What would you most want to know about Kore? What would you most want to see on Kore if you had just a few minutes? (Beer and drinks would be available.) What would you want to show other people?

I’m putting together a short workshop for the Warper Party in New York, a (roughly) monthly get-together of laptop musicians of all types in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Now, NI has done an official workshop tour, but well-done as it was, that was a sales event. I’m talking to fellow musicians, and even some non-musicians.

I’ve got some ideas for what to put together, but I’m equally interested in what you think. And in addition to doing this event live in Brooklyn (I’ll post info for those of you in the area), I think a short, all-encompassing workshop would be ideal to add to this site.

We’ve already got some stuff in our “101″ thread:
101 tag @kore.noisepages
…and of course, on Kore in general:
Kore tag @kore.noisepages

But there’s plenty more to talk about. So let’s have it: what would you most want to know?

My focus will be on using Kore as the hub of a live performance rig, in conjunction with Reaktor, and using it for really playing electronics live.

Photo at top: me playing Boston’s Beat Research, all in Kore, as part of the Mind Meld get-together earlier this summer. Photo by Todd Thille.

On NI forums: Since some of you like to chat there, I’ve also opened a thread on the NI forum. What I may do, as well, is get the outline and some content for this workshop up and allow people to comment on it, so in the end we’ll have collected some community wisdom (and questions!) for the results.

Noisepages reader 4lefts was asking about mid-level Reaktor tutorials:

It’s been said before, but Reaktor really is crying out for a unified set of mid-level tutorials (yes, like Max’s). Stuff for people who read the “my first synth” stuff in the Reaktor manual and thought it was too basic, but have no hope of being able to make “Newscool” or “Sinebeats” by themselves, nor, more importantly, be able to see a clear path to getting to a level of ability that would allow them to do that.

Ask and ye shall receive, 4lefts - I’m in the middle of preparing a series of tutorials that I think are just what you’re looking for. Since readers are going to need some fundamental knowledge of clock modules and event flow in Reaktor to follow that, I’m going to link you up with my Simple Clock Demo. There’s an instrument and a PDF in the archive.

It’s not the most spectacular instrument you’ll ever use in Reaktor - all it does is advance a series of lights along with Reaktor’s internal clock - but it’s essential knowledge and preparation for getting to the Newscool and Sinebeats level of Reaktor-craft.

It’s a long road from here to Newscool, but a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.