Native Instruments spread the shops with the long-awaited version 2 of their Kore hardware-software system. Kore 2 was previewed already during the Musikmesse of this spring but we had to wait more than a half year to get the final product. This is rather an integrated hard-soft solution than the first, slightly chaotic version - Kore 2 now has six different synth engines bundled, with 500 very complex sound programs which use the sophisticated hardware features extensively. List price is 500 euro, all the other details can be found here.