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street · Junior Member Joined: 14 Jul 2016 Posts: 69

I see that there are extra 3 banks for HD-1 and 3 banks for EXi.

I would like to add libraries and organize the sounds in my free banks, utilizing all free slots that I have.

What's the best way to organize additional sounds I load on the Kronos? I understand that each sound is loaded into a predefined user bank and there's no way to prevent overwriting the bank it installs itself into?
I'd love to hear what's your take on organizing the Kronos.

QuiRobinez · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Organizing user banks

street · Junior Member Joined: 14 Jul 2016 Posts: 69

Great video. Thanks for that, I learned alot!

now let's say I have a bank I want to import that has 32 programs. I load it to User bank GG, and in that bank, I have some sounds in whatever slots - let's say #40 onwards.
Loading the new bank will delete those and there's nothing I can do?

and lastly, let's say I have about 10 libraries of 32 programs each that I want to import to the Kronos. but I have 6 free banks for my user programs (unless I want to delete factory ones).

how do I go and "consolidate" the sounds? let's say each bank (of 128) will hold 4 libraries (of 32 programs)?

steeve76 · Joined: 15 Jun 2016 Posts: 26 Location: Italy

Thank you! Very clear and useful!
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QuiRobinez · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:25 pm Post subject:

street · Junior Member Joined: 14 Jul 2016 Posts: 69

Thanks for another great video! This basically sums it up.

but what I can't do, is select multiple programs from say, USER GG bank, and copy (or move) them to USER AA bank?

btw, is there a good software librarian to manage the Kronos internal and user banks - ie copy, move, delete programs etc? something in the vein of the excellent Melas Total Librarian for the Yamaha Motif?

amit · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 6:06 pm Post subject:

The PCG tools software should let you do that.

As for organizing :
You cannot mix between Hd1 and Exi banks.
A bank can either contain All exi programs or All Hd programs.

Since you are new, enjoy your honeymoon, i.e try out all sounds engines, there's a lot of great stuff floating around all over. etc Smile

You'd have to come up with your own way of organizing.

I like to completely reset to factory (empty user gg and user cc-user gg)
and then load what all I need and Save the PCG for whatever type of music I am writing.

You can also wipe out all the internal banks (except I-G which is GM)
and then use them to store all your custom sounds patches.
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michelkeijzers · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:29 am Post subject:

Most things have already been said above (thanks amit for mentioning PCG Tools).

The problem with combis is that if you load a combi, the programs used by the combi might not be loaded and should be loaded in the places that are references in the combi. PCG Tools can change this references automatically for you.
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19naia · Platinum Member Joined: 29 Nov 2012 Posts: 1216

I go the quick and easy route. Make a new PCG save every time i fill up my banks. And thats after previous PCG saves as backups of what i had before.
I dont even worry about internal memory. I use USB stick with plenty memory while using internal memory for the factory and two separate PCG files that condense my most valued selections and bank+slot arrangemet.

The tutorials are great and cover the system and whats possible in disk mode, but its still up to the user how to organizeit all. External memory and multiple PCG saves under various file names is a must when you are dealing with all banks full and more sound sets still coming in.
For me, a proper back up is one back up on internal memory and another on external memory. I actually do a third backup on a second external memory.
Minimum of 3 PCG files at all times internally and two external memory storage with the same 3 PCG files and room for extra PCG files that won't be alllowed to cluter internal memory. Internal memory i use for storing final banking arrangement condensed over the 3 PCG files. Factory file stays locked ,so actually 2 PCG files to condense into internal memory.