THANK you Korg!

Aziz1008 · Post by **Aziz1008** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 7:49 pm

Let's express our gratitude to Korg here, so here I go):

Thank you Korg, for creating my dream-synth, Korg Kronos!

I think it's a revolutionary product, as it will never be boring or outdated just like PC will never be.

Of course, hardware will grow older, but then Korg can supply motherboards with newer CPUs for older models, as well as it's cooling system, as a DIY kits. Or release an OS, which is not tied to any motherboard, and has drivers for most of them.

People, including myself, get used to everything pretty quickly and take all for granted.. Creating wish-lists, not paying attention to what a miracle instrument they already have..
Lately I suddenly realized, that even with only it's onboard powerfull sampler, Kronos can sound like virtually anything.. Compare it to all the rompler keyboards with "canned" sounds inside its ROM.. But with Kronos you can change all its ROM sounds..

From my youth, after becoming a fan of Depeche Mode, I dreamed to have a sampler. I even built some prototypes myself. Now Kronos - is just my child dream come true..))

Tsutomu Katoh, thank you!, may you rest in peace..

jones · Post by **jones** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:21 pm

Privet,
I don't know how a keyboard could surpass the kronos, tweak it and streamline some things etc but where does it all go from here.
A cup holder would be nice.

Aziz1008 · Post by **Aziz1008** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:36 pm

Привет) A cup holder and a robotic arm for self playing, ironing, defending itself against thieves))

It will go further towards more powerful and energy-efficient CPU, more RAM, usb 3.0, open VST plugin architecture as a 10-th synth engine, etc..

spaceman3 · Post by **spaceman3** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:27 am

KRONOS is also my childhood dream machine.
When i was young in the early 80s, and up to about a year ago(before i got KRONOS) i used to wish for a synth/studio all in one machine that would basically be my whole studio.
Only KRONOS delivered all that, and then some.
As a keys musician, getting a KRONOS was life changing for me.

Aziz1008 · Post by **Aziz1008** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 7:31 am

Yes, actually Kronos is a complete studio keyboard, not only workstation)

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:11 pm

Way back in the 80's I used to dream of own a machine made by New England Digital. It was called the Synclavier. The fully blown version cost more than $250,000! My Kronos does more.
Last night a a gig it was once again the star f the show. Just don't let our singer know!

geoelectro · Post by **geoelectro** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:22 pm

jeremykeys wrote:Way back in the 80's I used to dream of own a machine made by New England Digital. It was called the Synclavier. The fully blown version cost more than $250,000! My Kronos does more.
Last night a a gig it was once again the star f the show. Just don't let our singer know!

This is true. I have a friend that owns 4 Synclaviers and 2 Fairlights. I'm currently working to restore the Fairlight IIx. This 8 bit machine seems archaic by today's standards but it does have a unique sound of its own. The unique way it transposes sounds for example gives it its own signature sound. I am hoping to do some sampling of these machines into the Kronos.

Geo

DeltaJockey · Post by **DeltaJockey** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:46 pm

I remember when the first Fairlight came out, asking my wife jokingly, could we sell our house so I could buy one.

The first generation cost $22,000 Aus dollars. They were well known in Australia very early on, as they were built by 2 guys here. I remember being motivated by their influence and at the time developed my own digital music system I called PMIACS which was a way to communicate with a number of synths before MIDI.

Incidentally, they named the Fairlight after a north shore suburb of Sydney called Fairlight.
Sadly I never owned one at the time, being restricted back then to what are now valuable and vintage Roland and Korg analog synths. Ironically I owned Korg's very first model analog synth...the Mini 700, and I now have the very best and latest offering in the Kronos! Both ends of the time scale. At the time I was bitterly disappointed with the mini700. It is now a museum piece in a glass case at Korg HQ in Japan. I wonder what mine would have been worth now, had I kept it!

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:37 pm

I still have my Minikorg.

This isn't mine but this is what it looks like and sounds like for those who have never seen or heard one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFWs_WUNgws

DeltaJockey · Post by **DeltaJockey** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:43 am

Ah yes, that sound!
What I didn't say was, that the reason I was disappointed with it, was that I discovered that it was only monophonic. I was young, and it was early years for this technology and I had a lot to learn about synthesizers! I sold my old upright piano for it, and thought I could use the miniKorg for creating electronic music without a multitrack tape recorder.
It had great sounds, and I loved the way tKorg called the VCF cutoff and resonance...."the Traveller", so descriptive of the sound at the time, and an excellent analog filter. It's great to hear you still have a working unit then Jeremy.
Would it be safe to assume that the Kronos virtual MS20 is near enough to having some sort of succession for this now?
Enough reminiscing, this is supposed to be about how far we've come with Kronos

NormC · Post by **NormC** » Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:55 pm

jeremykeys wrote:Way back in the 80's I used to dream of own a machine made by New England Digital. It was called the Synclavier. The fully blown version cost more than $250,000! My Kronos does more.
Last night a a gig it was once again the star f the show. Just don't let our singer know!

Me too but I could only afford my Korg DW6000.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:53 am

NormC wrote:
jeremykeys wrote:Way back in the 80's I used to dream of own a machine made by New England Digital. It was called the Synclavier. The fully blown version cost more than $250,000! My Kronos does more.
Last night a a gig it was once again the star f the show. Just don't let our singer know!
Me too but I could only afford my Korg DW6000.

Believe me, I certainly couldn't afford a Synclavier. I did buy a Korg Polysix and a little later on a DX-7. After that a Roland U-20. But during that time I also sold my Rhodes, Crumar Organizer, Roland String Machine. ALl of which I wish I had never let go.

The rule now is, "Don't sell anything!!!!"

Unless you can't afford to keep it.

Karimh · Post by **Karimh** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:49 pm

My relationship with Korg started in summer of 2013 when I purchased the PA600QT. I was always an arranger user of Roland products. I heard the Korg and just couldn't resist. It's been just over 2 years now, and I've already dived in the workstation world. What better workstation to get than the Kronos 2 88. Thank you, Korg!

cobi · Post by **cobi** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:46 pm

DeltaJockey wrote:I remember when the first Fairlight came out, asking my wife jokingly, could we sell our house so I could buy one. The first generation cost $22,000 Aus dollars. They were well known in Australia very early on, as they were built by 2 guys here.

I saw my first Fairlight live when Mike Oldfield played a concert in Cologne.
He had two guys from an Austrian electronic band on stage, who helped to program and setup the Fairlight.
I then decided that I needed a synthesizer immediately. Unfortunately I could'nt afford this machine so I bought my first Korg syntheser which was a brand-new MS 20.

Since I had no idea what a synthesiser in this time could do, I was a little bit disappointed that it was not polyphonic, so I used it for long solos which did not really cheer up my band mates

So my first and my last (to date) synthesizer was and is a Korg. I owned some others in between but I had not so much fun with them like with these two.

Thanks Korg for building such great (and affordable) instruments

cobi

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:51 pm

[quote="DeltaJockey"]I remember when the first Fairlight came out, asking my wife jokingly, could we sell our house so I could buy one.

The first generation cost $22,000 Aus dollars.

I tried one in Melbourne that cost $34000 in 1980. That was about the cost of my first house ($36000). I decided to get into computers - a Commodore Vic 20 for $420 instead. That proved to be a wise move. Learned BASIC and moved on.

Now there is an IOS app for about $20 that does pretty much what the Fairlight did.