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[tand]

Hello guys. Does anyone knows anything about this post? Is it real? Has anyone tried that?

https://marcan.st/2016/06/hacking-and-upgrading-the-korg-kronos/

[BobTheDog]

looks reasonable, not sure I would try it though!

[ando727]

Looks like you have to be a freaking computer genius to do it. Can't see it catching on unless somebody starts a business and sells the complete package including easy software conversion. There's no way a normal person is going to do this using the steps outlined in that article. Sounds like there are some unresolved problems too. In some ways it might work less well than the slower version.
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[SanderXpander]

What it does do is give us hope that Korg can bring out a massively more powerful Kronos with relatively little trouble on their end. If a lone guy can reverse engineer this and make it work (or mostly work), surely Korg and the team of developers can do it better and easier.

[SanderXpander]

What it does do is give us hope that Korg can bring out a massively more powerful Kronos with relatively little trouble on their end. If a lone guy can reverse engineer this and make it work (or mostly work), surely Korg and the team of developers can do it better and easier.

[GregC]

not an improvement here;

"However, there is one disappointment: with the new hardware, the Kronos has (slightly) less available sample memory than with the old one."

and the original design hacker is anonymous.
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[DSTMK]

As the author of the kronos hacker blog (http://goo.gl/E57aP5) I would like to set a few things straight here:

1) There is a major improvement accomplished: the modified Kronos has 200 voice polyphony across all engines. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WHLrTwBA4 for a demo video.

2) All this is not about "Software Piracy". I don't know, why this forum replaces k_r_o_n_o_s_h_a_c_k_e_r with "Software Piracy - do not click", but what we do is not piracy. It is about modifying something that we own and that we paid for. All software that I distribute (Linux Kernel, rooting patch, etc.) is covered by the GPL. Please, do not confuse hacking, cracking and piracy!

3) The modification actually yields _more_ sample memory, not less.

4) I am well aware, that replacing the mainboard in a perfectly fine $3000 instrument not for the average user. However, there are at least 5 modified Kronos out there right now (and maybe more that I don't know of). But what if a mainboard dies? What if you can get a old Kronos model for a lower price tag?

[GregC]

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[GregC]

[DSTMK]

[aron]

> There is a major improvement accomplished: the modified Kronos has 200 voice polyphony across all engines.

WOW! So EVERY engine can have 200 voice? That is big time major improvement!!!! Almost like a dream come true!

This is great work! Thanks for the blog!

WAIT - did anyone see this!?

Kronos boot time < 20s
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[psionic311]

I got all giddy when I first saw the article, but then quickly realized it's over my head even as a techie guy. The first thing I homed in on was the increase in polyphony, which is a practical limitation I run into often.

I hoped that there might be another easier solution. So I did a little bit of research on the motherboard and CPU socket types, as I'm sure some early Kronos users already did. I was hoping for a quick solution like being able to drop in a more powerful version of the Atom processor, like a faster quad-core. This would give upgraded polyphony and reduced boot time without having to do any of the software modifications.

No luck on finding any solutions, as it seems the Atom is integrated into that particular motherboard.