The Problem

The Korg KaossPad Mini is a really cool toy for spicing up your mixes. Especially the loop-function is my thing. Unfortunately, you can't aim very well on the black pad, because there aren't any markings. So you can just guess, if you will hit a 1/4-note or 1/8-note loop.

Using a PDA-Pen instead of your fingers helps a lot. You may make some markings on the top and the bottom of the pad, where you have to hit for you preferred loops.

After a while even this method flaws. So I came up with an idea of clear markings directly on the black pad.

The Solution

It looks like the picture below.

1. Buy two sheets of transparent film/foil. These things come in packs of 3 or 5 for PDAs and have some sort of glue on one side. Just make sure, that they are big enought, to fit within the Pad of your KPMini.
2. Print out this document. Take care, that you disable any resizings in your Adobe Reader.
3. Place one sheet of tranparent film on top of the printed document. Cut along the black corner, it will then fit exactly on your Pad.
4. Repeat this step with the second film.
5. Now place the first film again on top of the printed document. I have used a white pen and a ruler to trace the lines printed on the document. You are here free to use other tools.
6. If you are finished, glue the second foil on top of the first foil, where you have painted the lines on.
7. Glue the stack of two foils on your KaossPadMini

I had no problems with the fact, that I have now two sheets of foil above the pressure sensitive pad. The KPad works like before.