Live Sampling S Mkii

kid_of_harith · Post by **kid_of_harith** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:08 am

Hi all,
I am new to these forums and new to using Korg products.
I was given an S Mkii over xmas and I love it. It is a lot of fun and may prove very useful in some upcoming performances.
I am having some trouble understanding one aspect of the unit.
Is it possible to connect a mic/ipod/external source and take a snippet or live sample as i'm playing a pattern/beat and then have that 'loop' through at the start of each bar or whatever.

I cant quite understand wether this is infact a possibility or if it only takes samples that I may have pre-recorded and stored on the media card at home etc. before the gig.

Essentially I use a guitar and loop pedal, some keys, and a bunch of percussion live and play them all at once.
I would like to mic up some of these percussion parts and have these loop over and over along with my drum sequence so that I am free to continue playing other stuff.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Matthew

phillwilson · Post by **phillwilson** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:31 pm

no, you can work in a "prepaired" manner... you can even create prepaired samples in the box... but you cant record and go straight into loop mode.

I have got the recording technique nailed to the point there i can do it whilst another looper is playing a middle section (to give me some down time...the ESX needs to be stopped during this process)

but then I am not making loops in the sampler...more taking One hit of a drum or melodic instrument, samlping it, with inexcact trim points, assigning it to a pad and then messing with the envolope to get it more or less on the money.

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:38 pm

Like phill said, the ES is not really designed for live looping. Yes, you can plug in any audio device or instrument into the Audio In, but when you sample it takes a bit, depending on the length, to process. Then of course you have to load the sample into the pattern and punch in the triggers, etc.

There are ways to get around this, but it might be more trouble than its worth. For example, if you own a KP3 (which by the way is designed for what you want - live sampling/looping...check it out), you could sample a pattern you have going into one of the KP3's banks, and then while thats playing, sample something into the ES, and get it ready, then stop the loop on the KP3 and let the ES's new pattern/sample play thru. The KP3 is great for these type of techniques because it has a separate volume dial for incoming audio, a master fader for onboard samples, and individual onscreen volume faders for each of the four banks.

But overall, the ES is best used with stuff thats already loaded when you go on set.

kid_of_harith · Post by **kid_of_harith** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:04 pm

Cool, thank you both very much, you perfectly answered my question.

Maybe I could just drop a mic into my loop pedal on the second input.
Working on a budget here

Thanks again guys!

Regards,
Matthew

kid_of_harith · Post by **kid_of_harith** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:33 pm

I am now thinking that I could prepare certain parts early, play them on the instruments live and then give the illusion of looping by setting them to play in a pattern. It's just a little white lie...

roblabs · Post by **roblabs** » Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:24 pm

And you can always put whatever instrument you're playing to Audio In and than gate it with triggers set to the beat....just a thought.