Korg Kronos Operation Manual page 4

Editing Set Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Selecting and re-arranging sounds . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Detailed Set List editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Set Lists and the Control Surface. . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Smooth Sound Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Using Smooth Sound Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Sampling (Open Sampling System) . . 123
Sampling overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
About sampling on the KRONOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Preparations for sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Audio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Sampling and editing in Sampling mode . . . . 132
Creating multisample indexes and sampling-
P0: Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Basic examples of sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Editing loops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Using Time Slice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Sample waveform editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Multisample editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Sampling from an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Saving, converting to Programs, and Comparing. .
146
Sampling in Program and Combination modes. . .
148
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Resampling a KARMA phrase in Program mode. .
148
Auto Sampling Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Mixing a KARMA drum phrase with
a live guitar input, and sampling the result. . . . 149
Sampling a guitar from the audio inputs,
while listening to a KARMA drum phrase . . . . 150
Sampling in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
In-Track Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Resampling a song to create a Wave file . . . . . . 152
User Sample Banks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Global Settings, Wave Seq., Drum Kits . . .
157
Global mode overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Global Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Global audio settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
MIDI settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Pedal and other controller settings . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Creating user scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Setting Category Names for Programs,
Combinations, and KARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Automatically loading sample data . . . . . . . . . 164
Using the KSC Auto-Load list to select
which samples to load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Creating and saving .KSC files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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Connecting to computers via USB Ethernet and
FTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Using Wave Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Wave Sequence Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Programming Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Adjusting the sound of an individual step . . . . .169
Using rhythmic Wave Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Creating smooth, evolving timbres . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Modulating Wave Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174
Saving Wave Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
Using Drum Kits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Drum Kit Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176
Before you start editing... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Editing Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Saving Drum Kits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
Loading & saving data, and creating CDs.
181
Saving data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Writing to internal memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Saving to disks, CDs, and USB media . . . . . . . . . 186
Loading data from disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Loading Songs, sounds, samples,
and KARMA GEs together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Loading individual banks from a .PCG file. . . . . 193
Loading data by individual item or bank . . . . . .193
Creating and playing audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Creating audio CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Playing audio CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Other disk operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Using Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Effects overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Effects basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Effect I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Effects in each mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200
Effects selection and routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Using effects in Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Using effects in Combinations and Songs . . . . . . 204
Using effects in Sampling mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206
Using effects with the audio inputs . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Detailed effects editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Dynamic modulation (Dmod) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
MIDI/Tempo Sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Common FX LFO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Effect Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Using KARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Overview - What is KARMA?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
The structure of KARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Performing with KARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Performing with KARMA in Program mode . . . 217