Korg Kronos?

plurp1000 · Post by **plurp1000** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:24 pm

Hi I was thinking about purchasing the akai miniak but I don't know if it has a piano sound or not, or if it does is it any good? Thank You

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:29 pm

plurp1000 wrote:Hi I was thinking about purchasing the akai miniak but I don't know if it has a piano sound or not, or if it does is it any good? Thank You

If carefully programmed, it can make a nice emulation of one Mr Boesendorfer shooting himself in the head rather that hearing that somebody usues the Miniak to play piano.

Is that a good and concise enough review of the piano qualities of the miniak?

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:31 pm

vEddY wrote:
drama1 wrote: BUT, I certainly congratulate Korg for a board that FINALLY has seamless program/combi switching
Hm. You can do this, very nicely, with M3 and OASYS. Especially by using KARMA.

this is somehow an euphemism.

either you use karma, or NO WAY the M3 has un-bumping (much lesss "seamless") combi swithing.

plurp1000 · Post by **plurp1000** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:33 pm

I was going to use it in my live setup and I need an acoustic piano sound sometimes. Don't want to haul both units to the gig so I thought maybe I could just bring one, but not if it doesn't have the preset. Just a simple question but thanks for the sarcastic response.

Summer2000 · Post by **Summer2000** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:38 pm

Looks like prices are in:

http://www.novamusik.com/search.aspx?ty ... org+kronos

$2999 for the 61 keys

Biopharmer · Post by **Biopharmer** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:41 pm

Summer2000 wrote:Looks like prices are in:

http://www.novamusik.com/search.aspx?ty ... org+kronos

$2999 for the 61 keys

OH MY. I'm not interested anymore. I'd rather get a Virus for that price. Hmmm... yeah the new DSI Tempest looks hella nice.

kimu · Post by **kimu** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:42 pm

very interesting....

reading carefully the spec i think we cannot say korg has failed...

ok, this time has no created a new market segment but they have just set new standard in Workstation market and give this out to a reasonable price...

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:42 pm

plurp1000 wrote:I was going to use it in my live setup and I need an acoustic piano sound sometimes. Don't want to haul both units to the gig so I thought maybe I could just bring one, but not if it doesn't have the preset. Just a simple question but thanks for the sarcastic response.

it is a virtual analogue synth.

a cheap virtual analogue. It does (badly) moog imitations. gnewww, whiiiiiiir, tum tum tum, got it?

it has NO piano samples, None, nein, zero, zilch, nada, kaputt!

it has 32 keys, for budhhassake!

How do you like it as a f***king stage piano?!?

can you play piano parts on 32 keys with no piano samples?

You'd better off using a TRUMPET as a stage piano!!! A kazoo!!!

and that's written in the specifications!!!

You don't want sarcasm, don't ask rhetoric questions.

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:44 pm

. oops.

Summer2000 · Post by **Summer2000** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:48 pm

I have a few questions:

Does anyone have any details about the sequencer? Has it been revamped? If it's the same one from the Oasys then forget about it!

Also does it have time stretching for samples?

Does it import Rex files?

Does it have independent track looping?

Can you preview and audition patches while the sequencer is playing?

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:48 pm

Summer2000 wrote:$2999 for the 61 keys

which means 3000 euros and 2500 pounds, considering european taxes and dealer's policies which are different from USA.

The guy this morning was well informed

This means the 88 will be going for 3800 euros, 3200 pounds.

In one year and a half it will be a buy, at 2500 euros the 88, all bugs removed, new OS, and a tee-shirt

keego · Post by **keego** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:52 pm

Actually it is more like £1,900 in the current economic climate. I checked on currency converter!

embry0 · Post by **embry0** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:01 pm

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:02 pm

keego wrote:Actually it is more like £1,900 in the current economic climate. I checked on currency converter!

it doesn't work like that. Simple currency conversion won't work.

Korg (yamaha, roland, DSI, Moog) prices are not the same in UK / Euroland as they are in the USA.

after shipping, taxes and different regional policies,

I usually use as my rule of thumb: take the US$ prices, make that euro at 1:1 (which, on the other hand, could happen soon thanks to our portuguese and spaniard friends),

THEN apply market exhange rates to eur-->gbp

It always works, with all japanese and American producers.

Pepperpotty · Post by **Pepperpotty** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:03 pm

keego wrote:Actually it is more like £1,900 in the current economic climate. I checked on currency converter!

But you're not taking in to account the VAT at 20%. So that makes it more like £2280. Plus they'll be more expensive in the UK than they will in the states. So Ozy's guess of £2500 will probably be pretty accurate.

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