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Table of Contents

About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

Introduction to the KROME . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Front and rear panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Objects in the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Basic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About the KROME’s modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Basic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Turning the power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Connecting the AC adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Turning the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Turning the power off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Audio connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Connecting a damper pedal, foot switch, or foot

pedal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Connecting the KROME to a computer. . . . . . . . . . . .20

Connecting MIDI devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Playing and editing Programs . . . . . . . .21

Playing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Selecting Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Program information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Using Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Performing with the arpeggiator or drum track . . .26

Easy Program editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Adjusting the EQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Adjusting the volume balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Using realtime controls to edit the sound or effects .

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Using Tone Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Comparing the unedited sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Saving your edits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Detailed Editing with Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Before you start editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

An overview of the edit pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Basic oscillator settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Creating time-varying changes (LFO and EG). . . . . .35

Diverse modulation settings (AMS and AMS mixer). .

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Controlling Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Using Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Using the Amp section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Making controller assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Arpeggiator settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Drum Track settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Automatically importing a Program

into Sequence mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Playing and editing Combinations . . . .43

Playing combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Selecting Combinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Using controllers to modify the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Performing with the arpeggiator or drum track . . . 45

Easy Combination editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Changing the program of each timbre. . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adjusting the mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Simple editing using the knobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Saving a Combination you’ve edited . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Detailed Editing with Combinations . . . . . . . . . . 47

A suggested approach for editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Restoring edited settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Layers, Splits, and Velocity Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

MIDI settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Altering Programs to fit within a Combination . . . . 51

Arpeggiator settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Drum Track settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Automatically importing a Combination

into Sequencer mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Creating songs (Sequencer mode) . . . .53

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

About the KROME’s Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Sequencer mode structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Transport control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Playing Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Preparations for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Recording MIDI in real time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Step recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Recording multiple tracks from an external

sequencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Recording System Exclusive events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Recording patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Other way to record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Song editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

MIDI tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Track view edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Piano Roll Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Creating an RPPR pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Creating RPPR data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

RPPR playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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