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cobray
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| runningman67 wrote: | My son has it right.
He asked me if I can do lots of 'stuff' on your new keyboard.
Yep, lots of 'stuff'.
Lots of stuff is what the `Kronos is all about. |
And that is the main reason that I bought it. Another reason is that they made it easy to use all of that stuff.
I have a Yamaha SO2 and the manual is so poorly written that no one I know could figure out some of the features.
I looked at a Kurzweil product before I bought the Kronos and it too seemed rather complicated. The Kronos seems to be aimed at people like myself who like to plug and play. |
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zzzxtreme
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korg has always been easy to use since M1
Alesis? Horrible |
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michelkeijzers
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| zzzxtreme wrote: | korg has always been easy to use since M1
Alesis? Horrible |
And the best is the way of working really hasn't changed during all these years AND the GUI still feels far from outdated.
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jeremykeys
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| Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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I've owned and still own keyboards from all of the main builders except Yamaha but always tend to gravitate towards Korg. I do like the Roland U-20 and have 2 or them. I used to own a Korg M1R and found it so easy to use and program. The logic just makes perfect sense to me. Yamaha is convoluted I find. Of course Motif users will disagree but I'm okay with that. Don't know about Roland users.
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Cpilot
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Not all Yamahas are that bad. My arranger is easy to manage and I have a marvellous editor for it (unlike some who shall be nameless). Yamaha even produced one for Cubase 5 for my 10 year old keyboard. Maybe if the Korg editor (which will be here any year now) has a VST component that will work with Cubase 5 as well (says he hopefully). I will agree about the Motif though. All bits and pieces. And the Rolands are just pretty colours and very confusing.
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zzzxtreme
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| jeremykeys wrote: | | I've owned and still own keyboards from all of the main builders except Yamaha but always tend to gravitate towards Korg. I do like the Roland U-20 and have 2 or them. I used to own a Korg M1R and found it so easy to use and program. The logic just makes perfect sense to me. Yamaha is convoluted I find. Of course Motif users will disagree but I'm okay with that. Don't know about Roland users. |
Used to own SY85, SY77. not user friendly. Just like Motif and Motif ES. but Motif XS is considerably different because of its large LCD |
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mathieumaes
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10 years ago I wanted to buy a piano/synth. At the store I ended up comparing the Yamaha S80 with the Roland XV80. I chose the Yamaha over Roland because of the UI. Choosing sounds seemed much easier on the Yamaha.
A few months ago, I chose the Kronos over the Yamaha XF and the Roland RD700NX for the same reason. Much easier to use, much more controls, etc ...
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michelkeijzers
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| mathieumaes wrote: | 10 years ago I wanted to buy a piano/synth. At the store I ended up comparing the Yamaha S80 with the Roland XV80. I chose the Yamaha over Roland because of the UI. Choosing sounds seemed much easier on the Yamaha.
A few months ago, I chose the Kronos over the Yamaha XF and the Roland RD700NX for the same reason. Much easier to use, much more controls, etc ... |
I also noticed that I mostly prefer better UI over sounds. Of course when the sounds are not ok, I will not choose it but the UI does count a lot for me, together with flexibility (like 16 timbres/combi).
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aron
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The beauty about the Motif series is that despite the new LCD etc... the sound searching and button presses are very, very similar all the way from the S90 etc... VERY QUICK to select sounds.
Most of the keyboards have similar hierarchies with Roland and maybe Kurzweil being the deepest.
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