Korg Gadget 3 - The SYDNEY Gadget - Loop Sampler Machine - Tutorial & Demo

[@musicman2047]

In my opinion Korg Gadget is the most inspiring music making app on touch pads, I just love how immediate in creativity it is. However, this update from Korg is amazing, so many cool new FX (and very useful they are!) - I was dreaming of something like Sydney to make it into Gadget for my sample library....thank you Korg!

[@AmpApps]

Hi Doug! For those curious, I think maximum sample time per slot is 10 sec.

[@michaelnervOus]

I'm not sure if the sample matters but I'm getting 30 seconds per slot. I just subbed your channel, great content!

[@michaelnervOus]

I'm loving the Sydney gadget! I bought the Santa Ana Gadget and Sydney since the update was free and neither have disappointed. I even wound getting the vst/au....although I find myself mostly on the ipad with gadget so far.

[@spidericemidasiosmusicprod1309]

This will probably make it a lot easier now for me to get those blocs wave and groovebox loops into Gadget. Nice demo thanks Doug 👍

[@jimshannononsounds]

Cool Gadget. Great video, Doug. What Spider said. 🙂

[@letssamplethis7641]

Feels like a primitive version of loopy pro. Was hoping to find something makes me want this gadget. Originally I thought Santa Ana would be the weaker of the two new gadgets. Nope! Santa Ana is really pretty amazing. Sydney feels like I already have this somewhere else on my iPad pro.

[@musicman2047]

For use in Korg Gadget Sydney is a MUCH welcome addition (if you like uzing loops) - I might add the time stretching algorithm is brilliant! It doesn't sway all over the place (flaky quantize when time stretching audio loops) unlike the Akai Force workstation which I returned very soon after purchasing it.

[@enriquepageperez1305]

Literally my thoughts exactly. Glad I didn’t buy Sydney, super average loop player in comparison to so many AUs (loopy and Drambo come to mind). Never thought I’d buy Santa Ana (as a guitarist myself), but now it really is the most enticing sampler gadget I’ve seen out of the bunch. To all gadget mega fans - dw - to each their own (I’m not much of a gadget dude, I use AUM… but I’m really glad the gadgets are finally AUs themselves so that’s why I’m here).

[@wignallyt]

Great video - thank you & thumbs up!

[@dirtysolarremix]

👍🏼

[@RealMonoid]

Nice, i just got the update.

[@dirtysolarremix]

I love it!💯 It's really creative

[@jimshannononsounds]

Dope video, Doug. Maybe I'm missing something but the import samples don't work while Sydney is in A.U.M. 🤔

[@TheSoundTestRoom]

Hi Jim, yes that is true, Korg are aware of the bug, so it should get sorted out soon👍😊

[@jimshannononsounds]

@@TheSoundTestRoom Thanks, Doug

[@oculist]

There’s a “Copy” command under “More” in Files. No need to duplicate the folder.

[@TheSoundTestRoom]

I always forget that, excellent tip👍😊

[@oculist]

@@TheSoundTestRoom Yeah it’s daft that such a fundamental function is hidden away in favour of “Duplicate”, IMHO.

[@DorinJacota]

Could you tell please if is possible to set the instruments with a specific preset in each scene? I'm wondering if for the same instruments would be possible to have preset A in Scene 1, preset B in Scene 2, ... Thank you.

[@kareemabdul-jabar5639]

Can you import your own samples into this sampler ?

[@SuperIchweissnix]

is the sydney cpu heavy on your ipad as well?

[@AndyLubner]

Why are my samples greyed out? Unable to import or preview.

[@chrisforman430]

I just upgraded to Gadget 3 not really much going on in the way of new features or sounds Sydney is pretty cool did they take out Zurich?

[@TheSoundTestRoom]

Zurich is still there, and I think that AUv3 is a pretty big deal, also 5 new effects, met volume and a much improved user interface.

[@zzrwood]

So it's really just a sample player, not actually a sampler?

[@jochemcasier6974]

Makes sense as they already have Abu Dhabi as a slicer/sampler

[@musacman57]

Top job Doug 👍 this a must have for gadget

[@DMTCYMATICSDreamMusicTemple]

I try to automate the start point in Sydney. No automation showing. I think it can record it tho. Anyone tried this? I want to trigger a moving start point with CC automation for rapidly triggering areas in drum loops.

[@mpfmax0]

That might work better using the loop slicer gadget (abu dabi) or using REX files on stockholm.

[@mewpity]

honestly I’m just happy about the new guitar gadget lol, it’s so realistic, especially if you use the pitch bend and tweak it. now I can add random guitar solos to things and it sound real lol

[@zetafalang]

great video! Unfortunately, loading own samples still doesn't work well. Although I have all the samples and rex files in the Korg Cloud folder, the samples are not loaded when loading a song, and they only finally appear after reloading the preset several times (if Gadet doesn't crash in the meantime). In Cubase I can load my own presets from Gadget, but the samples are missing.

[@TheSoundTestRoom]

That is probably a bug, I would think that Korg will get it fixed asap.

[@matthewmulvany1567]

I eagerly watch this video hoping I would learn how to do that most fundamental thing, i.e. import your own sounds. However it’s brushed over this aspect saying “here’s one I did earlier”. However nice video which is appreciated. Similar to the previous person I’m using it as a VST and after trying have concluded you can’t import your own sounds! Therefore it’s not actually a sampler as such but more a playback device.

[@TheSoundTestRoom]

@matthewmulvany I don’t use this on the desktop, this is an iPad video. However I don’t just skip over the import part, from 10.00 to 18.28 I go into great detail of how to import, load, create folders etc.

[@ciskid23]

Isn’t a sampler supposed to chop samples? I can just bring samples into beat maker. Gadget is a lot like propellerhead reason .it took them forever to let in vsts korg is the same way. If I like korg I want to bring stuff into it not the other way around. And they need a gadget like koala sampler. Honestly I don’t like going out of what ever daw I’m using cause they all work differently and that’s what makes me choose which one I want to play with. I can’t get excited over a player and a gtr that you just trigger. When I sample I chop and do things to affectively change it up to create something new. I haven’t opened gadget up much & at this point don’t see a reason to update the app, this is just like I felt with the korg triton which is why I sold it and make way better music in studio one and maschine. I’m glad if u like it I just think they could do more so it’s a pass for me

[@TheSoundTestRoom]

Each to their own, and that's cool, but the update is free, and that gives you many of the Gadgets to use as AUv3, it's all good😊