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I have owned 2 Koass Pad 3's for a long time and use a Sure Beata 58A mic to perform gigs using the sample / loop function with beatboxing and singing on the KP3.

My current set up is mic input into the first Koass Pad, the first feeds into the 2nd with the output a combination of both.

I have recently bought a 3rd Koass pad to increase the number of loops but I want to change the set up. Instead of Koass Pad no. 1 feeding into Koass pad no. 2 and then Koass pad no. 3 I want to split the microphone so that I can have three separate inputs into each Koass pad but have no idea what equipment I would need to do this. Do I need to get a mixer or would a simple microphone splitter do (as long as sound quality is retained)?

I also have a problem as there is three Koass Pads and 3 separate inputs there will also be 3 separate outputs so I wanted to combine these into 1 output to plug into my amplifier to hear what I'm playing. Again I have no idea what bit of equipment I would need.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Pretty interesting question. First off: what are you looking to achieve by running them individually that can't be done by daisy-chaining them? It's hard to make recommendations without knowing why you need to have--essentially--a seperate mic for each KP3. I'm sure you've put some thought into this already, but if you can adjust your workflow so that each runs into the other, you'd be avoiding lots of complicated, messy, possibly-expensive additional gear. Could be as simple as changing the order of pads you use to sample and resample. Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but to narrow down possibilities: do you use resampling to conserve sample slots? You can do this to combine up to 3 sample tracks into one, then continue using the other 3 for new samples.

I haven't tried to split a single mic to multiple outputs, but I have a feeling that you'd run into sound-quality problems pretty quickly without something to amplify the signal: mics run at very low voltage, so I imagine anything to reduce this would be really noticable. Somebody who's tried this should have more info, but my gut says that you'd be better off with some kind of device to amplify the signal, rather than a simple adaptor-type splitter which would degrade the sound...IF you absolutely can't daisy-chain them for what you want. You could also be live-as-f*** and just swap the mic when you needed, but that would put heavy wear on the jack.

Also, it's "Kaoss" as in "chaos".