lp kp md live looping

Machinedrum MD UW MKII as master clock to a Korg Kaoss Pad KP3. Also starring a Moog Little Phatty Stage II and Nord Electro 2.

Basically I start with a simple MD beat. I then lay down a few loops from the Electro into the KP3. The mixing board (Mackie 802-VLZ3) has Alt3/4 going to the KP3 so when the switch is engaged there is no noticeable volume change but the KP3 can sample/effect whatever particular channels are Alt3/4.

I then sample (with a mistake due to forgetting to Alt3/4 the board!) the LP into the KP3. By 3 minutes in I get all the tracks in place :-)

Finish it off with a little KP3 and MD tweaking and we're done. The nice thing about this setup also (not shown here) is that by simply enabling Alt3/4 on the MD channel I can use the KP3 effects on it as well.

A very powerful little live looping setup that I've been having fun with lately.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• elektron
• machinedrum
• kaoss
• pad
• kp3
• moog
• little
• phatty

[theinvis3]

hi, what is the best way that you've found to keep the kp3 in sync?

btw nice vid

[vcovcfvca]

Thanks. In my case, MD MIDI out directly into the KP MIDI in is the simplest and tightest. The KP is set to EXT sync. In this demo - it really doesn't matter when I trig the KP3 sample pad - as long as my playing is in time it will always come out sounding right since the KP will just loop to the exact number of beats based on clock. If I choose to stop the MD (as opposed to just muting) then when I restart the MD I better be on the downbeat otherwise things can get off.

[blueboxuk]

love the way your using the KP for sampling here, nice groove you've got going on.

keep it up!

[vcovcfvca]

Thanks!

[harryburgess99]

can you just put loads of loop layers on to one sample bank? and then do like a different section on another bank?