Korg Kronos OS User Experience - What's your view

[michelkeijzers]

A lot of good remarks are made above. Also I could add that I also agree the GUI could improve. However, this is not a simple task. The synth market in general quite a 'niche' market (when comparing to the tablet or phone market, like selling like 10,000 Kronoses versus 1 million phones of a certain type). This means that development teams and money spent to development is accordingly. Building a very nice GUI would immediately suffer other areas, like synth engine and new synth development. Actually I rather like the way Korg is handling this, since the GUI is still very workable after all those years and the GUI from the Korg Triton is not that much different than from the Kronos, while having lots of more options.

[ashboe]

The Korg environment is really quite stark and not geared to general user friendliness - however, once learnt, with help from forums and a little reading of the manual, it does quite quickly become intuitive and you learn to wonder why other manufacturers don't adopt it. I came from the Technics keyboards and it took a couple of months to feel at home with Korg. Korg is a grown up musicians instrument manufacturer - totally different from the Yamaha user experience (I would guess....).

Things still absolutely baffle me - how to sample is WAY beyond me and I have completed the task a few times, I still cannot start it without the manual at hand - but that has never been my musical forte. I don't fully understand the file structure and can't work out many features - but it doesn't matter - I totally understand the sequencer and can produce remarkable stuff with the limited, but powerful way it works.

I've moved away from the keyboard as a workstation and now use it exclusively for live work only - but I thoroughly enjoyed learning and mastering what I did.

[Ottawa58]

One thing to consider about touch screens are that they come with a price in terms of speed and memory. Since the iPhone and iPad are good examples --- take a look at the constant updates being received for download. I have an iPhone 5S, and an older iPad, and every time an update arrives, it slightly slows my phone down just a little, as the new software takes more resources. You certainly don't want that happening with the Kronos.

[BobTheDog]

Apple deliberately slow down old devices to make you upgrade. Then if you don't upgrade after a while they don't let you run the newer os, then they stop developers developing for the old os. Then You have to upgrade.

[GregC]

Apple deliberately slow down old devices to make you upgrade. Then if you don't upgrade after a while they don't let you run the newer os, then they stop developers developing for the old os. Then You have to upgrade.

there is truth here. especially with older macs. I stubbornly hold on to my mac mini from 2009.

I was on Lion (10.7) for a few yrs, and safari was dogging it since I could not go higher than version 6. No other browser was much better under 10.7.

I finally gave in and installed Yosemite(10.10) which got me to safari 8. Unfortunately, multi tasking ( opening more than 3 apps) is ridiculous. Beach ball party. I suppose I can help the cause by trying to find 4 or 8 gig ram. but that is not a fun install

[djcactus]

Lets not give the dude too much trouble. The UI could have been a little more "User" friendly. Dont get me wrong, this is my favorite board on the market. Much love.

[GregC]

Lets not give the dude too much trouble. The UI could have been a little more "User" friendly. Dont get me wrong, this is my favorite board on the market. Much love.

well, he did open himself up by asking for ' any comments.'

its just not the kind of ' user experience technologist work ' that I would pay a penny for. more of a trial balloon