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I bought a korg kross a few months ago, and am enjoying a lot of what it offers, however there are a few small (an very annoying) issues I have with the instrument.

1. I can't get anything to save on the kross. By this I mean anything I change (eg auto-power off time, add programs/combinations to favorites, change the function of the SW 1/2 button) wont save, and so as soon as I turn off the instrument everything gets reverted back to default state. I'm not sure if this sort of thing gets saved onto an SD card, but i've formated it on the instrument itself, and it can read programs/combinations off the card fine, but it won't save anything onto it.

2. The portamento function doesn't sound right, and its hard to explain. Instead of gliding fluidily between the notes, it holds the note you are 'gliding' to, so you hear the note twice; once when you hit the note, and a second time when you 'glide' to the note (this is especially noticeable with the longer glide 'time' values). It means you get all this dissonance as it goes through weird intervals sliding towards the note instead of 'gliding' through each note, only sounding each note once.

Regardless of whether you had the "fingered" option enabled or not, if you were to press middle C, and then press C an octave above, if would sound the C above middle C, and then proceed to glide from middle C up. Because you need to hold the C above middle C for the portamento to actually 'glide' at all, you will initially hear middle C with C, then C# with C, then D with C and so on, instead of just fluidly ascending through the notes chromatically without clashing with the C above it.

Hopefully that all made sense.

I've been having these issues for a few months now and I haven't been able to find anything in the hundred of pages of operation/parameter guide, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Tom.

I may be able to answer question 2. The sound probably uses 2 different oscillators (or voices) so you have to set the Portamento for each voice individually. It sounds like one voice is sliding while the other one is going right to the note as normal.

Hi Tom.

Try updating the Kross Operating System. There have been some updates since it has been released and many bugs have been solved. The upgrade can be downloaded from Korg's web site.

In the meanwhile, you can save your user programs as midi data using the software editor in a PC or MAC.

Don't forget to join the Korg Kross Share group in Facebook. Many members will be happy to help you, and we have many sounds available for free download.

Hi Tom,

I'm sure you've figured it out by now....but for Q1 then any changes you make do not automatically save. You need to select the "Function" button and then "Write Global..." or "Write Favourites..." to get any of the changes to save. Took me a little while to figure that one out too!

GT

Melted Goldfish wrote:Hi Tom,

I'm sure you've figured it out by now....but for Q1 then any changes you make do not automatically save. You need to select the "Function" button and then "Write Global..." or "Write Favourites..." to get any of the changes to save. Took me a little while to figure that one out too!

GT

Little bit late of a reply, but that was it. Thanks a lot!

Managed to fix both problems. You have to hit "function" -> "write global settings" to get the settings to save, and as for the portamento problem, I wasn't changing the 'rate' for both oscillators, so the first oscillator would change by a rate of 27, while the second would change by 50, and so the first oscillator would finish the slide much earlier than the second, and so you would hear the final note before the second oscillator had finished sliding.

Thanks for all the answers

sutekh wrote:I may be able to answer question 2. The sound probably uses 2 different oscillators (or voices) so you have to set the Portamento for each voice individually. It sounds like one voice is sliding while the other one is going right to the note as normal.

Took me a while to figure out how to change the oscillators and how they had to be controlled separately, but that was it. Thanks a lot!