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The Kronos 4, the real upgrade to this Kronos 2+ Extended won't come along until another 4-5 years from now. The slow chip market basically slowed down the process and limited high tech innovation in many musical products and companies. After the global economy picks back up and the American chip ...

average_male wrote:

New Workstations from all three main companies are here to stay forever.

Forever is a pretty long time, did you want to quantify that?

No.

I believe Korg will be making Kronos level Workstations until the end of time. As long as world conditions allow them to.

First of all, are you a qualified professional to talk about a mental breakdown? If not then STFU. I’m basing my opinion, not on my timetable, but reality. You continue to live in a dream world that Korg cares about your opinions. Their only product developments are always centered around Raspberry ...

You know you just described the Nautilus, right? The Nautilus was a downgrade, not an upgrade or successor. It's not considered a Kronos successor or Kronos 3, but a fill in downgrade workstation like most keyboard companies debut until they're ready to release their flagship workstation that ...

Whenever your battery wears out, and you replace it with a new battery you must reset the time clock in the Kronos to eliminate the Battery Low indicator still coming up after replacing the old battery. I replaced the old battery for a new one after the first original battery wore out, and still got ...

However, neither Roland nor Yamaha have released the next big flagship in many years. What both have done recently is to offer an incremental update to a flagship that's more than a few years old. Yamaha's M is still just a Montage with software updates (excluding the poly aftertouch 88 keybed ...

…The Kronos 3 will be an incremental update with a better more simpler User Interface screen display with bigger buttons, which will be the strongest selling point. You know you just described the Nautilus, right? The Nautilus was a downgrade, not an upgrade or successor. It's not considered a K ...

But the next to release the next big flagship most likely will be Korg, now that Yamaha released theirs. That seems logical to me. However, neither Roland nor Yamaha have released the next big flagship in many years. What both have done recently is to offer an incremental update to a flagship that ...

My completely uninformed outsider's view (but I have dealt with a lot of product design questions in other contexts): KORG didn't want to keep doing Kronos. They could have had many reasons; trouble with maintenance, a desire to change strategy, a desire to put money elsewhere, a hope that they ...

A Kronos successor is coming in due time. Maybe in 3-5 years after Yamaha release their Montage successor and the chip market ease up from delays and shortages.

It'll probably come in 2025 or by 26 considering there is a chip shortage that may delay production if not already completed. I heard Yamaha is supposed to debut a Montage successor this year from a guy claiming inside sources. If that's true, then Korg would follow up after Yamaha's debut as to not ...

Some Midi controllers double trigger the sample to sound thicker and often play samples at full volume velocity. Often a sample triggered by a Midi controller would sound more fuller because you get double triggering from this controller. Often a sequencer may do double triggering because it's doing ...

For instance they could have updated the cumbersome Sampling,Saving,and Sample Load on Startup feature by simplifying the process. Instead of having a user do all those individual tasks manually. But they don't fix or update things like that. Yeah, Korg is pretty pathetic when it comes to fixing ...

The Nautilus is just the way they designed it. To give you less for less money.

There will be a Kronos successor someday. But someday may not be tonight. Maybe in a couple of years, maybe 2024

Thank you for asking. Regarding Korg, I no longer have an ongoing relationship with them, and really have not been in contact with anyone other than accounting for years. People die, people move on, companies change, company leadership changes, design priorities change… it was quite fun while it l ...