
On the other hand I could always hire you to play stuff for me.


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On the same line of thought:EvilDragon wrote:Definitely! I can play keyboard better than I can play guitar, so it comes pretty useful to me
+1ozy wrote:but no day goes by without some keyboard player reinforcing the preconceived notion.
Synhts are NOT for "people who can't play other instruments"!
Synths are for people who CAN play synths!!!
It's not that much an issue of sample library, but more an issue of sample player not optimized... When we see what Korg do with the HD-1, SGX-1, MS20 and all other synthesis, I have no doubt they could come up with something great...EvilDragon wrote:LASS would be impossible on a 1.6 GHz Atom CPU... in fact most of real-world VSTs aren't sufficiently optimized to run on such a platform. Kontakt especially.
That's certainly a cool thing, but honestly, to me it seems that those two function buttons are nothing more than just another two physical controllers.xmlguy wrote:Advanced articulations are more than key-off. There's special behavior programmed and function buttons to control the articulations. For example, Superarticulation can do a guitar slide when you hammer a key three or four notes up from a current note, but not when you hammer six notes up. Brass falls, shakes, trills, and other articulations can be added to the last note of a phrase using function buttons, as another example.
The problem is not that the KRONOS hardware can't do advanced articulations, it's that the software has to be designed to perform the articulations in a natural way for keyboardists. Mapping articulations to different keys is NOT a natural way to do it. Articulations should be able to be triggered on the normal notes that you're playing, while you're playing them. Mapping an articulation to a different key doesn't work the same. The AF buttons work such that you can call a trumpet fall at the end of the note in real-time, or a guitar slide by hitting the button before hitting the note. It's not just a matter of changing all the keys to a different multisample, as with the pizzicato example you described.sani wrote:That's certainly a cool thing, but honestly, to me it seems that those two function buttons are nothing more than just another two physical controllers.xmlguy wrote:Advanced articulations are more than key-off. There's special behavior programmed and function buttons to control the articulations. For example, Superarticulation can do a guitar slide when you hammer a key three or four notes up from a current note, but not when you hammer six notes up. Brass falls, shakes, trills, and other articulations can be added to the last note of a phrase using function buttons, as another example.
I can trigger brass falls, shakes, trills with velocity switching, or using the two SW buttons or even with a dedicated key zone in a combination with those dedicated articulation samples.
There is also a strings patch on the Kronos (and even on the M3) where you get a pizzicato sound by pressing a SW button.
It's maybe not programmed out from factory to be triggered by some buttons, but it can certainly be done.