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Introduction to KRONOS

Support for additional RAM

Installationofanadditional1GBofRAMisnow

supported,andcanbeperformedatanyauthorized

Korgservicecenter.Thisapproximatelydoublesthe

maximumavailablesampleRAM,uptoabout2GB.Of

course,whenloadingEXsusingVirtualMemory,the

totalsizeoftheloadedsampledatacanbemuch

eater.

TheKRONOSuseswidelyavailable,off‐the‐shelf

DIMMs.InstallationbyanauthorizedKorgservice

centerisrequired;userinstallationisnotsupported

andmayvoidyourwarranty.Formoreinformationon

howtopurchaseandarrangeforinstallationofRAM,

pleasecontactyourcountry’sKorgDistributor:

http://www.korg.co.jp/English/Distributors/index.html

Forco

mpatibilitywiththeKRONOS,RAMmust

complywiththefollowingspecification:

240‐PinPC2‐6400CL‐5(orCL‐6)DDR2‐800non‐ECC

UnbufferedDIMM1GB

4x increase to Sampling Mode

Multisamples, Samples and Multisample

Indexes

ThemaximumnumberofMultisamplesinSampling

Modehasbeenincreasedfrom1,000to4,000,andthe

maximumnumbersofSamplesandMultisample

Indexeshaveeachbeenincreasedfrom4,000to16,000.

These4xincreaseswillbeespeciallyhelpfulwhen

loadinglibrarieswithlargenumbersofrelativelyshort

samples,suchasdru

ms.

tethatEXsandUserSampleBankdatadoesnot

counttowardsthesemaximums;theyapplytothe

SamplingModedataonly.

Support for USB MIDI and Korg USB pad

controllers

Version1.5addssupportforconnectingUSBMIDI

class‐compliantcontrollersdirectlytotheKRONOS.

Forinstance,youcanuseaKorgmicroKEYasan

auxiliarysynth‐actionkeyboardforaKRONOS73or

88.

Evenbetter,KorgUSBMIDIcontrollerswithpads–

includingthenanoPAD,nanoPAD2,padKONTROL,

microKONTROL,andKONTROL49–areautomatically

mappedtotheKRONOSchordpads,fo

rplayingand

programmingdrums,triggeringchords,andselecting

andassigningchordsforChordMode.

Formoredetails,see“USBMIDIcontrollers”on

page 1128oftheParameterGuide.

KRONOS Editor and Plug-In Editor

Version1.5addssupportfortheKRONOSEditorand

Plug‐InEditor,whichletyoueditandorganizesounds

fromyourMacOSXorWindowscomputer.Plug‐in

operationallowsyoutosavesettingsaspartofyour

projectwithanyVST‐compatibleWindowssoftware,

oranyVST‐orAU‐com

patibleso

ftwareonMacOSX.

TheKRONOSEditorandPlug‐InEditorwillbe

availableforfreedownloadatwww.korg.com/kronos.