tranqui // kp3 basic sampling demo

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NOTE: I'm thinking of picking up a KP3. I'm actually looking for a decent hardware looper and I'm pretty sure I'm down to the KP3 or the Electro Harmonix 2880. If you have an opinion of either, feel free to comment. The one thing I like about the 2880 is the volume faders for each loop, so you can adjust the volume of four loops in real time. Can you do this with the KP3? Update: I just checked the manual online and once the sample is recorded you can adjust the level via the touch pad, so the answer is yes. I also read that the sample time at a tempo of 140 is 16 beats or roughly 7 seconds. It then states that at 73 it goes down to 8, 39 goes down to 4 and so on. Does that mean 7 seconds is the max per loop? The 2880 with the included 1G card can do 31 minutes per track.

Video description:
"this is a short vid recorded upon request to demonstrate the very basic sampling functions of korg's kp3.

sorry for the audio quality, I have a shitty camera (11 kHz audio / 3 minutes max time for video recording) and didn't take the time to prepare any decent sounds or record the audio separately. also, instead of making explanatory subtitles and stills, I wrote this text 'cause I'm a lazy bastard.

but enough with the apologies, I think most people should get the idea; this is not supposed to be an in-depth tutorial, but merely a short demo on how to sample and resample on the kp3. nothing fancy - just the tip of the iceberg...

all 3 fx units are set to 130 bpm. actions are as follows:
- activate poser mode and show off kp3 text scroll function
- launch a loop on kp2 (prog 63)
- record the loop into the efx-1000
- destroy the loop a bit using the feedback loop trick on the efx-1000 (credits to james zabiela or whoever discovered this easteregg)
- record the loop into the kp3 (sampling button), pad A
- record a loop generated by the kp3 (prog drm.4) by resampling (shift button + sampling button, then sample pad), pad B
- sync the beats (shift + sample pad + program knob), switching between pads to verify sync
- layer white noise synth (prog syn.9) over pad B and record it to pad C by resampling
- layer bass synth (prog syn.1) over pad A and record it to pad D by resampling
- overwrite pad A by sampling random bleeps from kp2 (prog 75)
- cacophonia

like I said, this is NOT supposed to be a "look what I can do" vid because the sounds obviously suck. it's a "look what the kp3 can do" vid.

I might do a show-off vid sometime, but not today ;) this vid is for those among you who are curious about basic sampling and resampling on the kp3, nothing more. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

cheers to all fellow fx bendin' knob tweakin' bastards out there!

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