Jakker27 wrote:I would like to see them expand on the Kronos because the frame work is there. Updates on the technology inside or perhaps custom casing designs. Improved sequencer etc.
It seems redundant do do anything else. Most people are happy with their Kronos? When you have that situation, why not keep working on it? Work with it to swap out the internal components to make it even more powerful. Give it a VGA port or something for an external screen.
So a system where we can upgrade our Kronos via them or doing it ourselves, would be a great I think. We're talking about computer components here. It's not impossible
I'm with you on the external monitor, negates any need for a PC as I assume the editor essentially does this anyway.
They're not going to allow motherboard expansion in my opinion, not like a PC, there's not enough demand to justify the manufacture of additional stock items - it's money sat on shelves till it's sold and it won't be cheap either - plus it increases the PCB size if you're adding sockets in place of direct connect - it's more of an embedded PC than a PC motherboard and they're never upgradable except for firmware which it has.
Things like sequencer improvements could be expected with later updates - the mere fact you can expand the 2011 model to the extent you can is a massive gesture in its own right in my opinion - this machine is a behemoth with the ability to make it better for ourselves already - I feel sorry for people like the guy I bought mine from who didn't even know what a System Software update was, let alone adding memory and an SSD. KORG have been extremely generous already - I've never been so impressed with anything made by anyone else except Kurzweil maybe but they are for die-hard keyboard techs - we 'non-pro' players haven't the time to exploit boards like this - well not us with kids n jobs don't in my opinion.
It sounds crazy, but I wrote far more tracks and gave away so many cassette tape recordings (remember those ha ha) on my Roland W30 than with any modern soft synth or hardware synth I've owned since - there's just too many libraries now - I could do more with the basic 14 sounds on the W30 simply because I wasn't spending hours and hours getting lost messing about like when I find a nice patch now I sit and just play - I'm getting no real work done anymore lol, if I do then it qualifies as a jingle than a piece of music - I'm getting too old
