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Very beautiful!

@ Jeff Gibbs
Thanks for the demo man, the only proper demo of this piano so far, the rest is crap

Thanks, I could do more and better but am a composer not a pianist so I have to try a few times before not stumbling over a performance. Thick chords, runs, etc sound very good as well my open sorta of style. I friend who has been a session performer on major releases on keyboards stopped by and was floored by the Austrian--wants to get the Kronos for that alone.

Great ! Great sound ! Great playing !
Who is telling the Kronos has no identity ?

Thanks for sharing.

Best regards.

One more improve. Just fooling around with the Austrian Dark Grand to explore the sound of this instrument a bit more. Might be helpful to those considering this piano.

http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gibbs/dark-austrian-grand

any owners of Nord pianos who also has Petrof Upright samples? how do you compare it to kronos' pianos ?

Jeff Gibbs wrote: I could do more and better but am a composer not a pianist

You are so humble. You are a much better pianist than some who claim to be a pianist.

Jeff Gibbs wrote:Here are a couple sample improv recordings of the Austrian Piano for those of you considering the instrument. I might add that mostly what I like is the Austrian's perceived responsiveness . Others may react differently, it is after all subjective. By the way, I have NEVER bought a board without expansion options available at a later date most especially piano. The German Piano is stunning, and the Austrian FOR ME is an even better fit.

Here is the basic Austrian Grand:
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gibbs/austri ... org-kronos

And here is a fun new age program I like very much:
http://soundcloud.com/jeff-gibbs/rev-au ... org-kronos

Very nice demos! Given that this was based on a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand, does one has access to the additional 9 bass notes that are found on the acoustic instrument via the standard 88-note keyboard?

KLSinCT wrote:Given that this was based on a Bosendorfer Imperial Grand, does one has access to the additional 9 bass notes that are found on the acoustic instrument via the standard 88-note keyboard?

Yes, you can access the additional notes via a controller. You just have to transpose the program down an octave from the Kronos front panel.

You can also access the low notes via the SW1 switch on Kronos, but as far as I can tell, you can't do that with a controller. It might be able to be done via a CC message, but I have not tried that yet.

thanks , it's handy to hear it before you buy..

Another demo of the Austrian Grand

Korg Kronos - Austrian Grand Piano - SGX1 - Fernando Draganici

rob314159 wrote:Another demo of the Austrian Grand

Korg Kronos - Austrian Grand Piano - SGX1 - Fernando Draganici

I suppose his technique is ok

i finally got the Austrian piano yesterday, i loved the sound of the German Grand, but after an evening of using the Austrian piano i must syay i'm very pleased with that new piano sound.

Especially the Dark variations of the Austrian piano's are my favorites. I've programmed a couple of new piano sounds for Ambient music with those sounds and all i can say is: WOW!

The sonic character is quite different then the german one, and they both complement eachother very well. I had to use velocity curve 9 (designed for the piano) to use the full audio range but after that it was a great experience.

I don't know if a lot of people have this EXS-12 expansion, but i will upload an ambient EXS12 piano soundset when i finished the programming.

The austrian piano is really great. I still prefer the japanese piano. The austrian sounds a bit too "hard" for my taste, too fast release time...

But liking it or not, I still think it's pretty expensive. I purchased a 250 eur plugin for my Yamaha:
- It contains much more samples
- It was a hardware module, which makes it more expensive to produce (I think)

I also like the Austrian piano, I think it will cut through the mix very easily in a rock kind setting.

I probably going to remove the Japanese grand because memory doesn't allow me to load all 3 piano's (I also want EXs3).