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[ojkid]

I have been a Yamaha motif user for about 6years now,the biggest sell for me was the ease of use of its sequencer especially pattern mode. those of you who are familiar with this workstation know that you can press A or B C ,D ect and the pattern will switch seamlessly at the end of the measure in the correct time. Has anyone experimented with this on the Kronos? and if so can you please let me know how to accomplish this. I NEED that type of function for my live gigging with my band. i would appreciate the help very much
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[SeedyLee]

My only experience with Yamaha sequencers has been with the SY77 and QY70, so I'm not familiar with the function you describe.

The closes thing I can think that the Kronos would have is RPPR, which allows arbitrary patterns to be assigned to different keys. Depending on the parameters, the pattern can be triggered to play once through, remain playing as long as the key is held down or toggled on/off with every key press.

In terms of synchronisation, patterns can synchronise to either a beat, measure or the measures of the sequencer.

Check out page 595 (Section 5-3) of the Parameter Guide for more information.

Of course, the only thing that's going to behave exactly like a Motif will be a Motif - anything else is naturally going to have slight differences. Hopefully you can find a way to work within the design constraints of the Kronos.
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[SanderXpander]

As you noted, the Motif has this feature down pretty well. If you completely rely on it for live use I would bring a Motif.

You can use RPPR in the Kronos sequencer, but that basically ties single patterns to keys. There is, as far as I know, no way to quickly flip between song sections if that's what you're expecting. You might consider Ableton for this? You could hook it up over USB with the Kronos, send the computer audio to Kronos individual outs, and even have the Kronos choose different sounds following your arrangement.

[QuiRobinez]

if you have an iPad you could use the Yamaha App: mobile music Sequencer for that. It contains a motif like sequencer including the great Pattern selection possibility and you can use that sequencer instead of the kronos sequencer with your kronos.

[ojkid]

Thanks much guys, I'm really loving my kronos x61 as top keyboards that's why I was curious about the pattern mode like my motif. But thanks much guys
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[burningbusch]

The Motif arps are derived from the Yamaha arrangers. The arrangers are actually a lot more powerful in this area of accompaniment backing. They offer more sections, e.g. intros, verses, fills, endings and have more MIDI instrument parts (the Motif is limited to four parts total as I recall). You might look at adding the Roland BK-7m which is a full Roland arranger module that works with any keyboard.

Busch.
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