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Gaston · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:20 am Post subject: Journey?

Does anyone have a killer program or combi for "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey? Thanks!

Kronos 88

voip · Platinum Member Joined: 27 Nov 2014 Posts: 3773

There's the piano sound, called "Don'tStopBelievin" which comes as standard on the K2, or in the New Kronos Sound Pack (EXs18) for the original Kronos / Kronos X .
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Xenophile · Senior Member Joined: 14 Nov 2017 Posts: 349

I built a combi using that piano sound layered with a string pad that I play on my Studiologic SL88 controller. On my Kronos2-61 I split the keyboard with a poly-synth on the top half (I tweaked the "1999" synth patch) and a layered an electric guitar power chord and Japanese Grand on the bottom to double that big bass line on the choruses. It's pretty huge sounding.

What I found tricky was setting up the gain staging on the guitar power chord patch so that the amp sim would still be driven to distortion when playing at low volume.

This isn't my Kronos, but the same sort of combi that I built in my Mainstage rig before I got my Kronos a few years ago. Piano+string pad on the bottom keyboard, split the top keyboard with power chord + piano on the left and 80s poly-synth on the right. https://youtu.be/7E8HmykTH2A