Korg MPS-10 Drum, Percussion & Sampler Pad
SKU: 002-01206
Redefine the beat: your control, your performance.
The MPS-10 is the next step in the constant evolution of drum performance and musical expression. Meticulously crafted to be both rugged and refined, MPS-10 meets the diverse demands of drummers and percussionists everywhere, opening the door to new and creative ways of performing never previously possible.
Immerse yourself in a world of sonic possibilities with its 10 pads, thanks to a preloaded sound source that defies expectations, a versatile sampler, 4 groundbreaking CC pads, and a cutting-edge 4-track looper – all seamlessly integrated into a singular, comprehensive kit. Enhance your performance through an external trigger IN jack, footswitch compatibility, and an expression jack.
A Seamless Symphony of Playability and Features
An indispensable companion for drummers, a digital percussion revelation, and the ultimate partner for performers, the MPS-10 is a harmonious blend of playability and features. Whether you're in the studio or performing live, the MPS-10 stands ready to fulfill your drum and percussion needs with its captivating array of exciting and useful features.
Limitless Soundscapes at Your Fingertips
With an expansive collection of 2,350 assignable Instruments (INST pads) and more than 3000 high quality samples at your disposal, the MPS-10 opens the gateway to boundless creativity. Revel in a deep library of cool, useful sounds that range from dynamically expressive instrument tones and captivatingly nuanced variations based on your strike's intensity, to the essential electric instrument sounds that drive so much modern drumming.
Classical percussion enthusiasts will delight in the inclusion of congas, bongos, and more, while acoustic percussion aficionados will be delighted to find an extensive range of useful, dynamic and authentic sounds. The looped phrases, impactful sounds for games, TV spots and movie trailers, mesmerizing melodic steelpan tones, and an array of HIT/SFX sounds will drive you to explore.
Instant Results with Preloaded Kits
100 carefully curated kits, each comprising 10 INST pads, await your command as you dive into the MPS-10. The musical journey commences the moment your fingers grace the pads, igniting a galaxy of sonic brilliance. Furthermore, a realm of personalization unfolds with 100 user KIT slots, empowering you to craft and customize your own original kits.
Masterful Sound Sculpting
Empower your sonic tapestry with unparalleled control. Enhance the sonic excitement with the default master reverb and filter, augmented by two insert systems and a master system, all at your command. Easily toggle the effects for each pad, orchestrating intricate tone changes with precision.
Seamless Transitions, Effortless Control
Experience uninterrupted creativity with the Smooth Sound Transition (SST), ensuring flawless kit transitions after striking a cymbal or repeating a sample, such as a snare. When silence beckons, a simple press of the SOUND OFF button works immediately.
The Artistry of Looping
Elevate your performance with the incredibly flexible and powerful 4-track looper. Revel in the dedicated looper effects, crafting intricate looping phrases that will inspire your creativity - and your audience! With synchronized settings that ensure flawless playback across tracks, and the ability to export each track as a WAV file, your creative possibilities will go even further than your real-time performance.
The CC Pad revolution
Embark on a journey of sonic manipulation with the four visionary and deceptively powerful CC pads. The top 4 pads of the MPS-10 can be used as CC pads, detecting the striking position with incredible precision and thus allowing for intuitive control of effect parameters.
Delve into gradual filtering, EDM-inspired drum rolls with Note Delay, and real-time tonal transformations through the versatile MFX functions. Elevate your drumming artistry to new heights with unprecedented control and expression.
Unleash Your Sound, Unshackle Your Creativity
The sampler function liberates your creativity, allowing effortless importation of user samples. Seamlessly integrate your favorite sounds from a USB flash drive into the MPS-10, assign them to any pad, and even replace portions of preset kits with your personal soundset.
Brilliant Visuals, Uncompromising Legibility
Take center stage with confidence, as the vivid full-color display is easy to read even amidst the brightest lights. Tailor the saturation to your preference for \ visual clarity. Navigate your sonic journey effortlessly with three-color LEDs illuminating each pad, ensuring seamless performance even on the dimmest stages.
Unveil Your Artistry with Ease
Crafting your signature kit is a breeze with the MPS-10 Editor, a user-friendly web app. Seamlessly connect the MPS-10 to your PC via USB, and dive into a realm of endless creative possibilities as you shape your own unique kits.
Expand Your Horizons with External Triggers
Embark on a sonic odyssey with dual trigger-in terminals, accommodating up to four triggers and pads via a Y-shaped cable, allowing for a total of 15 sounds within one kit. Unleash the full spectrum of drumming artistry with a single unit, empowered by the preloaded KIT featuring a dedicated bass drum as a Trigger connection tone (Pad11).
Elevate your performance, redefine your sound, and craft unforgettable musical experiences with the MPS-10 – where innovation meets artistry.
The latest technology, built to last
Developed by the design team behind WaveDrum and Pearl e/MERGE, highly praised by professional players for its feel and performance, the MPS-10 provides the ultimate drum pad experience with a unique pad design that sets it apart from the rest.
In pursuit of a combination of durability and performance, a high-quality rubber material was perfected through multiple prototypes and supervision by the most demanding professional players . We have strived to achieve the right balance of hardness, sensitivity, and dynamics to enable drummers and percussionists to express themselves naturally.
The pad layout is designed to ensure the proper setup and striking positions when integrated into a drum kit, resulting in comfortable playing and superior strike detection. And while maintaining the standard pad size, it accommodates 10 pads within a compact housing.
The MPS-10's top panel is hard coated polycarbonate with 2mm thickness, a material that has been used in percussion instruments that require extremely high impact resistance, and will effectively protect the LCD screen even with very physical performances. The knobs use highly durable metal shafts, and the shape of the plastic cover is designed to prevent excessive force from being applied to the inside of the knob shafts or the PCB. In addition, we have done heavy duty testing and the LCD, knob shafts, and panel surfaces have been hit several hundred times per location, and no breakage or malfunction has occurred. Therefore, we believe that the durability is sufficient to prevent breakage in normal use.
Although it boasts a stylish appearance, it is built to resist the adversities of the road and has successfully passed extensive and rigorous testing, making it a professional-grade equipment with no compromises in toughness.
Unlock Your Drum Performance Potential with the MPS-10 System Ver.2
With its 10 pads, Continuous Control (CC) functionality, and a versatile 4-track looper, the MPS-10 is perfect for the solo percussion performer or the ideal drummer's companion, for solo performances or as part of your kit.
With refreshed preset kits, improved user interface, pad link functionality and more, Version 2 takes the MPS-10 to a whole new level.
Improved visual interface
Making use of its gorgeous full-color display, the MPS-10 now makes it even easier to see at a glance what instruments are assigned to which pad or even the connected external triggers, allowing you to concentrate on your performance.
Significantly improved usability of the CC (continuous Control) pad
The CC pads, which can be assigned various functions like effect control and parameter manipulation with the stick, have been significantly updated. Now featuring graphical displays for MFX, filter application, and other effects, it's easier than ever to visually understand the status and impact of each pad.Additionally, each CC pad can now have individual rhythm patterns, with note symbols and newly added triplet notes (1/8t, 1/16t, 1/32t, 1/64t) for easy reference. Mod Delay, Chorus, and Tape Echo effects have also been introduced, allowing users to dynamically adjust effect intensity based on their strumming technique, enhancing performance flexibility.
Preset kit with 4 external triggers, etc.
A preset kit with four external triggers and pre-assigned expression pedals is available. Cymbal triggers, hi-hat and kick trigger pedals, expression pedals, etc. can be connected to the MPS-10 for immediate playability.The MPS-10 can also be easily calibrated for expression pedals using a graphical guide display, making it possible to smartly build a drum kit with the MPS-10 as the main unit and demonstrating its power in a variety of situations.
Example of a fully equipped kit with drum pad, cymbal pad, hi-hat controller, and kick pad.
(TRIGGER IN A:Kick pad B:Drum pad C:Cymbal pad D:Cymbal pad EXPRESSION PEDAL:Hi-hat controller is connected )
Example of a standard kit with a cymbal pad and bar trigger pad combined with a kick pad, hi-hat controller, and drum pad.( TRIGGER IN A:Kick pad B:Drum pad C:Cymbal pad D:Bar trigger pad EXPRESSION PEDAL:Connect a hi-hat controller )
Simple kit with only a kick pad and foot switch. Ideal for standing drums. ( TRIGGER IN A: Kick pad FOOT SWITCH 1: Connect foot switch )
New pad features to expand the range of performance
Pad Link function allows simultaneous control of multiple pads; hitting the pad set to Main can trigger the pad set to follow at the same time, making it possible to control multiple pads simultaneously.
The output destination for OSC1 and OSC2 of the instrument assigned to a pad can be set individually. Only the sound of a specific OSC can be output from the SUB OUT jack. For example, you can monitor the sound of both OSC1 and OSC2 through headphones, and play only the sound of OSC1 through the speakers.
The MPS-10 is equipped with the Trigger Reserve function that allows sounds to be produced in sync with the timing of the built-in metronome. If you reserve a trigger by hitting the pad before the metronome's strong beat timing, the pad will be triggered on the next strong beat of the metronome. This function is useful when you want to play tracks at the right time or synchronize multiple tracks.
Enhanced loop function
Looper Track Export function provides instant pad assignment of loop track recording data. This allows for more advanced loop performance.
Many new features that are even easier and more convenient to use
USB-MIDI Host function has been added to allow various USB-MIDI devices to be connected directly to the MPS-10 via a USB cable. The MPS-10 now offers unparalleled expandability, making it possible to play the MPS-10 with electronic drums, MIDI sequencers, and other MIDI controllers. In addition, eight different velocity curves can be selected, which change according to the strength of the pad strike, enhancing the quality of the performance. In addition, the USB keyboard can be used for text input, which is useful when entering names of kits, instruments, samples, etc.
WEB EDITOR 2.0 for more graphical and intuitive operation
The UI in the MPS-10 2.0 update has been redesigned for more graphical and intuitive editing. Create unique and original kits by accessing the main unit from a browser on your PC/Mac, without the need for a driver.
Main Functions of the WEB Editor
- Graphical display of the entire kit, including instruments (INSTs) assigned to each pad and pad parameters.
- User kits can be created using preset or user instruments created on the main unit.
- Possibility to adjust various parameters on the Web browser while checking the sound in real time on the main unit.
- Complex effect settings can be created using the CC pad and expression pedal. - Instrument assignment settings can be customized for expression pedals and hi-hat controllers connected to the external triggers.
*Access from Google Chrome is supported.
*Operation with smartphones and tablets is not supported.
*The MPS-10 Editor is compatible with System Ver. 2.0 or higher; MPS-10 Editor cannot be used on units with versions lower than Ver. 2.0. Please update to the latest version before using the MPS-10 Editor.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Maximum polyphony: 48 voices
- Kits: 200 (including user KITs)
- INST: 2350
- SAMPLE: 3002
- Effects: 80
- Input/output jacks and ports
- Headphones (6.3 mm TRS phone jack)
- Audio outputs: MAIN OUT L (MONO), MAIN OUT R, SUB OUT 1, SUB OUT 2 (6.3 mm TS phone jacks)
- Audio inputs: LINE IN L/R, MIC IN (6.3 mm TRS phone jacks)
- Trigger input: CH A/B, C/D (6.3 mm stereo phone jacks)
- Foot pedals 1, 2 (6.3 mm TRS phone jacks)
- Expression pedal (6.3 mm TRS phone jack)
- MIDI OUT
- USB-A (Type-A) USB standard ver. 2.0, Hi-Speed compliant (480 Mbps)
- USB-B (Type-B) USB standard ver. 2.0, Hi-Speed compliant (480 Mbps)
- Internal memory: 32 GB (including preset data)
- Playable data formats
- WAV, 44.1 kHz/48 kHz, 16-bit/24-bit (up to 60 minutes long)
- AIFF, 44.1 kHz/48 kHz, 16-bit/24-bit (up to 60 minutes long)
- Display: 320 × 240 dots (backlit color LCD)
- Power supply: AC adapter (DC 9 V)
- Dimensions (W × D × H): 424 × 264 × 75 mm/16.69" × 10.39" × 2.95"
- Weight: 2.3 kg/5.07 lb
- Included items: AC adapter, Quick Start Guide