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
Basic information Basic operations
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Basic operations
After you’ve turned on the KRONOS, here’s how to perform
basic operations such as selecting modes and pages.
1. Selecting modes
In order to use a particular function on the KRONOS, you
must first select the appropriate mode.
Press one of the front panel mode buttons to enter the
corresponding mode. These include SET LIST, COMBI
(Combination mode), PROG (Program mode), SEQ
(Sequencer mode), SAMPLING, GLOBAL, and DISK.
2. Selecting pages
Each mode has a large number of parameters, which are
grouped into pages. These are further subdivided by tabs into
up to nine tab pages.
1. Select the desired mode, as described above.
We’ll use Program mode as an example for our explanation,
so press the PROG switch.
2. Press a tab in the lower line (page group tabs).
As an example here, press the Basic/Vector tab. The current
page indication in the upper left of the LCD screen will
indicate “PROGRAM P1: Basic/Vector,” and the page group
will change.
When you press the EXIT switch, you will return to P0 from
any page.
3. Press a tab in the upper line (page tabs) to select a
page.
As an example here, press the Vector Control tab. The
current page indication in the upper left of the LCD screen
will stay the same, but the upper right indication will change
to “Vector Control.” You’ve selected the Vector Control
page.
Note: In some cases, there may not be any tabs in the upper
line.
3. Editing parameters
The parameter value in the edit cell can be set by using the
front panel VALUE controllers, including the VALUE slider,
/ switches, VALUE dial, numeric keys 0–9, and the – ,
ENTER, and (.) switches.
Alternatively, in most cases you can edit the value by
touching the edit cell and dragging your finger up or down.
(A few parameters don’t support this editing method.)
The COMPARE button lets you switch back and forth
between edited and saved versions of sounds.
For some parameters, you can use the BANK SELECT
switches to select the bank of a program etc., or press a
popup button to access a popup menu where you can specify
the value of the parameter. In some cases, you can hold
down the ENTER switch and play a note on the keyboard to
specify a note or a velocity value.
Page
group Tab
Page tab
Basic Vector tab
Vector Control tab