Korg Kronos - Saving and Loading Data; Saving Your Edits; Saving to and Loading from Disk

Saving and loading data
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Saving and loading data
Saving your edits
Understanding Write and Save
Therearetwowaystostoreyourworkonthe
KRONOS:WriteandSave.
YoucanuseWriteforPrograms,Combinations,Set
Lists,WaveSequences,DrumKits,andFXPresets—
everythingexceptforSongs,Samples,and
Multisamples.Writestoresintotheinternalmemory,
whichpersistsevenifyouturnpoweroffandonagain.
Savesto
re
sdatatofilesondisk—eithertheinternal
driveorUSBstoragedevices.YoumustuseSavefor
Songs,Samples,andMultisamples.Saveisalsohandy
foralltheotherdatatypes,though.Forinstance,you
caneasilySavetheentirestateoftheKRONOS,
includingallus
er‐editabledata,inasinglestep.
Hundredsofthesefileswillfitontotheinternaldrive.
Youcanusethisforbackups,andforsavingand
recallingsetupsforparticularprojects,gigs,andsoon.
Writing Programs
TowriteaProgramtotheinternalmemory:
1. SelecttheWriteProgramcommandfromthepage
menu,attheupperright‐handcornerofthescreen.
Youcanalsocallupthismenucommandbyholding
ENTERandpressing0onthenumerickeypad.
Thisbringsupadialogboxwhichallowsyoutosav
e
theProgram
.Optionally,youcanalsoselectanew
location,changetheProgram’sname,andassignittoa
soundcategory(suchaskeyboard,guitar,etc.).
2. Pressthe“T”buttontobringupthetextedit
dialog.
YoucangivetheProgramadescriptivenameusingthe
on‐screenke
yboard.
3. Afterenteringthename,pressOK.
Thete
xteditwindowwilldisappear,returningyouto
themainWritedialog.
4. Under“To”atthebottomofthedialog,pressthe
popupbuttonnexttoProgramtobringupthesave
locationdialog.
5. SelectalocationtosavetheeditedProgram.
Fromthefactory,banksUSER
–GandAA…GGareleft
openforyouruse,containingonlyinitialized
Programs.Ifyoulike,youcanalsooverwriteanyofthe
factorysounds(exceptfortheGeneralMIDIsoundsin
I‐G),andeasilyre‐loadthemfromdiskatanytime.
Important:HD‐1Programscanonlybewritt
ento
HD‐
1Banks,andEXiProgramscanonlybewritten
toEXiBanks.Formoreinformationonthedefault
Banktypes,andonhowtochangethem,pleasesee
“ProgramBankContents”onpage 18.
6. Afterselectingthelocation,pressOK.
7. PressOKagaintostartthewritepro
cess.
8. Ifyo
u’resureyouwanttowritetothislocation,
pressOKonemoretime.
Afterthat,you’ redone!
Saving edits to GM Programs
YoucaneditGMPrograms,butyoumustthensave
themtoaBankotherthanI‐G;theGMPrograms
themselvescannotbeover‐written.
Shortcut: Update via SEQUENCER REC/WRITE
YoucanalsousetheSEQUENCERREC/WRITEbutton
toquicklyupdatethecurrentProgram,usingthe
existingname,bank,number,andcategory.Todoso:
1. PresstheSEQUENCERREC/WRITEbutton.
TheUpdateProgramdialogwillappear.
2. PressOKtowritetheprogram.
Saving to and loading from disk
Saving data
AnythingthatyoucreateoreditintheKRONOScan
besavedtodisk.Thereareanumberoffiletypesfor
differenttypesofdata,butfornowwe’llconcentrate
onthethreemaintypes:.PCG,,.SNG,and.KSCfiles.
PCGstandsfor“Program,Combination,andGlobal.”
Thesefilescanalsoinc
ludeSetLists,WaveSequences,
DrumKits,userDrumTrackpatterns,anduser
KARMAGEs.PCGsarevariableinsize;theymay
includeonlyasinglebankofPrograms,forinstance,or
all13banksofalldatatypes.
SNGstandsfor“Song.”Thesefilesstoreallofthe
SongsfromSe
quencermode.
KSCstandsfor“KorgSampleCollection.”Thisisalist
alloftheMultisamplesandSamplesloadedinto
SamplingMode,alongwithalloftheloaded
MultisamplesandDrumSamplesfromEXsandUser
SampleBanks.Notethatthisisjustalistofwhich
samplesareloaded;theactualdataisstore
dseparately.
Youcanstoreallofthisdatatogetherinasinglestep.
1. Pressthefront‐panelDISKbuttontoenterDisk
mode.
2. PresstheFiletab,andthentheSavetab,togoto
theDisk–Savepage.
3. Optionally,PressDriveSelecttoselectthedriveto
whichtosave.
Theinternaldiskisthedef
ault.Unlessyouwanttouse
anexternalUSBdevice,youdon’tneedtoselect
anythingdifferent.
4. Selectthedirectoryinwhichyouwanttosavethe
data.