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[Xenophile]

One of the bands I gig with covers Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4,” and I use a split and layered patch with trumpets/saxes on the right and trombones on the left.
Until I got the Kronos I was using Kontakt Horns and I kinda-sorta emulated the trombone slides by playing grace notes. I’m wondering if the Kronos can do a convincing trombone section with “fingered” portamento that would slide when I play legato. We’re talking sliding over an interval as wide as a 6th. Both hands are busy, so I can’t hit a switch. The bones’ parts are all monophonic, while the horns on the right are playing 2 or 3 parts.

Suggestions?

[Gunnar]

Hi Xenophile,

Since it is a trombone sound I'm assuming you are using HD-1 as the sound engine. (Portamento options differ between engines). In HD-1, you can enable fingered portamento which triggers on legato on page 2-2, OSC/PITCH -> OSC1 Pitch, and similar for OSC2 if that one is in use. Check both "enabled" and "fingered" and tweak the time to your liking and you probably want to use "constant time" rather than rate so longer slides don't take forever.

I'm not at my Kronos currently, so I can't test, but you might have to set the PROG to mono/legato under the main PROG tab, 1-1 Basic/Vector -> Program Basic as well.
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[Xenophile]

Thanks, Gunnar. That works. I’m not sure I’m 100% happy with the result yet, though. It sounds kind of “synthy.” I’ll have to play with it for a while to get it dialed in. Thanks again!

[psionic311]

[psionic311]

[Xenophile]

Thanks for the great pointers, Psi!