Description

Control and play a Korg Kaossilator Pro+ from within Ableton Live.

** DESCRIPTION

The Korg Kaossilator Pro+ is a "dynamic phrase synthesizer / loop recorder" designed primarily for live DJ performance. However, it can be used with Ableton Live with certain limitations as described below.

** FEATURES

The Kaossilator Pro+ Controller device can control a subset of hardware parameters (those exposed for MIDI control):

- Touch pad - note on/off

- Touch pad - x-axis movement (note scale played)

- Touch pad - y-axis movement (note modulation or effect)

- Program and Bank selection

- Program volume

- Gate Arp button on/off

- Gate Arp - arp speed

- Gate Arp - gate time

This Max for Live device maintains continuous, two-way communication with the Kaossilator device - changes made in the hardware are immediately displayed in the M4L device and vice versa.

** LIMITATIONS

Several important features can ONLY be configured using the hardware device itself - this includes Tap Tempo, Note Range (key and scale), Loop Recording, SD Card configuration, etc.

** KAOSSILATOR PRO+ CONFIGURATION IN LIVE

The basic procedure is:

- connect the device to your computer or laptop using the appropriate USB cable

- in Live, open up the Preferences dialog, go to "Link MIDI", and in the "Control Surface" section select "MackieControl" - you should then be able to select the Kaossilator Pro device from the drop down list

- if you want to record sound from Kaossilator in Live, you'll need to use an Audio Interface device connected to the RCA Audio outputs on the back of the Kaossilator device and correctly configured in Live

- alternatively, you can monitor sound using headphones plugged into the Phone jack on the front of the Kaossilator device

** USAGE

Seriously easy:

- install the M4L device file wherever you'd like and Live can find it

- create a new MIDI Track in Live

- double click on the device in the Live file listing or drag and drop it onto the MIDI track

- MAKE SURE that the Track's "MIDI To" is set to your Kaossilator MIDI device - in my computer, this comes up as "MackieControl Output (KAOSSILATOR PRO+ (SOUND))"

- to play sound, mouse click on the touch pad grid once to start play and a second time to stop - move the mouse around the grid to change note and modulation

- there are 250 programs ("patches") available in the Kaossilator Pro - these are organized into 8 banks, which can be selected using the Bank buttons - then select the specific program from the drop down menu

** FEEDBACK

Please let me know if you find a bug or have a suggestion for improvement.

Enjoy making music!

- John