For many, the forced quarantine has given creators and makers time to complete projects they’ve had on the shelf. Every week, I’ll feature some things to do during the COVID-19 quarantine. It may be an app, tool, game, or something techie you can use to be more productive or be entertained during the quarantine.
Sometimes you’re sitting around the house during quarantine, and you get the urge to make some dope beats. Yesterday, it’s been a month since we’ve been cloistered in the Mapp household, and we’ve been doing a bunch of things to stay entertained and saned while in close quarters.
KORG, yeah, that KORG has release it’s iKaossilator for free while the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world. iKaossilator is a beat making app for your iPhone or Android device. Making music is extremely simple, but making hot tracks can be a challenge. You’re given a touchpad that makes tones from pre-sample audio; spanning drums, synthesized instruments, noise, and clicks. You can set the pitch, a genre, tempo, and length.
Then touch, tap, and slide your way to dreams of being the next Timbaland. Picture it, New York City, 1995. It’s 3am and the rave is just getting started. Blue, red, and yellow lights are pulsating at 129 bpm. There’s a dude in a shark skin surrounded by bros whose hair is all gelled up. In the corner, there’s a woman on all fours with a plane of glass on her back, performing as a human table. A babe picks up a martini glass off the table; is the liquid clear, red, or black, you don’t know. There’s a man drenched in sweat peeling out of a gorilla suit. And a shifty dude wearing a leather jacket in July is asking if you want to take a trip.
Somewhere in the mix, their head down; someone is doing a four step.
You can create your loops, name them, and share them all within the app. I was sharing my tracks with friends using the iMessage app on my iPad. KORG provides a number of pre-made loops in the app demonstrating how you can combine the different samples into something musical and sweat inducing.
Download the iKaossilator today, and dream about a time when we didn’t care whose sweat we rubbed up against, never mind not trusting the same air we breathe as those around us.
