CreateDigitalMusic‘s Peter Kirn is back with this week’s coolest gear from the world of electronic music. This week it’s video gear, not music, that earns drool: new kit for VJing from Korg in Japan.
Imagine loading 40GB of video onto a single device, triggering, mixing, and effect the clips via a touch-interface, and cross-fading between clips while previewing on dual LCD screens. There’s not a single piece of gear that does that now, but Korg has something coming. The Korg Kaptivator, shown in pre-release form in Japan (thanks, vjcentral) combines all these features with a drum pad interface similar to classic music samplers. Details are scant for now (like pricing and availability), but this looks to be the ultimate VJ must-have.
If you can’t wait, Korg’s Kaoss Pad Entrancer lets you mix and add effects to video with a touchpad interface borrowed from its popular dance music gear. (See VJ Central’s review, and (from Korg’s rival Roland), the Edirol V-4 is essential equipment for multi-channel VJing. Both are available under $1000 street, but neither has a hard drive, so we’ll be watching the Kaptivator closely.
