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

Flash and the Spam is talking like a completely clueless child since appearing here. He has nothing serious to contribute and there's no need to waste time with answering him.

Neko · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:49 am Post subject:

What to expect from someone who writes in large font size and bold text ?

TSUNAMI · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:55 am Post subject:

SIGN* DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS *SIGN
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lesfarrington · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 24

OK, I got FLASH IN THE PAN outta my system. what a moron.
ANYWAY, LETS GET BACK TO THE KRONOS.
TIME FOR THE GRIPES.
THE TOUCHSCREEN AND ITS FUNCTIONS CONFUSE ME.
here you have installed this beautiful color screen and made no effort to actually put it to real good use.
FOR INSTANCE, lets say that i am in need of a slower envelope on the filter or a shorter release on the AMP. I finger the ENVELOPE tab and VIOLA...A GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION. SO i touch it...NOTHING. I reach over and adjust the very HANDY SLIDERS and NOTHING. WHY WOULD YOU NOT MAKE THE SLIDERS HANDLE THIS FUNCTION SO THAT EDITING WOULD BE A BREEZE. i can see SO MANY instances where the Knobs and Sliders would really come in handy working in Tandem with the onscreen Graphics. INSTEAD i am asked to fingertip each little box and then reach over and turn the dial and watch the Graphic Envelope display respond. THIS REALLY COULD BE MUCH BETTER IN SO MANY WAYS.
I am STILL SOLD ON THE SOUNDS! Truly i LOVE Them. I have loads of software, GREAT STUFF. i have a MOOG and this Kronos really does give it a run for its money! ALL IN ONE UNIT (take that Mr Flash Boy).
ALSO THERE IS NOT A TRASPONSE BUTTON ON THE THIS THING ANYWHERE> Sad.
But again THIS THING KICKS SOME MAJOR ASS SONICALLY! its capable of executing very fine CHURCH arrangements and then turn around and it could be onstage with Kraftwerk. Ive been impressed with gear before but this thing is really outstanding.
THE SEQUENCER is effective but Terribly Convoluted. Korg has tried to put TOO MUCH ON THE SCREEN AT ONCE. I would have put DEDICATED screens for things like SOUND AND EFFECTS CHOICES....then one screen dedicated COMPLETELY to COPYING AND PASTING. and speaking of....SURELY you can do something KINDA similar to the way LOGIC AUDIO does things. TOUCH a portion of the SEquence and it grows to edit more accurately. COPY and PASTE could be done the same way. ITS A TOUCH SCREEN! GIVE IT SOME HELP.
and again let me say that I AM NOT AT ALL REGRETTING MY PURCHASE!
I HAVE MONEY SO I SPENT IT...(Im guessing FLASH IN THE PAN cant afford such a thing as KRONOS with his paper route and taco bell salary).
NEXT IVE GOT TO DECIDE ON EITHER THE JUPITER 80 OR THE ARTURIA ORIGIN KEYBOARD FOR MY TOUR! LUST LUST LUST.

Lou · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:21 pm Post subject: Re: OUT OF MY SYSTEM

drchris · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: OUT OF MY SYSTEM

Flash & The Pan · Guest

Lou · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:27 pm Post subject:

Just a matter of time..

Sharp, I think it's time to empty the trash!
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Mike Conway · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject: Re: OUT OF MY SYSTEM

MartinHines · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 2:20 am Post subject:

lesfarrington · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 24

Mike Conway you are a walking instruction manual. Thank you! I am sure I would have found that information but here you are like an info-angel bestowing new love for the Kronos. I love it already but you just gave me a boost. You have an Oasys right? Nothing like a big fat piece of hardware to get us outta the box. It's getting harder and harder to work on music and not feel like I'm watching TV. Now my synth has a TV....hehe. I wasn't real crazy about having an iPad till I got one and it's really much more organic than I initially thought. The Kronos has given me the same feeling. It's really liberating. I can't get over how much better this sounds than anything I've heard in a digital synth. It sounds like sizzling cyber-bacon. It has taken me 2 full days to go through the available sounds and every sound has X/Y joystick, modulation joystick, and ribbon effects that are sometimes extreme and hafdcore. I've always thought of Korg as kinda "softy" synths. Not anymore. And the drums are very impressive. Well sampled and engineered. The added bonus of the optional ambience really does inspire. I am going to try recording vocals into it Sunday but I have a show tomorrow. Sunday! Oh, poor flash in the pan.....I'm guessing his deferred adjudication punishment includes the mandate that he uses the screen name flash in the pan. I would have been more discriptive about it and made him use Splash in the Bowl". Kids.......sigh. So many hangups, so little money

shap · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:16 am Post subject: Re: OUT OF MY SYSTEM

lesfarrington · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 24

There are some real smart folks on here! Thank you! I was going to bed at 2am but I thought I would check mike conways advice and check it out. I ended up playing with sounds. This thing I as far from disappointing as anything I've owned. It continues to surprise me. The synth programming is deep! There's so much to this monster it's going to take years to exhaust it if ever!

dangerousdave · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:55 am Post subject:

I'm not clear on the transpose situation.

There's one of my band's songs that we changed the key of, and I've never bothered relearning my parts in the correct key. With my old PSR, I just used key transpose and saved the settings. Now I can recall the settings, including transpose, at the touch of a button.

Is it going to be possible to save a user Combi that includes key tranpose on the Kronos? Or is the only way to do it through Global (which is obviously not restricted to a particular Combi)?

Mike Conway · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 12:07 pm Post subject:

Cool, Les! Get some sleep. Laughing