Using The Sequencer; Auto Song Setup; Adding Midi And Audio Track; Recording Midi And Audio - Korg KRONOS Quick Start Manual

Using the sequencer

Using the sequencer

Recording MIDI and audio

Auto Song Setup

The Auto Song Setup feature copies the current
Program or Combination into a Song, and then puts
the system in record‐ready mode. When inspiration
strikes, you can use this function to start recording
immediately. To do so from Program mode:
1. Hold down the ENTER key and press the
SEQUENCER REC/WRITE key.
The Setup to Record dialog box will open and ask "Are
you sure?"
2. Press OK.
The system switches to Sequencer mode, with record
already enabled.
3. Press the START/STOP key to start the sequencer
and begin recording.
With the default settings, there will be a two measure
count‐down before recording starts.
4. Play what you'd like to record, and then press
START/STOP to stop recording.
The sequencer will automatically return to the
beginning of the Song (beat 1 of measure 1, as shown in
the upper right‐hand corner: 001 : 01 . 000).
5. Press START/STOP to hear what you recorded.
Since you started in Program mode, your playing will
have been recorded on Track 1. If you used the Drum
Track, it will have been recorded on Track 10. For
Combinations, more tracks are used as needed.
Adding another MIDI track
1. If KARMA was on, press the front‐panel KARMA
button to turn it off.
2. Turn off the Multi REC check‐box, in the upper
right of the display.
Auto Song Setup turns this on to record the Program's
Drum Track, or multiple channels in a Combination.
Multi REC
3. Below the Song name, open the Track Select
popup and select MIDI Track 02.
This controls both the track that you play from the
keyboard, and (with Multi REC turned off) the track
that's recorded.
4. Using the Category or Bank/Program Select popup
menus, select a Program for Track 02.
5. Press LOCATE to go back to the start of the Song.
6. Press REC/WRITE to enable recording, and then
press START/STOP to start.
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Track Select
Category
Select Popup
Bank/Program
Select Popup
7. Play what you'd like to record, and then press
START/STOP when you're done.
Adding an audio track
Continuing from above, let's record an audio overdub.
1. Connect a dynamic microphone, guitar, bass, other
synth, etc. to AUDIO INPUT 1.
For more details on connecting different types of mics
and guitars, see "MIC/LINE switches" on page 11.
2. If you're using a mic, set the input's MIC/LINE
switch to MIC; otherwise, set it to LINE.
3. Go to the Audio Track Mixer tab of the Sequencer
P0: Play/Rec page.
4. Turn the Multi REC check‐box on again.
In general, Multi REC is the best choice when
recording audio.
5. Press Track 1's PLAY button once, so that it turns
red and says REC.
Note that the Input is already set to 1 by default.
Next, we need to set the level.
6. Press the Preference tab.
This takes you to the Preference page, which includes a
meter for the record‐enabled audio tracks.
7. Keeping an eye on the meter, adjust the rear‐panel
LEVEL knob until the level is high but not
clipping.
Use the rear‐panel LEVEL knob, and not the on‐screen
slider. If the signal clips, you'll see the message "ADC
OVERLOAD!" appear over the meter.
8. Press LOCATE to go back to the start of the Song.
9. Press REC/WRITE to enable recording, and then
press START/STOP to start.
10.Play what you'd like to record, and then press
START/STOP when you're done.
Un-saved audio files
When you record audio tracks, they're initially stored
in a folder named "TEMP" on the internal disk. If you
then turn off the power before saving the Song, the
Song will be lost, but the audio files will still be on the
disk. The next time that you start up, you'll see the
following message:
There are un‐saved audio files from your previous
recording session.
Do you want to restore these files, or delete them
from the disk?
[Restore] [Delete]
Since the Song was not saved, all the track audio event
data and region data is gone, but you can still restore
the WAVE files and use them to create a new song.
If you want to keep this data, press Restore. If you
want to delete this data, press Delete.