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Electronics Engineer Reviews KORG NTS-2 Oscilloscope Kit - Workbench Wednesdays 75

Can the NTS-2 Oscilloscope from KORG be used as a general-purpose oscilloscope? KORG is better known for music synthesizers. But the NTS-2 kit is an oscilloscope you build yourself. So, James makes the kit, evaluates it, and uses a Commodore 64 to demonstrate how it works. In this video, see what he likes (and dislikes) about the NTS-2.

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KORG / NuTekt NTS-2 Patch and Tweak Kit (Oscilloscope)
Commodore 64 Computer
Nobomi ArmSID

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  • Interesting review, not sure why I missed this originally, as I am sort of a fan of KORG devices and seriously thought about buying this kit.  I can understand your frustrations with this device from the standpoint of an engineer, having knowledge of full function oscilloscopes.  I can see how this was intended as a visualization tool for musically inclined individuals, as a full function oscilloscope might be intimidating for non-engineer types.  I mean with the spectrum analyzer, I can see how seeing that there are harmonics (and possibly the proportions of the harmonics), is more interesting, that being able to identify particular harmonic peak.

    I am an engineer that is full frustrated with my lack of musical talents, but highly interested in electronic music.  I built or purchased several different synthesizers, only to struggle to make them sound like anything but noise.  I have a few different KORG products and continue to look for other additional items.

  • in reply to genebren

    It looks like audio visualisation tools in hardware are becoming a bit of an in-thing. I picked up an analogue microphone to MADI converter recently and it turns out to have an HDMI output which displays a real time waveform scope for each input channel.

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