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[Musicwithharry]

Hey, everyone...

I bought ANOTHER Korg Kross 88 last Friday. I drove up to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) and picked it up.

It was kind of rough;

1. It was dirty on the outside
2. Three keys were cracked but still worked.

Everything else still worked fine. I brought an SD card with me and loaded my custom PCG and everything was fine.

I got it home, after a 9.5 hour round trip (I live near Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and reset the machine.

I knew that I was going to have to replace the three keys, as well as give it a good cleaning.

I ordered the new keys (you have to order an octave at a time because the keys on the Kross are in an octave format) from partsitparts.net and I got them in yesterday.

I took the unit apart today and replaced the octave that had the bad keys. The inside of the unit was actually very clean. I marked on the white portion the date of replacement and then wrote it on the metal bar that spans across the keybed along the bottom of the keyboard. I tested it and the keys worked fine.

I noticed a video on YouTube about someone who had to fix a key weight on a Krome 88. It looked to me like the keybeds for the Kross and Krome are the same.

The Kross 88 cleaned up very well and works great. I cannot wait to get it on stage to use live with the rest of my rig.

As for my OTHER Kross 88, it is still out for repair. They say that they are waiting for key contacts. They apparently had to clean the keybed extensively because there was a lot of pet hair in it. I bought it that way and am glad that the company I got it from took ownership of the condition it was in. It has been 2 months now, so the availability of the other Kross 88 I just got was welcome. In addition, I only paid $275 USD for it. That was worth the drive.

Why would I spend so much time on the Kross 1 keyboards? I like them. I know the new model has new features and upgrades, but I like the original and with some work, you can really get great results out of it.

Grace,
Harry
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[Stargazer]

Great story! Do you use any special sound banks?
I had a Jarre bank from Dan Stesco (and a synth one I think), which was a very fresh wind to the Kross and contained some amazing programming. Sold it some time afterwards, due to some personal circumstances, but hunting something these days.
BTW, this is my 100th post on this forum. Cheers!
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[Musicwithharry]