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)
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Note: In each of the eighteen preset Template Songs, track 1
is always assigned to a Drum Program. (In some cases, other
tracks may also have Drum Programs.)
Following the names for each of the preset patterns, the
musical style and the name of the most suitable Drum
Programs are partially displayed. (Refer to the VNL for a
complete list of Drum Programs.)
By loading a drum track and the corresponding preset
pattern, you can instantly set up a Drum Track to match the
Template Song.
8. To load the Drum pattern, press the OK button.
After the pattern is loaded, the Measure will count up
automatically. You can then copy another pattern if desired.
For instance, you can use different patterns one after the
other to build up a song, with different patterns for verse,
chorus, and bridge.
After you’ve finished adding patterns, press the Exit button,
and you’re done!
Saving your own Template Songs
You can also save your own Template Songs:
1. Set up a Song to your taste, including Programs,
effects, KARMA settings, the Song name, and so on.
2. In the P0: Play/REC page, press the page menu
button and select the Save Template Song command.
3. In the To field, select one of the 16 user Template Song
locations,U00…15.
4. Press OK to save the Template Song.
For more information, see “Save Template Song” on
page 628 of the Parameter Guide
Recording MIDI in real-time
When you’ve finished with “Preparations for recording,” as
described above, you can start recording!
Real-time recording lets you record your performance on the
KRONOS, including the notes that you play, joystick and
knob movements, and so on. This is in contrast to step
recording, which is described in a later section.
The default is to record onto a single track at a time. As an
alternative, multitrack recording allows you to
simultaneously record multiple channels of data onto
multiple tracks. This is handy for use when recording RPPR,
KARMA, or the Drum Track, or for recording the output of
an external sequencer in a single pass.
Recording setup
In P0: Play/REC– Preference page Recording Setup, select
the realtime recording method you want to use.
Overwrite
With this method, the musical data previously recorded on a
track is overwritten by the newly recorded data. When you
perform overwrite recording on a previously-recorded track,
its musical data will be deleted and replaced by the newly
recorded data.
Normally you will use this method to record, and then
modify the results by using other types of realtime recording
or MIDI event editing.
1. Use “Track Select” to select the track that you want to
record.
2. Set the Recording Setup to Overwrite.
3. In “Location,” specify the location at which you wish
to begin recording.
4. Press the SEQUENCER REC/WRITE switch, and
then press the SEQUENCER START/STOP switch.
Location
Track Select