I suspect in the next few months there might be an influx of kp3 buyers judging by the market place.
Well what I want to share is that the kp3 can make a really dandy standalone sampler if you use this "trick"
so when you have a loop and you going into sample mode (shift plus sample pad) you get the virtual faders and 8 segment slicing.
what people dont realize is that each one of those 8 segments can be a loop in itself which means you have
4 x 8 = 32
UP TO 32 ONE BAR LOOPS!??
thats a bit more than the 2 of kp2
HOW YOU SAY?
well if you have a song at 90 bpm you will be able to fit 8 bars of beats on eachone pretty nicely but if not...
you can import the beat at 180 then in the kp3 editor set the bpm to 90, which will go from having the 4 bar sped up 180bpm loop being cut off to the full 8 bar slower normal version at 90 bpm. think of this as the classic sp-1200 tip, they would get around sample time by loading up the samples at a higher speed and slowing them down after. this is the same except the sample time is there, you just got to halve the tempo.
the beauty of this is that you can split your 8 bar sample into something like this
[1] basic loop w/0 high hats
[2] basic loop w/ high hats
[3] basic loop w/ extra perc
[4] fill 1
[5] complex loop or chorus loop
[6] complex loop with more
[7] fill 2
[8] freakout fill
here is a session using three sample pads
http://www.box.net/shared/xdna7453er
so essentially the way you will play this is by deselecting all of them except the ones you want to play. when you select another slice/loop it will start playing after the first selected one is completed.
so basically its like having 8 scenes in ableton live that you are triggering, and it makes it really simple and fun to track out complete drum parts as that is just using ONE SAMPLE above. if you have strictly highhat loops on another pad and more perc and drums on the other two samples, you easily have one of the most complex beat machines eveeeer.
just be weary that you can use effects like this but you cant change the loop and use effects at the same time so make sure you let the delay play out before deciding to drop the next loop, or have another sample pad with more drum beats.
or if you want to get crazy you can do this:
[1] random loop
[2] random loop
[3] random loop
[4] random loop
[5] random loop
[6] random loop
[7] random loop
[8] random loop
