{"id":2649,"date":"2017-11-15T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2017-11-15T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:35:59","slug":"custom-korg-mini-kp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/custom-korg-mini-kp\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Korg MINI KP eurorack module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite types of emails are from people who love their non-eurorack gear so much that they want to find out, &#8216;if&#8217; it is possible to convert over to eurorack, and what would be involved in doing so.\u00a0 At first I was not sure if conversion of the Korg MINI KP would even be possible.\u00a0 I usually have to go back and forth with the inquirer and see if they can &#8216;carefully&#8217; open the &#8216;back panel&#8217; and look inside and see what we would be facing.\u00a0 I ask for a couple of pics and some measurements.\u00a0 Basically the main hurdle in euro conversion is the physical size of the PCB&#8217;s that are inside the synth\/pedal\/effect box you are trying to convert over.\u00a0 Yes, current use, digital functionality, midi conversion, voltage needs, among other concerns need to be addressed, but the size of the PCB&#8217;s is the most critical &#8216;show stopper&#8217; that has to be addressed first!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KorgMINIkp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2650\" src=\"http:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KorgMINIkp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4cetuvMO8zo\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> Link to Ali&#8217;s post here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alijamieson.co.uk\/2017\/12\/korg-mini-kp-for-eurorack-modular-kaoss-pad\/\">http:\/\/alijamieson.co.uk\/2017\/12\/korg-mini-kp-for-eurorack-modular-kaoss-pad\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>I asked Ali a few questions about his MINI KP and the journey with it so far.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your history with the Korg MINI KP?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve owned one since about 2009 when I bought it to run my Nord Electro through live <!--more-->with my band at the time. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with XY pads since the first Kaoss Pad came out and I was doing work experience at Digital Village. Since getting into Eurorack ~2013 I&#8217;ve always wanted to convert my Mini KP into a modular unit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What made you interested in getting it converted over to the eurorack format?<\/strong><br \/>\nJust that the Mini KP (and other Kaoss-series units) used phono which was fairly useless to me. I was also interested with the potential of clocking with various 4ms units and seeing what would happen with delay times etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you plan on using it in your eurorack?<\/strong><br \/>\nPrimarily as a sound design tool, interested in complex modulation sources being used with it, as an insert or aux send and of course routing my DAW&#8217;s sounds to it now that it&#8217;s clockable properly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possibly playing live?<\/strong><br \/>\nPotentially, but I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;d come and see me \ud83d\ude42 Interested in doing some improvisation with actual instruments and the modular, so less typical techno\/ambient uses and seeing how it works in context of more conventional jazz or disco, for example, but it&#8217;s about finding an audience and other musicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What other major manufacturer would you like to see produce eurorack modules?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe big one is Electro Harmonix, who make incredible pedals. Other guitar pedal manufacturers too, Boss is missing a massive trick here with not reissuing their compacts.<\/p>\n<p>Guitar pedals were my gateway into music technology around 2001\/2 and I&#8217;ve amassed a sizeable collection since, even hooking them up to my patch bay in a modular configuration, so to speak (<a href=\"http:\/\/alijamieson.co.uk\/2016\/09\/my-parallel-pedalboard\">http:\/\/alijamieson.co.uk\/2016\/09\/my-parallel-pedalboard<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Other than that I&#8217;d love Casio to convert the CZ units into euro format.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a soundcloud or bandcamp page?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy website where I host music tech and music theory tutorials is where I&#8217;d prefer people to check:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alijamieson.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/alijamieson.co.uk\/\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>&#8230;but I do from time to time actually make music, which can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/alijamieson\/\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/alijamieson\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Thank you to Ali<\/strong><\/span> for his answers to my questions and also I have to give props to Jenni Sparks for the artwork on his custom panel.\u00a0 Her work can be found here on her site.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennisparks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.jennisparks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always I still am hopeful that Korg will eventually make their own line of eurorack modules \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KorgMINIkpEURO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2651\" src=\"http:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KorgMINIkpEURO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite types of emails are from people who love their non-eurorack gear so much that they want to find out, &#8216;if&#8217; it is possible to convert over to eurorack, and what would be involved in doing so.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/15\/custom-korg-mini-kp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,148,245,319,320],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-custom-eurorack-service","tag-custom-korg","tag-eurorack-service","tag-korg-mini-kp","tag-korg-mini-kp-euro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionmachinemarch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}