Korg Kronos Tutorial: 21 Loading DX7 sounds QR

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 5:28 pm

Korg Kronos Tutorial: 21 Loading DX7 sounds QR

This is part 2 of the Loading and saving sounds tutorial series. (tutorial 20 is part 1).

With the thousends of free DX7 sounds available on the internet you can easely add new sounds to your Kronos. The Kronos can read DX-7 Sysex files and translate them into the MOD-7 engine.

It's really easy to do, and the best part of it is that you can take advantage of the Kronos possibilities on those DX7 sounds. For instance you can add Velocity responsiveness to the sound, or you can add the Kronos effects over the DX7 sounds which makes a huge difference to the original.

This tutorial will show you all the steps of getting the sounds and how to use them in the kronos and add velocity responsiveness and effects to them. That way you have full control yourself on easely adding thousends of new sounds for free to your kronos.

So what will be covered in this tutorial?
- how to download free DX7 sounds from the internet
- how to import those sounds into the Kronos
- how to make DX7 sounds Velocity Responsive
- how to add effects to the DX7 sounds
- how to save them to a new bank of our own

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For reference purposes, the following 21 tutorials are in the playlist below (over 3 hours of tutorials)
to select a tutorial press play and then click on the lines at the left top of the video.
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Tutorial: 01 KARMA Introduction - How to program your first KARMA Arpeggiator
Tutorial: 02 Clusters - How to program Polyphonic Arpeggiators in KARMA
Tutorial: 03 Using the Sequencer for recording combis
Tutorial: 04 Sampling Omnisphere in the Kronos Sampler
Tutorial: 05 Sidechaining and Compression
Tutorial: 06 Using Backing Tracks
Tutorial: 07 Setup Kronos And VST Instruments for Live Performance and Recording (Internal Summing)
Tutorial: 08 Using Existing KARMA Modules
Tutorial: 09 Wave Sequences (Motion Pads)
Tutorial: 10 IPAD Music App Synth Arp & Drum Pad
Tutorial: 11 Programming an AL-1 Lead QR
Tutorial: 12 Step Sequencer and Patterns
Tutorial: 13 MS-20 Patch Panel Programming
Tutorial: 14 Creating your own combi
Tutorial: 15 KARMA KK, Custom GEs and building a Combi
Tutorial: 16 Arpeggiator Up & Down
Tutorial: 17 Ableton and Kronos integration
Tutorial: 18 How to create a pad sound in the HD-1 engine
Tutorial: 19 Using IPAD Nave and PPG Wavegenerator
Tutorial: 20 Loading and Saving Sounds Part 1
Tutorial: 21 Loading DX7 sounds

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Jeremy Bender · Post by **Jeremy Bender** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:00 am

Thanks Qui this is a very helpful and clear video!

Lots to explore!

Best wishes
Steve

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:59 am

Hi Qui!

Did you see this thread?
www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=98955

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 10:53 am

SanderXpander wrote:Hi Qui!

Did you see this thread?
www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=98955

Hi SanderXpander,

i didn't see that thread, i almost never read the posts in the oasys forum. But it looks like an interesting package where a lot of work went into.

thanks for mentioning it

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:02 pm

Another great tutorial. Thanks!

media-igor · Post by **media-igor** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 6:49 pm

SanderXpander wrote:Hi Qui!

Did you see this thread?
www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=98955

This is the same library - have been converted for Kronos:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/J5pT/hfcjCn7sw

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:29 pm

The ones in that thread were already converted to Kronos/Oasys...?

media-igor · Post by **media-igor** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:43 am

SanderXpander wrote:The ones in that thread were already converted to Kronos/Oasys...?

No, is me on my Kronos made a conversion

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:37 am

I don't understand. You can load the original PCG directly on Kronos. What's there to convert?

media-igor · Post by **media-igor** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:17 am

SanderXpander wrote:I don't understand. You can load the original PCG directly on Kronos. What's there to convert?

- Load file PCG (OASIS) in KRONOS, and then save it to another directory - it will be a file PCG (Konos).

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:34 am

Thank you for another great video!

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:29 pm

Great tutorial Qui. Thanks again.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:37 pm

media-igor wrote:
SanderXpander wrote:I don't understand. You can load the original PCG directly on Kronos. What's there to convert?
- Load file PCG (OASIS) in KRONOS, and then save it to another directory - it will be a file PCG (Konos).

What's the benefit?