Playing and editing Programs
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Forexample,toselectbankB,pressthePROGBANKB
button.TheBbuttonwilllightup,andthenameBank
Bwillappearontheleftsideofthedisplay.
• ToselectaGMbank,you’llusethenumerickeys.
GM:Holddown0andpress–.
g(1)–g(9):Holddown0andpressth
edesirednum‐
ber1–9.Forbanksthatdonothavevariat
ion
sounds,thebasicGMsoundswillberecalled.(An
“*”willbeappendedtothebeginningofthepro‐
gramname.)
g(d):Holddown0andpress(.).
Auditioning the sound
Playthekeyboardtoauditiontheprogramyou’ve
selected.
Thevelocitymetershowsthenote‐onvelocity.
•Thisshowsthevelocityvalueofnote‐oneventsfor
theglobalMIDIchannel,suchasthekeyboard,
MIDIIN,andarpeggiator.(Ifmultiplenote‐on
eventsarereceivedsimultaneously,thehighest
velocityvalueisshown.)
•Sincethisshowsthenote‐onvelocityvalues,itwill
notbeaffectedbythesettingsofthevolumeknob
orbychangesintheaudiosignallevel.
Overview: Program Banks
Asprogrambanks,theKROMEprovidesthesixbanks
A–FandtheGMbanks(GM–g(d)).Withthefactory
settings,theKROMEhas640preloadprogramsin
banksA–E.BankFcontainsonlyinitializedprograms.
Programsyou’vecreatedshouldbestoredinthisbank.
WiththeexceptionoftheGM–g(d)banks,youarefree
tosavebyoverwritingtheseprogrammemoryareas.
YoucanalsosavetheseprogramsonanSDcard.
Programsareorganizedintosixbanksasshowninthe
followingtable.
Programbankcontents
Selecting by Bank/Program Select
menu
YoucanselectProgramsfromamenuorganizedby
Programbank.
1. PresstheProgramSelectpopupbutton.
TheBank/ProgramSelectmenuappears.
Bank/ProgramSelectmenu
Inthisillustration,BankAisselected.Themenu
displaystheProgramscontainedinthatbank.
2. Pressthetabsontheleftsideofthedisplayto
selectbanks.
3. Pressoneoftheprogramnamesinthecenterarea
toselectaprogram.
Theselectedprogr
amwillbehighlighted,andthe
programwillchange.
Alternatively,youcanusetheINC/DECbuttonsto
switchprograms.
Playthekeyboardorpressthechordtriggerbuttonsto
heartheprogramyouselected.
4. IfyouselectedBankGM
,theVariationbuttonis
shown.
ByrepeatedlypressingthisVariationbutton,youcan
successive
lystepthroughthebanks,allowingyouto
recallaGM2soundset(see“ToselectaGMbank”on
page 22).
5. WhenyouaresatisfiedwiththeselectedProgram,
presstheOKbuttontoclosethemenu.
IfinsteadyoupresstheCancelbutton,theselection
youmadeherewillbedi
scarded,andyouwillreturn
totheprogramthathadbeenselectedbeforeyou
openedthemenu.
Bank Prog. No. Explanation
A…E 000…127
Factory
Programs.
With the factory settings,
these banks contain a wide
variety of preloaded
programs that use the
internal multisamples,
effects, and arpeggiator.
F 000…127
Initialized
Programs.
Use these to create a
program from scratch.
GM 001…128
GM2 main
programs.
These banks contain 256
GM programs and nine GM
drum programs that are
compatible with the GM2
sound map. The programs
of these banks are read-
only.
Bank GM contains the GM
programs. GM lets you
select 128 programs
numbered from 001–128,
and g(1)–g(d) lets you
select nine drum
programs.
You can’t write (save) data
to these banks.
g(1)…
g(9)
001…128
GM2 variation
programs.
g(d) 001…128
GM2 drum
programs.