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Lou · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 6:56 pm Post subject: Kronos Optical In/Out ?

Planing for the Kronos arrival, I was thinking about using the S/PDIF optical connection.
I know that I will be using the out to my interface (Ensemble) and was wondering if or why I would also use the optical back into the Kronos.

I was hoping someone might shed some light on how this could be used and what for? (The return signal) Thanks.
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Kevin Nolan · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject:

1. The Kronos has an excellent Vocoder. Mike Conway has some exquisite demos of vocoding voice with onboard HD-1 Choir samples making the OASYS (Kronos) sound like a Choir. Not quite Roland's Vocal Design but never the less, incredibly good. So - you could feed in a mic. from your mixer/interface and through optical into the Kronos.

2. Many synth engines including MS20EX, STR-1 and MOD- accept external audio input, from mics or other synthesizers or DAW audio tracks. So again, optical in takes care of that.

3. Using Kronos's onboard effects on external singnals.

4. When composing on the Kronos sequencer, you can record other instruments / voice onto Kronos HD Audio Tracks.

Kevin.

Lou · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 7:44 pm Post subject:

DaveBoulden · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject:

Lou · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:42 am Post subject:

DaveBoulden · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:59 am Post subject:

Thanks Lou.

Slovenec · Full Member Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 170

The SPDIF I/O means that you can use your choice of high quality external preamp to feed signals into the Kronos' HDR without and sound degradation. My Joe Meek Twin Q (which has both optical and coaxial SPDIF outs) would be perfect for use with the Kronos and there are plenty of other options out there.
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Lou · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:31 am Post subject:

theshinenz · Full Member Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 240

On a similar topic, is there a cable that can connect spdif optical to to slink optical? I wanted to connect my kurzwiel pc3 to the kronos but retain he option of using the analog ins for a vocoding if poss, and want to avoid a conversion box in between, if not I guess i'll have to ditch the vocoding live.

Cheers.

Scott

X-Trade · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 10:43 am Post subject:

ScoobyDoo555 · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 1:46 pm Post subject:

There are boxes that will convert from SPDIF to lightpipe (Behringer do one although it may defeat the clarity part of the exercise if you used one!)

Reason being that you're going from electrical signal to optical signal.....
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X-Trade · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:10 pm Post subject:

ScoobyDoo555 · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:25 pm Post subject:

In theory, a 1 & 0 are just that: lovely sentiment, but it IS Behringer (without slagging it off! Laughing

! ) - I've got one at college where I teach...... it ain't brilliant.
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RKfan · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:33 pm Post subject:

On a related subject, I have a question.

If I use the USB port to transfer MIDI/audio etc between the Kronos and a PC are the midi interfaces still working?

This would be so I can chain the K to my other keyboard without using two USBs and probably confusing my DAW.

EnjoyRC · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 2:35 pm Post subject: