Superior sound will always win sales at the end of the day, the stats speak for themselves.
Clearly the public have good ears, most people know what's what, especially when it comes to big beat sound. I have noticed that Korg continues to retain that same ole spacey thin artificial tone for many years now. Just imagine if BMW or Mercedes or Porsche kept the same engine performance and same body design on their cars for a decade, they would probably lose sales.
IMO Korg need to go back to the drawing board and completely redesign their synth-engine and replace their current sampling team with a whole new team of experts, that's the only way to solve this problem.
My opinion on the large majority of sounds i hear from the Korg Kronos after many auditions, thin as crap synth sounds (Just like their old Triton, nothing's changed), airy and spacey tones everywhere, and unrealistic strings and orchestral - albeit quite nice-sounding in their own weirdish way.
Seriously guys, the Korg tones sound good in isolation when not comparing them to another workstation or real analog, but when someone like me knows what to listen for, well hey, immediately it is obvious, no way will i ever buy a Korg, the large majority of their samples in the rom and even their analog engines sound thin as crap, they just don't have that elusive phat real-life tone. Take it or leave it, but no way will i ever buy a Korg until they overhaul the synth-engine design and start to understand what PHAT means.
And for some reason Korg seems to be of the opinion that they can neglect EDM producers, because i see that their EDM drumkits are tacky and sparse, not many TR909 type hi-hats, not many phat claps, and not many inspiring drumkit tones to work with when it comes to EDM drumkits.
Where is the phat solid hard-hitting punchy bass sounds, not these Korg basses with that deepish type tone but somehow seems to be lacking solid thumping hard-hitting weight.
Why is Korg so inclined to use-up so many megabytes of rom and ram to give ten million Pianos and EP's etc, and yet what amount of ram and rom do they commit to EDM synth sounds and basses and drumkits, sweet fu_k all! That's what.
Here's my advice Korg, fire the current developers and engineers and start again, move onward and upward, leave the old guard, it's time to be thinking about the modern era and give us the real-deal.
