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Derek Cook
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Hi,
I just wanted to give a shout out for Dave's talents as a sound programmer. Whilst I have no (current) need for an 80s sound pack, I was impressed by the demos and contacted Dave regarding some other sounds I was having difficultly nailing.
These are "space rock" type synth sounds as heard on iconic albums such as Steve Hillage's Fish Rising and Green.
I think I am a reasonable programmer when it comes to most leads and pads, but these abstract sounds were eluding me.
I asked Dave if he could help me, we bounced emails backward and forwards and a short time later Dave has come up with the goods, which is a testament to both the Kronos AL-1 engine for its flexibility and Dave's skill in programming it.
So if you need a sound on the Kronos, and don't quite know how to get it, give Dave a shot! 
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Dniss
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Joined: 31 May 2007
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Location: Pale blue dot
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Good work mate!
I wish I had someone like you a few years back when I was musically engaged, I would have kept you busy...
Next time then.
Glad to see your site is picking up. |
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enigmahack
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Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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Location: Moncton, NB, CANADA (Eh?)
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| wheresgrant wrote: | Dave... curious question. When loading the Performance Pack or singular purchased sounds is there a way to chose the banks to load them in. I ran into a situation where I purchased the 80's Performance pack... loaded it and it immediate populated Combi- User Bank E and Prog Bank EE 000-119. Afterward I purchased and downloaded the single song "I Gotta Feeling" which populated Combi User Bank F 000/Prog User FF 000-002. But here is the peculiar thing... it changed/overwrote some of the Programs in the 80's Performance Pack. In other words I went to play the Money4Free OPEN (Combi User Bank E 000) and it had the Guitar from "I Got A Feeling" populating the 3rd Program in the Combi. There were others like Summer of 69 too.. it was redirected certain programs to User Program FF000. I was able to replicate this 4-5 times by reloading the Performance Pack and the Song Pack each time overwriting programs from each other Combi's. Make sense?
So my basic question is, when uploading your sounds into the Kronos, is there a way to specify the bank and locations you want to store them? |
Hi there!
The tricky thing about loading program banks is that they have a designated location by default and while you CAN change them, the combis that depend on those programs being in a specific location don't have intelligent linking. In other words:
Combi's are kind of dumb. They point at where they think the sound is, but don't ever check to see if they're actually the correct sound.
I'm a huge proponent of using PCG Tools however. The software is incredible for merging/adding sounds from a backup.
The process is generally like this:
Make a Backup on your Kronos once you get some sounds loaded and things are working. (Say the 80's/90's sound pack but not any additional sounds you want to load)
Once you have the backup, move the backup files to a USB stick, put it on your computer.
Download on your PC the next group of sounds you want to merge. Let's pretend you have Backup.PCG (this is your backup) and download.PCG (This is the downloaded file you want to merge)
Open both with PCG Tools. You can use PCG Tools to copy/paste the download.PCG file information into the backup.PCG while retaining all of the links and references. Then you can save the backup.PCG as like Merged.PCG
Move the Merged.PCG back to your USB stick
Load the Merged.PCG file on the Kronos. It keeps the existing sounds where they were but adds the pasted files too that were added in PCG Tools.
Anyway, long story short is that Korg doesn't do a great job of keeping bank/program references within combi's when loading sounds. You can't link dependencies in any meaningful way, so the links break when you move sounds in the wrong spot. That's why PCG Tools was created.
I've got a video here I'd recommend checking out which goes over exactly what I just discussed above, but in more details surrounding the PCG Tools specifics itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZFAD-n7bdo
Check it out, and let me know if this helps!
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mauroste
Joined: 17 Dec 2017
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| Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:01 pm Post subject: Song packs for Krome |
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Hi Dave,
nice work, any chance to do the similar for Krome ?
Mauro |
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