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michelkeijzers

I'm wondering if when I have a Kronos I could go back from 2 keyboards to one.

Currently I'm using a Korg M50 and Triton Extreme as 'slave' connected via MIDI. Audio is only produced by the M50.
But I want to go down to one (Kronos).

Now I was wondering, with the Kronos having SST would it be possible to:
- Selecting a hammond patch
- Making a slide from the lowest key to a chord in the upper region) and either keep the keys pressed or use a hold pedal.
- Selecting a different patch with the lower half piano and the upper half the same sound as the hammond I made the slide with and continue play.

I assume I would keep hearing the hammond sound?

Or did I miss something?

(btw, are there people who have or are going to switch from two to one keyboard and what problems they run into)?
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RC-IA · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:56 pm Post subject:

it's better to keep pressing the keys of the first sound if you can (how many hands do you have ? Wink

) then engaged the second sound. using the hold pedal will sustain the first sound while playing the second one, BUT, the second one will be sustained too l since the pedal is pressed BUT! ( Laughing

) you can work around this by preparing your patch before et make sure it won't respond to the pedal (uncheck the "enable damper" box in the program midi filter tab). I hope i'm clear enough Laughing

michelkeijzers · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject:

X-Trade · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject:

A multikeyboard setup is always good. Even SST won't cure everything and sometimes its just not very practical to be changing patches that quickly.

You can still sell both of your boards - just get a cheaper MIDI controller as the 2nd controller.
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject:

aron · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject:

How would you do this with 2 keyboards (hands and foot pedal-wise?)

Maybe you could use 2 footswitches and do the same but with one keyboard?
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject:

I have 10 foot switches (on my Behringer), so that's not the problem.

with two keyboards I would use the hammond on one keyboard and another sound on the other. But with only one keyboard I have to use the SST and some program change(s) to make it possible.
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aron · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject:

Sorry I guess I was asking - ok so you do the sweep on the top keyboard - now to sustain it, do you keep your hand on there or use a foot switch?
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:21 pm Post subject:

aron · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject:

OK the answer is yes.
Here's how I did it.
I used the Karma layers trick. I put a string sound on slot 1 in a combi, organ on slot 2 with damper set OFF, brass sound on slot 3 (could have been a split etc).

So I play my strings, then hold the sustain pedal down. I turn OFF the karma button for the strings and select my organ.

I gliss up to the chord and hold it down.

I then select the Karma button for my 3rd sound (brass in this case), and I start playing.

Everything works as you expect.

What I didn't expect was that I think there's no way to disable damper (sustain) in program mode. hmmmm.........
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks for trying it!

I think to be able to switch off the damper in combi mode should work too.

I haven't tried Karma yet (my current synths do not have that). I guess with different combis it shoudl work and otherwise I also can use my midi footswitches to be assigned to the karma switches and use the 'karma trick'.

Thanks for trying.
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aron · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:30 pm Post subject:

No problem. This keyboard is amazing!
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