RE: Korg Microsampler as a looping tool

[Sergio Girardi <simpliflying@gmail.com>]

Yes. I have an MS too. ANd I do not touch it ever. Actually, having the octatrack and the Kaoss Pad I was quite sure about selling it.

The reason why I am not selling it yet is that at first I would have liked at least to try it out :) ANd that I have a midi keyboard of 49 keys, and I think that sometimes I may need a little one, and this has got no transpose but, well, may work.

I like the mode where you can slice, I mean, record something in many different keys in sequence, so that you have the first 2 seconds in the first key, the other 2 seconds on the second key etc.

The Octatrack does it too, but I still am not sure how it works there...

I will try something in the future now that I will have time :)

Thanks!

> From: benoitruelle@yahoo.fr
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:44:12 +0100
> Subject: Re: Korg Microsampler as a looping tool
>
>
> Sergio Girardi <simpliflying@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mmm, a bit complicated. The loops must have all the same length, right? THe same of the first one.
> Hi Sergio,
>
> That's what he's using in this case, yes.
> The pedal is just to "arm" recording', then you have to press the key
> on which to record. As he doesn't want to do it by hand, he has
> prepared a 2 bars pattern as a "container" of "empty" slots
> (note-on/note-off). Each slots is indeed 2 bars long (or almost so as
> the note-off is a bit before the note-on when the pattern restarts).
> He could have choosen some note as 1/4, 1/8, or whatever and any
> pattern he likes. It's a bit like using an MPC, preparing the sequence
> (midi) then only adding the sound later.
> The sequence is just needed to trigger the recording and then trigger
> the newly recorded sample. The MS has several sampling modes and he's
> using "sampling triggered by a note for a given amount of time
> (2bars)."
>
> > Or well, surely not more, or it happens what happened with the last loop to him.WHat if while preparing the slots you press the key less time than the first loop's length?
>
> With this technique the loop will be shorter but still retriggered
> every 2 bars by its note-on event so still in sync.
> You can do stutter effects if you like or do "replace" like in
> EDP/LPx, then change the pattern for other effects. The difference is
> that you can do this on 36 "tracks".
>
> So, there is no way to just press play and start recording and press
> again to stop recording and start playing, deciding on your own the
> length of each loop?
> >
> you can not do REC/PLAY, no. Its REC/STOP/PLAY but there are other
> modes (gate mode) where you can decide the length of course. It's a
> nice way to do quick multisampling. Just connect an external module
> via midi and record it's output. ARM sampling, play a "scale" on the
> MS keyboard; it will trigger the sound module and sample at the same
> time while the key is down.
>
> I haven't touch my MS for a while, but this video gave me the envy to
> start again.
>
> Ben
>
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