOVELY STUFF. It's cool for a bunch of reasons. Firstly it sounds good, it's a licensed Korg product so that means it should be quality, and it's cool because it's a fairly serious looking setup on a portable gaming device. I'm sure there will be limitations, as there always are, but I'm irrationally excited about this and will be importing as soon as it's available to buy.
Specs:
Two synths, with dual oscillators, that is patchable (as seen on video), 4 part drum machine that you can create sounds for using the synths. Six track sequencer, (synth x 2 and drums x 4). Delay, Chorus and Flanger sound effects included. Note entry via the touch-screen (hooray - the arpeggio stylus input reminded straight away of the Axe DS freeware.), keyboard onscreen & matrix.
And the kicker: Exchange songs wirelessly, and play together with other units via wireless as well!
A thoroughly decent offering in terms of functionality and the addition of wireless group composition is perfect. As Peter Kirn from CDM eruditely points out, the addition of MIDI support would round this out to be essential purchase.
Available from July onwards.
Developer Blog here, via well, just about every music nerd blog on the intertron, but let's say Peter got there first, cause he usually does :)
Posted by funnelbc at March 13, 2008 07:02 PM
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