Using Chord Mode - Korg kronos Operation Manual

Playing and editing Programs
Assigning notes and chords to pads
You can assign single notes and chords to the pads in three
different ways.
Play the notes, and then press Chord Assign
1. Play a single note, or a chord of up to 8 notes.
2. Press the Chord Assign button.
3. Press the pad to which you'd like to assign the notes.
That's it! The notes are now assigned to the pad.
Press Chord Assign, and then play notes
This method lets you create a chord out of widely-spaced
notes, even if you can't play all of the notes simultaneously.
1. Press the Chord Assign button.
2. Play a single note, or a chord of up to 8 notes.
You can play a single note, or a simple chord.
If you like, you can also play up to 8 notes as a legato phrase.
As long as you take care that the notes overlap each other,
the entire phrase will be recorded as a single chord. You can
take as long as you like to play the phrase.
3. Press the pad to which you'd like to assign the notes.
After pressing the pad, you're done!
Editing notes and velocities
Once assigned, you can edit the recorded notes and
velocities. If you like, you can also enter new notes this way,
by manually entering them as parameter values. For more
information, please see "1–9: Pads" on page 54 of the
Parameter Guide.
Copying pads
Copying one pad to another is just like assigning notes from
the keyboard.
As with assigning notes to the keyboard, you can either play
the pads first, or press Chord Assign first. In the interest of
saving space and time, only the first method is described
below.

Using Chord mode

Overview
Chord mode lets you choose one of the chords assigned to
the pads, and then play it from the keyboard. The chord is
transposed according to the note that you play; the played
note specifies the lowest note of the chord, and the higher
notes are transposed to match. As when playing chords from
the Pads themselves, each note in the chord can have a
different stored velocity, scaled by the played note.
In addition to using the on-screen parameters, you can turn
Chord mode on and off via SW1/2 or the Foot Switch, and
change chords simply by pressing the pads. In Combination
and Sequencer modes, you can make these settings for each
Timbre or Track, as desired. Naturally, you can control all of
this via MIDI as well.
Chord mode can duplicate the way that similar features
worked on classic analog synths (such as the original
Polysix), but it can also use all of the Voice Assign options to
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Copying notes from one pad to another
To copy the note assignments from one pad to another:
1. Press and release the pad whose notes you want to
copy.
2. Press the Chord Assign button.
3. Press the pad to which you'd like to copy the notes.
The new pad will now play the same notes as the original
pad.
Merging two or more pads together
Using the on-screen pads, only one pad can be played at a
time. When using MIDI, the keyboard, or a Korg USB MIDI
pad controller, however, multiple pads can be played at once.
You can use this to merge together the assignments from two
or more pads, as long as the total number of notes is 8 or
fewer. To do so:
1. Play and hold all of the pads that you'd like to merge,
so that they're all sounding at the same time, and then
release them.
All of the pads must be held down at the same time.
2. Press the Chord Assign button.
3. Press the pad to which you'd like to copy the notes.
You can even use one of the pads that was being merged, if
you like. After pressing the destination pad, you're done.
Fixed Velocity
Each pad stores a velocity level for each of its 8 notes. The
Fixed Velocity button, on the display above the pads,
controls whether or not the pads respond to the touch
location.
When Fixed Velocity is on, the pads always use their stored
velocity settings, regardless of where you touch the pad.
When Fixed Velocity is off, touching the top of the pad
produces the preset velocities. When you play lower on the
pad, the preset velocities are scaled down accordingly,
maintaining the balance between the notes in the chord.
create different effects–such as mono legato chords with
fingered portamento, or poly chords that overlap one
another.
Finally, note that you don't have to use Chord mode to play
full chords; you can also use it to create more subtle effects,
such as stacked octaves or fifths. You can even adjust the
relative levels of these additional pitches via the stored
velocities of the individual chord notes.
Chord Switch
The Chord Switch (abbreviated Chord SW) lets you turn
Chord mode on and off via SW1/2 or the Foot Switch.
Important: Programs will only respond to the Chord SW if
their Chord parameter has been set to either Basic or
Advanced. If it's set to Off, then the switch will have no
effect.