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In combi mode, I'd like to set a piano program to be played by an external MIDI keyboard, but since that keyboard lacks half-damper capability, I'd still like to control the sustain through damper pedal input on the Kronos. This doesn't seem possible, as once I set the program in the combi to another MIDI channel, all controls from the Kronos itself (including the pedals) no longer affect the program. Has anyone found a way around this?

I do this as well. Here's how I do it,
My controller sends on channel 1. I decided to set my Global Channel in Kronos to 16.

I put the German Grand in slot one of a combi. Set it to channel 1.
I turn Karma on. (Button under vol control)
In the Karma tab, the A module says Gch to 1. Timber thru is off
Under MIDI Filter/CC Offset, I uncheck everything except Damper, Other CC and on the right, GE Notes.

You will want to make sure under GE Setup the RUN is unticked.

I also load stings in slot two, set it to channel 1. With the MIDI filter, I can have the piano respond to damper pedal but not volume pedal. On the strings they do respond to volume pedal. This way I can swell the strings in and out with the volume pedal while the piano always plays normally.

With this setup I can put any sound on my 88-note controller and mapped anywhere across the keyboard. This is completely separated from the same thing on the Kronos 61's keyboard. I just set those slots to Gch.

Let me say Karma is a major mystery to me and somehow I fumbled into this way of setting it. Other Karma guru's may have a more elegant of doing it.

Once I have it working, I saved it as a template so anytime I need a two keyboard combi patch, I start from that saved template.

Hope this helps!

Geo

Brilliant! Thanks Geo. That worked great!