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PCFREE · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 12:33 pm Post subject:

I’ve never seen so many secondhand Kronos’s for sale on eBay !

The Kronos se is very expensive !
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GregC · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:50 pm Post subject:

ITguy54 · Full Member Joined: 22 Mar 2015 Posts: 245

blazerunner · Senior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2017 Posts: 277

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blazerunner · Senior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2017 Posts: 277

What I hate the most about every Namm is that no matter what gets released there's always that one guy that has to complain about it even if they had no interests at all in said product.

I mean you've got people complaining about the 32 bit system, the last update and whatever else I mean sheesh. Rolling Eyes

The Kronos SE is just a cool look with some sound updates for people that want to purchase a Kronos in 2019. Obviously if Korg wasn't making money selling them they wouldn't bother. This isn't meant to make you sell your existing one and go out and buy a totally new one just to get it in red with some new piano patches but some of you are complaining like it is.

Personally I think the Kronos is way beyond what the expectations of a Workstation/Keyboard can be. I can't imagine what Korg could do to truly make the Kronos better than it already is except add more stock sounds to it.

It's a masterpiece and for it to have the decade long run it has and still be the champion that says it all right there. I mean it's an INSTRUMENT not an iPhone. How many updates do you need to a Stratocaster or a flute? How many updates does a Steinway need or a harmonica? It is what it's supposed to be it's an amazing workstation Keyboard.

It takes years and I mean years to learn the Kronos inside and out it's a deep keyboard with a lot of functions and features. I could only think of the next gen Korg Flagship being more of the same but streamlined better.

Even if there was a new Flagship the Kronos is still so powerful it would be hard to knock off the mountain. To me as long as Korg keeps making new downloadable sounds for it and keeping the engines fresh the Kronos can live forever. I guess I'm more focused on playing the actual instrument than worrying about keeping up with the Jonses when they don't even live in the same neighborhood as me.

"Please Korg give us a new Flagship" okay what would you want the new Flagship to be?

Like what could you possibly add to a Keyboard where they already thought of everything? The Kronos is so good people have to complain about updates it doesn't need and an operating system it has no use for. Next they'll be like "I want the Keyboard to have voice commands like Alexa"...."Kronos play a C Major". Actually I take that back that might be a pretty cool feature.

Anyway just wanted to chime in I hate seeing people being so picky about a great instrument.

The Montage is nice but not as nice as the Kronos. It had a weird menu system, the gimmick of the blue glowing knob and even Yamaha's dedicated Motif owners wouldn't upgrade to it and they wanted a new Motif for the longest.

Roland HAD the Jupiter 80... nuff said about that. Their flagship isn't even a workstation keyboard.

At this point I honestly think people expecting more from a Workstation Keyboard should just jump over into the VST bandwagon. Get yourself a controller and buy the same programs every other VST user owns. Only to find out that software is not all it's cracked up to be.

blazerunner · Senior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2017 Posts: 277

timbukktwo · Senior Member Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 287

blazerunner-

You hit the nail on the head and took the words right out of my mouth (as I’ve always thought)-

“Personally I think the Kronos is way beyond what the expectations of a Workstation/Keyboard can be. I can't imagine what Korg could do to truly make the Kronos better than it already is except add more stock sounds to it.”

Not to limit new possibilities, of course, but the Kronos is still among the top of the heap. Have any of us ‘mastered’ her, yet?? There is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH to be discovered yet underneath the hood (creatively speaking)!

lidserter · Full Member Joined: 23 Apr 2012 Posts: 134

I agree with both sides. The Kronos is now raw power and an untamed beast of sound with infinite possibilities. Not contender known. However it would be GREAT to be able to load and handle vsts on it, huge sample libraries we already own with the reliability of a dedicated workstation and not a computer with wi-fi antivirus bizarre services working on background and other distractions. I used to integrate hardware and software but somehow always got back to only hardware for practical reasons.
I believe the future is there, a Kronos with vst handling capabilities, many slots and bays for user investment in ram and ssd's. I also believe that it's almost at hand: suggested improvements like 64bit operation would unlock double ram i.e.

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timbukktwo · Senior Member Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 287

+1-

Again, TRUE, the Kronos isn’t flat-out EVERYTHING (nothing ever can be, or is necessarily suppposed to be), but the Kronos packs a WHOLE big FAT punch and gets you a VERY, very far way down the road [the way I see it]. *A* *LOT* gets done when digging deep into its electronic, mechanical soul, if you will. The Kronos is ONLY the tool, and its potential is ONLY in US! US! Let’s tap into our potential!

It would be interesting to see what could become of it with an unlimited r&d income scource, though! Let’s pool our $$ together-lol.

Then, profit sharing . . .

...yeah, right; no fault in dreaming, though!

ITguy54 · Full Member Joined: 22 Mar 2015 Posts: 245

I wonder what special color Kronos will come in for NAMM 2020? Maybe dysentery green with the addition of new zither and swarmandal sample libraries.

LewTheKeyboardGuy · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:18 am Post subject:

kbrkr · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:59 pm Post subject:

Outside of tightening up a few functions/fixes, adding some tweaks here and there, where were you all expecting Korg to take the Kronos?

I mean what exactly were you all expecting in a new flagship workstation which Kronos doesn't have or can't do?

Expectations are funny like that; you never know you needed something until you actually see it!
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