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midinotes · Joined: 03 Aug 2013 Posts: 18

I am considering a Kross to add to my present rig and am interested in its vocoder features. Unfortunately though I cannot find any videos or audio demos of how it sounds. Does it offer traditional vocoder type effects like the new Roland JDXi and Mr Blue Sky type effects? How easy is it to use?

Thanks
Simon

tommymandel · Senior Member Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 272 Location: NYC

There is a really cool video on YouTube where the Korg rep plays and sings into the Kross vocoder/mic input - i"ll try to find it. brb. Cool

tommymandel · Senior Member Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 272 Location: NYC

I'm back. It's the talented Steve McNally - but I'm afraid it's not the vocoder, it's just the mic input - he's singing along with sequences and or audio files in the Kross. I'll look for more though.

midinotes · Joined: 03 Aug 2013 Posts: 18

Cheers Tommy, I did watch quite a few Kross videos but couldn't see anything demo'd of the vocoder. If anyone on the forum has used it I would be interested in knowing the results.

Simon

rammstein · Full Member Joined: 06 Apr 2014 Posts: 103

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDbR7i3CtUk

he used the vocoder in the intro part.

tommymandel · Senior Member Joined: 29 Apr 2013 Posts: 272 Location: NYC

thanks ramm, i thought i'd seen/heard that somewhere! Not nearly as inspiring, here is a file that i just made with the 2 vocoder patches in Program/DrumsSfx category.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/matgav8h8cz9bkb/KrossVocoderPatches.mp3?dl=0

Korglee · Full Member Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 118

Sounds good. Nice job. Is it possible to take the dry vocal completely out of the sound and just have the effected vocal?

midinotes · Joined: 03 Aug 2013 Posts: 18

Thanks so much Tommy M for those samples, that's what I was looking for! So it seems to be a proper vocoder then. I've also been looking at the Krome, but that doesnt seem to have any audio input features or recording.

Simon