DART_KOROVA is one of the earliest controllers in the DART universe, and still one of the most loved by the people who encounter it in real life.
Over the years it became a cult classic: raw, overbuilt, strange in all the right ways, and impossible to confuse with anything else.

KOROVA is available both as a fully assembled and tested unit, ready to play out of the box, and as a DIY KIT version for hackers, solder addicts and night creatures who prefer building their own machines by hand.
The platform pushes the DARTMOBO architecture close to its limits, using the EXTRAPLEX system to expand the available controls from 48 up to 56 assignable elements between pushbuttons, potentiometers and experimental inputs.

But the first thing people notice about KOROVA is not the specs.
It’s the look.

The controller is built around violent contrasts between black, white and fully transparent acrylic, inspired by the atmosphere of the Korova Milk Bar. The internals remain deliberately visible: cables, circuitry, LEDs, reflections and imperfections all become part of the visual identity. Nothing is hidden behind fake industrial minimalism.

Even the inside of the machine became part of the design process.
The mirrored PCB reflections, exposed metallic surfaces and glowing transparent layers transform the controller into something closer to a small electronic city than a normal MIDI device — especially at night.

The analog joystick and the eight arcade pushbuttons reinforce the connection with arcade culture that has always been part of DART’s DNA: experimentation, playful chaos, hacker mentality and laboratories still glowing at 3:30 AM while the rest of the city sleeps.