Korg Krome 61 vs. Yamaha MOX6

[morty]

Agreed!

GO with Krome:)

[beethovenslover]

I did. When I first had it I had a bit of an accident, gunna be honest.

[geebake]

I guess that could be taken a couple of different ways. Neither my Krome or my MOX has brought me to the level of incontinence, but I dearly love them both!

Best of luck!

[HowardK]

Hello, I had a Korg Triton LE for years and loved playing a friends T3 so have always been partial to the Korg workstations.

I tried a MoX6 but found the keys far too light, granted it is a lighter action to make the unit 15 pounds but forget it.

I have always liked Korg pianos the best (just got an SP280)


I had a Motif 6 the same time as the LE and felt even though I liked the Motif AP's and EP's better; the sequencer was convoluted.

[Left Hand Shake]

I am tossing this out to you all.

I am a professional musician and we are looking to pickup a few affordable home studio boards for both members and techies alike. We would like to take a few on the road as fun backup and live play.

My question is has anyone compared the YAMAHA MOX6 against the KORG KROME.

A Krome arrived yesterday and minus the nice screen. The thing feels like a cheap toy. I found a site with some on going questions (see bellow link). But, most important are the sounds and reliability tight with the MOX6? We are predominantly an Industrial, Elctro, EBM type band. We have heavy gear but I would like to work on other projects. Seriously, what the heck is the volume knob issue maxing out at about +3???

http://www.kromecity.com/?page_id=60

Thank you all again
~ Lefty

Just a feed back to my original post/question.

WE DID end up picking up a few Yamaha MOX6's and MOX8's. They are better suited for fun practice boards. The sounds are great and easy to manipulate. The boards are intuitive and fun.

In the end we always have Korgs as part of our gear. But, I must say for lower end work stations the MOX series has an edge. JUST my opinion.

Now we are wrestling w/ NI's Maschine....THAT thing is about two days from flying into the studio wall!

[LESSISMORE]

MOX6 - NARROWED keybed from PSR , octave 160mm ___

KROME61 - FULLSIZE keybed , octave 165mm


like this



This particular problem seems to be primarily in Yamaha’s unweighted digital keyboards. I first noticed this in the 80s when I got the famous DX-7 keyboard, and stacked it on other instruments; I tried to line up the “C” keys at the bottom, only to find they were misaligned at the top. Ironically, the Yamaha CP-70 Electric Grand was the other keyboard, and had the correct octave size. Years went by and for some reason Yamaha continued to make these smaller keys, and it continues to this day.
http://www.randyhoexter.com/?p=520

Hi

Yamaha also developed the Flaggship Tyros 4 with a shorter Keybed.
The length is only 825 mm. The standard is 850 mm.
Each Hammer-Keybed has 850mm (over 5 octaves) and all bigger Korg-Keys also.
Its a shame to Yamaha

[levis]

Korg X50, M50-61, M3-61, Krome61, Kronos61 ---- 850 mm, FULLSIZE;


Motif ES6/7, XS6/7, XF6/7, all Tyros, all PSR, MOX61, MX49/61 ----- 825 mm

[michelkeijzers]

Korg X50, M50-61, M3-61, Krome61, Kronos61 ---- 850 mm, FULLSIZE;


Motif ES6/7, XS6/7, XF6/7, all Tyros, all PSR, MOX61, MX49/61 ----- 825 mm

I think it would be noticable when playing, meaning if you are used to a default 850 mm keybed and then play on a 825.

[gareebee]

Out of interest, can either of them be used as a midi controller? sorry that it's irrelevant

As long as they have midi out which they do, any keyboard can be a midi controller BUT!!! True midi controllers are specifically designed for that very purpose ei Roland Pro A800 controller,M Audio KEYSTATION 61ES,Akai - MPK49 etc.

One very interesting difference is that MOX6 has a built-in audio/midi/usb interface, allowing you to have all the functionality of a separate interface unit, yet built in. In addition MOX's usb not only handles back-and-forth midi data, but audio as well. It's great for playing NI Komplete off my laptop live, requiring only a usb cable with audio coming out of MOX only (nice and simple!) but also it can fill in sounds if/when there is a laptop crash midshow. Krome only moves midi data, like most other boards.

[YamahaForums]

Just wanted to point out that the Krome is 120 voice not 64. It's 60 in dual mode which is I think what you may have been thinking of?

I have had the MOX and whilst it's a fine board I much prefer the sound and feel of the Krome. It is a very personal thing though but for me Korg just get's the whole user experience right where Yamaha tend to stick to their rather convoluted way of doing things.

[joshhuntnm]

I have recently purchased both Krome and Moxf8. It seems to me the big difference is the interface. the MOXF8 has some handy buttons/ nobs. the octive and trospose up/down buttons are nice. the eq knobs are nice. you can also push a button and use the nobs to control the relative balance of the sounds in layered sounds. There are some buttons that can be used for shortcuts/ favorites. All these make the MOXF8 nice for life performance.

The Krome has the nice big color touch screen. this is more intuitive to edit sounds.

[YamahaForums]

Actually since my last post I have owned the Yamaha MOXF with 1Gb flash card and the Roland FA06 and the thing that, for me stands out on both of these is the usb audio interface, which of course the KROME lacks.

I only ever use keyboards at home so for me the less cables the better and being able to route all audio through the keyboard out to the monitors is a massive plus! Why KORG left this of the KROME when at the time of release Yamaha's MOX already had it is a bit of a mystery.

The other little niggle is the lack of any transpose buttons on the KROME. Both Roland and Yamaha include them on their keyboards so why not KORG?

With just a couple of tweaks the KROME would be a real winner but at the moment it is somewhat lagging behind.

[CowboyNQ]

The other little niggle is the lack of any transpose buttons on the KROME. Both Roland and Yamaha include them on their keyboards so why not KORG?

You can transpose on the Krome using the "Global" function. One button press, a touch of the screen, a little (or big, depending on how far you want to transpose) rotation of the wheel and you're done.

[YamahaForums]

The other little niggle is the lack of any transpose buttons on the KROME. Both Roland and Yamaha include them on their keyboards so why not KORG?

You can transpose on the Krome using the "Global" function. One button press, a touch of the screen, a little (or big, depending on how far you want to transpose) rotation of the wheel and you're done.

Yes but that's not the same as a one button press on the keyboard itself. Even my 88 note controller has a transpose button. Roland have it, Yamaha have it, KORG never seems to get around to it. Not a deal breaker but nice to have.

[CowboyNQ]

The other little niggle is the lack of any transpose buttons on the KROME. Both Roland and Yamaha include them on their keyboards so why not KORG?

You can transpose on the Krome using the "Global" function. One button press, a touch of the screen, a little (or big, depending on how far you want to transpose) rotation of the wheel and you're done.

Yes but that's not the same as a one button press on the keyboard itself. Even my 88 note controller has a transpose button. Roland have it, Yamaha have it, KORG never seems to get around to it. Not a deal breaker but nice to have.

It's not identical, but I dispute the notion that it's any more inconvenient. I also doubt that you can transpose your Roland and Yamaha more than one semi tone with a "one button press".