KORG Gadget 2 Reviews

Love this app!!!

Reclusorap

I love the sound of this app! Very clean and heavy... however i wish that Korg can create more drum machines or at least put more sounds on the drum machines banks. If you’re into music production i thinks you’ll love Gadget!!!

Good, but improvements are needed

Vibeulator

This app is good as a sketch pad, but some improvements around track editing would make it great. There currently isn't away to trim extraneous notes and shift the loop left. There is no concept of "cut," only copy, and then only one bar at a time. There isn't an ability to have an unlimited bars per track. This limitation becomes especially apparent if you like to "noodle around" while recording and wish to cut out the cruft while looping in only the good bits of your noodling. The arrangement capabilities are rather lacking. That said, the various gadgets are great and great-sounding.

Top notch iOS DAW

BK Holiday

One of the Top 3 DAW solutions for iOS easily IMHO & definitely the one I find myself going to the most. Would love to see some more sound sets & add on gadgets. Keep up the great work KORG. Also would love to be able to use my iMS-20,poly six, and Electribes inside of the Gadget production environment. Any plans for further dev??? Thanks!

Great but lost my work

Brainphreak

This app is awesome to make your own music, but it’s kinda young so even some basic functionality is missing. I gave four stars because the worst thing possible happened and I lost a song... The way it happened is I was working on a song for several minutes when I needed to export a previous song. I went ahead and opened the previous song and exported. When I went back to my new song, it was missing! Even though I gave it a name it never appeared. I realized after the fact that I did not save my song, however the very basic functionality should exist to tell me to save my work before I open another song. I was not warned or anything, so my user error made me lose work due to missing basic error checking. Any other program on iOS automatically saves... any program on a computer will warn you to save the work before you close it. This lacks those two basic features making loss of work possible.

No AUv3 is crippling

k9d

This app has a lot going for it (high quality sounds), but ignoring iOS standards for playing nice with other music making apps is crippling. Korg needs to wake up and get on the AUv3 wagon!

A few months in...

godwantssarcasm

I like most styles of music but prefer the old school sounds. I added Gladstone and Madrid to my gadgets and they give me exactly what I want. I’ve been mixing a little Gladstone with some Recife to get a nice mix of old and new sounds. Madrid gives me the big, driving bass sounds I have always loved and layering some extra bass from other gadgets gives me that same blend of old and new. I can get some decent lead sounds out of Madrid that emulate a real electric guitar and there’s a few decent guitar sounds on other gadgets but a dedicated guitar gadget with trills, slides, different bends(prebends, half/whole/whole+half), hammer on/offs, whammy bar/pedal, manual wah, alternate tuning, palm muting, chucking, finger tapping, etc would be great. Rosario does a great job of processing guitar sounds but I’d like to be able to add realistic sounding guitar even when my axes are not at hand.

Still an amazing experience!

Drum and Bum

I’ve written a review before, so my ratings should be very similar. This app continues to be a complete MONSTER and since I got an iPad, I can finally use Darwin. However, the prices are costly and would recommend buying during a sale. Especially for other apps, as they’re about $30 and this is $40 for a base pack. Other than that, you’ll somehow get lost in such a massive workstation that you’ll end up with one gadget for weeks because there’s so much to control! Hopefully other KORG apps become gadgets, as I would buy those for more expandability. The only things missing are additive synthesis and FM synthesis. If we could get something like that, I’d gladly pay out $30.

Spectacular

Georges F Hersang

Great product, I would like it to work with so other many apps. Come guys, get more gadgets faster and make it work with so many others. Even for an extra fee.

Gadget is Legit!

VerbaLee

I love Gadget on iOS. It’s workflow works great for me. Plus the gadgets are all Inspirational in terms of coming up with new and unique melodies. Every time Korg adds new Gadgets it gets my creative juices flowing. Plus the iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad and Mac version “just works”. It’s a self contained DAW but one that works well at being that way.

Night mode / dark mode (all black)

Future NowHere

- Two finger zoom into anything - Record live within app - Delay / phaser / reverb on master - Move volume slider from anywhere - Two / three finger gestures like switch between channels ???

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