Copying wav files into Kronos

ron@ronniereverb.com · Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:41 am

SanderXpander wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by muting the keyboard, not the sequencer. The keyboard merely plays whichever track you selected in the sequencer. If you mute that track, the keyboard will not sound. In addition, you could simply not play? I must be missing something, not sure what you're trying to do here.

In other words, I'm perceiving possible times in live performance, when I'm too tired or wasted or whatever to play the keyboards, so I would just switch on the keyboard track for that song, and fake like I'm playing it on the muted keyboard.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:51 am

Right, so just mute whichever track you've selected for the keyboard to play.
Also, careful with the excellent reputation us musicians have

MRedZac · Post by **MRedZac** » Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:23 am

ron@ronniereverb.com wrote:
SanderXpander wrote:Is this a question or a complaint? The Kronos, like other workstations, doesn't have a mouse nor drag and drop. Use copy/paste.
This is a frustration.
I know how to copy, but not to paste, and with no mouse, drag/drop and no command and/or control "C" and "V", I don't know how and where the paste is done.

Maybe it would have been better to buy a 50 € Bontempi then instead !?

ron@ronniereverb.com · Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:14 am

SanderXpander wrote:Right, so just mute whichever track you've selected for the keyboard to play.

I think we missed on this one. I'm talking about pretending to be playing on the keyboard with the keyboard and/or premixed instrumental tracks on. As far as I know, that could only be accomplished by muting the keyboard so nothing was coming out of it, only the already saved tracks, whether imported, prerecorded CD instrumentals, or prerecorded instrumental tracks on the kronos.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 5:21 pm

That's what I meant - select a track that you don't want to be sounding (either the track you'd normally be playing live or an "empty" one), mute it, and hammer away.

ron@ronniereverb.com · Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:52 am

SanderXpander wrote:That's what I meant - select a track that you don't want to be sounding (either the track you'd normally be playing live or an "empty" one), mute it, and hammer away.

I guess that's what throws me. As far as I know the keyboards are always "live" - on, unless the master volume is zeroed which would mute everything else. I didn't know you could assign a track to the keyboard in a live performance???

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:19 am

In the sequencer, the keyboard plays only the track/channel you have selected for it.

If you wanted to prepare this rather than do it on the fly it would actually be better to set that timbre's status to "off" to avoid stealing voices through polyphony limitations. Not as quick as hitting a mute button though.

ron@ronniereverb.com · Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:24 pm

SanderXpander wrote:In the sequencer, the keyboard plays only the track/channel you have selected for it.

If you wanted to prepare this rather than do it on the fly it would actually be better to set that timbre's status to "off" to avoid stealing voices through polyphony limitations. Not as quick as hitting a mute button though.

Yeah, I definitely want the one button approach, so the sequencer sounds like the definite winner! This way I'll be able to go live or any one of the instruments at any point in the song, so that would be perfect!

So the only remaining question is whether in running the sequencer, I can keep the mike live off of the rear input plug in?

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 9:41 pm

ron@ronniereverb.com · Tue Aug 13, 2013 12:46 pm

SanderXpander wrote:Yes.

Okay, but back to the song file and the sequencer, I know I can copy the song into the disk, and from there I can play, stop and load it, but used in this fashion it will not mute the keyboard, so once on the disk, how to i get it into and played from the sequencer?

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:28 pm

ron@ronniereverb.com wrote:
SanderXpander wrote:Yes.
Okay, but back to the song file and the sequencer, I know I can copy the song into the disk, and from there I can play, stop and load it, but used in this fashion it will not mute the keyboard, so once on the disk, how to i get it into and played from the sequencer?

if you really want to fake your performance then just select a timbre (for instance timbre 1 and mute that timbre by pressing mute and save the song where you loaded your wav file in an audio track. Now when you load it again, you can play anything you want but you won't hear a thing, the only thing you will hear is your backing track

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:55 pm

ron@ronniereverb.com wrote:
SanderXpander wrote:Yes.
Okay, but back to the song file and the sequencer, I know I can copy the song into the disk, and from there I can play, stop and load it, but used in this fashion it will not mute the keyboard, so once on the disk, how to i get it into and played from the sequencer?

Qui's tutorial shows you exactly this.