It sure wouldn't be difficult for Korg to throw a prototype "Kronos LS" together: a couple of years ago, I opened up my M3-73 and my Kronos 61, and hooked the M3's (unweighted) keyboard directly to the K61's motherboard (connections are the same, they are 61- and 73-key versions of the same keybed) and it worked just fine as a synth-action Kronos 73...but I couldn't figure out a way to fit the 73 keybed into the K61 without really hacking things up...if there is a Kronos LS 73 (or 76?) that weighs in at around 25 lbs., I'd buy one to replace my K61, particularly if the left-hand controls are moved up above the lower end of the keyboard to make it shorter that the existing K73, too...
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jeremykeys
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Please forgive me if I missed something but where did the idea of a 76 key Kronos come from? Did I miss a picture or something?
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Gear: Kronos 73, Wavestation EX, Polysix, King Korg, Monotron and Monotron Duo, Minikorg, Moog Grandmother, my very old MiniKorg, 4 acoustic and 9 electric guitars, 1 Ibanez 5 string bass, a Steel guitar, a bunch of microphones, 2 pairs of studio monitors and other very cool toys, 1 wife and 4 cats and a lava lamp!
Since this is all just speculation, I guess some of us like 76's better than 73's...for me, playing piano with 76 keys E1-G7 gives me a few more useful high notes, but 73 keys E1 - E7 is OK too...I don't like 73 keys C1-C7, I don't think that C1-D#1 sound very good or are very useful on piano (while C#7-E7 definitely are), but I understand that synth guys who split the keybed into zones might prefer starting and ending on C...
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If Korg dropped the price of a Kronos by 500-1000 I wonder how many people would buy that don't have one and how many people that have one would buy a second. I would since I have an x 61 I would love an 88 hammer weight but if the 88 had the 61 action and was considerable less it would also be quite tempting.
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Since the 61 is more than 25 lbs, I can't imagine a 7x would get down there. In fact, for some reason, the 61-key Kronos 2 gained a few pounds over the original 61! But the 88 LS is in the high 30s... if they could get a 73 down to the low 30s (including, as you say, moving the LH controls to shorten the overall length of the board), I'd find that very appealing.dfahrner wrote:It sure wouldn't be difficult for Korg to throw a prototype "Kronos LS" together: a couple of years ago, I opened up my M3-73 and my Kronos 61, and hooked the M3's (unweighted) keyboard directly to the K61's motherboard (connections are the same, they are 61- and 73-key versions of the same keybed) and it worked just fine as a synth-action Kronos 73...but I couldn't figure out a way to fit the 73 keybed into the K61 without really hacking things up...if there is a Kronos LS 73 (or 76?) that weighs in at around 25 lbs., I'd buy one to replace my K61, particularly if the left-hand controls are moved up above the lower end of the keyboard to make it shorter that the existing K73, too...
