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[NormC]

[GregC]

[GregC]

[GregC]

[voip]

The Kronos screen is pretty responsive, but needs a point touch e.g. fingernail or stylus to get the best out of it. Kronos acoustic pianos are pretty good and relatively uncoloured. Keyscape pianos, on the other hand, sound as if they have been "beefed" up to a degree by effects. Their sound is rich, but slightly unnatural.

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[KK]

[19naia]

You mentioned bad touch response but never mentioned if you ever went into the touch calibration to set the touch response to your finger?
The touch response is per user and you have to set it up to your touch.

Same with the matter of sound taste, it is very much a synthesizer at heart and when you try the EP's and Pianos in their most basic form, you are not getting the full range of sounds they can give you after applying effects and trying out all the parameters around the sounds. You can literally shape your sound to what you want. You may not get past 8 velocity parts per OSC where Spectrasonics would get you twice as many, but you can put in your own samples and even rip them from Spectrasonics.
I like Yamaha EP's, i like Roland sounds but the combined total of Kronos makes it worth it to have along side a decent software suite.

I thought that anyone up to the challege of using Kronos, would expect to pair it with a good DAW set up and with Spectrasonics(my favorite so far) to cover the limited sound options in Kronos.
Have you checked out the third party sound sets that can be added to Kronos? There are more sounds available to Kronos than can be banked in one loading, and some of those sounds are better than what comes in the factory set.

You get a Kronos and Spectrasonics and you will be covered. The computer will be able to have kronos editor on it to take you away from a lot of touch screen action and Spectrasonics will fill in with the sounds you prefer. No keyboard is matching spectrasonics out there today. Spectrasonics focuses on sounds more than anything else and it shows. Korg focuses on hardware more than anything else and kronos shows that in being a fine piece of hardware.
Just remember, expecting more out of a kronos for the price it lists is unrealistic when you recall that Kronos came as an upgrade from OASYS which cost twice as much with half the GB. Kronos has a smaller screen and one or two missing tricks from OASYS but it has a lot more added beyond OASYS. All at half the OASYS new purchase cost.
Roland and Yamaha latest workstations are not going to give you such a large touch screen and hardly as much control surface or functions behind the controls. They all have less GB than Kronos even though some sound categories on Roland do a bit better than the same in Kronos. Supernatural in Roland is unique and Super knob on Yamaha is unique but the sum total of what you get in one workstation is better in Kronos.
Karma is a deal maker on Kronos, the sequencer is great and when you add a DAW and maybe a few cheap side pieces of hardware, you will be hardly able to find anything to make you regret paying up for Kronos. Sxcept waiting for Kronos 5.

Waiting for a Kronos 5 is not a bad idea if you are not serious about digging into music before getting too old to know the difference between your finger and your toes. I waited by my Triton Extreme all the way up to Kronos-2 (skipped 3 series, OASYS, K-1 and K-X) and even went a few years with no rig at all. I rented an acoustic piano once in a while or played a borrowed 61 key Yamaha basic electric piano, just to keep my practice up. If you get a kronos now and trade up to a Korg flagship 3 series into the future, things will go a lot easier upgrading because there is a lot to learn in Kronos and you will only be farther behind the learning curve without as early a start as you can. The Jump from Trito Extreme to Kronos 2 made for easy basic use of Combi, sampling, sequencer, Global and disk mode in Kronos, but i had a lot of catching up to do with Karma, routing, IFX and more.

Its up to you ,but Kronos has a lot going on and more than any of the Music store people could ever help me understand. I bet there are few stores out there with a person who really knows kronos well, one who is available on the floor to show you what Kronos can do.

[GregC]

I know this is obvious. Korg has never promised a Kronos 3 or a Kronos 5

It is strictly assumption that korg is even working on an answer to the successful Kronos 2

Kronos 2 is very popular from what I see . It's a desirable board with existing owners even thinking of having a 2nd Kronos

That should say it all
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Hello Xmortenx,
Before siting in front of a Korg Kronos : just come with a musical idea (yours preferably) and then start to play Kronos with this idea. You will change your mind. Satisfaction garanteed !
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[xmortenx]

[4GodnWV]

xmortenx wrote:
1: The Touchscreen. It´s feels pretty oldschol and unresponsive and also combined with the a pretty non touch friendly software with tiny synths and boxes.

Touchscreen might just need calibrated. I just use my finger nail. Works remarkably well, imo


xmortenx wrote:
2: The Grand Pianos and Ep´s - though huge in size they do not come close to any software or just the Nord Grand Piano 3D..

Were you playing in mono? I ran into problems until I went stereo. Next time you are visit the music store take headphones. Magic!

[Schmooster]

[Bitflipper]

I would not recommend the Kronos as a primary DAW. Compared to any computer-based DAW it's klunky and awkward. There are simpler standalone hardware multi-track recorders, if that's the route you want to take. I'll take a desktop computer with two monitors over any hardware unit.

For live use, though, the Kronos is pretty durn good. The Set List feature alone sells it as a live performance instrument.

Yes, sometimes the touch screen is fickle - it's good they include "are you sure?" prompts to avoid disastrous mistakes. But precise operation with your finger isn't terribly difficult, just a skill you have to acquire with practice. Using a touchscreen stylus helped me a lot when I was getting started, but I don't need it anymore.

As for the piano samples, I think they're pretty good, too. And there are a LOT of them to choose from! I do use Keyscape alongside Kronos, but for the EPs, not the acoustic pianos.

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