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[madbeatzyo111]

As someone said earlier, the Kronos screen is not the same as the M3's. The reason why the M3 screen readability is so extremely affected by angle is the same reason why contrast adjustment helps. Kronos' screen I fear will not respond in the same way at all, and I think it's proven by the fact that Korg chose not to include a way to adjust it.

[RonF]

[danatkorg]

[RonF]

[padking]

Hello

I have used my new Kronos 61 for a couple of
days and I have to admit that I have mixe
emotion about the machine.

First it look's great, I was a m3 owner and I
wont miss the color or the buttons of the M3

I do have problem with the screen, we dont have all 20/20 vision and the text for me
is small, I have to look closer to read and it's
a drag.
My Kronos is placed on the top space of my rack
(my yamaha cp 33 is under) and the angle
of the screen is not very good, so if i have problem reading in a perfect position you can
imagine the result in a bad angle position.

The interface is ok but I missed the sound
monitoring ( you could see the variation of
the sound in a L E D type action on the M3 Xpanded )it was very useful.

I am not very happy with the combi's
they are not as inspiring as the M3 combi's
where, I know it's very personal , but I could
spend hours on a lot of combis in the m3
but not on the Kronos, only the D bank
was fun to use, but many of those combis
where on the M3. It's seems to me that
some drum beats are over used and that
the sound balance drum vs other instruments
is not very good, the drum are often much
to loud.
(the same with the drum track in the program
mode , all drum track have a 127 volume value , kind of weird)

I tried to use the ''screen pad '', not that
great, and I dont want to bang on my
screen so I bought a padkontrol from
Korg, and it work's great.

The audio output quality is great it's a big
improvement compare to the M3.
I read that the action was the same for the
M3 and the Kronos well I may be imagining
things but it dosen't feel the same to me,
I like the action of the Kronos very much.

I imagine that with the numbers of sound
in the programs banks, we will see some
third party offering new combi banks.

Padking

[michelkeijzers]

Most of the times when I buy a new synth I need some time to get used to the sounds, meaning that I am so used to my current synth and know exactly how it behaves that I need some time before I can really appreciate the new sounds. I hope the same will happen to you for the new Kronos.
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[cello]

Really appreciate the honesty in padking's post. Very objective.

I have what I call an 'OASYS 61' on order. I too struggle with the font size. I fully understand the dpi screen resolution differences between O and K but every GUI needs to be effective; the K struggles here. But I'm very familiar with the way it works so getting around is not a problem (with glasses!).

Sliders fine. Knobs fine. Buttons fine. Jog wheel - not fine. Really poor. Doesn't feel engaging at all; worse, it feels cheap.

Keyboard (61) - stiff, soul-less. (I had an M3-61 and I believe they're the same keys? But the M3 felt better for some reason - maybe it was just the demo model...)

Cosmetic look - good but commercial; looks very 'me too'.

Size/weight - great.

Maintaining my investment in programming O sounds - absolutely priceless.

Which is my #1 keyboard? The O without a shadow of a doubt. The K may have an expanded, upgraded O inside, but the K neither feels nor plays like the O. The O remains the Korg king (whether they like it or not!), or is that korg Kueen?
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