By now, if reading KIA-WORLD blog regularly, you must have garnered enough of information and knowledge on the new Kia Soul, that you could sell the car to a potential customer right out of bed.

By adding dozens of images to the blog and throughout an extensive talk about variety of available accessories that Kia offers to the customers, we have all come pretty familiar with the Soul.

We also checked at the inside of the Soul several times and there we found that the ergonomically designed interior houses some very unique toys that you can hardly find in any other car these days, especially when mass produced.

One of the toys (special features) that needs to be mentioned is the Sound Sensitive Mood Lightning system -SSML. The SSML system features adjustable LED lighting rings around each of speakers installed to the front doors. By turning the radio unit on, the red-orange speaker LEDs react and start pulsing in time with the rhythm of the music.

The SSML system gives the owner a choice of four settings: On, Mood, Music and Off. In addition to that, the level of red-orange LEDs brightness can be adjusted separately through five different levels. Let’s take a look at the four possible SSML settings:

1. “On” -the system remains on whenever the audio system is being used
2. “Mood” - repeatedly dimming and brightening every two seconds
3.  “Music” -brightening and dimming will change in time with music volume and beat
4.  “Off” - this mode switches of the lighting

According to John Shim, a member of R&D Planning Team at Kia Motors, the system is unlike any other system currently available in any car. While in other similar systems, the light is emitted from the speaker perimeter, the SSML system used in Soul, emits the light from inside the speaker, enabling it to react sensitively to the music sound and ending with the perfectharmony of sound and lightning. 

Now, since we know in general how the SSML system works in theory, let’s take a look at how it works in real life. Guys at Kia have tapped a special video to show the SSML in action, while set in different modes.