KORG Kronos samples and Programs as Pa4X Sounds

What you can bring in from a Kronos

• Multisamples saved as .KMP with their .KSF samples: each becomes a Sound with its key zones, original keys, tuning, level and loops
• A .KSC script: the Multisamples it loads are found and brought in together
• Programs from a .PCG, with the .KMP files beside it: each Program becomes a Sound named after it, playing its Multisamples, with up to 4 velocity layers where the Program uses plain velocity splits
• Stereo samples: a Multisample ending in “-L” with its “-R” becomes one stereo Sound

What does not come over

A Pa plays samples, not a Kronos sound engine. The filters, envelopes, effects and synthesis of a Program have no counterpart on a Pa, so an imported Sound will not sound exactly like the Program. Programs that play the Kronos’s own factory samples cannot come over either, because those samples are not in the files. What comes over is your own sample content, set up across the keyboard as on the Kronos.

How it works

1. 1Copy the Kronos library (the .KMP and .KSF files, or the .PCG with its .KMP files) to your computer.
2. 2In Pa Studio Suite, open the Pa4X, Pa1000 or Pa700 SET the Sounds should go into.
3. 3Choose Import WAV… for .KMP, .KSC and audio files (it takes all of them), or SoundFont / PCG… for Kronos Programs.
4. 4Pick what to bring in. New own Sounds are written into free Sound places of the SET, with their samples.
5. 5Play them in the app, then load the SET on the keyboard.

The other way: Pa Sounds for a Korg sampler

The app can also save own Sounds of a SET as .KMP Multisamples with .KSF samples, the format Korg samplers import. Plain 16-bit samples are written; Korg-compressed ones are not yet.

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