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Like, it's really rare to see any appreciation posts or good experiences when you actually delve into this forum board. Does that not itself speak to Korg with regards to their execution of this product line? Does anyone who's "moderately or just barely satisfied (is how I would describe my purchase)" (or even has a more positive opinion than mine) disagree with - what seems to now be a prevailing opinion, if you ask me - that there has been a really bad course change at some point with Korg and their product design and marketing scheme (especially with this aftertouch edition nonsense) ... ?

Kronos owner here (not Nautilus). They say satisfied customers don't write on forums, only people who have problems. But in the case of the Nautilus and, since a few years, Korg's attitude in general, there are quite a few problems.

The ridiculous Nautilus AT advent speaks for itself. Korg is lurking and aware but never getting in touch with its customers. Worse : on the Korg UK's YT channel, many people wrote critics under the Nautilus AT video and all those comments were erased, even though some had interesting ideas for them to apply in order to avoid other such mistakes in the future. This is proof that they refuse criticism and do not care nor have the slightest appreciation for their customers. At the very least, they could reply they take the constructive criticism into consideration.

What's more, we don't see guys like Martin Hines or Dan Philips anymore writing here. Heck, our great Sharp is mentioning these forums might disappear in the next future because he can't handle alone the costs of keeping this site working anymore. Here as well, Korg doesn't give a rat's ass, even though this community here has been offering solutions and also certainly participating in spreading the news about Korg's new products and therefore helping them achieve better sales and view online.

About the Nautilus itself, most of the problems reported seem to imply insufficient care to test their product before release, with some obvious mistakes (questionable choice of low quality and too small SSD, etc.).

Compared to how Korg was top notch in terms of innovation and creating great products for musicians when Mr Tsutomu Katoh was at the wheel, its current management and especially R&D team is completely out of touch and showing a deplorable lack of interest and appreciation towards the people who buy their products.

I like the Nautilus sound and the minimalism of the control surface, for me at least would not be too much of a problem if the screen were larger. Some of the text is incredibly small and would be almost impossible to read under stage lighting, at least for my eyes anyway.

The other thing that really hacks me off is the quality of the keybed. The keys are nice to play on, better than the MODX for example but, I have the problem with three of the black keys which have that springy/click type noise when even touched lightly. So incredibly annoying and surprising on a keyboard at this price point.

Nautilus could have been a superb keyboard. Instead they have reduced it to mediocrity and that is unforgivable.

As for KORG's input or interest in this forum, it seems they are content to get the free advertising and product support provided here at next to no cost to themselves. But, they are not the only ones doing this. I also run a large big brand forum. And much like Sharp, I have funded it myself for the past 22 years. I do have fairly regular contact with the brand but they have never supported the forum and it is only in the past 12 months that we have had someone from the company posting there. Probably because we get more traffic than their own site

If these companies can get us lot to promote and support their products for free, there is next to no chance they will want to spend any money on us.

In Many aspects KORG should be thankful to this forum,

Sharp,s site has in so many years helped to solve things.
Just look at the KORG now, instead of taking things seriously, They prefer to DO NOTHING about anything!!!

And the result, People says BYE BYE!

I have been using KORG since 1988
I was very delighted when I purchased the KORG X-3 in 1994
however that was back 1994

I slept on the KORG KRONOS because I thought I was going to stay on the DAW aspect but when I walked in to a music store the couple of years ago and made it known that I was still using the KORG M-3 well, the salesperson told me I was very outdated
And I thought oh yeah is that right ?
I tested the Nautilus that was there and I was surprised in actuality to see that KORG looked as if they had been listening to owners of previous workstations. I was surprised and impressed with the bass and the choir sounds. I also saw that there were numerous user banks.

I was already hip to it NOT having a ribbon controller and no aftertouch which was no turn-off to me I had been making a workstation rock without a RC for years and with that being said I wonder who owns the license to that technology...

As for bugs in Nautilus, yes I have noticed some but that's going to be the nature of the beast with this workstation being that is [now] really a computer DAW in a music workstation environment and I do not have a problem with that either -- I APPLAUD IT.

1. I have watched it freeze / crash to the point where I had to turn it off
2. The day before I posted this the synth did not load the samples via AUTO-LOAD
3. Exclusive events inserting in to the track without me putting it there

However these have not deterred me from playing it I have cranked out quite a repertoire of tracks. I do not have to worry about a audio interface not being supported or the audio interface behaving in an erratic manner or the computer OS not supporting something or the computer not being able to handle a DAW because the computer is now obsolete and most of all I can be the original musician without sounding like everyone else

recreational wrote:Has anybody noticed that this entire board is constant bugs

As long as my Nautilus doesn't have constant bugs. Seems pretty solid, so far.
I'm actually liking it quite a bit. It seems the last update solved quite a few issues. Keep em coming!

I most appreciate that there are 40 user program banks, as opposed to 20 on Kronos and 13 on the OASYS. I have a ton of programs to load into the N.

KK wrote:The ridiculous Nautilus AT advent speaks for itself

That was pretty goofy, but I figured it saved me $500 on my recent purchase. I bought the original model. No regrets.

Solistra wrote:I like the Nautilus sound and the minimalism of the control surface

I think Korg were going for an M1 vibe with this. In that respect, it's beautiful. For an unsuspecting, new owner, they are going to be shocked when they start digging around under the hood. There's a whole universe inside.

icecoldrocker wrote: I tested the Nautilus that was there and I was surprised in actuality to see that KORG looked as if they had been listening to owners of previous workstations. I was surprised and impressed with the bass and the choir sounds.

There are some killer sounds inside. Love the ethnic instrument runs. Even the number of FX sounds is pretty staggering.

The other day, I had a client ask me for a ticking clock (stop watch). I went to sounddogs.com and bought a wave file of one. Later, I was noodling through the Nautilus samples, and was surprised to find an even better ticking clock. There's a ton of stuff in there.

Personally, I like the keyboard. Nothing being an issue for me.

nitecrawler wrote:Personally, I like the keyboard. Nothing being an issue for me.

the best synth so far i dont have a problem with it

My church's new AT has performed well. Admittedly it is being used in more of a "plug and play" manner as opposed to deep diving into it's customization capabilities.

The unit is running 1.3.2.

Right now, the only thing I would change is to use a larger screen. The one currently included seems a bit cramped and on the small side.

The latest OS update version is 1.3.3. Bug fixes.

The latest OS update version is 1.3.3. Bug fixes.

Thank you for revealing that an update has been released.

Quick question, are the firmware releases valid for both the standard & AT versions? My church has an AT.

Dexman, I guess it would pertain to AT version. It’s same OS. I’d say download it and try. Make a backup first, as always

If the new firmware is an incremental/minor update, I'll probably bypass it. I haven't had any issues with the keyboard.

A major update...that is a different story.