KORG Gadget 2 Le

Great little app for sketching ideas out on the go. The “gadgets” are limited, but enough to get you started. My main concern is when you start a new project, it never asks you if you want to overwrite a previous one with the same name. I’ve found myself doing this three times already, so I have to go through all my saved files and be certain I’m not using the same name next time. Pretty annoying when other apps don’t behave this way.

I love having all my sounds readily available. This is undoubtedly my favorite app. Simple yet powerful. Only two caveats. I’d like to see a sampler gadget that could actually sample, not just import. Make it with more memory for larger sample input and give it time stretch and pitch editing like full fledge samples do. Albeit audio track recording would be awesome too, I mostly use other apps for tracking vocals and instruments. But audio still wouldn’t be bad. The current feature for audio tracking, Zurich, is a bit lacking cause of editing restrictions. And also Abudahbi, comes up short as a sampler unit due to it’s restrictions as well. However, I do understand the power involved to making an app with so many synthesis to process a difficult task, but that’s why they gave us the ability to freeze tracks, awesome touch BTW. The sounds are so good that I really don’t care that it can’t do auv3’s, the stability is way more valuable. Make these few adjustments and keep up the great work Korg!

I really love how easy it is to use my midi controllers on it too. Gadget reminds of the first Daw I ever used which was Fruity loops 15 years ago. Now I use Ableton and pro tools (which is the industry standard meaning most big name studios use Avid Pro tools when recording famous artists in the studios) mainly but when I’m not at home I bring my iPad as well as my little midi drum sequencer and midi keyboard controllers. This is because it is so simple to use even if all you have is the iPad itself to make the music.I do however recommend in investing in a midi controller(probably just a small midi keyboard at first, I see some at pawnshops all the time) for it because it not only makes it more fun but also easier and more efficient to make songs. My only complaints are that after buying the program you still have to pay even more money if you want the other gadgets. The stock drum machine that comes with gadget took me a lot of tweaking to get it to finally sound like a decent drum set but I might buy the newer drum gadget. Also when I start to record and use my midi controller I wish there was an option to have the record do a countdown before it starts recording. Having it start recording as soon as you hit it makes me always come in a millisecond to late or too early so I just add the note manually for the start until they fix this.