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There's no piano roll or even a primitive grid. That's fine for regular instruments but it's a pain in the ass for drums.
The step sequencer works in sixes/twelves and so forth, so a beat tick in a measure would be 12, 24, 36, 48, but it ends at 48. It's just an odd way of doing things to me.
On the MPC it was simple: a measure went from 0-100, in value of 1's, i.e, a snare would be 25, 75, kick on 1 and 50. or 51, 52, 53, whatever.
Even without that it's easy to edit since each pad is one sound on one channel on one track. Editing a drum sequence where everything is on one track with those odd as 'beat tick' times is a pain. Some beats I want a stiff 32 note hat or whatever and even that's a chore, where as on an MPC you hit that note repeat and go to town.
Plus the drum sampling itself isn't really friendly to hip hop. Battery, Maschine, Geist, MPC, etc, all those are well suited in the way you browse and create a drum program. It's kind of a headache in Kronos.
The Live looks like a perfect storm of all those elements. the Kronos is beastly on the synth, sound design, and, for the most part, even rompler functions. IFX routing is dope. It's feature intensive but oddly enough the sequencer is downright anemic on that front. It's startling blemish for such a high end flagship product.
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