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Night Spirit · Full Member Joined: 29 Nov 2011 Posts: 113

Yea I know I have been missing since my last post, been busy but now the Kronos X has been announced I am back for more info. I have the opportunity to swap my old Kronos for the new Kronos X thanks to my lovely dealers. My main question is should I? I feel the Kronos X is quick mock up to phase out the old kronos issues and have peoples attention on the new gear to get minds off issues with old gear. Did they fix all the issues the old gear had? Did they cause more issues?

So lets get a pro's vs con's for us original Kronos owners and see is the X will mark the spot and influence us to upgrade or stay with what we got.

Laste7 · Full Member Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Posts: 147

I have a Kronos with 3GB and 120GB SSD.....this is already a Kronos XX....

I think the main question is, what your dealer wants you to pay.

If you don't care about your warranty, you can built in a bigger SSD and Memory on your own, cost about 60 Euros....and you have your Kronos X after the OS2 is released...of course, just if the Kronos you have now is working without any faults (Keybed, fan noise, etc.)
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Night Spirit · Full Member Joined: 29 Nov 2011 Posts: 113

I was also more concerned about the build, better quality better parts? Complete fixes to all the Issues with the Kronos..Keybed/Internal Noise/Velosity/Crashing/Fan Noise the list goes on and on.

Now having samples of the library is cool I will admit that, but we can just buy them our self's. The additional memory we all know we can do our self, and fan upgrades. But since I have had issues like many others my warranty is still needed. Personally I rather keep my Kronos since it will now be classic, and I can do the upgrade my self once the warranty is over anyway. Now if they offered something else that the Kronos can not do then I think that would be a bit more of a selling point.

But with the new OS 2.0 we will have the same versatility and control as the new KronosX, The only difference is upgraded memory and HD

But would be nice if they updated all the issues, better build and some NEW SOUNDS and features

Edit: Yes my current Cronos 88 does have issues, Keybed misfiring and triple noting, as well as internal noise issues where I have to run all internal setting at -25db or I will hear every single detail with the key strokes, damper, sustain extremely loud. Also have a very slight hissing in the tracks from the Krons that is only noticeable when I let notes ring out. So I do have to replace my Kronos for a new one that does have the updates to keybed and fixes to my issues. So I will have to do a swap just all depends do I swap to same Kronos Newer version, since Mine was the 2nd run of Kronos ever made. Or do I swap up to the X since I do have a free swap granted to me.

MarPabl · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:44 pm Post subject:

Swap for Kronos X, you'll get easier resale value if needed, you'll save yourself the "upgrading" (if you even need it), you'll likely get all the fixes already applied, you'll get more time with warranty, you're getting all of this for free... no-brainer Idea

Now I just can't swap mine because I have authorized many sound libraries. I can't transfer this authorization to a new Kronos Sad

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Chriskk · Senior Member Joined: 10 May 2011 Posts: 349

Swap it ASAP. Because of the X, the original Kronos loses its resale value.

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blinkofanI · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:49 am Post subject:

My god, guys,... me shouting: IT'S THE SAME KEYBOARD WITH "UPGRADED" UPGRADABLE PARTS. The X is 200$ more right now. How do you know you need the extra SSD space right now. My advice would be, buy the current model, save 200$, play with the Kronos right now and when you really need more space in 6 months or a year, fit a second SSD in there. At that time, a 120Gb SSD will probably be way cheaper than 200$. Unless you're not the kind of user who wants to open the thing up. Now, that would be understandable to exchange. But the human mind is a funny beast... Bigger is better...

Has it been confirmed that all issues(none that i had, btw) has been resolved on the new X? It's all speculations. The KronosX might even have bigger issues. Who knows.

My opinion, anyway.

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KronosX · Joined: 19 Jul 2012 Posts: 49

That does make alot of sense.. Why buy a Kronos X that has two 30gb drives that will create more heat flowing off the powersupply and as the fan blows across makes more heat build up from the heat of the constantly streaming drives. It makes sense to buy a 120gb drive for 70.00. To just update and upgrade yourself.

If you have 3 buddies that all have Kronos and you all buy additional EX sample sets? Do you think there is anything wrong with sharing activation codes? Is there like a rule to this?

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