It is, indeed, an amazing powerhouse.Lightbringer wrote:Wow, it saddens me to see the negativity about the Kronos in this thread.
I bought mine about a year ago, when some would have already described it as "end of life." I've found it to be the opposite - full of life. A powerful tool for crafting music and sound, and a real creative enabler.
"New" is what you put inside the Kronos. Many of the samples and programs that my Kronos is playing this year were not there, last year.I guess I can understand where if you've had it for 10 years, you might be jonesing for something new
I've had the OASYS since 2005. There was nothing like it. An amazing super-synth workstation. Kronos came out, added disk streaming of user sample banks, 24 bit recording, extra program banks, new touch screen gestures, double drum kits, more osc sample splits, etc, etc.
Before the OASYS and Kronos, I had the Triton Classic and Extreme. Though it is a familiar operating style, there is significant evolution. The OASYS is wonderful, but can not do all the things that the Kronos does. Even little things, like recording something on my Zoom H4N, pulling the SD card and having Kronos read/play the waves. Very useful.
Let me put it this way, no one has exhausted the sonic and creative capabilities of an OASYS or Kronos. Not even close.
I do agree that Korg should be offering a significant OS update to coincide with the SE release. A missed opportunity to better tout their flagship platform.
No question.I'd buy it again today if I didn't already have one.
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