User Manual
Table Of Contents
- About this manual
- Contents
- Introduction to KRONOS
- Front and rear panels
- Front panel
- 1. MAIN VOLUME knob
- 2. Control Surface
- 3. Data entry
- 4. DISK access indicator
- 5. MODE buttons
- 6. UTILITY buttons
- 7. BANK SELECT buttons
- 8. KARMA buttons
- 9. Vector Joystick
- 10. Drum Track
- 11. SW1 and SW2
- 12. Joystick
- 13. Ribbon controller
- 14. Headphone jack
- 15. EXIT button
- 16. SEQUENCER buttons
- 17. TEMPO controls
- 18. SAMPLING buttons
- 19. TouchView display
- Rear panel
- TouchView user interface
- Front panel
- Basic information
- Setup
- Update information
- Front and rear panels
- Playing and editing Programs
- Playing and editing Combinations
- Playing Combinations
- Easy Combination editing
- Detailed Combination editing
- Creating songs (Sequencer mode)
- Set Lists
- Sampling (Open Sampling System)
- Global Settings, Wave Seq., Drum Kits
- Loading & saving data, and creating CDs
- Using Effects
- Using KARMA
- Using the Drum Track
- Appendices
- Troubleshooting
- Error and confirmation messages
- A (ADC–Are You Sure)
- B (Buffer)
- C (Can’t calibrate–Completed)
- D (Destination–Disk)
- E (Error–Exceeded)
- F (File–Front)
- H
- I (Illegal–Index)
- K
- M (Master–Multisample)
- N (No data–Not enough song memory)
- O (Obey copyright rules–Oscillator)
- P (Pattern–Program)
- R (Rear sample–Root)
- S (Sample–Source)
- T (The clock–/TEMP folder detected)
- U (Unable to create directory–USB Hub)
- W (Wave)
- Y (You)
- Disk and Media information
- Specifications
- MIDI Implementation Chart
Creating songs (Sequencer mode)
118
Operations for which Compare is not
available
• Editing song parameters
• Page menu commands other than those listed under
“Operations for which Compare is available,” above.
Memory Protect
Before you record a track or pattern, or edit the musical data,
you will need to turn off the memory protect setting in
Global mode. For more information, see “Memory protect”
on page 195.
About MIDI
Track status
You can specify whether each track will use the internal
KRONOS sounds, or use an external MIDI tone generator.
When the Track Status (P2– MIDI page) is set to INT or
BTH, operating KRONOS’s keyboard and controllers will
sound and control KRONOS’s own tone generator.
When Status is set to EXT, EX2 or BTH, operating
KRONOS’s keyboard and controllers will sound and control
the external tone generator. (The MIDI channel of the
external tone generator must match the MIDI Channel of
the track that is set to EXT, EX2 or BTH.)
If you wish to use the Sequencer mode of the instrument as a
16-track multi-timbral tone generator, select INT or BTH.
For more information, see “Status” on page 567 of the
Parameter Guide.
Synchronizing the sequencer with an
external MIDI device
The record/playback tempo of KRONOS’s sequencer can be
synchronized to an external MIDI device such as a
sequencer or rhythm machine. For more information, see
“Synchronizing the playback of KARMA or sequencer” on
page 1142 of the Parameter Guide.