took delivery of my Kpro

k0va5 · Post by **k0va5** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:11 am

so i thought id post here with some of my thoughts

first the good

the drum patterns / sounds are excellent (especially coupled with the effects on the mini kp) and the gate arp works well for making beats
the overall sound quality seems alot beefier compared to the Ko1
there are some excellent new noises, chords, stabs etc

now the not so good

no arpeggiator patterns.. this is a serious drag..
the gate arp slider is hit and miss... it doesnt work very well with some of the bass noises for example

some suggestions

BRING BACK THE PATTERNS
introduce some quantizing options when recording

samartin · Post by **samartin** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:24 am

Congrats on your purchase,

I'm looking forward to seeing the Pro's use this device, I seriously hope youtube floods with KPro vids

k0va5 · Post by **k0va5** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:18 am

[quote="samartin"]Congrats on your purchase,

I'm looking forward to seeing the Pro's use this device, I seriously hope youtube floods with KPro vids

[/quote

Sadly I don't own a camera... If you want ill record something random later and upload the audio?

samartin · Post by **samartin** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:51 pm

Yes please do, I'd love to hear what other people produce. You could still create a youtube account maybe!?

There's a free video editor called VirtualDub, you could add any image you like, import the audio and save as a video file. I could do a small demo and put that online if you wish?

Kaoss Elation · Post by **Kaoss Elation** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:47 pm

k0va5 wrote:so i thought id post here with some of my thoughts

first the good

the drum patterns / sounds are excellent (especially coupled with the effects on the mini kp) and the gate arp works well for making beats
the overall sound quality seems alot beefier compared to the Ko1
there are some excellent new noises, chords, stabs etc

now the not so good

no arpeggiator patterns.. this is a serious drag..
the gate arp slider is hit and miss... it doesnt work very well with some of the bass noises for example

some suggestions

BRING BACK THE PATTERNS
introduce some quantizing options when recording

Spot on - pretty much agrees with my own view, I'm going to use the K1 for arp patterns.

samartin · Post by **samartin** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:00 pm

I've done a video anyway :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCOsDJBM1Do - still images with audio

salamanderanagram · Post by **salamanderanagram** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:19 pm

could you try syncing it to another piece of gear and see if that works? for example you can connect a kp3 to ableton live and have the kp3 slaved to ableton's clock. in my experience if you set ableton's clock to 120 bpm, the kp3 will jump between 119.5 - 120.5

wondering if the kpro has the same issue?

LouisP · Post by **LouisP** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:27 pm

I also got mine yesterday and I've already made two tracks I'm kinda fond of (and several more crappy ones). I need to get a handheld digital recorder like a Microtrack or a Micro BR because right now every spontaneous thing I do, every Mini-KP filter sweep I do, I need to replicate later in Garageband with the saved loops, and it never seems quite as good.

When I got the unit I went looking for bugs people mentionned like the unwanted clicks and gate arp woes* and frankly none of them appear to be dealbreakers, it's a very solid machine overall. I mostly do dance/electro/drum and bass tracks so the <108.5bpm loop length issues don't affect my production but I can definitely sympathize with the ambient folks :\ I do dislike the tiny arp time/speed switch...

I'll post a few songs once I decide they're good enough for human consumption.

*truth to be said I had prior experience with the arp slider on the Electribe EMX so I feel more at home on the Kpro.

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:35 pm

samartin wrote:I've done a video anyway :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCOsDJBM1Do - still images with audio

That was relatively interesting, however nothing to do with the KOPro. Did you link to the wrong video?

samartin · Post by **samartin** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:53 pm

Thanks, it was in response to K0va5, as he doesn't have a camera, I thought he might want to upload his music to youtube, and I very much doubt they allow just mp3's to go up.

Hence making this vid, anyone can then just use any image they like and have a presence on youtube.

I'd love to hear what other people are doing with the KPro

LouisP · Post by **LouisP** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:16 pm

You can also post an mp3 directly on tindeck.com and it's free.

http://www.tindeck.com/

JJP · Post by **JJP** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:56 pm

I got mine today (Germany 27.3)!
Problem - I should study... the packet is still closed.... AAAAAAAAARG

sipa · Post by **sipa** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:04 pm

Shift + arp could make presetbuttons to become arp conf, like in R3.
That would be cool

Cheers
- sipa

samartin · Post by **samartin** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:26 pm

JJP wrote:I got mine today (Germany 27.3)!
Problem - I should study... the packet is still closed.... AAAAAAAAARG

You've got to have a break sometime

bluemind · Post by **bluemind** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:59 pm

I've had a few days to play with the device and I like it overall, it has opened up some new creative possibilities and ideas already. I will post some kind of review when I get around of recording something so that I can provide some audio examples.

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