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Hello,

I have Presonus Studio whatever.

I've trying to move the songs from my sequencer into this daw so I can properly mix them.

I have quite a few songs I made in the Kronos. 32 track heavy songs with solo's mutes... automation etc. I think in an older post people mentioned recording individual tracks into the Daw separately.

Sounds about insane.

The other option was to record the entire song in to the daw as a single file.


Which method do you guys prefer for transitioning songs from the Kronos to the DAW?

I really want to clean up each track and properly finesse it in the DAW. I'm guessing I would have to play each track individually and just record it into the DAW and by some miracle get the timing lined up perfectly on all the tracks?

Hello Blazerunner,
You write : "I really want to clean up each track and properly finesse it in the DAW. I'm guessing I would have to play each track individually and just record it into the DAW and by some miracle get the timing lined up perfectly on all the tracks? "

I do that.
All you have to do is to sync your daw with your Kronos.
I use the Kronos as master and my DAW as a slave : And it works !

Does this help?

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

Hello folks,

Thanks for the few responses. I guess I'll just do it the hardway (the only Kronos way) and record each track individually into the DAW.

Anyone have any tips on how to carry that out in the least messy way?

I'm just looking forward to being done with the Kronos's Sequencer it's become a real bottleneck for my creativity. Great for jotting down ideas as a scratch pad but falls short when you want to create fully produced songs. It becomes very complicated and a game of cat and mouse with what it can and can't do so you end up sacrificing ideas just to get the song recorded. I don't want to do that anymore.

To move your MIDI tracks in a DAW is enough to save the song as MIDI File and import in a DAW. Format 0. Disk>SAVE> open menu Bar> Save to Standard MIDI File. After editing is a simple way to load it back in Kronos as Standard MIDI File. For audio file is little bit different. Select a track from Audio Track MIXER, set to solo go to Sampling , open MENU Bar and Bounce all track to disk. The Track will be created in real time on Disk. Will have to move it in a DAW manually. Other way, set the audio track to solo and record in a DAW one by one.
Hope this help.

I replied on a more recent post with this....
I have my K connected to a MacBook Pro 2015 running Monterey. It's recognized and for general purposes it's working fine. My issue is trying to get my DAW (Studio One version 6.2) to record a Combi with KARMA turned on. I have a video from a Korg rep that shows how to do it with Logic and it works seamlessly. But I can't duplicate the process in S1. I'd post a link to the video but I can't find the link. I did save it as an MP4 but I can't up load it here. Or can I? I think it might have something to do with how S1 deals with multitimbral instruments. Talked to a lot of S1 people but they all work inside the box. Doing external instruments, especially with MIDI is not their thing. I'm sure this can be done. I have been able to isolate the KARMA MIDI tracks and get results. But I want to pay the whole KARMA performance and have it go to separate MIDI tracks for editing in S1. Which is far superior to the Kronos Sequencer for editing. If anyone else is interested in this I'm open for discussion.