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[flyingace]

Great! Congrats, I'll have to check out the pa600, might be what I'm also looking for.
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[gamhazell]

if you have a couple hundred dollars more to spend you can look into one of the more decked out korg pa keyboards.

[maranite]

I bought a Krome a month ago and think its a great board for the price. Sure, there are tons of Kronos owners who turn their noses up, but the Krome gives all the things that you'll actually use at a very reasonable price.

I didn't experience any of the keybed problems mentioned elswhere on this forum, and with KromeOS 1.0.3 loaded, there are no clipping or sound problems either.

I found the interface confusing at first, mostly because you expect it to work like a tablet / PC, but it's neither - it's a workstation... it's designed to hide complexity from you when performing / doodling, but to make every last parameter available if you want to sculpt your own sounds.

Don't get me wrong... the Krome doesn't come close to a DAW, but that is specifically why I bought one... I got fed up with mucking around with software when what I really wanted to do was make music. The Krome is a great workstation for this.

Things I didn't like:
* The sequencer is really fiddly. Korg could easily have made this part of the UI better.
* The onboard samples don't merit the boasted 3.4GB of ROM.
* The media UI (loading/saving) could have been simpler.
* 120 voice polyphony, which is actually 40 voice when using stereo, dual oscillator voices. This sounds like a lot of polyphony, but you'll be surprised how quickly you can exhaust this.

Things I did like:
* Like many Korgs, being able to select patches by bank or by category - this is a real winner.
* The dual arppagiators and dedicated drum track, along with thousands of editable patterns is brilliant.
* The ability to climb in and sculpt absolutely any part of a program... nothing is off limits.
* The sound engine is really versatile - I think the on-board patches barely scratch the surface of what the engine is capable of. Dan Stesco has proven this with has Killer sound pack.
* The "Tone Adjust" feature makes it easy to modify programs without wading around in the internals of the patch.

[jnaut]

[Ricky_jcr]