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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Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Introduction to KRONOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Front and rear panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TouchView user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Basic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About the KRONOS’ modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About the KRONOS’ PCM memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
About polyphony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Basic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Turning the power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Update information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
New features in software version 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
New features in software version 2.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
New features in software version 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
New features in software version 1.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Playing and editing Programs . . . . . . . .31
Playing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Selecting Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Chord Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using Chord mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Easy Program Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Quick edits using the knobs, sliders, and switches . . . 43
Detailed Program Editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Editing HD-1 Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using LFOs and Envelopes (EGs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using Alternate Modulation (AMS)
and the AMS Mixers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Controlling Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using the Amp section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using EXi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Vector Synthesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Automatically importing a Program
into Sequencer mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Playing and editing Combinations . . . .63
Playing Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selecting Combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Easy Combination editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Changing the Programs within a Combi . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adjusting the mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Easy KARMA editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Detailed Combination editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Combination overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Layers, Splits, and Velocity Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
MIDI Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Altering Programs to fit within a Combination . . . . . .71
Editing Programs from within a Combination
or Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Automatically importing a Combination
into Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Saving your edits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Creating songs (Sequencer mode) . . . .75
Sequencer overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
About the KRONOS’ sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Sequencer mode structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Playing Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
The control surface in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . .80
MIDI recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Preparations for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Recording MIDI in real-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
MIDI step recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Recording the sound of a Combination or Program. . .88
Recording multiple MIDI tracks from
an external sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Recording System Exclusive events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Recording patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Other ways to record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Audio recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Audio recording overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Audio input settings and recording source selection . .96
Recording procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Other variations of audio track recording. . . . . . . . . .105
Placing a WAVE file in an audio track . . . . . . . . . . .107
Song editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
MIDI Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
Common to MIDI tracks and audio tracks . . . . . . . . .110
Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Using RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play/Record) . . 112
Creating RPPR data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
RPPR playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Recording an RPPR performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Sampling in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Saving your Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Other notes about Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . 117
KRONOS sequencer file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
The Compare function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
Memory Protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
About MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118