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Piano Run-through

Quick video run-through of the features of the piano / pad patches...

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Hi welcome to the Kronos sounds for worship blog! I created this to share the various sounds I use in worship services with the Korg Kronos.

If you wouldn't call yourself a christian, or don't "get" what worship music is, then please feel free to use these sounds anyway.  While you're here, then at least consider in the words of S.M. Lockridge, "the greatest phenomenon that has ever crossed the horizon of this world" at https://y-jesus.com/.

Download links for pcg files to follow in the next post!

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Download Link...

So here's the download link for the PCG file:  PCG File

This sound set is offered as a free download. All I ask is that you let me know via a comment or email if you're using them and found them useful!

What you will need is the following:

• A Korg Kronos (obviously!) with
• 25 free HD-1 program slots in Program bank U-G.
• 27 free EXi program slots in Program bank U-CC.
• 39 free Combination slots in Combi bank U-A 
• 4 free user drum pattern slots.
• A free setlist slot.
• Some sounds use the Berlin Grand, so you'll get the most benefit using a Kronos 2, or the Berlin Grand EXS-17.  The German or Japanese Grand can easily be substituted for original Kronos or Kronos-X.
• It's not essential, but the CP-80 piano sound is taken from the excellent Purgatory Creek Reeds, Tapes and Transistors library.  To get this particular piano sound, you will need to load the RTT_UserBank.ksc library from Purgatory Creek here.
• A Korg nanoPad is not essential, but is highly recommended.  Many of the combis were designed to work with a Korg nanoPad2.  The nanoPad settings can be downloaded here.

To load these sounds, copy the downloaded PCG file on to a USB drive, and then put the drive in your Kronos.  

If you are OK with over-writing any Programs or Combis you have in banks U-G and U-CC and Combi bank U-A, then on the Kronos, go to Disk mode, and in the load tab, find the file on the USB drive, and click the "Load" button. 

If you already have Programs and Combis in banks U-G, U-CC and Combi bank U-A, then you will have to click "Open" instead of "Load" on the file, and load each Combi and Program manually.  You will have to re-map the Combis to the correct programs if you do this.  Remember to also manually load the user drum patterns if you do this, otherwise the arp in the "Restore My Soul" patch won't work.

In terms of global settings, I always have the mute mode set to "Live" (Global mode -> Basic tab). I haven't tried these Combis with the mute mode set to "Studio", but I suspect they will run out of polyphony. I personally prefer the Knob/Slider mode set to "Jump", but "Catch" will also work.

How to use...

Here's a quick rundown of the piano and pad sounds....

The basic structure of most of the piano/pad Combis is:

• Channel 1:  Main Piano
• Channels 2 and 3:  Pads
• There are generally 2 pad sounds blended, first the original pad on channel 2, and a pad sound called "Breath" on channel 3.  The "Breath" sound wasn't really intended to be used on its own (although it can be), but it adds an ethereal quality to other pad sounds.  You can vary the character of the pad by changing the level of channel 3. 
• Channel 4:  Octave Piano (actually it's 2 octaves up, which I think gives a nicer sound, you can change it down to 1 octave in the Timbre-> Pitch menu of the Combi).
• Channel 5:  CP-80 Stack (needs Purgatory Creek RTT library)
• Channels 7+8:  Drone Pads
• The drone pads use the same "Breath" pad as above on channel 8.  You can change the character of the drone by varying the level of channel 8.

The main controls are:

• Vector Joystick Up/Down:  This controls the blend of piano and pad, so up is all pads only and down is piano only.
• Vector Joystick Left/Right:  This controls the filter of the pad, right increases the filter frequency and left decreases.
• Faders are in "Timbre/Track" mode so you can vary the level of each channel with the faders.
• Play/Mute switch for channel 4 switches the octave piano in/out.
• Play/Mute switch for channel 5 switches the CP-80 piano in/out.
• Knob 7 adds some reverse delay to the main piano.
• Knob 8 increases the amount of reverb on the main piano.
• Switch SW1 drops everything by an octave.  Useful on the Kronos 61 and 73.
• Switch SW2 adds some subtle motion to the pad.

If you connect a Korg nanoPad, then the following controls are also available:

• Pads 1-8 map to the 8 Kronos chord pads, so they do different things depending on the Program or Combi.  1-4 are toggled for drones etc, 5-8 are momentary for chords etc.
• Pads 9-16 are set up to give a drone chord in the keys of C, D, E, F, G, G#, A and B, which are the most common keys I find I use.
• The X-Y pad of the nanoPad is set to control the volume of the drone in the Y (up/down) direction, and the drone filter in the X (left/right) direction.  The neutral / starting control position of the pad is top left.

All the sounds are EQ-ed for a live environment - if a different EQ is needed, then for each combi, TFX1 in the Combi MFX tab is usually a 7-band graphic EQ which can be adjusted.  You can also use the setlist EQ.

There are also a number of song-specific patches.  More about these coming soon...

nanoPad settings

To set-up a Korg nanoPad2, you will need 3 files:

• nanoPad scene set data, downloaded here. 
• nanoPad global data, downloaded here. 
• nanoPad scene data, downloaded here. 

To load these to a nanoPad you will need the Korg Kontrol software, which can be downloaded from here. 

To set up the nanoPad, first connect it to your computer and start the Korg Kontrol software. The Korg Kontrol software should recognise your nanoPad and connect to it.

You need to load each of the 3 files downloaded above, and then write each to the nanoPad.

• To load the scene set data, select file -> open..., open the scene set file, then select Communication -> Write Scene set.
• To load the scene data, select file -> Load Scene Data File, open the scene data file, then select Communication -> Write Scene Data.
• To load the global data, go to global mode (button), then select Open, open the global data file and select Write to write to the device.

Once you have loaded all 3 files and written them to your nanoPad, the nanoPad should behave as described.