What if you took an iPod, a drum pad / controller, and a
high-end VJ mixer, and put them together? You'd get something like the
new Korg Kaptivator. Here's what it does:
- 40 GB hard drive for storing video clips
- Two LCDs for watching what you're doing
- Manipulate clips with an Akai sampler-style touchpad, cross-fader, ribbon controller
- Built-in video effects
- Live video and audio input
- Video, audio, DV/FireWire, MIDI ins and outs, including separate preview video outputs
Details and pictures are on the Japanese-only site Pixdisc;
apparently this was shown at a dealer conference in Japan, so all
availability/specs/price are unknown. Stay tuned, because you can bet I
want to know when this thing comes out in the States! (via vjcentral)
Do any of our readers read Japanese? Contact me (or comment here) if so.
Updated: As a reader points out in comments, there's a lively discussion on vjcentral. (Flip straight to page two
for a fantastic lineup of Akai/Boss-style 4×4 drum pad triggers and . .
. ooh, sorry, my heart stopped beating. Ah, the MPC1000 . . .)