JASON DONNELLY: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. This is Jason Donnelly, and once again we’re talking about creating an improv hip hop set using the Korg KAOSS Pad KP3 as a sampler and the CDJ1000 MK3 as a sound source. We talked about loading up a CD of our own loops and we talked about sampling into the KP3. I played you a few examples.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A RHODES KEYBOARD RIFF LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

That was our Rhodes keyboard...,

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING THE “OLD SKOOL ONE SHOT” LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

...“Old Skool” scratch sample...,

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A BEAT LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

...and out beat. And we’re going to sample those sounds into this guy into each one of these pads, and we’re going to piece it back together. I’m also going to show you how to be a little creative with that so let’s do the first step here which would be capturing the beat loop.

The first step in this process is to sample the beat loop into the KAOSS Pad. First thing you want to do is press your auto BPM then play.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND SAMPLING WITH THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

This allows the KAOSS Pad to detect the BPM that the beat is, and then what we do is set your cue point to the beginning.

[JASON DONNELLY SETTING UP A CUE POINT LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

Okay. Play the loop, hit sampling, and press pad A on beat.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND SAMPLING WITH THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

And now you are listening to the Korg KAOSS Pad playing the beat loop.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND SAMPLING WITH THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

So next what we’re going to do is sort of add kind of like a snare rhythm, and what I’ll do is I’ll locate the snare.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

So, right about there, press the cue button and now we can --

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

So now we got our sample from the KAOSS Pad playing right now. I’m going to add a...

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A LOOP USING THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3 AND IMPROVISING SNARE HITS WITH THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

So then hit sampling again.

[JASON DONNELLY IMPROVISING SNARE HITS WITH THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND RECORDING A LOOP WITH THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

Now, we got this additional snare rhythm going.

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING LOOPS USING THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

Now, I think I’ll add a little scratch to it.

[JASON DONNELLY IMPROVISING SCRATCHES WITH THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND RECORDING A LOOP WITH THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

Now we’ll locate the...

[JASON DONNELLY PLAYING A RHODES KEYBOARD RIFF LOOP USING THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3]

...our keyboard riff.

[JASON DONNELLY IMPROVISING RHODES KEYBOARD LOOPS WITH THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND RECORDING A LOOP WITH THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

[JASON DONNELLY IMPROVISING A HIP HOP TRACK WITH THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

So there you have it.

[JASON DONNELLY IMPROVISING A HIP HOP TRACK WITH THE PIONEER CDJ1000 MK3 AND THE KORG KAOSS PAD KP3]

So, there you have your improv hip hop jam using your own creative loops and samples loaded up on a CD, the CD thrown in the CDJ1000 and having that signal go through the KAOSS Pad KP3, using it as a sampler and an effects processor, and wow. You can really do a lot with these two units alone. So yeah, I guess I’m out but I hope you really enjoyed this segment and stay tuned for more. This is Jason Donnelly with Gearwire.Com.