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Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

I am trying to do a lo-fi piano sound and can't seem to get it. I have looked at the effects and I can get some overdrive with the tube sim, but that's not really what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a bit reduction or almost a bad compression sound. Any thoughts/ideas appreciated. Cheers!

Liviou2004 · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:53 am Post subject: Re: Lo-fi sound on Kronos?

Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

I just saw in the Op Manual an effect called "Stereo Decimator." I will try that. It looks like what I want to do.

Thanks Liviou. Can I assume there are no upright pianos in the Kronos ROM?

Liviou2004 · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:44 pm Post subject:

GregC · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:01 pm Post subject:

is a low fi AP/upright slightly detuned ?

It's easy to layer two AP's and slightly detune one in a combi.
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Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

Thanks Liviou. I searched for "upright" in the search function last night with no results. I will search again. Hopefully I didn't delete it somewhere along the way.

Greg, I thought about that as well, that way you can control the amount of detune.

Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

Would the exs4 be something that was was preloaded on my synth? When I went and looked at the factory files there was I-G or U-G banks in the PCGs. I don't know where else to look for it on the hard drive.

CharlesFerraro · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:36 am Post subject: Re: Lo-fi sound on Kronos?

Liviou2004 · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:43 am Post subject:

Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

Would the exs4 be something that was was preloaded on my synth? When I went and looked at the factory files there was I-G or U-G banks in the PCGs. I don't know where else to look for it on the hard drive.

Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

FOund it! It was in an extras folder. Thanks for the tip. I am going to try to swap it out on one of my combis and see how it sounds. Also, there was a lo-fi piano right next to it so I need to check that out as well.

Liviou2004 · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:28 pm Post subject:

tunaman · Senior Member Joined: 28 Nov 2019 Posts: 257

Kilroy · Junior Member Joined: 29 Jan 2002 Posts: 82

I was aware of that. Thank you for your comment though. I knew eventually I was going to load the whole (half) Exs4 bank to audition all of them. I have only had this kronos for a few months and I have been programming combis and programs all over the place, and I didn't know the location of any of them without searching, which wasn't really sustainable. Yesterday I loaded up my PCG in PCGtools and spent about four hours cutting and pasting and clearing out a couple banks so I could have all my custom HD-1s, EXis, and combis in single banks. So now I am good. I ended up loading about 12 of the EXS4 sounds. The lo-fi piano was great but I had to lose the loud vinyl and clicking sounds to make it useful.

Anyway, it's all a learning process for me.I've been using Korgs since I bought a brand new Poly-61--my first synth--when I was 14 or so. But I forgot a lot while I focused on soft synths the last few years, so I'm just stumbling my way through some of the basics right now.