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KARMA question

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I've not been using KARMA ever since the Oasys days. While trying it out on the Kronos, I discovered that sometimes if I try and change the 'scenes', the scene changes (adds to existing scene, which continues to play as well) at a point where I press the button instead of it changing at the 1st beat of the next logical bar.. As this happens only for some scenes, which gives me an impression that this may be configurable. Is there a parameter setting to control this? I mean, I want to scene to change at the 1st beat of the next bar and not in the middle of the previous bar where I press the button..

Any help from some of the KARMA users here?
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Post by kron »

And how do you stop those annoying and arbitrary synth sounds this thing makes? These generally sound out of context to me. I'm trying to emulate a guitar strum and if possible to customise the strum pattern such that I can change the strum pattern over various buttons.. Has anyone done this? Which is useable strum guitar which sounds like guitar using KARMA strumming?
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There are several quantitize settings you can use, so here are the most used ones in combi's and programs:

If you refer to the scenes only then press the karma button on the Touch screen, go to the GE RTP Scenes tab and change the Scene change quantitize window to the interval you like.

see page 133 from the parameter guide to see the explanation of this. (Chapter 7-5C Scenes


If you refer to the start of a karma pattern based on pressing a key then do this:
to start a karma pattern on the beginning of a beat (based on your quantitize trigger settings) you need to go to the KARMA Trigger page (it's the same for every synth engine). Then activate the Quantitize Trig checkbox en select the value: 1st at the Note section (trigger), and On at the note section (latch)

see page 129 from the parameter guide to see the explanation of this. (Chapter 7-4 Module Parameters - Trigger


The Strumming is a lot more difficult, there are a lot of possibilities to achieve this, for instance you could do the strumming by hand (AKR trigger) or you can choose one of the standard strumming GE's in the Guitar GE section. Then you need to set the corresponding parameters to get the strumming effect you want. This is more an advanced way of KARMA programming.

You can find lot's of information on the KarmaLab WIKI page.
http://karma-lab.wikidot.com/
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Thanks qrobinez.. It's time for me to do some study now :-)
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