I was back in the world of Gadget, but this time on the big screen. ‘Urgh!’ you might think – and I feared – as a Gadget iOS user, but you know what? I had another (spectacular, I might add) Gadget tune to add to my growing collection in minutes.

On a Mac, your input method will vary according to your potential controller options, but I just used the Mac keyboard and mouse.

On the iPad, these windows are, of course, touchable so you can select Gadgets, play notes, edit them and arrange patterns with the tap and swipe of a finger. You get four Windows in the UI: one for your mixer (which shows each Gadget loaded per track), one piano-roll editor, the Gadget up close and the song/arrangement. Its beautiful, streamlined nature has been ported lock, stock, and smoking synth and drum machine to the Mac… brilliantly. You see, I was wrong – and it’s rare I admit that in writing – to assume that the Gadget experience wouldn’t translate to the Mac. I reviewed those a few months ago, loved them and now use them with Logic, so no need for Gadget ‘the DAW’ on my Mac, right?īut now Gadget 2.5 for the Mac is here, I have it up and running and there is only one question I can ask: why on Earth didn’t I get this thing installed two years ago? A gadget inspection Besides, Korg then recently released all of the Gadgets as a suite of instruments that run in any desktop Mac or PC DAW.

Again, I resisted the urge, thinking that the sweet touch experience of the iOS version could never translate to desktop (and yes, I do see the irony of this time looking down my nose at a Mac). Then, a couple of years back, along came Gadget for the Mac.

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