guess the basis for this Kronos Program

[Steve Pavao]

OK - here's a challenge for you.

Here's a snippet of a brief performance using a Program I made on Kronos.

Can you identify the name of the fairly well-known Kronos Program on which my Program is based? It is significantly different from the original, yet it retains some similarities.

I will tell you the goal when I started programming it...I wanted to take what seemed like a bit of a special-effect Program and modify it into a generally useful playable pad that used some of the features of that original Program, but in a more subtle way, even when Karma was running.

<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=htt ... "></iframe>

Soundcloud's transcoding has degraded this sound pretty measurably, but it should not get in the way of helping someone figure this out.

Happy hunting.

Hint: OASYS users may have a distinct advantage in solving this.

- Steve Pavao
software engineer
Korg R&D

[Steve Pavao]

OK. The basis for my program was the Polysix Program "Big Sunrise Pad". In Kronos, this Program is at location USER-E 008. (In OASYS, it is at location USER-D 058.)

Stephen Kay demos the Karma aspect of the Big Sunrise Pad Program at the 8:27 mark in the following video:

http://www.karma-lab.com/vp/klvp.html?playID=23

If you compare his demo to the end portion of my Soundcloud recording in my previous post (which is the portion starting at 0:28 where I have Karma on), you can hear that my version is similar to the original, especially in the "busier sounding" Karma scenes.

My changes to the Program included: I edited the original sound to make it even more pad-like with Karma on, focusing on re-tooling the fast percolating scenes to be more continuous, but toning down the depth a bit, to make it a little more subtle. Also, with Karma Off, I made the pad swampier, and with less attack. I also did work so that when Karma is turned on, the difference between On/Off is more subtle. I wanted something a little more melancholy overall, as opposed to majestic.

Soon, I will analyze both Programs and provide a list of parameters to show you how I got from one to the other to meet the goals I had set out. It might be a fun exercise for some to go through the differences.

It is fun to take a sound which has some aspects that you quite like, and slightly retool it for a compositional purpose, and tone down aspects that might not fit your goals.

The final touch is to pick a name for the Program. I picked "Under the Moors" for 3 reasons. It is a riff on the OASYS Combi Name "The Moors", the sound is very watery/bubbly when Karma is on, and when karma is on, I suppose there's somewhat of a hint of that Enya type of percolating synth sound (though at a much quicker pace), so the name evokes Ireland as well.

[DocBambs]

Very interesting... so much to learn.

DB