If you have an Ipad and the kronos, and are able to connect, then get the Midi Designer App from Apple App store.
What this app does is let you create your own Midi control surface with a lot of customizations and tweaking options and sysex messages.
The Great thing is that it also has pedalboard feature so you can use the kronos ext mode as a trigger for any thing you want (midi macros for example. even inside kronos).
so far I have only tried a few things, deciphered the kronos sysex and they have worked great.
local on and off (just hit the button to turn that on /off)
F0 42 30 68 43 0F 00 00 15 00 00 00 00 F7 for OFF
F0 42 30 68 43 0F 00 00 15 00 00 00 01 F7 for ON
and .. behold....
The Drum Track Live Arrangement.
You can have the drum track play different midi loops (one at a time) in sync with just a
touch of a button.
Add to it a karma scene switching sysex and you get the arranger functionality.
I'll be building some control surfaces for sure,
Here's how if anyone wants to try this out.
Send the bank select sysex
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Preset User
F0 42 30 68 6E 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 F7 or F0 42 30 68 6E 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 F7
followed by the Pattern number (YY XX)
MM YY XX
F0 42 30 68 6E 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 74 F7
MM=00 for program mode
MM-01 for combi mode
YY XX is the program number in hex. max value of YY and X can be 7F (127 Dec)
In drum track settings turn sync to on. (I keep all three on)
create couple of buttons in midi designer and assign them different sysex patterns (for simplicity stick to either of preset or user bank, as otherwise you will have to send bank select sysex before each patch change and is complex as you have to set up inheritance).
There's a lot more that can be done, this is just a start.