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Hi,

I think there are two main methods:

Method 1: Live-jamming:
Record the audio-output of the KPro to a sound-recording device or computer.
Start building up a new track with a drum-loop on loop-bank 1. Add a bass on bank 2. Then add more and more to all loop-banks by playing live on the pad and overdubbing. Then mute rythm-bank 1 and the others step by step; use the volume-mixer-screen of the KPro to fade in and out the loops in the 4 banks and build up a flow and tension in the song.

Method 2: Save each loop you create and all overdubs on each bank as single files to the SD-card. Then copy them to a computer and save them with the KPro-Editor to .wav-files (right mouse click on the wave). Then use a DAW like Ableton Live to build up a song from the loops.

With the time you will find your own best workflow with this unit!

I hope this helps!

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As I mentioned in my last post there are the two main methods:
1. Live performance or 2. Static construction of the song.

1. For the live performance it's the same like with every instrument on earth you must practise it. Then you can perform live!
And you need some add on effects like the KP3 and one or two more instruments. With the KPro alone (with only four banks/tracks) it might be to boring for a whole song. But search on YouTube and you will see some experts who perform live with the KPro. There you can see what can be done with the KPro. For example:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... live+&aq=f

2. Static Construction: With a Hardware-Sampler-DAW (like MPC) or Software-DAW on a computer you can construct a song out of loops saved on SD-card with the KPro. Then you can have more than onyl 4 banks (tracks) playing at the same time. I built up songs in Ableton-Live with KPro-loops on 8 and more tracks and you can put lots of effects on it... so it sounds like 2 or more KPros - and you must not be a master on the instrument!


I think when you plan a professional song you must use method 2.
When you want to perform live or want fun by jamming with your friends use method 2.

But its your choice!

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This is exactly the video which I once saw on YouTube and thought this would be fine for you, but I didn't remember the artist name!
Now you found it by yourself! Cool...

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This is even more funny!
To tell you the truth I also bought an electribe MX1 after the KPro and my favourite EMX1-video is the 6 minute beatmaking-movie.
I watched this over and over again because you can learn a lot out of it,
but I didn't know it has been made by the author of the cool Live-KPro-video (Denkitribe - now I 've got it )
Thank's!

By the way the EMX-1 is lots of fun to jam with it!
And the plus is you can record everything you do as midi data. So you can overwork it later by sending it via midi-out to a DAW like Ableton Live.