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jimknopf
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You talk of having both, but that would put the Kronos to a different price range, both by providing the necessary hardware (flash slots plus users buying flash memory - have a look at the Yamaha prices) and an updated software.
I can't deny it would be nice, but to me personally it's not worth the money and effort, being able to live very well with the present solution.
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EvilDragon
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Na, I'm talking having only flash memory instead of SSD (well, they're basically very similar things).
Well, perhaps if SpIdErWeB manages to put a way faster SSD in Kronos and confirms it would make the booting much faster, that could change my mind. Then the question remains why Korg didn't put a faster SSD there in the first place. |
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| EvilDragon wrote: | Na, I'm talking having only flash memory instead of SSD (well, they're basically very similar things).
Well, perhaps if SpIdErWeB manages to put a way faster SSD in Kronos and confirms it would make the booting much faster, that could change my mind. Then the question remains why Korg didn't put a faster SSD there in the first place. |
Reasons could be:
- a faster SSD is much more expensive.
- a faster SSD possibly has a less good MTBF rate.
- a faster SSD is probably newer and they did not have enough test time to test it thoroughly (understand that development of a new synth takes years).
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EvilDragon
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| michelkeijzers wrote: | | - a faster SSD possibly has a less good MTBF rate. |
No. Newer SSDs actually have this even better than old ones. |
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Whats with the racial slurs....? I thought this was an open forum?
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| EvilDragon wrote: | | michelkeijzers wrote: | | - a faster SSD possibly has a less good MTBF rate. |
No. Newer SSDs actually have this even better than old ones. |
Agree to this.
It's probably a similar discussion why they did not put a faster CPU inside to get more polyphony.
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| EvilDragon wrote: | | I would trade slow boot-up for slower writes. Having gigs of flash and a fast boot time is better IMHO. And it would still allow streaming. |
Things to do while waiting for 1 minute 48 second bootup:
1) microwave a cheeseburger
2) read a Kurzweil promo
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EvilDragon
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Things to do if s**t happens in middle of a gig and even the god damn UPS fails?
1) Look stupid. |
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| EvilDragon wrote: | Things to do if s**t happens in middle of a gig and even the god damn UPS fails?
1) Look stupid. |
2) Wait until your band has finished playing the special song where no keyboard player is needed, which they studied especially for this occasion.
Does anybody know such songs, taking exactly 2:16?
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You could try "Seaside Rendezvous" from Queen.
Length: 2 mins, 13 seconds.
Queen performed this acapella on several occasions, so no keyboard needed.
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Last weekend someone dumped a beer on my power strip and shut down my whole setup during a section that only had keyboards. Wah Wah Wah.... Took 3 minutes to figure out what happened 2 minutes to locate a new outlet and what seemed like forever booting up. 
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| Yuma wrote: | You could try "Seaside Rendezvous" from Queen.
Length: 2 mins, 13 seconds.
Queen performed this acapella on several occasions, so no keyboard needed. |
Sounds good ... we have 3 singers 
(And I'm not one of them).
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| GregC wrote: | Things to do while waiting for 1 minute 48 second bootup:
1) microwave a cheeseburger
2) read a Kurzweil promo
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3) Play your other synths to remind yourself why you bought a Kronos in the first place.
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EvilDragon
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| Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Yuma wrote: | You could try "Seaside Rendezvous" from Queen.
Length: 2 mins, 13 seconds.
Queen performed this acapella on several occasions, so no keyboard needed. |
Actually that's quite a good idea!
I love Queen. |
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