Kronos Wish List!

[findus]

21. EXi octatrack like sample player (light version!) with disk streaming
22. randomizer for ms-20, a1, mod, str

[findus]

24 Radias to AL-1 Patch converter
25 Seq steps can be edited/controlled by internal or exernal faders

[RobLinwood]

I just spent a few hours reading this entire thread and my head is swimming. I have had my Kronos 61 for exactly one week today. Having come from an M3, my ramp-up into the basics was quick. I have barely begun to dig into the Ops Guide, so extend some mercy to me if these suggestions are already present in the Kronos...

- Software-based Shutdown: to alleviate the dangers of losing unwritten or unsaved precious work. Perhaps a software-based shutdown with appropriate warning(s) about unsaved songs (for example) and an opportunity to choose to save or at least cancel.

- Automatic song load - a Global option to automatically load all songs from a particular/configurable folder as part of boot up. I find the file management requirements (saving, loading, filetypes, etc.) of the Kronos to be highly flexible, but also burdensome.

- Muti-timbral Patterns (or perhaps "Pattern Groups") - I want a way to effectively jump to different parts of a song while playing live. I play in live worship settings where songs are often not played "as rehearsed" -- such as repeating a chorus part a couple extra times, or jumping back to verse n, etc. I think this end could be achieved with Karma and custom GE's, but I am also interested in the RPPR feature -- and hoping to assign pattern play triggers to the extra pads on my nanopad2 (after 1.5 comes out). Basically I want to trigger something much more lengthy than a typical arpeggiated (or even Karmafied) phrase.

That's my "first week" wish list. I hope to get some good suggestions from all you geniuses out there.

[popmann]

This could be done via Karma I suppose, but with the new string library coming out, I'd like to see a random, alternating "finding tune" for each played note. I'm playing with the new VSL vienna instruments pro player-and just enabling that, with the same sample set increases the realism tenfold. I don't need the control freak capability to alter all the potential variations, just a set of say 10-20 variations of finding tune. That way, you could repeat the same note 20 times and never get exactly the same response.

[RobLinwood]

Regarding my previous wish about Multi-timbral Patterns or Pattern Groups. Now that I have played with it, I have two more suggestions that would help me achieve a similar goal (real-time song arrangement)...

- Ability to assign multiple RPPR patterns to a single Key (thus creating somewhat of a pattern group). Question: can I achieve this by assigning chords to pads, where multiple notes in the chord are actually RPPR triggers? I guess this might be a way to do it, but can I use the on-screen pads in Sequencer mode? I think 1.5 + my Nanopad2 may solve this issue (?)

-Ability to place named markers on song measures and assign a key, pad, or controller button to cause a song to jump to a configurable marker during playback (also configured for beat, measure, "next marker" as options for when to make the jump). This would actually be my most preferred way of achieving arrangement flexibility during song playback. Please nobody tell me I should have bought an arranger keyboard

[JimH]

Sorry if this has been suggested already; I haven't read the whole thread.

In some menus, the menu item is selected when you press your finger down rather than when you lift up. For menu items that are small and close together, this can make it hard to be sure what you're selecting. And it's especially bad if you have a menu item with a destructive action next to the one you're trying to select. It would be better if all menus worked so that when you press down it only highlights the menu item and then you can slide up or down to make sure you're highlighting the one you want. Then lift up to actually select it.

Edit to add: Here's one example. Go into the Disk/File/Save page. Pull down the Save menu. The menu items "Save PCG" and "Save PCG & SEQ" are right next to each other. Regardless of which one you select, the dialog that comes up looks exactly the same. There's no indication which menu item you actually selected and it's too easy to choose the wrong one.

[michelkeijzers]

With update 1.5 we now have 7 more program banks. However, these will be also filled within months.

So maybe for a next update they could add the other banks: U-AB, U-AC, ... U-GE, U-GG ... meaning 7 x 7 - 7 (already implemented U-AA.. U-GG) banks meaning 42 banks, resulting in 5376 programs ... that will keep us busy for long.

By pressing one INT and one USER button they can be selected.

And you also could press two INT or two USER bank buttons for even more possibilities ... the names of the banks hmmm: IAIB, IAIC to UFUG, UGUG. Then we have the default (pre OS1.5) 14 (non GM) banks (I-A .. U-G) and 13 * 12 = 156 banks, resulting in 19968 programs. Selecting by any 2 bank buttons.

Just kidding ... well a bit. Probably saving such a PCG could take some time. But it would be aweful to have 20K programs in one synth.

[findus]

25 CC-Knobs/Faders: relative mode. When CC set to relative, changes are relative to the stored setting.

[michelkeijzers]

25 CC-Knobs/Faders: relative mode. When CC set to relative, changes are relative to the stored setting.

That would be nice, and an interesting use of a CC too.

[polop]

Automatic song load

yes that would be a good thing!

[Farakeys]

Transpose/octave shift by holding down [Insert button here] and press a key.

+1

Or maybe just put octave transpose and semitone transpose in a dedicated part of the screen on Setlist, Program and Combi modes, as somebody suggested in another thread.

Things that i miss:
- Dedicated Transpose Buttons (octave and semitone)
- User generated patterns and arpeggios (Karma?!?!)

[mykejb]

... Having spent the last few hours trying to get round-trip MIDI sent externally ....

Add an little tick-box somewhere that says "Regardless of whether I'm in Program/Combi/Set mode send out MIDI that reflects exactly what is controlling the synth sound generators so when it's sent back to the Kronos it sounds exactly the same as when it was recorded"

Maybe with a shorter label

Mike

[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.

Korg? Are you listening?

[plisken]

Have FX presets update themselves after Its been changed. For example I have a stereo compressor on multiple programs and combi's that use the same preset I made. I would make life and LOT easier and fast if I didnt have to go to every single program/combi every time I change a parameter.

If they are all on the same preset. once that preset is changed and saved. It should just automatically be updated on anything else using that preset.

[mathieumaes]

I have some simple ideas that can improve the UI:
- Make the "shift" button behave the same way like a phone keyboard: press once for 1 character, press twice for locking uppercases
- A global setting that turns on the "favorites" filter by default... So whenever you go to the programs list, you see just the sounds that you use often
- Show a notification (an icon, text, blinking, ...) whenever you have unsaved data. That way you may remind the user he needs to save