EXs Sound Library demos inquiry

[Bolder]

Hi All,

As a new sound developer to the Kronos community, it would be very helpful to know from the users standpoint what kind of EXs sound library demos you find to be most helpful and informative. I have made a number of mp3 demos of the Best Of Bolder collection and they are on soundcloud. All these demos are also contained as a .SNG file within the (soon to be ready) EXs instrument download package and can be played on the Kronos sequencer.

I've made a couple demos that I call "voice narrated demos". Here is an example from the World Music volume.

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BTW - Ed Fenner did some very nice KARMA GE programming for this volume with percussion samples. These are demoed at about the 22:00 mark.

Are video demos quite a bit more helpful? I might be amusing to see my underwhelming keyboard technique . I have made a number of videos for my software sampler libraries but they use screen capture software and it is not too painful of a process. But filming the Kronos being played, capturing audio correctly and having a voice narration can be a very time consuming process since I'm not a film editing wizard.

So any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your input!

[Jon-W]

I think your voice narrated demo is great. That plus documentation would be ideal from my perspective. I want to know what the sound is like - for which I really want to hear the sounds on their own not as part of some composition including a ton of other voices/patches. Which you show nicely in the demo embedded in your post.

A video of you actually playing wouldn't really add anything.

I mentioned documentation as the other thing I'd want to see. Nothing too major - but a list of programs/combis with info on what effects are triggerable by the control surface and how those effects are implemented (e.g. cross-fade between samples).

I'll reiterate again the key point to me : I mainly want to hear what the programs/combis sound like on their own - not them + 10 other patches in some brilliant original composition where I struggle to work out just which elements are part of the library for sale.

So from my perspective don't bother with video - just focus on giving a simple, high-quality (audio-wise - not necessarily musically) demo of the sounds for sale and on explaining what pre-programmed facilities to adjust the sounds are incorporated. Your demo was very good on that : after listening I had a pretty clear view of what I could easily do with it if purchased.

A downloadable demo version is obviously useful at that stage but not essential (for me, at least). For those more interested in the Karma elements it may be more vital to get to try hands-on. Right now I'm not after the sounds in your pack - but theres's a few sounds in there I can see me being likely to want in the future.

[Bolder]

Thanks for the feedback Jon, it is appreciated!

All my musical demos are made exclusively from the samples in that particular library. An exception to that is where I might need a little bass frequency from the GM stand-up bass in the Kronos (like on the American Folk demo) to fill out the sound of a instrument in a higher range. But I generally try to keep things somewhat stripped down.

You will find the pdf documentation to be pretty thorough once it is released and posted on the Korg website.