User Manual
Table Of Contents
- About this manual
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to the KROSS
- Setup
- Playing and editing Programs
- Playing Programs
- Quick Layer/Split function
- Easy program editing
- Detailed Editing with Programs
- Before you start editing
- An overview of the edit pages
- Basic oscillator settings
- Creating time-varying changes (LFO and EG)
- Diverse modulation settings (AMS and AMS mixer)
- Controlling Pitch
- Using Filters
- Using the Amp section
- Making controller assignments
- Arpeggiator settings
- Drum Track settings
- Using the step sequencer
- Effects
- Automatically importing a Program into Sequence mode
- Playing and editing Combinations
- Playing combinations
- Editing a combination
- Summary of the edit pages
- A suggested approach for editing
- Comparing with the sound before you started editing
- Changing the program of each timbre
- Adjusting the mix
- Using the Tone Adjust and EG Adjust functions
- Saving a Combination you’ve edited
- Using REALTIME CONTROLS to adjust the sound or effects
- Layers, Splits, and Velocity Switches
- Status settings
- MIDI settings
- Changing the program settings to match the combination
- Arpeggiator settings
- Drum Track settings
- Using the step sequencer
- Effects
- Automatically importing a combination into Sequence mode
- Favorites function
- Sequencer
- Using Effects
- Arpeggiator function
- Drum Track function
- Step sequencer
- Pad Sampler
- Audio recorder
- Pad audio play
- Using Drum Kits
- Overall settings for the KROSS, and saving/loading data
- Appendices
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Saving your Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
About the KROSS’s Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Sequencer mode structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Playing back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Playback methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Preparations for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Recording MIDI in real time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Performing with the arpeggiator drum track or step sequencer. . . . . .62
Recording your pad sampler performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Recording System Exclusive events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Song editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Saving your MIDI song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Using Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
An overview of the KROSS’s effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Effect I/O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Effects in each mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Routing and effect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Effect settings for a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Effect settings for a combination or song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Effect settings for audio input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Dynamic modulation (Dmod). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Arpeggiator function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using the arpeggiator while you play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using the arpeggiator in Program mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Arpeggio pattern selection and operation settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Using the arpeggiator in Combination mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Arpeggiator settings in Combination and Sequencer modes . . . . . . . .76
Linking the arpeggiator to programs or combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Creating a user arpeggio pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
About user arpeggio patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Editing a user arpeggio pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Regarding arpeggiator synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
“Key Sync.” parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Drum Track function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Performing with the Drum Track function . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using the Drum Track function in Program mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using the Drum Track function in Combination mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Drum Track function settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Drum Track function settings in Program mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Drum Track function settings in Combination mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Drum Track function settings in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Synchronizing the Drum Track function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
The Trigger “Sync” parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Synchronization with song stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Slave operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Master operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Step sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Performing with the step sequencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Playback and settings in Program mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Step sequencer settings in Combination mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Step sequencer settings in Sequencer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using the step sequencer with Favorites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Synchronizing the step sequencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Pad Sampler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Performing with the pad sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Recording samples (sampling). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Editing a sample. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Playing samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
MIDI transmission and reception for the pad sampler function. . . . . . 97
Using samples in other ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Exporting a sample. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Audio recorder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
An overview of the audio recorder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
About the audio recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Basic operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
AUDIO RECORDER SETUP window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Recording and playing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Recording the performance of the KROSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Recording external audio input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Playing back an audio song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Multi-track recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Preparing a new audio song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Convenient functions for playback and recording. . . . 104
Returning to the state before or after recording (Undo/Redo). . . . . . 104
Specifying how recording will start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104