Korg Kronos?

Jeff Gibbs · Post by **Jeff Gibbs** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:59 am

Something doesn't make sense to me, the specs talk about 314mb of PCM memory but in the video Rich F. talked about 4 GB for the piano alone. Also, the specs say 1gb of sample ram. How do those things jive?
The piano on the video sounds amazing. I can't see Korg releasing something at this price point unless it really is a leap forward.

t_tangent · Post by **t_tangent** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:05 am

Summer2000 wrote:Not sure if you guys have seen this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/user/KorgUSAVide ... HV3rnkGt3E

Thanks for the link. Some great performances as well. Cheers

xmlguy · Post by **xmlguy** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:31 am

Jeff Gibbs wrote:Something doesn't make sense to me, the specs talk about 314mb of PCM memory but in the video Rich F. talked about 4 GB for the piano alone. Also, the specs say 1gb of sample ram. How do those things jive?
The piano on the video sounds amazing. I can't see Korg releasing something at this price point unless it really is a leap forward.

See where it talks about Virtual Memory Technology (VMT)? It apparently loads samples dynamically from the SSD, using RAM as a cache. SSD is fast and doesn't require a spindle to spool up or a disk to travel under a read/write head. It probably only needs to keep a small bit of each sample in RAM, since the SSD reads will be fast enough to load the rest of the sample by the time it's needed to be played.

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:34 am

Hi all.
Guess where I am.

Just opened up the new Kronos section here.
http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... m.php?f=60

Looking forward to seeing the keyboard in the morning.

Now.... time for SLEEP... I'm shattered.

Regards
Sharp.

Rosen Sound · Post by **Rosen Sound** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:38 am

Any chance of meeting you tomorrow sharp?
Ill be at NAMM!

Post by **Sharp** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:42 am

Yeah sure, I'll be floating around the KORG stand first tomorrow morning.

Regards
Sharp.

ozdaniel(AD) · Post by **ozdaniel(AD)** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:56 am

The Best Workstation Ever!..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHV3rnkG ... r_embedded
So...Please,live the musicians to talk.
RESPECT TO ALL
GOD BLESS KORG

SoulBe · Post by **SoulBe** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:19 am

Sharp wrote:Hi all.
Guess where I am.

Looking forward to seeing the keyboard in the morning.

Now.... time for SLEEP... I'm shattered.

Regards
Sharp.

Hi Sharp,

let us OASYS users know if there is a compatibility beetween KRONOS and OASYS.

best regards
SoulBE

NuSkoolTone · Post by **NuSkoolTone** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:25 am

Hedegaard wrote:I'm a little bit worried about all of these 9 engines.

It seems that a new synth these days, it takes an exponential amount of time to get to know the synth, compared to the old days of the 90's which had only 1 engine and a few things, compared to synths of today.

Because of the posibilities available, noone will really delve into the depths of the instruments at hand and I fear that the world will turn into:

Preset Playing Potheads!

You see this is where I think you're wrong. Something that deep (Yet seems intuitive) is BEGGING to be programmed. I mean really, how long would it take you to run out of ideas for new sounds? You could go in a programming FRENZY for years and still have a lot of ground to cover! Personally I think you'd run out of ideas before running into the limitations of the machine. Based on the promotion demonstrations at least.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:50 am

Hmmmm... no mention of a vocoder. I'm assuming that's part of AL-1?

Also, why can't they put a HUGE ribbon on something like this?

costi_ebay · Post by **costi_ebay** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:04 am

tarek wrote:I just like to say Congratulations to korg ..to all the guys on the forum and all korg fans ..and the guys who will become fans of korg after kronos is realesed..sure it's not the 1st time korg realese perfect gear ..but it been a long time since korg realsed a groundbreaking gear..kronos its not just another workstation..its a work station that will set the new standardds..so well korg did by saying that kronos is the game changer ..yes its agame changer..and iam sure that korg will find hard time to provide the huge orders on the kronos ..and on 1st sight i loved kronos cz it seems and it is areal work station that look like one feels like one sounds like and its the work station tsure ill get one asap

perfect for who?!?

the fresh new standards from 2005

))))))))))

in this field is where I appreciate Korg now, they know how to make business and can sell even a xylophone as groundbreaking gear if they want to

))))))))

Sina172 · Post by **Sina172** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:10 am

kimu · Post by **kimu** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:18 am

very nice! wait to see one from real here in italy....

anyway, also on motifator, many of yammie people seems to have high consideration of kronos

vEddY · Post by **vEddY** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:24 am

And there he goes in his delusional state again....

billysynth1 · Post by **billysynth1** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:24 am

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IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE????

Vassily