The three Aira Compact devices are available now priced at $200 each. There are pitch and formant sliders for instant gender switching and robot voice effects (among other things), and you also get the customary automatic pitching/harmonising and vocoder options. The E-4 Voice Tweaker is a compact vocal effects box that promises everything from standard processors to full-on vocal transformers. Of course, you could just use the J-6 as a synth though beyond choosing the sound itself, editing is limited to filter and envelope controls. You can also dial in variations (arpeggios and guitar-style playing, for example). 100 chord sets are included, with each enabling you to trigger chords and create progressions using the built-in keyboard. The J-6 Chord Synthesizer is arguably a more curious proposition - it blends a Juno-60 synth engine (presumably the same one as you’ll find in the Boutique JU-60a) with a chord sequencer. You also get a bass part based on the TB-303, taking the device tentatively into groovebox territory. The T-8 looks like the most straightforward of the three: it’s a six-track drum machine that includes sounds from the TR-808, TR-909 and TR-606. The end result is what Korg is calling a studio Swiss Army Knife for musicians. The NTS-2’s slightly unusual feature set is topped off by a tuner that offers multiple display modes. This means that you can turn them into LFOs, envelopes, triggers, and control voltage generators, making the NTS-2 a potentially useful partner for any patchable synth. Each of the two oscillators can create sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, pulse and noise waveforms.Īs well as being used as audio, these sounds can also be employed as control voltage sources and set to cycle continuously or operate as one-shot impulses. There’s also an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) mode with a realtime spectrum analyser, along with a dual waveform generator. There are multiple colour display modes, and an interface that can be navigated with menu buttons and a clickable encoder. The NTS-2 offers dual stereo inputs, which enable you to study, compare and overlap up to four signals at once. OK, not exactly a synth in conventional terms but given that it's coming from Korg and is a sequel to its NTS-1 build-it-yourself synth, it's certainly worth a mention here, even if the centrepiece of the hardware isn’t a synth engine but a 4-channel oscilloscope…
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