Hello guys. I 'm on to buying a KP3 but my only very important question is this:
Is the KP3, next to a brilliant effects tool, also good for just creating some cool beats and tunes... sort of a standalone instrument? I already saw some vids on Youtube showing the KP3 skills without input (internal samplers only)
but i'm just not sure just yet
There are some creative videos on YouTube, but the important thing to remember is that your creativity will be limited to working with 4 samples. You can't load a sample or a new bank of samples without interrupting the sound. You can use one of the effects programs that don't require input like the synth effects and save that to a pad.
The kp3 is not a stand alone instrument. It's mostly an effects box. It has 4 fairly short samples, and these are all run through the same effects. I think that if you had 2 of them to shoot back and forth at each other, that would be a neat instrument. But with just one of them, and the sample loading time etc. it's pretty limited as an instrument.
It's a rad effects box. It's probably a rad midi controller as well, but I haven't tried that yet.
I disagree withe this last opinion :
- the kaoss is truly a stand-alone instrument.
- it is full of creativty. the power to transform & resample loops if very creative, and is to my opinion a "problem" because the number of good loops that can be made out of other loops is unlimited.
Practically, I only use it to play my loops, never as a unit effect over some music. I dit it for fun, just to see, to test transforming kora for example.
kaoss is versatile, there isn't one way to use it.
so, I think you'd better take some cd's you'd like to play on, some loops of your own, then go to the shop & have a try to make your opnion by yourself.
the kaoss is a kind of UFO, it doesn't have onlyLFOs.
Using a device not in the way it was designed by the manufacturer is creative approach.
It can be a stand alone instrument in a non live setting, but in a live setting the sample load times are far too long for it to be stand alone. Nearly a minute of dead air if you're loading 4 samples and it cannot load without disrupting all output, which unless you're doing standup between tracks, is totally unacceptable.
