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Akos Janca · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:38 am Post subject:

Another thread could be also interesting:
Why are you buying a Kronos when you already bought an OASYS? Wink

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robinkle · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:58 am Post subject:

One word. "PriceAndLackOfTotalIntegrationWithAcomputer."

krazy78 · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:03 am Post subject:

Simply because here in Australia the Oasys costed
$13,999 AUD 76 key
$14,999 AUD 88 key

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robinkle · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:27 am Post subject:

Rosen Sound · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:42 am Post subject:

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billysynth1 · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:38 am Post subject:

Yeah in Australia the recommended retail was close to $15K...but you can always negotiate down. I got it for $10.5k in 2005...well the expansions did cost me another thousand on top.

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Zeroesque · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:49 pm Post subject:

1) Cost.
2) Size.
3) Weight.

These were also the same reasons that many people stayed away from the K2500 and K2600 'boards, and the 88-key versions of many workstations that are over, say, 10 years old.
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orpheus2006 · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:17 pm Post subject:

- price
- size of the keyboard
- some of the new unique features: set list, smooth transitions, SSD and quality of piano samples
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Scott · Platinum Member Joined: 16 Oct 2009 Posts: 1015

Kronos has a number of notable advantages over OASYS...

... cost

... weight

... high quality 4.7 gb pianos

... SSD functionality for rapid loading of whatever set of samples you need

... the set list function

jimknopf · Platinum Member Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Posts: 3374

and more:

... first class EPiano engine

... better audio recording specs

... better processor

... half the price

Frankly, the original question looks quite naive and uneducated to me.

JPWC · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:14 am Post subject:

Simple, my wife would have killed me, stuffed me into the box it came in and send me back to Korg, Oh yea, she would have kept the keyboard.
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Bertotti · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:10 am Post subject:

I'm just new to Synths and such. I never heard fo a Oasys until I got sucked into the Kronos black hole!