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[keywhiz61]

Since the Kronos is largely an Oasys under the hood, I'm curious if people are finding any significant differences/improvements in the quality of the sounds vs. what already existed on the Oasys?

Are the pianos better? worse? The organ patches? etc.

[robinkle]

Wish I had the oportunity to compare. But I'm allmost certain that the Pianos are better on Kronos, since there is a dedicated engine for Piano for this purpose. But among bread and butter sounds I do not know, except that there are many sounds that comes from Oasys, that are also on the Kronos.
Hope for an answer from an owner of both keyboards.

[Kevin Nolan]

I'm an OASYS owner and not a Kronos owner but already it is known that the Kronos SGX and EP1 pianos will be in a different league to those on board the OASYS.

Also - since I believe a lot of the signal path is at a bit depth of 24 bits, there should be greater dynamics available - especially on newly samples packages that are not on the OASYS (unless they were all recorded at 16 bits?). I would very much like someone form Korg to be comment on the plausible extension in dynamic range the Kronos might deliver in performance and recording on this front.

Finally, since the D-A converters are newer and possibly 24 bit too, then you'll potentially get better dynamics at this juncture.

Overall, I'd expect the Kronos to sound very much like an OASYS but with a bit more fidelity to it (or - 8 bits more fidelity!)

There are probably other improvements - for example - having two processors and improved MIDI timing will lead to punchier, tighter recording, Karma performances and wave sequencing; while the use of two processors shared across effects and synth voices will mean lower latency on key note-on for large layered voices AND potentially richer reverbs, among other effects.

So despite the concern on the physical controls issues; audio wise this will be something special - and is most noticeable when you push it to deliver top-notch recording - it will keep delivering even when pushed very hard - even my OASYS has worked exquisitly within jobs using the very best sample libraries and the like; and has held its own within the most demanding scenarios - I expect Kronos to be superlative too - and significantly superior to OASYS - in this department. Have no worries in this regard.

Kevin.

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