Sampling: "Kronos is also a sampling powerhouse"

macalister · Post by **macalister** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:16 am

billysynth1 wrote:Hi Sharp

You need to give a warning to this member: macalister...i cannot tolerate racist people...see his comments below

EvilDragon wrote:
synthskier wrote:
From Korg's website: "Once again, our SSD and Virtual Memory Technology (VMT) gives the HD-1 access to a larger sample set – gigabytes in size – than could be normally stored using internal memory. The HD-1 covers all of the essential sounds in exquisite detail, from orchestral to classic rock to hip-hop, all instantly available." (bold added)

And from the specs page:
"HD-1 High Definition Synthesizer (PCM Virtual Memory Technology)"

One of Korg's official videos echoed the statement that the Kronos offers instant access to all 12Gb of sampled content.

So yes, of course, user samples saved to the SSD can be streamed just as easily. It's just a simple matter of selecting a User multisample for an HD-1 oscillator.

Yes, this IS huge.

My guess is that the RAM is where samples would be edited using the, um, sample editing functions. I expect they can be played as RAM multisamples just like OASYS / M3 / Tritons. Once saved to the SSD, they can STILL be played as multisamples, but they can't be edited nearly as much (without being loaded back to RAM). The Motif XF functions like this as well. You can play multisamples back from the flash memory (up to 2Gb), but if you want to edit the samples on the keyboard, you must do that in the 128Mb RAM.

I also firmly hope that this is true.

UNTRUE

user samples CAN NOTsaved to the SSD YET,yet with luck with some future update, who knows, but from now on 12GB is more than...Yamaha XF won this issue, for now...life goes on nigga
Billy

my bad Billy, I removed it, will not happen again, thanks

jahrome · Post by **jahrome** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:20 am

Some confusing information in the thread. In the Kronos Feedback thread, it indicates that we can save samples on the SSD drive...and it mentions 1 GB of RAM.

*Looked at info on Korg's website. It appears there is 1GB of PCM Ram which is used for the PCM libraries. 273 MB are remaining after PRELOAD.KSC is loaded.

Then there appears to be a maximum of 512 MB of sample RAM. It doesn't indicate if it ships with this amount or if we have to install ourselves.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:44 am

macalister wrote:UNTRUE

user samples CAN NOTsaved to the SSD YET,yet with luck with some future update, who knows, but from now on 12GB is more than...Yamaha XF won this issue, for now...life goes on ...

Sharp said that indeed it's possible to save user samples to SSD and preload them.

So YOU are UNTRUE.

ravenmek · Post by **ravenmek** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:13 pm

Listen to Rich's words in the end of the video about sampling http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2011/01/ ... ty-kronos/

kday · Post by **kday** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:24 pm

EvilDragon wrote:
macalister wrote:UNTRUE

user samples CAN NOTsaved to the SSD YET,yet with luck with some future update, who knows, but from now on 12GB is more than...Yamaha XF won this issue, for now...life goes on ...
Sharp said that indeed it's possible to save user samples to SSD and preload them.

You can save your sampled sounds to the SSD or a USB drive, but they still have to be loaded into the system upon powering up.

At power up just allot yourself about 30 seconds to preload all your samples you have stored on SSD into the memory and you're good.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:07 pm

It's less than 30 seconds.

Vman · Post by **Vman** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:42 pm

kday wrote: You can save your sampled sounds to the SSD or a USB drive, but they still have to be loaded into the system upon powering up.

At power up just allot yourself about 30 seconds to preload all your samples you have stored on SSD into the memory and you're good.

I'm having a difficult time finding how you save them to SSD. Any help?