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4. After holding the note for a while, release the note.
After you release the note, the Hold Time starts, and the
sound fades away quickly.
Global Hold Time
The Global Hold Time parameter is on the Global Basic
page. As mentioned above, it controls the hold time for
everything outside of the Set List, including Program,
Combination, and Sequencer modes. The default setting is 5
seconds, which should work well in most cases, but you can
change it if you like.
Stopping sustaining or held notes
Sometimes, you may want to stop sounding voices
immediately—for instance, if a sound is set to hold
indefinitely. To do so:
1. Select a different sound, including any Program,
Combination, Song, or Set List Slot.
2. Select a different sound again.
For instance, within a Set List with Slot 1 selected, select
Slot 2 and then return to Slot 1. Or, on Program I-A000,
press the front-panel COMBI button (which selects a
Combination) and then press the front-panel PROG button
(to re-select the previous Program). At the second change,
all notes held from the original sound will be stolen.
Other details
Controllers
Most controllers (Joystick +/-Y, Aftertouch, real-time knobs,
etc.) affect only the new sound, and not the old.
Sustain, Sostenuto, Joystick X (pitch bend), and Note Gate
continue to affect the old sound, as well as the new. You can
use the Combination and Song MIDI Filters for additional
control over these MIDI messages, if desired.
Effects
Internally, the KRONOS has two separate sets of effects, like
two racks of effects. One of these racks is used by the current
sound; the other is used by the previous sound. This allows
the two sets of effects to work simultaneously; for instance,
the previous sound’s delays can continue to ring out while
you’re playing the new sound.
There are only two of these effects racks, however. Every
time that you select a new sound, the older of the two effects
racks is silenced and re-configured for the new sound.
Also, it’s possible for the combined requirements of the two
effects racks to exceed the available processing power. If this
happens, the old effects rack is silenced immediately.
Note: When the old effects rack is silenced, all of the notes
which were playing through it are silenced as well.
Limitations
When you select a new sound, the previous sound’s
KARMA and Drum Track patterns stop. Any notes being
played by the Drum Track or KARMA (including those
generated by KARMA's Thru In and Thru Out Zones) are
released, and then decay normally.
Similarly, the PolysixEX arpeggiator stops playing on sound
change.
When editing EXi Programs, changing the EXi model of the
current Program will silence any voices from the previous
sound. Note that this happens only when actually editing the
Program, and not simply when changing from one Program
to another.
Resource limitations may prevent the previous sound from
ringing out until silence. For instance:
• Notes may be stolen.
• If there is not enough processing power for the old and
new effects racks to coexist, both the old effects rack and
all old voices will be silenced.