No countdown? - No new Korg workstation!

GregC · Post by **GregC** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:04 pm

Bachus wrote:
narf wrote:50 years of synths... but it’s only the beginning
https://www.facebook.com/korgaus/videos ... 793796135/
It starts with a P followed by 8 letters and numbers...

Prototype 50
2 76 keybeds..
And a workstation

I allways tought they would call it the Korgan...

you were close. Maybe keep that wish list for another day

korgiefanatic · Post by **korgiefanatic** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 5:47 pm

the kronos still has a ton of life in it. I would rather see a major firmware update to kronos instead of a new board...Anyone with me on this?

Derek Cook · Post by **Derek Cook** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:04 pm

korgiefanatic wrote:the kronos still has a ton of life in it. I would rather see a major firmware update to kronos instead of a new board...Anyone with me on this?

Oh, yes!

I'd also contemplate a motherboard upgrade in it as a route to more power.

korgiefanatic · Post by **korgiefanatic** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:02 pm

korg would be so far ahead to just upgrade existing kronos with firmware and even motherboards if possible...i mean the hardware is top notch already and i would even pay for the update/grade...

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:48 pm

hans1966 wrote:KORG PROLOGUE

http://www.audiokeys.net/forum/showthre ... t=prologue

That's a Korg Australia video - and - apart from a few classics, features a whole bunch of Korg's junk over the years too - and doesn't feature the OASYS or Kronos! All of the images used are also low-res. incredibly poor video - they should pull it.

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:18 pm

korgiefanatic wrote:korg would be so far ahead to just upgrade existing kronos with firmware and even motherboards if possible...i mean the hardware is top notch already and i would even pay for the update/grade...

The sound and options are still top knotch
The interface is getting old...

It might be time for Korg to upgrade the Kronos for the 20’s...

leonh · Post by **leonh** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:34 pm

Double post

leonh · Post by **leonh** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:39 pm

Why update the best no competition workstation out there it does not make business sense Korg is no charity they are out there to make money when something else comes out and challenges Kronos then you will see new model .

GregC · Post by **GregC** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:40 pm

Bachus wrote:
korgiefanatic wrote:korg would be so far ahead to just upgrade existing kronos with firmware and even motherboards if possible...i mean the hardware is top notch already and i would even pay for the update/grade...
The sound and options are still top knotch
The interface is getting old...

It might be time for Korg to upgrade the Kronos for the 20’s...

Is it still a #1 seller in your country ? Per a distributor ( thoemann ?)

I think we discussed market demand back in Sept. Or tried to as best we could

methusala · Post by **methusala** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:11 pm

Voice in the wilderness here. Make the Oasys integrate with the K. Shame it's mission impossible.

Patrick

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 1:16 am

marc1 wrote:
there is a better chance of it being a vst/au Kronos package or ios product than a new workstation to rival or surpass the Kronos.
Why would that be? Considering the complexity of something like the Kronos it comes close to creating your own DAW and given the fact that Korg still creates revenue for the most part with selling hardware components (usually combined in a hardware instrument, that is).

GregC wrote:
Apparently cross platforming is the best approach to attempt to get the best of both worlds.
Well this is what most people did for the last 5 years or so (since 64bit is an actual reality). But as we know, no one needed the Kronos or even the Oasys back in 2005 to be able to play and create music in 32bit.

64 bit and DAW integration are only 2 pieces of the puzzle to solve.
This, of course, is very true and I hope they don't leave it at that, if they ever come out with a Kronos successor.

Just an example of where I see the odds of a new workstation. Slim to nothing, get it? I am however happy with what they have offered up this year! A path seems to have been revealed or maybe my imagination, but Minilogue then Karp then Monologue, now the prologue. Imagine an updated Kronos with this type of analog architecture included and combined with it! That excites me.

blazerunner · Post by **blazerunner** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:35 am

Didn't they just make the Krono 2 like a year ago and recently released the Kronos LS?

This isn't like the olden days of the Trinity and Triton where tech is just developing rapidly and making the board outdated.

the Kronos tech is still beyond what it should be and everyone elses boards right now. I can't even think of what they could do to improve it except maybe adding in a bigger HD like it doesnt' have a huge one already. The Kronos is just hard to surpass even for Korg. If it's not broken then don't fix it. I would like to see some more Official Korg expansion packs for it though.

marc1 · Post by **marc1** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:25 am

Didn't they just make the Krono 2 like a year ago and recently released the Kronos LS?

Exactly, that's what I've been thinking.

This isn't like the olden days of the Trinity and Triton where tech is just developing rapidly and making the board outdated.

I also think, they had planned to sell the Kronos as long as possible, especially after all those whiny Oasys owners cried over their supposed short lived product. And here we are 7 years and 2 major software updates later and still no end in sight (and no real contender).

the Kronos tech is still beyond what it should be and everyone elses boards right now.

Yup.

I can't even think of what they could do to improve it except maybe adding in a bigger HD like it doesnt' have a huge one already.

Oh, there are many many areas where you could improve this board, believe me. And this has already been discussed many many times here on the forum too.

The Kronos is just hard to surpass even for Korg.

Here I definitely disagree and I think Korg has already been working on a Kronos successor for a couple of years now (probably). But I'd be very surprised, if we were yet to see it during this decade.

I would like to see some more Official Korg expansion packs for it though.

+1
Thus far they already covered every area imaginable, but I'd like to see more Ambience Drums though.

Koekepan · Post by **Koekepan** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 5:05 pm

The big problem that I see is that KORG is one persuasive kickstarter away from a really compelling competitor.

I mean, that wouldn't be a problem for the purchasing public. It'd be great! But for KORG it'd be a problem.

So far they've been lucky that their keyboard workstation competition has been pretty sad. Kurzweil have been silent for ages. Yamaha and Roland are producing things that act more like heavily juiced MIDI controllers with performance capabilities, than actual standalone workstations.

AKAI Pro are the dark horse here, but they lack the synthesis capabilities of the Kronos.

A multi-core ARM CPU can deliver a lot of synthesis power these days, and there's a lot of efficient software that could put it to very good use, including some breathtakingly beautiful presets (sunvox springs to mind, but there are surely others, such as tracktion).

A keyboard, some control knobs, a touchscreen, and you're practically there. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Behringer put on their collective thinking cap and put it out, if only as an aura product.

Devnor · Post by **Devnor** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:28 pm

It's laptops and software killing the need for workstations. At this point, I'm not sure I'm willing to drop $4000 for the next gen workstation that gets you what, maybe double the poly, a few new bells & whistles and a fancy new case.