CreateDigitalMusic‘s Peter Kirn is back with this week ’s coolest gear from the universe of electronic euphony . This workweek it ’s video gear , not music , that earns drool : new kit for VJing from Korg in Japan .
Imagine load 40 GB of video onto a single machine , trip , mixing , and effectuate the clip via a touch - interface , and fussy - fading between clip while previewing on three-fold LCD screen . There ’s not a undivided art object of gear that does that now , but Korg has something coming . TheKorg Kaptivator , shown in pre - release form in Japan ( thanks , vjcentral ) conflate all these feature film with a tympan pad port similar to classic medicine sampler . detail are light for now ( like pricing and availability ) , but this await to be the ultimate VJ must - have .
If you ca n’t wait , Korg’sKaoss Pad Entrancerlets you mix and sum up effects to video with a touchpad user interface borrowed from its popular dance medicine paraphernalia . ( See VJ Central’sreview , and ( from Korg ’s rival Roland ) , theEdirol V-4is crucial equipment for multi - channel VJing . Both are usable under $ 1000 street , but neither has a strong drive , so we ’ll be watching the Kaptivator closely .
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