User Sample Banks - Korg Kronos Operation Manual

Sampling (Open Sampling System)

User Sample Banks

Overview
User Sample Banks bring the benefits of EXs to your
own sample libraries. You can load and play gigabytes
of your custom or converted samples at once, using
Virtual Memory. Disk and memory management is
easy: you can create subsets of User Sample Banks, and
mix and match parts of different banks, without
duplicating samples on disk.
It's also easy to share sounds with friends and
collaborators, since Programs maintain links to User
Sample Banks even when samples are moved on disk
or loaded onto different systems.
Sampling Mode and User Sample Banks
Sampling Mode and User Sample Banks are two
different ways to work with your sample data, and you
can switch back and forth between the two as
necessary.
Sampling Mode lets you create and edit Samples and
Multisamples. However, it doesn't have access to
Virtual Memory. When loaded as a User Sample Bank,
the samples are more like EXs; they can access Virtual
Memory, but they can't be edited.
• Use Sampling Mode to create and edit your
Samples and Multisamples, or to import sounds
from Akai and SoundFont 2.0 formats.
• When you're done editing, load the data as a User
Sample Bank in order to access Virtual Memory.
• At any time, you can load the sample data into
Sampling Mode again, to edit the existing data or
add more Samples or Multisamples.
Programs, Wave Sequences, and Drum Kits will
remember which Multisamples and Samples they use,
regardless of whether the data is loaded into Sampling
Mode or as a User Sample Bank. (For more
information, see "User Sample Bank IDs" on page 156.)
.KSC files
KSC stands for Korg Sample Collection. .KSC files
contain links to Sampling Mode, EXs, and/or User
Sample Bank data, including Multisamples, Samples,
and Drum Samples. Loading a .KSC file loads all of the
linked data.
If a .KSC includes links to Sampling Mode data, other
.KSC files can link to that .KSC as a User Sample Bank.
For more information, see "Creating and saving .KSC
files" on page 165.
Freeing up space in RAM
To create and edit data for User Sample Banks, you'll
use Sampling Mode. If you're working with a very
large set of samples, you may wish to free up RAM by
temporarily un‐loading all other sample data.
Important: this will clear all data from Sampling
Mode, as well as un‐loading all EXs and User Sample
Bank data. If you have any un‐saved edits to data in
Sampling Mode, make sure that you save to disk
before proceeding!
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To free all RAM for use by Sampling Mode:
1. Go the KSC Auto‐Load page.
2. Un‐check all selected KSC files.
3. Press the Do Auto‐Load Now button.
A confirmation dialog appears.
4. Press OK to confirm.
All sample data will be un‐loaded, except for the ROM
banks.
Saving User Sample Banks
Saving a KSC file which includes Sampling Mode data
automatically creates a User Sample Bank. To do so:
1. Create your own set of samples in Sampling
Mode, load previously created samples, or load
samples from Akai or SoundFont 2.0 formats.
2. In Disk mode, go to the Save page.
3. Select the internal disk (if you have two internal
disks installed, select either one).
You can also save to a USB storage device, but in order
to work as a User Sample Bank, the files must be on an
internal SSD.
4. In the menu, select the Save Sampling Data
command.
5. Set the Include parameter to Sampling Mode Data.
This saves everything from Sampling Mode, and keeps
the KSC file clean by not saving links to EXs or other
User Sample Banks.
6. Set Sampling Mode Data Options to All.
7. Give the KSC file a descriptive name.
8. Press OK to save the file.
That's it! You've now saved a User Sample Bank to the
disk. To use it, you'll need to load it as described below.
Saving creates two KSC files
When you save a KSC which includes Sampling Mode
data, two KSC files are created:
• A KSC with the name you've specified, which
includes the actual Samples and Multisamples from
Sampling Mode.
• A second KSC which includes links to the first
KSC's Sampling Mode Data, with Load Method set
to Virtual Memory. The name for this KSC is the
name you've specified followed by the text