Hey, Frances, thanks for this vid, man. I've owned a Kronos 2 61 for a few years, but have only used it for live gigs. NOW, however, I'd like to explore the sequencer feature, so thanks again for this vid.
Thanks bro, absolutely essential for getting started! I wish Korg would do half as good a job as you in making this wonderful but also not very intuitive beast accessible!
Good video by the way. It’s an easy way to get people started. What I don’t understand is listening to people saying that the sequencer is a pain to use in the Krono‘s. It’s no different than any other sequence or in any other keyboard that I’ve ever used, except the Roland Fantom 88, which has a step sequencer which is total BS. They have some incredible sounds, but many of the features from the G series and X series took a step backwards. In any case, the sequencer really isn’t any different than using a DAW. With every piece of hardware or software, there’s always going to be some sort of learning curve. If you go into sequencer mode especially, you choose your sound and record and you do that as many times to fill up as many tracks as you want to in both midi and audio. Add any effects you want to, change the levels to where you like and send it on its merry way to being a wave file. I do think it’s counterproductive to not permanently save the file to disk as you are recording it. May be a save every one minute five minute 10 minute whatever. Because I could see especially a newcomer who didn’t know recording an entire song, thinking the keyboard is recording it to disk and then coming back in that song being completely gone from not only the keyboard, but partially from your own memory. LOL. Which happens to me a lot, If I don’t record a song minutes after it’s invention in my brain. LOL. Even back to my Ensoniq ESQ1 days, sequences really haven’t changed much in keyboards. Other than the aforementioned above. What I love about this keyboard and was furious when I found out that the newest Fantom Didn’t have proper sequencing... is it allows me to get my ideas down quickly, whether it be midi, audio or a combination of both. At which point I can transfer Everything to a DAW to either continue on that songs journey or master it. It’s nice having that speed of operation, other than the loading sequence, as opposed to a DAW… Where you have to load this in that and find the plug-ins that you want to use and by the time you get to all of that your idea may have flown the coop in your brain. Which is what I always loved even back in the ESQ and M1 days. I had actually had a custom open Labs keyboard built before they went all software and thought that it would be incredible if a keyboard manufacturer got together with Apple or Microsoft for windows and through a version of the latest iOS in their keyboard that would allow you to basically have the DAW in the keyboard itself. Being able to load up all the plug-ins and everything else, which is what is incredible about the open labs keyboard. But again, you load the DAW, then the plug-ins, then the FX and whatever else you want to bring in and it takes a little more time then having a record button at your fingertips unless you leave your DAW open all the time in which case it would be the same. Quickness in creativity has always been my goal. The quickest route to record fleeting ideas, in order to keep it fresh in your mind and get it down before you may forget.
Mann. Thanks this sequencer was a real pain in the ass. I had no problems whatsoever with my pa3x. Still busting my ass too get a hang of it. U helped a lot. Lotaaaaaaa love from IRAN
Cool. How to edit bassline notes if suppose only two notes played wrong in pattern or in a sequence. Like I want to delete those two notes extra or add velocity to them or need to move those notes in to the grid. Like it is very much possible in Roland Fantom in a piano roll.
My advice as a recent Kronos buyer is not to buy it. It's nice, but Korg is dragging to the 2020s paradigms of operation that were ok in the 90s. For example, Songs and Programs (sounds) are treated differently as Songs must be saved on disk before shutting down the Kronos, while Programs are in an internal memory (which is not the hard disk). This means that if you save a Song to disk but you move or change a Program being used in a Song, the result when you will load the Song from disk will be unpredictable, depending on by what Program the original Program was overwritten. The logical behaviour would instead be that a Song should contain the Programs it uses, separate from the global ones. This implementation was probably done to save memory back in the 90s when Trinity was introduced.
@Murada I bought a Kronos and regret it. Way overpriced for what it is, fundamentally a stale user experience with lots of limitations that smell of 1995 (like short file names to say one, or banks being limited only to EXIs or HD1). Unfortunately it's very difficult to admit failure and very few people look honestly at the Kronos recognising that it has flaws.
@Murada I want files, folder and tags like in 2020, not banks and patches like if it was 1979. A song must be a single file with all necessary data embedded into it. I don't want to take care of technical details of remembering where a program is when I'm making music. A computer like the Kronos has lots of memory and should remember it for me. I also use Reason, a Reason song is a file that contains everything necessary to play the song, including effects, instruments and tracks all in a single file. Also the effects section of the Kronos is laughable. Why should I have only 12 effects?
Hi! I need to play a simple piano track, what I would have to inport into Cubit. I don't have Cubit, I only have Kronos, and I must record piano track on Kronos, and transfer to studio. Is it possible to use a recorded and saved Wav, or sng file in Cubit e.g.? Thanks!
Just record it as normal in one track first then duplicate the track on a second track. Delete the top notes from the first track and the bottom notes on the second track using Track Edit.
Noooooo. So I had to go to the disk mode to save it. I lost so many damn songs. How about putting a "save song" option in the sequencer mode for dummies like me ?? Damn it. Thanks man thanks
Wouldn't it be much simpler to just select your sounds from SEQUENCER mode once you get there instead of bouncing back and forth between program and sequence modes?
Hey, Frances, thanks for this vid, man. I've owned a Kronos 2 61 for a few years, but have only used it for live gigs. NOW, however, I'd like to explore the sequencer feature, so thanks again for this vid.
A really BIG thank you for sharing this. So easy and straight forward info. Definitely subbed sir!
Importing programs with effects into the sequencer was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks alot!
Thanks bro, absolutely essential for getting started! I wish Korg would do half as good a job as you in making this wonderful but also not very intuitive beast accessible!
Just got my Kronos, a Little different then triton EX, great tutorial thank you so much!!!!
Looking forward to more thanks very much!
Good video by the way. It’s an easy way to get people started. What I don’t understand is listening to people saying that the sequencer is a pain to use in the Krono‘s. It’s no different than any other sequence or in any other keyboard that I’ve ever used, except the Roland Fantom 88, which has a step sequencer which is total BS. They have some incredible sounds, but many of the features from the G series and X series took a step backwards.
In any case, the sequencer really isn’t any different than using a DAW. With every piece of hardware or software, there’s always going to be some sort of learning curve. If you go into sequencer mode especially, you choose your sound and record and you do that as many times to fill up as many tracks as you want to in both midi and audio. Add any effects you want to, change the levels to where you like and send it on its merry way to being a wave file. I do think it’s counterproductive to not permanently save the file to disk as you are recording it. May be a save every one minute five minute 10 minute whatever. Because I could see especially a newcomer who didn’t know recording an entire song, thinking the keyboard is recording it to disk and then coming back in that song being completely gone from not only the keyboard, but partially from your own memory. LOL. Which happens to me a lot, If I don’t record a song minutes after it’s invention in my brain. LOL.
Even back to my Ensoniq ESQ1 days, sequences really haven’t changed much in keyboards. Other than the aforementioned above. What I love about this keyboard and was furious when I found out that the newest Fantom Didn’t have proper sequencing... is it allows me to get my ideas down quickly, whether it be midi, audio or a combination of both. At which point I can transfer Everything to a DAW to either continue on that songs journey or master it. It’s nice having that speed of operation, other than the loading sequence, as opposed to a DAW… Where you have to load this in that and find the plug-ins that you want to use and by the time you get to all of that your idea may have flown the coop in your brain. Which is what I always loved even back in the ESQ and M1 days.
I had actually had a custom open Labs keyboard built before they went all software and thought that it would be incredible if a keyboard manufacturer got together with Apple or Microsoft for windows and through a version of the latest iOS in their keyboard that would allow you to basically have the DAW in the keyboard itself. Being able to load up all the plug-ins and everything else, which is what is incredible about the open labs keyboard. But again, you load the DAW, then the plug-ins, then the FX and whatever else you want to bring in and it takes a little more time then having a record button at your fingertips unless you leave your DAW open all the time in which case it would be the same.
Quickness in creativity has always been my goal. The quickest route to record fleeting ideas, in order to keep it fresh in your mind and get it down before you may forget.
Thanks so much, now I know how to loop a track.
dude is dope !! i think I am learning something here. Hope so !!
Thank you for your easy to follow tutorial.
Thanks a lot for sharing👍👍
Very nice. I'm sure that you love Steely Dan!
Nice instruction as always… How to save these in set list please..?
Ensure that you save the song in disk. Save Seq. Load the song to the same sequencer slot. In sequencer select Add To Setlist.
Mann. Thanks this sequencer was a real pain in the ass. I had no problems whatsoever with my pa3x. Still busting my ass too get a hang of it. U helped a lot.
Lotaaaaaaa love from IRAN
Thank you very much for this good tutorial :))))))))))
thanks for your help!
Cool. How to edit bassline notes if suppose only two notes played wrong in pattern or in a sequence. Like I want to delete those two notes extra or add velocity to them or need to move those notes in to the grid. Like it is very much possible in Roland Fantom in a piano roll.
Great video, just a question, can I later adjust the pan and volume automticaly
Yes, you can pan and adjust volumes either by creating control change messages or adjusting pan and channel volume as you’re recording.
Thanks for this essential video
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing
This is why I’m thinking about getting a kronos
My advice as a recent Kronos buyer is not to buy it. It's nice, but Korg is dragging to the 2020s paradigms of operation that were ok in the 90s.
For example, Songs and Programs (sounds) are treated differently as Songs must be saved on disk before shutting down the Kronos, while Programs are in an internal memory (which is not the hard disk).
This means that if you save a Song to disk but you move or change a Program being used in a Song, the result when you will load the Song from disk will be unpredictable, depending on by what Program the original Program was overwritten.
The logical behaviour would instead be that a Song should contain the Programs it uses, separate from the global ones.
This implementation was probably done to save memory back in the 90s when Trinity was introduced.
@Murada I bought a Kronos and regret it. Way overpriced for what it is, fundamentally a stale user experience with lots of limitations that smell of 1995 (like short file names to say one, or banks being limited only to EXIs or HD1). Unfortunately it's very difficult to admit failure and very few people look honestly at the Kronos recognising that it has flaws.
@Murada I want files, folder and tags like in 2020, not banks and patches like if it was 1979.
A song must be a single file with all necessary data embedded into it. I don't want to take care of technical details of remembering where a program is when I'm making music. A computer like the Kronos has lots of memory and should remember it for me.
I also use Reason, a Reason song is a file that contains everything necessary to play the song, including effects, instruments and tracks all in a single file.
Also the effects section of the Kronos is laughable. Why should I have only 12 effects?
They're amazing I've had one since 2014
@@mariog1051 So which keyboard would you recommend that has all the things you're after?
May God bless you sir
Thank you very much. Massive help. 😎
serendipity!!! the UNDO function!!! :-) use the compar for one level undo
how many tracks can you record like this
if its more than 8 then its good
also how many scenes (like main A, B etc) can u record ?
16 MIDI Tracks and 16 Audio Tracks
@@narfsounds and the number of scenes?
I believe it's 8?
8 Karma scenes.
@@narfsounds beast🔥
Bel video tutorial Narfsound 👍
Thank you 🙏 for your knowledge.....
Hi! I need to play a simple piano track, what I would have to inport into Cubit. I don't have Cubit, I only have Kronos, and I must record piano track on Kronos, and transfer to studio. Is it possible to use a recorded and saved Wav, or sng file in Cubit e.g.? Thanks!
How can I import sounds from combi mode you showed only from program mode ???
Same process, press Enter+Rec from Combi Mode.
@@narfsounds
Dear Sir ! Thank you very much for your quick response! I mean how to put sounds from combi to tracks?
@@savetheunsaved like I said above
Thanks Francis
AWESOME vid...I just purchased a Kronos 2, so this vid definitely saves me alot of time...is there any way of saving it as a midi file?? Cheers
JP yes, you can
If I have a split can I record the left end of the keyboard on one track and the right end on another?
Just record it as normal in one track first then duplicate the track on a second track. Delete the top notes from the first track and the bottom notes on the second track using Track Edit.
@@narfsounds Cool!!! Thanks!
Thanks, NARFSOUNDS
Noooooo. So I had to go to the disk mode to save it. I lost so many damn songs. How about putting a "save song" option in the sequencer mode for dummies like me ?? Damn it. Thanks man thanks
Dude I agree like the old ENSONIQ SQ80. KILLER EASY AS PIE SEQUENCER.OR the KAWAI Q80.Hard ware sequencers with better features...
thank you
Hey fellow Kronos Gold owner and fellow Apple Watch owner!
Wouldn't it be much simpler to just select your sounds from SEQUENCER mode once you get there instead of bouncing back and forth between program and sequence modes?
BigBrotherMotown you can, but the method shown makes it easier to copy effect settings. Either way is fine.
that was sick
Oh please tell me what those chords are... LOL
#savedmylife
Thank you