Korg Monotribe + KP3 Beatmaking [Marcus Carab]
Channel: Rhyme Circus
Date: 2012-05-21

So I got the KP3 a couple weeks ago and just picked up the Monotribe yesterday. Here's one of my first shots at putting the two together. 

The Monotribe main synth is amazing, but the synthesized drums are a little weak - the KP3's equalizer and reverb both work pretty well to beef them up a bit (I try that out here and I'm sure with some tweaking you could get it to sound even better).

I haven't installed a Miditribe yet, so there's no actual syncing between the two machines. I just spent a long time gently nudging the tempo knob on the Monotribe until it matched. It drifts noticeably after a few bars, but it's good enough for capturing 16-beat samples on the KP3. Of course, with MIDI sync it would be even better, because you could use the Monotribe sequencer as a constant input instead of just grabbing loops from it like I do here.