Korg announces 26 new Kronos sound libraries

exsequor699 · Post by **exsequor699** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:00 pm

Mike Conway wrote:
Track 7 wrote: I'm already wondering how much more space I have for third-party sounds. Currently I have only EXs 51 (Unison Orchestra) and don't recall how large it is. I don't want to buy more than I have RAM for!
I have EXs 51, plus heaps more. If you use the "Virtual" stream setting, the Kronos RAM can stream around 20 gigs. OS and ROM are around 1 gig, so that leaves 2 gigs of RAM, which can stream up to 10 fold their size.

Note, I deselected the German and Japanese Grand pianos to make a ton of room. I'm just fine with the pianos in base ROM, EXs1, and EXs 4 (Internal B bank).

Right now, when I turn my Kronos on, I have available:

Samples from several Blue Zone libraries (Thin Blue Line, Metal, Heavy Metal, Scary, etc.), plus custom project sample sets.
EXs1
EXs3
EXs4
EXs5
EXs8
EXs16 Funk & Soul Brass
EXs24 Dimensional Cello
EXs50 KSL Symphonic Library
EXs51 KUO Unison Orchestra
EXs131
EXs132
EXs133
EXs134 Epic Composer
EXs220 Epic Monumental Choir
EXs222 The 5th Element
EXs289 Solo Violin
EXs292 Cinematic Brass
EXs296 Big Brass Ensemble
EXs298 Cinematic Percussion
EXs355 Solo Strings

Then some sounds from my E-MU and Yamaha sample libraries, which you can see in the pictures. Some boxes, like EXs193, are deselected until I need them for something.

My point for listing all this is to show how much you can actually load into the Kronos. I kind of chuckled when you said you didn't know how much more you could load, aside from EXs51!

Amazing collection, do you have any free banks available in your Kronos with all those sounds loaded in?

Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:14 pm

exsequor699 wrote:Amazing collection, do you have any free banks available in your Kronos with all those sounds loaded in?

I save a PCG and SEQ file with every project I do, because I usually program something, and I need to save it. If someone needs quick music for a commercial or industrial, I will resort to my factory PCG setup and use combis.

Most times, I'm using programs (not combis), so I save and load banks where I want. My usual go to PCG bank remains mostly intact, from project to project. I try to keep it cumulative, with all the changes I made, so I just load the PCG from the last project I worked on.

Right now, Int. A,B.C,D,.....and F are pretty close to the factory set. I have loaded in some of my fave individual sounds in some of those slots, such as overwriting some of the Bank A pianos, which are EXi (software instrument - AL-1, MS-20, STR-1, etc.) sounds.

Int E bank is made up of EXs (sample based) custom and favorite sounds. I will rework some of KApro's sounds, by removing velocity aftertouch and wavesequences, because I can greatly increase my polyphony that way. I often go through the multi-samples and just create my own programs. I use the E Bank sounds on most everything.

User A, B, C are EXs50 KSL sounds.
User D, F are EXs51 KUO sounds.
User E is Monumental Choir, Dimensional Cello, and various favorite sounds.
User G is EXs222 5th Element. After program 96, I have more favorite sounds, especially guitars, including Steve Stevens library.

User AA is factory, I believe. Drum kits, SFX, etc.
User BB is EXs16 Brass sounds.
CC, DD, EE are factory EXi synths.
User FF, GG are EXs131 - 134 Epic Composer sounds.

The new Iconic library sounds only have a few programs each, so I can put those in my Int E and other banks.

My Bluezone and E-MU sounds are used in drum kits. I even use double drum kit programs, so I can press SW 1 and switch between two different samples on every key.

I've also had to rearrange the wavesequence banks, so they correspond to the right 3rd party programs.

KingKronos · Post by **KingKronos** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 12:20 am

Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 2:33 am

Stop!

It's the sound designers that deserve the credit. I'm just a user.

KingKronos · Post by **KingKronos** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:15 am

Mike Conway wrote:Stop!

It's the sound designers that deserve the credit. I'm just a user.

You definitely deserve credit too!
And you're not just a "user", you're a "power user"...
MC... the Kronos / Oasys OG

Track 7 · Post by **Track 7** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:15 pm

Mike Conway wrote:After program 96, I have more favorite sounds, especially guitars, including Steve Stevens library.

Hmm, what is the Steve Stevens library? I'm always on the lookout for better guitars.

Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Mon Jul 05, 2021 9:45 pm

Track 7 wrote: Hmm, what is the Steve Stevens library? I'm always on the lookout for better guitars.

It's an old release, 2004, I think. Probably very hard to find. No soundfonts with this. I would look for something more current that you don't have to sample every note yourself. You can't have mine.

There are quite a few guitar libraries in the Korg Shop, though.

voip · Post by **voip** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 3:22 pm

Could this be it?

https://archive.org/details/east-west-s ... ction-akai

It's a link to an .iso file.

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Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:07 pm

It sure looks like it.

AntonySharmman · Post by **AntonySharmman** » Thu Jul 08, 2021 12:36 am

steve-stevens-guitar-samples-collection-akai.

This row format ISO contains Giga files and it's rather messy if trying to convert to SF2/SFZ and then to KMP for Korg models since you will be confused with
multiple existing multisamples that can't be easily translated to the proper stereo format and mapping !

I had made the correct translation and sound management for Kronos Programs 5 years ago and was a real bitch to achieve , for a customer via our service
https://wavesart.eu/Hire and as I see in my records , actual stereo samples size was approximately only 200 Mb for best sounds there , all the rest 400Mb
are lower quality and mono samples ... just for the story.

mosspa · Post by **mosspa** » Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:25 am

[quote="SeedyLee"]I would be keen to buy them but:

a) My kronos is close to death and if I buy a replacement I lose access to all my libraries

I just got my Kronos 2 about a month ago so I haven't opened it up yet (because of warranty voiding issues). If I had a Kronos that was "close to death", I definitely would open it up and supercharge it with more modern computer technology. After all, at its heart is just an off-the-shelf x86 motherboard running LINUX on an old Intel Atom processor. There are a number of on-line descriptions of what you need to do to put a modern 64-bit motherboard in a Kronos as well as everything that you need to know to circumvent all of the copy protection schemes employed by Korg. What really pisses me off is that just opening the case voids the warranty. I checked with a local Korg Authorized repair center about how much it would cost for them to install a 2TB SSD, that I would provide, in the second drive bay in the Kronos. The labor charges amount to over 2x what I would have to pay for the drive. From YouTube videos that show the opening of the case and show access to the available drive bay, the job would take maybe 15 min and most of that would be in removing and replacing the screws that hold the bottom panel on. This is the kind of bullshit that oftem makes me regret purchasing new gear. Yes, you get the warranty on a pretty substantial investment, but you are also held hostage to service by a "qualified" technican probably a lot less "qualified" than yourself.