Playing sounds
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Playing Programs and Combinations
Selecting Programs by bank and number
Programs are the basic sounds of the KRONOS.
1. Press the front-panel PROG button (the LED will
light) to enter Program mode.
The upper left of the LCD screen shows the name of the
current page, PROGRAM P0: Play. This is a good home
base for playing Programs.
Notice the large, highlighted characters in the upper part of
the LCD display. These are the name and number of the
current Program. When these are highlighted, you can press
the / buttons to select the next or previously
numbered Program.
You can also turn the VALUE dial to move through the
Programs in larger steps, or enter Program numbers directly
from the numeric keypad.
2. Use the BANK SELECT I-A…G and U-A…G buttons
to select Programs from other banks.
To select banks USER–AA…GG, press and hold a pair of I
and U BANK buttons together. For example, to select bank
USER–CC, press and hold the I–C button, and then press the
U–C button.
Press the I-G switch repeatedly to cycle through banks GM,
g(1)…g(9), and g(d).
Selecting Programs by Category
There are other ways to select Programs, but here we’ll
explain how to select programs by their category, such as
keyboard, organ, bass, or drum sounds.
For other ways to select Programs, see the “Playing and
editing Programs” chapter of the OG.
1. In the LCD screen, press the Category popup button.
See “b: Category popup button” on page 13.
The Category popup menu will appear.
2. Use the tabs at the left to select a category.
The space on the right will then show all of the Programs in
that category, in all of the internal banks.
3. Optionally, press one of the inner tabs to select a sub-
category, to narrow the selection.
If any of the categories or sub-categories can’t be selected,
this means that no Programs have been assigned to that
category.
4. Select a Program from the list.
You can either touch the name of a Program in the list, press
the / buttons, or use the Value dial. You can play the
highlighted Program from the keyboard without leaving the
popup.
5. If not all the items in the list can be shown in the
screen, use the scroll bars to view the rest of the list.
6. When you’ve found a Program you like, press the OK
button to close the dialog box. Then go ahead and play!
Make sure to try out all of the controllers, too. For more
information, see “Using controllers to modify the sound” on
page 19.
Program Bank Contents
KRONOS ships from the factory with over 2,000 Programs.
All of the factory Programs can be over-written with your
own edits, if desired–except for the GM banks.
Program bank contents
HD-1 and EXi Bank Types
EXi Programs are used for all synth engines except for the
HD-1, including the AL-1, CX-3, STR-1, MS-20EX,
PolysixEX, MOD-7, SGX-2, and EP-1.
Banks can contain either HD-1 Programs or EXi Programs,
but not both. This assignment can be set separately for all
non-GM banks via the Set Program Bank Type menu
command on the Global P0: Basic page.
Selecting Combinations
A Combination consists of up to sixteen Programs that are
split and/or layered together. It also uses up to four KARMA
modules simultaneously (a Program can use only one
KARMA module), letting you produce far more complex
sounds than a Program. To select Combinations:
1. Press the COMBI button to enter Combination mode.
The COMBI LED will light up.
Once you’re in Combi mode, you can select and play
Combinations by either bank/number or category, in the
same way as you did Programs.
Bank Contents
Bank Type
INT–A Featured EXi sounds
Bank type
can be set to
either HD-1
or EXi
INT–B Featured HD-1 sounds
INT–C
SGX-2, EP-1, and “best of” other EXi
INT–D AL-1
INT–E AL-1 and CX-3
INT–F STR-1
GM (I-G) GM2 main Programs
GM
g(1)…g(9) GM2 variation Programs
g(d) GM2 drum Programs
USER–A MS-20EX & PolysixEX
Bank type
can be set to
either HD-1
or EXi
USER–B MOD-7
USER–C…F HD-1
USER–G Initialized HD-1 Programs
USER–AA…BB HD-1
USER–CC…EE Initialized EXi Programs
USER–FF…GG Initialized HD-1 Programs
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