Creating Songs (Sequencer Mode); Sequencer Overview; About The Kronos' Sequencer; Sequencer Mode Structure - Korg kronos Operation Manual

Creating songs (Sequencer mode)

Sequencer overview

About the KRONOS' sequencer

The KRONOS' sequencer can hold up to 200 songs and
400,000 MIDI events or 300,000 audio events. It consists of
a 16-track MIDI sequencer and a 16-track audio recorder,
giving you a total of 32 tracks.
Via MIDI, you can record from and play through external
MIDI devices, as well as the KRONOS keyboard, physical
controllers, and internal sounds.
The 24-bit, 48kHz audio recorder supports 16 tracks of
playback and four simultaneous channels of recording.
Audio tracks can record external audio sources such as
guitars and vocals as well as the KRONOS' internal sounds.
You can even record mix automation for volume and pan.
When you've completed a song, you can resample it to a
WAVE file and use Disk mode to burn your WAVE files to
an audio CD on a USB CD-R/RW drive (not included).
With its broad range of capabilities such as In-track
Sampling, Time Stretch/Slice, KARMA, high-quality
effects, and physical controllers, the KRONOS is the ideal
environment for music production or live performance.

Sequencer mode structure

Songs
A song consists of MIDI tracks 1–16, a master track, audio
tracks 1–16, song parameters such as the song name, Vector,
KARMA, Drum Track, effects, and RPPR settings, and 100
user patterns.
A maximum of 200 songs can be loaded into the KRONOS
memory at once. Thousands can be stored on the internal
disk, or on USB storage media.
MIDI tracks 1–16 and audio tracks 1–16 each consist of
setup parameters located at the start location, and musical
data within the track. The master track consists of tempo and
time signature data.
For more information, see "Setup parameters & Musical
data" on page 515 of the Parameter Guide.
Song recording and editing
Song recording is performed on tracks. You can record MIDI
tracks in either of two ways; real-time recording or step
recording. For real-time recording you can choose one of six
recording modes.
Audio tracks can be recorded in real-time, or created by
adding WAVE files.
You can edit MIDI tracks by using Event Edit operations to
modify the recorded data or insert new data, and by using
Track Edit operations such as Create Control Data, which
inserts pitch bend, aftertouch, or control change data.
You can also edit audio tracks in a variety of ways including
Event Editing operations that let you insert or delete audio
events, and Region Editing operations.
Sequencer edits must be saved to disk
When you turn off the power, the settings made in
Sequencer mode and the song data, and any user pattern
data that you recorded will not be backed up. If you wish
to keep this data, you must save it to the internal drive or
an external USB device before turning off the power.
(You could also do a MIDI data dump to an external data
filer, if you prefer.)
Immediately after the power is turned on, the KRONOS will
not contain any song data. If you wish to play a song on the
sequencer, you must first load data from disk. (Alternatively,
you could send KRONOS a MIDI data dump with Song
data). For more information, see "Loading data from disk"
on page 200, and "Receiving SysEx data dumps" on
page 809 of the Parameter Guide.
Region Editing allows you to select WAVE files and to edit
the start/end addresses of a WAVE file in single-sample
units.
Patterns
There are two types of patterns: preset patterns and user
patterns.
• Preset patterns: Patterns suitable for drum tracks are
preset in internal memory, and can be selected for any
song.
• User patterns: Each song can have up to 100 patterns.
When using a pattern in a different song, use the Utility
menu commands Copy Pattern or Copy From Song
etc. to copy the pattern. You can set the pattern length to
one or more measures, as desired.
Patterns always contain only a single track of musical data.
If you want to use patterns on multiple tracks, you'll need to
use a separate pattern for each track.
To use patterns in a Song, either place them in a MIDI track
using the Put to MIDI Track menu command, or copy them
using the Copy to MIDI Track menu command.
You can also use patterns with the RPPR. For more
information, see "Using RPPR (Realtime Pattern
Play/Record)" on page 112.
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