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[philamelian]

I am experiencing a distortion when volume is at top level in Kronos 88 but there is still some distorted sounds when its at lower levels but not that much. This is quite handy for me to use the volume knob this way, in performance especially. Distortion is especially appearent in piano sounds and while playing in forte. I read there are some issues about piano samples. But only few people were mentioning about this. I have checked this with headphones pluged directly to Kronos and in different venues and in my studio all the same. Patches are not peaking as well, checked it. Quite annoying problem and effects my comfort of playing. I don't have any problem with my Roland fantom keyboard under same circumstances.

It is a very stupid issue with this 3000 pound device, I would consider such a device faulty. Is there anyone has a solution for this or who knows the what cause this?

[curvebender]

Hmm, how come all dissapointed first time posters have to refer to other gear by other manufacturers to "prove" their point?..

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[HardSync]

In another topic, someone mentioned that the Set List EQ may be causing the distortion. I don't know if that's the case or not, but do check out page 671 of the Kronos Parameter Guide for how it all works.

[philamelian]

Curvebender> I don't have an adoration to any of the brands sorry for misleading comment. I just put that as a result of my day long tests yesterday.

HardSync> I have tried this from the program mode as well. It shoudn't have anything to do with the setlist mode.

[andreidelait]

Do you experience this problem also with preload Programs or Combis?

[philamelian]

Yes I have this with factory programs as well.

[curvebender]

[andreidelait]

In my opinion you have to contact your Korg provider for service. Did you installed an additional RAM memory? Maybe this can be a problem. I don't know but isn't something normal to have distortion using headphones with the factory programs.

Good luck to find a solution.

[philamelian]

Thanks andreidelait, that is in the plan. Unfortunately I will need to wait for it for a month at least as I am on tour now. Unfortunately we will be shooting DVD in one of the dates. This will cause a lot of headache to me....

[SeedyLee]

Do you experience the same phenomenon if you use the optical output? What if you record your performance to a WAV file (by pressing the sampling record button whilst playing) and then playing the resulting WAV file back on another device?
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[HardSync]

OK, one more thing to check then before calling Korg's service dept. Check the "Internal Headroom" parameter in Global Mode - Basic. (pg 756 of the parameter guide.)

[philamelian]

Internal headroom is at 48. It should be ok I think. I have also updated to the OS 1.5 with a possible hope to solve it but didn't work.

[donjuancarlos]

[philamelian]

I have checked the online manual several times, maybe I keep overlooking but couldn't find what you mentioned. Can you please send me the the page number and link of the manual you are looking.

I remember I checked with the standard headroom setting before but recheck it again though. If this is the issue still it's a bit weird because this device comes with +48db as default.

[Product Reviewer]