Comments on: Korg KAOSS Pad KP3 as Step Sequencer

By: M-.-n

M-.-n — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:14:38 +0000

Hey Peter,

Wrote ya a couple of emails lately but I don’t know if they made it through… anyway, here’s a little KP3 hack I made yesterday.. so far it’s just an “open door” rather than something useful but I thought you’d dig it anyway:

http://www.gorehole.org/nostromo/2008/09/06/kaoss-pad-3-hacking-lesson-1/

Cheers
Marc

By: al

al — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:13:48 +0000

patrick its just plain old midi ccs
but theve been put through allsorts in reaktor
a think if it was sysex i could probably get more control and fix the problems im having
with outputing the visual part of it exactly
to the kp3s pad lights

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:43:46 +0000

I wonder how this is being done.
Does the KP-3 respond to sysex to light up it’s lights? if so, I’d like to get my hands on the sysex chart for that.
Is it another type of message entirely.

By: al

al — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:47:40 +0000

thanks for the support
should b ready for tester download soon
hoping maybe some kp3 reaktor users could help
on a few things to get this thing working perfect mostly the control of the lights as some of my calculations in reaktor are wrong.

new miracle u should b able to get the keymasher micro on tim exile website thats where i got mine from

and brian & dead_red_eyes those are the reasons i decided to try making this thing
just got bored of not realy being able to use it as a controller as when im using the effects i use a different controller for more control anyway
and the fact that i thought this sort of control was already in it already when i bought the thing when it first came out.

im hoping korg could maybe reverse engineer it
into an update so u could trigger a sampler over midi

By: dead_red_eyes

dead_red_eyes — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:38:09 +0000

Interesting, wish I could’ve seen this before I sold my KP3. I thought that it was going to be a great tool for me … but I didn’t end up using for anything really, other than it’s small sampling capabilities. Only having 7 seconds available for a sample really really sucks. And the effects sounded too digital for me, I could swear that the KP2 didn’t sound as digital as the KP3.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:25:00 +0000

I’ve sat and stared at the grid on my KP3 and often wondered why there is not more use of these 64 “pixels.” There’s a bit here and there — such as an EQ slider. But mostly just the cool effect of lighting up where I touch it. If someone is making a Reaktor Ens that speaks to my KP3, I’d line up in front of his house in the rain with a tent for it.
I wish he had a video camera.

By: newmiracle

newmiracle — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:30:52 +0000

This is definetly cool. I’d love some more detailed footage, for sure. Though I realized that Exile did use a KP2 in his demo for his Reaktor setup (video link in the middle of the page):

http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=timexile_us

-admittedly he’s not using it to sequence.

Speaking of- are there any Keymasher users out there? I got to try a copy of Reaktor for an hour and I couldn’t find it on there (thought it was a preset… maybe i’m wrong).