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KK wrote:Hi Flabis66,

I see you seem to be francophone, so may I suggest this video below for a start. It is a tutorial on how to sample a simple sound. In your example of ducks, it is even more simple, since you would not need to loop your samples. Start with easy things, only one sample first, then create a program with it and learn how to save everything properly. After a few attempts, everything becomes simpler. Le secret c'est la pratique ! Bon clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwtSrqYvPE4

Liviou2004 wrote: What could help is to think of the Kronos not as an instrument but as a full studio, because it's the case. The Kronos is a Worstation, not a simple instrument. So just imagine a room with several keyboards and instruments, drums, percussions, a mixer, a sampler, an effect unit and a multitrack recorder. Here is a Kronos.
This helped me a lot to think like that.

The second thing wich helped me is to know exactly what I wanted to do before turning on the Kronos.
Do I just want to play pliano ? Do I want to play pad sounds ? Do I want to listen and practise some drums ? Do I want to record what I'm playing ? Do I want to compose a song with piano, bass, drums ? Do I want to sample a beautiful sound I just heard and playing with it ? Etc, etc;

So, I suggest you asked this to yourself before turning it on : what I want to do with my Kronos, just now ? Once this question answered, either you know how to do or not.
If not, there are many way to do : this forum, youtube, manuals. But keep your very specific question in mind not other one.

That way, you will progress step by step. But get rid of the idea you will completely master the Kronos in some days or even some weeks. It will take many times.

janrhansen wrote:Ok I'm gonna get a share of the noobiness

I'm also a new Kronos user and here is my question:

Been looking at both Korgs, 3'rd partys and usermade sample packs out there and I can see that like ALL sound libraries containing expansion samples seems to be using the HD-1 engine..

Before getting my Kronos I thaught that I could buy or make my own samples of eg an Acoustic Piano and then use them in the XG engine, but all 3'rd party Piano packs is using the HD-1 engine .. Are the XG engine only for "Korg"samples aor are there any other Reason that only Korgs own new pianos every 3-4 years uses the XG-2 Engine ?

I actually theught the EP-1 engine used samples too, but as I read the manual found out that its "synthesized" so propably based on some form of Physical modelling and not samples

janrhansen wrote:Ok I'm gonna get a share of the noobiness

I'm also a new Kronos user and here is my question:

Been looking at both Korgs, 3'rd partys and usermade sample packs out there and I can see that like ALL sound libraries containing expansion samples seems to be using the HD-1 engine..

Before getting my Kronos I thaught that I could buy or make my own samples of eg an Acoustic Piano and then use them in the XG engine, but all 3'rd party Piano packs is using the HD-1 engine .. Are the XG engine only for "Korg"samples aor are there any other Reason that only Korgs own new pianos every 3-4 years uses the XG-2 Engine ?

I actually theught the EP-1 engine used samples too, but as I read the manual found out that its "synthesized" so propably based on some form of Physical modelling and not samples

Sweat wrote:

janrhansen wrote:es

I always assumed that EP-1 and SGX-2 were similar to HD-1 in that they use multisample (EX) libraries, but in addition, they have special parameters that are especially useful to control for editing piano characteristics. However, with the powerful use of velocity switched layers (8 per OSC?) in HD-1 coupled with the Kronos ability to stream from its SSD, I have wondered if the quality of many of the third party pianos and EPs surpass SGX and EP-1. Perhaps others can speak to this.

Sweat wrote:I am sure the samples within the libraries must be created and organized in a very special way. When Korg releases a new piano library they update the OS allowing Kronos to recognize it.

I always assumed that EP-1 and SGX-2 were similar to HD-1 in that they use multisample (EX) libraries, but in addition, they have special parameters that are especially useful to control for editing piano characteristics. However, with the powerful use of velocity switched layers (8 per OSC?) in HD-1 coupled with the Kronos ability to stream from its SSD, I have wondered if the quality of many of the third party pianos and EPs surpass SGX and EP-1. Perhaps others can speak to this.