Kronos Wish List!

[groovysphere]

Would be good be able to switch between exi and HD1 when creating a user generated sound without having to go to global settings to change the bank settings. A simple on screen drop down box to change between the two would be handy.

[michelkeijzers]

Yes, actually i don't know why a complete bank should be containing only EXIs or only sampled programs. The difference could be marked with a bit and I'm sure there is a bit left in the PCG contents for a program.

[groovysphere]

Would be good to play sounds on Kronos while an audio cd is playing with an attached cdrw drive. Currently cant find find a way to do that.

[borntorock1977]

Global key transpose - should NOT transpose keys in Drum Patches.

[jick]

Global key transpose - should NOT transpose keys in Drum Patches.

+1, good suggestion

[EnjoyRC]

I would think there would be a TEMPO setting PER Set List slot. That way similar patches can be used for different songs. This would make arpegiations, Karma, effects and the Drum Track (metronome, etc...) the correct tempo for that song.

Anyone else see value in this?

[EnjoyRC]

I appreciate the Volume parameter for each patch in the Set List.

I would think there would be a TEMPO setting PER Set List slot. That way similar patches can be used for different songs. This would make arpegiations, Karma, effects and the Drum Track (metronome, etc...) the correct tempo for that song.

Would it be a good idea to add it in PCG Tools? (the volume setting)
So if you change the volume of a set list slot (in the application), internally the program or combi volume(s) are changed. Of course it would be nicer if it would be in the OS, but I cannot change that.

I believe it is in the OS.

[michelkeijzers]

I appreciate the Volume parameter for each patch in the Set List.

I would think there would be a TEMPO setting PER Set List slot. That way similar patches can be used for different songs. This would make arpegiations, Karma, effects and the Drum Track (metronome, etc...) the correct tempo for that song.

Would it be a good idea to add it in PCG Tools? (the volume setting)
So if you change the volume of a set list slot (in the application), internally the program or combi volume(s) are changed. Of course it would be nicer if it would be in the OS, but I cannot change that.

I believe it is in the OS.

You are right, I wrote this before I had a Kronos myself (and I admit: I didn't read all the manual). Thanks for replying on this though.

[sandiaburd]

I'm primarily using the Kronos for stage performance and I find myself missing some of the features of the Kurzweil PC2x that my Kronos is replacing. The biggest thing I miss is the ability to map ANY control source to ANY MIDI control message and to route them to internal and/or external destinations on a per patch (combi) basis. The Kronos has a limited set of possible messages for each each physical controller and some of the controllers (e.g., middle pedal) can only be set globally.

A simple example. I had a patch on the PC2x for Riders on the Storm that triggered rain and thunder on an external synth with two of the lower keys. The middle pedal was mapped as sustain pedal in reverse for the rain (on by default, off when depressed). I pressed one keyboard key at the beginning of the performance to start the rain and it sustained until the end of the song when I pressed the middle pedal. I haven't found a way to replicate that behavior on the Kronos using any pedal or toggle switch.

Another request, incorporate the flexibility to connect a continuous controller pedal with either a linear or logarithmic pot.

Another request, provide a 1-setting method to disable the vector control joystick in all layers of a program or combi. The vector controller is great when it's needed but I usually don't need it. It's too easy too move by mistake on a dark stage with unexpected and undersired effects.

One more request - also something I miss from the PC2x - a panic button that sends all notes off on all internal and external MIDI channels when pressed.

[popmann]

I miss the panic button, too. (replaced a pc2x, too) But, honestly--that's not really a software upgrade, you know? I guess they could implement a combo...enter+exit or something, but most of those seem used...

Kurz does eat it for lunch in terms of controller flexibility. In fact, in terms of most external mapping. The fact that I could plug in my CC pedal and Voce MIDI Drawbars and have them both "just work" without any set up on the Kurz Kb3 (through every patch) is the way an organ modeller should work. See many pages ago where I asked for CC addressing of the drawbars. Right now, I can't use my nice drawbar controller that has a wonderful "send all" so that you really can call up a patch, send all, and all the drawbars and perc settings are as they are on the hardware. No need to zero them out and start building like I have to with the sysex faders.

[DaveBoulden]

OK, this suggestion is not *just* the Kronos, but... it would be great if Korg could create a new nano controller with a 4x4 matrix of pads so that is is in a more square form factor. The main reason for this is so that it would fit comfortably on either side of a K73 anr K88. Currently the nanoPad hangs off the edge of a K73. With a 4x4 matrix, the lower 8 pads can be used as the "chord pads" and the other 8 can be used for the various functions people are missing from the Kronos, the main one being oct up/down and transpose buttons. Of course, any arrangement of pads & knobs would be nice so long as the form factor sits comfortably on the Kronos. Come on Korg... with a default template assigning the most requested missing buttons to the pads, it would be the "must have" accessory!

[searlstudio]

Maybe this is here somewhere, but as I'm programming patches (programs) I want to be able to save Oscillator sounds so I can recall in other patches. So if I create a nice Pad sound using one oscillator of AL-1 or Mod 7, I want to be able to save that and recall it later if I'm combining with an SG Piano sound.

[Broadwave]

Maybe this is here somewhere, but as I'm programming patches (programs) I want to be able to save Oscillator sounds so I can recall in other patches. So if I create a nice Pad sound using one oscillator of AL-1 or Mod 7, I want to be able to save that and recall it later if I'm combining with an SG Piano sound.

You can do that by tapping the COMMON tab and then into the drop-down PROGRAM BASIC menu (top right) and select COPY EXi OSCILLATOR and import your program into the EXi2 slot

But... you have to manually reconfigure any FX that you had on your imported program, as they don't get copied across.

[Davidb]

Now that it is released, can we get a sticky for things we would like to see in a future OS update?

2. Playhead marker in Sample Edit, Loop Edit, and Track Edit

3. Zoom In/Out in Track Edit.

10. Grid (Sequencer) Recording and Editing
....and I continue:

11. Full program edit access in Combi and Seq Mode. (Yamaha's SY77 from 1989 can do this!!!) Because otherwise you cannot manipulate a MS20 or Polysix-Program with the virtual knobs on its beautiful graphic interface or any other EXi or HD1 program parameter, because there is no direct access to them, while working in Sequencer and Combination-Mode.

12. Drum Program editing in Program-, Combi- and Seq-Mode not like now only in Global Mode. The same for wave sequences.

17. Touchscreen editing like on the PA800 and M3-Xpanded: Touch a parameter and change its value by moving the finger on the screen, which doesn't work on the KRONOS.

18. Velocity-Meters (Midi and Audio) for each track in Seq-Mode and in Combi-Mode or at least an indication which part or track actually is sounding.

19. Sequencer editing possibilities and user interface of the M3-Xpanded Sequencer.

+1
Excellent compilation.
Very well resumed.

All this is needed in a socalled workstation nowdays.
The omision of some of this features (some of them present in recent Korg models) is a nosense, IMHO.

[michelkeijzers]

18 would be really useful (I could use that functionality daily).