Korg Kronos Tutorial: 03 Using the Sequencer for Recording Combis 

+ musical sam Sure, just go to the MIDI Track Loop button & select the tracks & distances you want. However, I don't see a way to do all that in one action, each track must be set individually. The way it's set up doesn't take an excessive amount of time, just be careful to set all the loop ends the same if that's how you want them. It's easy to miss by one bar off+/- if you're in too much of a hurry... I don't see an easy way to loop an audio track at all, but I also haven't tried doing that. In Logic, it's an easy copy & paste.

turn karma off

Rob Bob Change the song length

SPOKENTUBE, you need to understand the basic structure of the sequencer and how combinations are set up. In Combination, you set it up to play several tracks to the same MIDI channel, to get the impact of playing several programs at once (producing some really thick sounds!). In sequencer mode, if you notice, all the templates assign each track to separate MIDI channels, track 1 = MIDI 1, track 2 = MIDI 2, etc. This is essential, or you will have problems with muting/soloing/playing the combination you choose on the sequencer. The rule is this: Make sure every track has it's own MIDI channel. Don't have, for example, track 1 on MIDI 1, then track 3 on MIDI 1 as well. Wrong! That will confuse and sequencer and you. Use a template of your choice, then change the sounds (but not the MIDI channels!) to your liking, and you can then the mute/play/solo buttons will all work perfectly. Use "multiple record" to record 2 or more tracks at the same time, rather than setting them on same MIDI channel. Don't worry, this is an incredible sequencer, you paid a lot for it, and you got a lot, it's a monster and works fantastic! I'll try to do tutorials soon to explain the entire sequencer :)

You only need to loop the tracks you want with sound on them. But, unless you record something else on the unused tracks, you might get some weirdness on the track later on, depending on how long you played & what those tracks are intended to do, for example if you change a Karma scene, they might become active then... To prevent unwanted noises, I'd mute those tracks until you want to use them for recording something else. Or, you might leave them playing back just to see what happens later if you DO change Karma scenes. Could be interesting... 😉

Cosmos Szeto Go to Sequencer page four ("Track Edit"), then touch the top-right arrow. Quantise is an available option.

Thanks so much! It works :)

+emilshere Yes karma software.

+Rob Bob the 64 bars is the default song length on a kronos. The loop feature will run as long as the song length is set. To change this, go to the track edit page in the sequencer, then right top menu on the touch screen and select the menu option: song length, change that to the length of your song or to 999 if you want it to run for a long time.

press the midi filter tab at the bottom of the screen and disable the joystick for the channels you don't want the pitch bend on.

@@quirobinez thank u qui awesome

yes, it's a song recorded in the sequencer where you used the help of KARMA to play the parts, but once you record it you can save the song and load it whenever you want.

@@quirobinez Thank you for answering! This might seem like a stupid question but, there isn't a function in the menu that says "save song" or anything like that. Does this work the same way as saving a combi or a program? ^^

you can do this by resampling the sequencer song to disk and copy the wav file to usb. Check the sampling section in the parameter guide for a detailed explanation about how to do it. It would take to many pages to explain it over here. But in that sampling chapter everything is explained.

Wouldn't it be simplest to just export the sequence as an audio file saved to a USB stick? Maybe the OS didn't do that 3 years ago? It does now...

Zeek Duff you have to press the karma button so thats its off, then you can select any track you want in the aequencer

Thanks for the reply, actually I can select any track even with Karma still on, but the upper tracks especially are most frequently turned off. You have to go to Track Parameters & check the "Status" make sure the desired track is set to INT, then also make sure the MIDI channel lines up with the track & keyboard or you get silence. Anyway, I always get there, and this is mostly when editing preset Combis. When creating from scratch, it's part of the setup or when using a sequencer template, also not a problem UNLESS the template has some track statuses set to OFF. I was hoping there was a quicker way to smack everything into place, but logically, going through the steps is the only physical possibility. "Y'kin no change the laws of physics, Cap'n..." 🤓 Thanks man, videos & forums sure save a lot of time from when I was learning MIDI from scratch in the mid-'80s. I hope people realize how much the Internet has improved our humble tasks. 😎