My KP3 finally came in. The KoPro is on it's way. I tried hooking up the KP3 in from my NS7 out to the speakers using the RCA. It sounded horrible. I decided to get a mixer. I ended up going with the Behringer Xenyx X1204USB. I like it and got everything hooked up right.
This maybe my inexperience with a mixer or the KP3 or both. The mic input will work but you won't here anything unless you touch the pad. I tried recording my voice with one of the vocoder effects. When I replayed it, it played it back in my normal voice unless I touched the pad or used the hold button. How do I get it to play back with the effect automatically?
Also I played around with some of the effects while I had a track playing. Some effects I heard and some I didn't notice a difference regardless of where I touched on the pad. Some effects caused a really loud noise that was unpleasant. Almost like a mic when it makes that loud piercing noise. I messed around with the effects knob on the mixer and it didn't get that spike like I did before. This was when I turned the effect send and return volumes down.
Any ideas or suggestions regarding the stuff I mentioned above?
Beginner KP3 questions.
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The KP3 is doing what it's supposed to do. You just don't understand it, yet.
You press the pad to control the effects, and some programs will not make any sound until you press the pad at least once to set the parameters for the effect to let sound come through it. However, you don't have to press the pad everytime you want to hear something. See the Hold button? Press it. Now press the pad while the Hold button is lit up and see what happens. Effect programs have different default values for the parameters, based on what they do, and sometimes those values are set so that you don't hear anything until you use different values. Pressing the pad is how you do that, and hold keeps those values after you remove your finger from the pad. The rest could just be a feedback loop that you've somehow done on the mixer. You need to be sure not to send the KP3's output back to its own inputs. Don't worry, it takes a bit of time to learn how it works, but that's part of the fun.
You press the pad to control the effects, and some programs will not make any sound until you press the pad at least once to set the parameters for the effect to let sound come through it. However, you don't have to press the pad everytime you want to hear something. See the Hold button? Press it. Now press the pad while the Hold button is lit up and see what happens. Effect programs have different default values for the parameters, based on what they do, and sometimes those values are set so that you don't hear anything until you use different values. Pressing the pad is how you do that, and hold keeps those values after you remove your finger from the pad. The rest could just be a feedback loop that you've somehow done on the mixer. You need to be sure not to send the KP3's output back to its own inputs. Don't worry, it takes a bit of time to learn how it works, but that's part of the fun.
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There is a switch on the back near the send that toggles b/w direct and send, after having the same problem I realized putting that switch to direct will pipe audio through at all points, not just when your finger is on the pad.
As for the routing problem, I have no idea.
But recently I plugged my my ES-1's L/Mono output into the line in and by adjust the levels can get it to do some pretty amazing/sporadic/slash/semi-rythmic things with the feed back (especially with the effects)
So I suppose what I'm trying to say here is give up music and get a job manually masturbating animals in cages for artificial insemination so you can make an actual difference in this world.
-Piiece
As for the routing problem, I have no idea.
But recently I plugged my my ES-1's L/Mono output into the line in and by adjust the levels can get it to do some pretty amazing/sporadic/slash/semi-rythmic things with the feed back (especially with the effects)
So I suppose what I'm trying to say here is give up music and get a job manually masturbating animals in cages for artificial insemination so you can make an actual difference in this world.
-Piiece