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
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* KARMA
®
(Kay Algorithmic Realtime Music Architecture)
Technology has been licensed from Stephen Kay, and is pro-
tected by U.S. Patents 6,084,171, 6,087,578, 6,103,964,
6,121,532, 6,121,533, 6,326,538, 6,639,141, 7,169,997, and
7,342,166.
* KARMA® and the KARMA Logo are registered trademarks,
and Kay Algorithmic Realtime Music Architecture, Gener-
ated Effect (GE), Melodic Repeat, Direct Index, Manual
Advance, SmartScan, Freeze Randomize, Random Capture,
Random FF/REW and Scene Matrix are trademarks of Ste-
phen Kay, Karma-Lab LLC. This manual copyright © 1994-
2014 by Korg Inc. and Stephen Kay. All rights reserved.
* Screen shots from the KARMA software that appear through-
out this guide are © 1994-2014 by Stephen Kay, Karma Lab
LLC. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
* KARMA Technology can be located on the internet at:
www.karma-lab.com.
* This product was developed under license of physical model-
ling tone generator patents (http://www.sondius-xg.com)
owned by Stanford University USA and Yamaha Corporation.
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valds in the United States and in other countries.
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