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guillex · Full Member Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 206

Is a Kronos LE....?

http://beta.musicradar.com/news/tech/korg-announce-krome-workstation-559109

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1jordyzzz · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:26 pm Post subject:

looks like it has no karma on it...
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guillex · Full Member Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 206

ZenSonic · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:54 pm Post subject:

No KARMA 2?. Big mistake IMO.
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apex · Platinum Member Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 2340

The only thing I think they share is the "k" and the black body.....

Maybe some samples.....this is NOT a baby Kronos.
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ZenSonic · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject:

Looks to me like an ideal board for a gigging piano player. Nice and light with great piano samples. I would buy a used M3 before I bought a Krome from what I see thus far for most any other application.
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Stargazer · Full Member Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 114

drama1 · Platinum Member Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 663

Looks like no SST either, which is very important to gigging musos.

ZenSonic · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject:

The funds used to bring the Krome to market would have been better allocated to Stephen Kay and Korg engineers to integrate Karma 3 with Kronos IMO.

It does seem like Korg upgraded the M50 here but....
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billbaker · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject:

Have to give a +1 to ZenSonic's take on this.

Looks like a great piano. Take it as just that. Then if the price point is OK start figuring the value added for including the EP (is there an engine there or just HD1 rompler sounds?), dedicated Drum Track's plus Triton style double arpeggiators, plus the 600 or so "other" sounds.

Not a Kronos Lite so much as an SV killer - if I were a lounge player or duo with a horn (which I am ocaisionally) this would definitely make life simpler; GREAT (assumed from Kronos) piano, good or at least editable EP's, chord following arpeggios for bass, the usual capabilities for combis (split/layer/vel) and a generous helping there-of. Easy to sound more produced without getting to the "band-in-a-can" cheese-whiz stage.

Having been spoiled by the Triton Extreme, I personally could wish for even more combination slots (selfish me!) and some expandability path, but the inclusion of editing software goes a long way toward making the Krome appear to have some decent flexibility if only from an ease of sound management aspect... it would at the very least make cloning from previous workstations a little easier.

Lets keep our heads here, though. It's all speculation until someone gets hands on it.

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xp50player · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:50 pm Post subject:

The Krome 88 has the NH action, not the RH3 as in the SV-1.

BasariStudios · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: New Korg Krome

guillex · Full Member Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 206

Slovenec · Full Member Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 170

I'm very fussy with my organ sounds and since being spoilt by the awesome organ sounds in my Kurzweil PC361 (with much improved rotary speaker in V2!), I can't go back to playing static rompler organ sounds without all the drawbars. At least if Krome offered the CX3 engine with drawbar control from that big touchscreen (like the Korg PA series do), then I'd most certainly be interested in one of these.

Korg would have also done well to include at least a 'scaled down' version of their AL1 or perhaps included a Radias expansion as standard???? That would have made those die hard M3 owners who don't need sampling, Karma etc also look with interest.

IMHO, why didn't Korg use the nearly 4GB of waveform rom to improve their other weaker rompler based instruments like the guitars? Also a couple of extra insert fx slots would have been nice.... even 8. After being spoilt by Kronos/Oasys with those 12 insert fx slots and even Kurzweil with up to 16 insert fx slots, those 5 insert slots look a bit less generous especially considering that the 1999 Triton had the same amount of insert slots???? Anyway just IMHO of course and I'd surely be interested in looking at one of these as a lightweight gigging instrument if only it included the CX3 engine along with those huge piano and EP programs. Smile

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guillex · Full Member Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 206