It’s nicer than predecessor, but still looks fragile. I considered MK I once as an effect unit but was turned off by fragility of the unit, cryptic display and the fact that it needed adapter to connect mono sources to it. It’s great that it had midi though, which is missing in so many effect pedals, especially in the more affordable category.
I wish Korg would launch those gorgeus effecs of theirs in a form of a stereo effect pedal with midi and affordable price. Zoom MS-70 CDR needs some competition (or an MK II with midi
It’s sad that they didn’t add built in user presets on this one, that the only grief I have. Loopop mentioned presets will be available with the librarian, but having to connect it to load presets kills the benefit of the portable small factor.
As for the battery, I did a mod to add one to my nts1 so it should be similar, and not to complicated. USB-C is definitely a nice improvement!
Maybe an updated Kaos Pad which has user FX SDK compatibility would work. I don’t disagree with your suggestion but as an NTS user, I think the NTS3 is a great move. I’d rather the FX.
That’s the reason I traded mine off. You’d think it wouldn’t be a big deal, but I was over it by the 8th time having to dial everything back.
Loopop mentioned that it doesn’t save presets on the machine so sadly it appears that they failed to address it, and I don’t see Korg fixing it post release.
the knob jump was what killed the nts-1 for me, sadly still here on the mk2, 170 is a steal for the sound of it… if they had just used 3 encoders with all the paging around you do you just constantly have stuff jumping if you want to do live tweaking on the device.
Same experience for me. The perfect youtube synth with just everyone omitting this problem.
Autosave is a great upgrade already. But it still doesn’t look like there are presets you can dial from the machine or that program changes would be accepted.
If that is the case it’s a good update, but would have wished for more.
Like @tha_man, I prefer the FX on NTS-1 to the Zoom MS-70 CDR. I’ve owned both and now only own one. (Though some of that is the hopelessness of selling an NTS-1, even worse now that there is a mk2. What I could get for it would not cover lunch in a decent restaurant…)
Finally got around to watching the Loopop vid on this one… it seems a nice wee product but probably not the kind of thing that would work for me in my setup. The thing that really struck me as I was watching was how much better this would’ve been as a sort of Volca NTS in the typical volca case. A bit more hands on control of the sequencer, being able to save sequences, being able to save some presets and it would suddenly become a really interesting bit of kit. For me at least…
I guess making it a bit rough with the “no presets” limitation is on purpose to avoid internal concurrence with their more expensive flagship synths. The DIY part is a gimmick anyway.
The NTS3 has presets, so it’s not that they can’t do it.
a 170$ Volca Logue with the same specs, but 256 presets and a bit more controls would be a must-have banger! (+ keeping USB-C for power/data)
