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lesfarrington · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 24

i posted a frustrated statement on the forum about several gripes concerning the promised USB connectivity on the Kronos. i unplugged the USB from the Kronos and began using it as MIDI only. i truly want to ultimately use the Kronos in the way Korg intended it but for now i will have to build COMBIs and save them with the associated presets etc. while it is somewhat inconvienient let me add something here in defence of Korg. i realize im being somewhat schizophrenic about this but.......The Kronos goes beyond anything ive used before as an inspirational instrument. I have always viewed Korg as having BEAUTIFUL patches. pure sweet pudding. but this Kronos is something else entirely. i am getting some really PUSHY and OBVIOUS sounds out of it that i didnt expect. it really is ONE BOX that does just about everything and VERY WELL. im talking about SOUNDS here not CONNECTIVITY. I am confident that Korg will correct this regardless of my current state of frustration but honestly, if Asked by a potential customer I would say without hesitation BUY IT!!! in fact i would even go so far as to say that if Korg really wanted to be honest about this instrument they wouldnt have named it after a GOD who ate his own children but instead they could have named it MOD-7. i would have bought it for that synth alone. it is currently my favorite of all time synths.....i love the MS-20 but ive heard those sounds before on other instruments but the MOD-7 is truly EXPRESSIVE!!!
i am still inspired by this instrument so DONT LET MY GRIPES TURN YOU OFF! its still a REMARKABLE INSTRUMENT.

dustymaestro · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 46

mjames4208 · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:08 pm Post subject:

drama queen Rolling Eyes

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McHale · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject:

dustymaestro · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 46

Of course it doesnt.

Gargamel314 · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject:

just wanted to point out the Locate button does have a purpose. By default, it does send you back to the beginning of your song, but if you want to set it to a different spot, say measure 42, hold down the ENTER button and then press LOCATE ... every time you hit LOCATE, you'll go back to measure 42.

The Multi-Rec option isn't really very useful anymore. It was especially important in workstations like the M1 and the original version of the 01/W that didn't have disk drives, that was the only way to transfer an entire sequence. I guess it might be useful if you're using 2 workstations that don't have the same kind of Media... like a Triton Le and a Kronos. But even if you use it, you really can't record many tracks at one time. Just 4 maybe, if they're simple tracks, but if you try to record more than a piano or a drum track, you end up losing data... EVEN with the newer workstations.

Another big drawback with the Korg Sequencer, and i don't know if Roland's is any different, is you can't copy or move data within a measure. You can copy an entire measure, but you can't copy just 2 beats of that measure into another measure. I've run into this problem a few times.

It just kinda goes to show how outdated the Korg Sequencers are. In their next workstation, they really need to trick out the sequencer. They could do it... imagine if they had a version of Sonar or Logic Audio running as their sequencing core.

Korg's sequencer changed a little when the X3 was introduced. And then it changed dramatically when the Trinity came out (mostly just graphical differences... same functions really). But there's hardly any difference between the 1995 Trinity's sequencer and the 2011 Kronos's sequencer.
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jahrome · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:19 am Post subject:

dustymaestro · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 46

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jahrome · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:59 am Post subject:

dustymaestro · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 46

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