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KORG GADGET FOR MAC Music Production Software

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I want them to exist so badly. When Korg first released Gadget as a mobile app environment, its graphic design department breathed flesh ’n’ blood life into the gadgets themselves, looking all the world like real-life tabletop microsynths in the promos. Stroke of genius really. The fact these little gadgets are small – and by necessity a tad limited – ceased to be an issue. They were adorable and I wanted them to be alive.

They’re not… alive, that is. Their corporeal chassis are imagined; and must live in our imaginations… but just imagine having 20-plus Gadgets on your desk, all sync’ed…

Anyway. Enough of the daydreaming. They sound real enough; and now they’re on your

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