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[Vkhandelwal]

what are your favorite programs available out of the box on kronos?
Which instrument samples available in kronos you would rate as high quality? which one you would skip and use external samples instead ?
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Kronos x 61, Korg PA-700 ,Korg Wavedrum Global, macbook pro , logic x,M-audio bx5,

[19naia]

I just got done tonight making my own sample converted to a program.

It is from video i took on a cheap camera of a bird call in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.
I trimmed and truncated it down to just a single call with some extra for a trail off with background noise. I made a wave file of it last year and abandoned it on my Kronos internal HD.
The cheap camera picked up a lot of background noise but the bird call itself was piercing and it sounded in-person like a weird analog synthesizer straight from the bird's pipes and beak.
So the low quality sound capture of the camera was no disaster for the superb bird call itself, even with the background noise.
I put reverb-hall and a short delay on it and added it to a combi layered with EP and STR guitar and more.
Two or three octaves of the same note using my sample makes it sound out of this world and like some hybrid primitive jungle vocals mixed from Human, dog and bird.
Lower pitches bring out some interesting stuff.

I recall a statement during a spectrasonics (just won 2018 sound design award at NAMM) demo -that some of their more interesting sounds come from low quality sound capture which gives the sound some qualities more agreeable with certain synth parameters that get boring after already working with just about every high-quality super clean recorded sound.

The background noise of my low quality recording sounds terrible on the original take but it really works out to sound like other worldy wind and rustling plants when Kronos effects take over and the combi layer frequencies mix in. And this is just the first simple incorporation. I still haven’t worked all the parameters over it to find any other sound gem facets.

I am loving it. Played until i couldn’t sit up anymore.

I don’t do anything with kronos preload samples. I just use the programs as they are and work with layering in Combi where i may change FX per program but rarely change much else.
I know i could tweak Berlin Grand into a thousand different piano sounds but i rather scroll through Kronos factory set of plenty other pianos, when i want a different sound. But i am glad i have SGX to work with in case i do grow out of the preset selection of pianos. I can start tweak and layer SGX pianos for some new sounds. That is my general approach to all sound categories on Kronos.

[pete.m]

Excellent post, 19naia. Inspiring stuff...

[19naia]

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