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I’m facing a very annoying problem and am searching for help trying to solve it.

I noticed that my songs (.SNG), including those sequenced by myself and a lot of songs I imported from midi files have different GLOBAL volumes. I mean, when playing a song (imagine song 001) or any of it’s track instruments, I notice that some songs play louder than others, even when the tracks instruments and parameter seems to be identical.
It seems there must be a GLOBAL volume setting for each song but, if that’s the case, I cant find it anywhere.
How can I change this? Is there an option to adjust the default output volume for each song? (without using the volume button, of course).
I also noticed a weird behaviour when I use the MASTER volume button (not the output volume button). As my english is poor, I will try to explain it with an exemple:

Loaded two songs to the sequencer.
Pressed play (the song started) and adjusted the otput volume (not the master volume) to suit my needs.
After song 1 ended, swiched to song 2. Song 2 played much louder than song 1 BUT, when I touched the MASTER button the volume dropped a lot, even if I didn’t change the original position of MASTER button. I mean, I just moved the button a little and left it in the original position.
Now, song 2 plays at an identical volume as song 1 did, but if there is a third song, the same will happen…
And if I shut down my KRONOS and repeat the process, the same thing will happen.

If someone could help me here I would be much obliged.

Thank you in advance

Salomao

When you save a song, the setting of the MASTER volume is saved with the song.

So I think you can get your song volumes to similar volume levels if you load the song, then set the MASTER volume to max or whatever level you want, and save the song. Then load the other song, and set MASTER volume to the same level as in the first song, and also save that song.

Not sure if this applies to your problem but I've noticed that on some midi files I've downloaded from the internet that the CC#11 expression needs to be increased (to something like 127). Even if the volumes are the same if the CC#11 values are low it will play too quietly. Go into track edit and filter out all but CC#11 and see what the value is on each track. Also another trick I use is to add Compression TFX, reduce the ratio to almost nothing but increase the output to +5 or more. This helps quite a bit to raise the volumes on BASS and DRUM tracks or the overall volume.