Thanks for noticing! You're right, a lot of people get it close but not right... and it makes a difference.

Yes, I read that interview when the magazine got out. So long ago... If my memory serves me right, when recording Rosanna, Paich and Steve P. hauled one of the 24-track recorders from the studio (possibly Sunset Sound?) to either one´s home, and spent the whole weekend honing the solo. But I really can´t remember if they did Africa at the same time. Someone should dig that Keyboard magazine out of somewhere and put a link here. :-)

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What gorgeous tones you were able to program. Sounds wonderful.

Wich sounds do You set on your Kross For the combi?

Thanks so much! That's what I try to strive towards is sounds that are identical to the original :)

How did it turn out for you, Tad? I'm doing the same for my duo and full band in 2020. I'm primarily a guitarist so thinking that solo will be a challenge. I love raising the bar though.

What are the marimba/pan flute harmonies?

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I always thought it said "I caught some aids down in Africa"

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Haha lol

He was 13 like we were. Drooling over a JP8 in Coventry music centre :D

I will die laughing. Thats exactly what i was thinking. Where the hell was he in 90s??

Sitting behind a tape deck and a piano

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The layered flutes aren't 5ths. They're 3rds and 4ths depending on the note because of the scales used. But you're right, I totally forgot to mention the Korg Kronos!

You mean Human Nature by Steve Porcaro, performed by Micheal Jackson?

Has the same producer: Quincy Jones

thats what she said

It's a function within the Kronos already. You basically play a chord and choose assign and which pad you want

Darryll Corpening Thanks man! I appreciate and agree with you entirely! I've been to NC and SC, but I actually live in Canada just north of Maine. I'd be a massive advocate of getting a group together, regardless of where we are. With technology today, there's nothing stopping a streaming session of some kind too... Something to think about perhaps?

We could definitely use today's technology to get some streaming sessions going. I absolutely will think about this and get back to you ASAP.

Did you manage to get a streaming session? Which technology do you use?

Nord Stage over Korg any day

I have a first gen its the heart of my rig

That's awesome, I'll check it out! You're likely right, some of those voicings are hard to hear.

I'm glad it was helpful!

USB right into the Kronos! It replaces the pads that used to exist on the Korg Oasys (The software implementation is still there, so they've just offboarded the pad controller into external USB hardware)

Hey! Congrats on the Nautilus, it's a great machine. Funny enough, any sounds that use the engines that aren't the HD1 engine are compatible, but if you have a sound that's programmed in the HD1 engine, they will work... But: the sounds are offset. Like... In the Kronos, the saw sound might be on 1541 but I'm the Nautilus it's 1885. So Kronos sounds CAN work but the HD1 stuff needs adapting. About the sound switching: Go to Global mode and look for the Foot switch, you want to set it to Program Increment or similar. It will allow you to step forward through the sounds in program, combi, or setlist mode. The pads are a touch more complicated... The Nautilus is missing some of the functions of the Kronos. Karma, for example, doesn't work the same. (Stephen Kay, the genius behind Karma, is no longer supporting it. I don't think it's licensed by Korg anymore so they had to drop it and fall back to something else.) Some other functions are also missing, but I didn't realize the pad support is gone! In the Kronos, there's a dedicated page just to the pads (a legacy function of the Korg Oasys) so you just plug in the Nanopad and it works. My friend has an Nautilus, so I'll have to ask him about that and see if there's a workaround. Let me know if you have questions, I'll help however I can! (audoraaudio@gmail.com to get me directly)

@@AudoraAudio Thank you Dave for the swift response, really appreciated. I purchased the Africa sound from your website and digged into your sound setup and it is really amazing, you even setup a timbre for single notes to get that flute, bell whatever sound. I would have never figured out this. But it sounds really like the Africa sound ! Regarding the pads: I read all the forum entries but I think there is no way to get around easily. The way I will follow up now are the RPPR patterns. The downside is that they work in a sequencer mode only. But in a sequencer mode you cannot use a footswitch to change the song. puh !

Unfortunately, no plugins. Not unless Korg were to release the Korg Kronos in a soft-synth version I'm afraid.

Terry Wiegand Thanks Terry! If you had over to www.audora.ca, that's where you'll find the sound pack with the exact combi that I showed in the video as well as a bunch of others!

Thanks, I'll check it out, but I'm happy with what I've put together. It DID involve a lot of time and work. Cheers!

Hi Dave, I would really like to know that also! And also how you assign the chords during the solo to your pads, or just keys of the keyboard. Love to here from you and keep on this amazing good work!!

The keyboard is a Korg Kronos!

Sorry, you need a Kronos. The sounds are all made using the Korg Kronos engines, and those haven't been emulated in software yet.

DrGargani Thanks for that. Originally I did have it all set up with a sequence of the entire song but every time it got flagged for copyright. I guess there is such a thing as having sounds that are too close.

Dave whay sound did you used during the solo of the song? Thanks \

@@neilmonisit8781 Neil: when the Kronos was upgraded the last time by Korg, they added a sound called Africa, and I have used that myself to record a version of the song and it is very very close to the original....

That's a Korg nanopad, it's something that plugs into the Kronos, and it's just sitting on the top of the keyboard. It's not permanently attached.

I've actually just started looking into using the vector joystick per sound. The problem in this instance is that there's not enough timbres in the combi to accommodate such a style of sound switching. It's simply not possible. Also, I'd assert that there's an argument to be said that Setlist Mode isn't only meant to play one song per patch. It's meant to display notes about the program/combi/song being played. However any songs that contain a variety of combis with independent sounds per section of the song, (Thinking Dream Theater as an example, but even some songs like Take On Me have a complete keyboard change between sections of the song) is simply not possible.

Dude really?

@@AudoraAudio you won that battle!!!

It's more complex than just the name or makeup: I customized the sounds to match the album. I never use stock sounds, and I manually made the tones to match using the Kronos sound engine.

Dave Champagne thanks Dave

Yes, I'd like to know the harmony as well.