Cool thanks for the info sounds complicated but not that complicated if you know what I mean. will defintly check out your vid while refering to what your saying here thanks.qrobinez wrote:The drumtrack is just one drumtrack that you can choose from the drumtrack library. You can also use different drumsets, ranging from Rock kits till the 909 electronic drumkit.Darmin De'flern wrote:Question with the drum track is it just drum or Bass as well because when I see people hitting another part of the keyboard sometimes a bass sound is coming off depending where the demo(er) is pressing etc.
The video's you see, is when people use the combi mode. A combi can use up till 16 sounds. The arranger style patterns you have to add through KARMA modules. There are 4 KARMA modules available in combi mode. A KARMA module is basisly a predefined algorithmic pattern that you can modify in lots of ways.
For instance, say you want to have a Conga pattern that changes every 8 beats so that it's constantly different. That kind of things are possible with KARMA. But what you also can do is assign KARMA modules to specific patterns for dedicated sounds. Like a pattern for the bassline, a pattern for the guitar, an arpeggiator pattern or a drumsound or whatever you can think of. There are 1000's of patterns available to get you started and every pattern can be modified with 32 key parameters so that you can really modify the existing pattern.
let me start by giving an example, in the following demo i've made i play the bass line in an arranger style with the left hand, now what makes this interesting is that i created a split zone in the keyboard so that the bassline only works in the lower register of the keyboard. However, the chords i'm playing with my right hand determines how the bass pattern is played (minor or major).
This is a big difference when comparing this technique to keyboards where you play the chord with the left hand and the melody with the righthand. This is also possible with KARMA, but as you will see in the video, the added advantage of recognising what you do with your right hand is that you can create bassline that are hard to do on a keyboard.
For instance, in this video i play with a combi of my own in the Neo Soul style. This style has lots of strange chords like ditones and tritones that would be recognised wrong on a keyboard. But the KARMA engine can understand these kind of chords you play perfectly.
here's the example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I76v6UPRt6o
there are more examples on my channel and also some tutorials about how to program KARMA so you can see if you understand the idea behind KARMA. Especially tutorial 2: KARMA clusters gives some basic info you need when you are going to program your own combis. I would suggest that you watch that 2nd tutorial to see if the kronos KARMA implementation is what you expect it to be.
Your saying about jumping styles after a certain beat but would it be possible to sort of fool karma into acting like an arranger for example.
Plays chorus his trigger for karma to go into brige hits tirgger to go to chorus hits trigger to go back to verse for example?
) lol. I guess I got arrangers on both my other keyboards I would imainge that I should also be able to midi them up to use the superior sounds of the kronos while using the old styles though?
