The New Kronos

miden · Post by **miden** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:24 am

http://www.synthgear.com/2011/synthesizers/korg-kronos/

Bachus · Post by **Bachus** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:45 am

miden wrote:http://www.synthgear.com/2011/synthesizers/korg-kronos/

Its what most expected mainly based on Oasys technollogy with Karma 3.0 on board...

Now lets see if it comes close to the overall sound quallity of the Oasys while staying near the price of an M3.

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:18 am

This is a LOT more then i expected, i will buy it without seeing
it or playing it...i dont know. It says on GB of RAM?

AnthonyB · Post by **AnthonyB** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:23 am

16 track sequencer only though?, surely one would expect more than this (in track count)?.

Will see later on

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:30 am

One thing though...there is no KARMA mentioned in here???!!!
I see the LOGO on the picture but not in specs...and only 4 modules?

AnthonyB · Post by **AnthonyB** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:44 am

Well, ive got my oasys here beside me and it looks quite similar in the layout. No pads though

My initial feelings are that this is to the oasys, what the triton extrme was to the triton Studio. Could be well wrong though.

MrDuke · Post by **MrDuke** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:31 am

Surprisingly many were right, then. What the cryptic '9' meant, that it's almost like a mini-OASYS and so on.

I'm just afraid, that with these specs (a SSD hard drive too...), the price won't be exactly "consumer friendly"...but we'll see.

gurn · Post by **gurn** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:04 am

The KARMA modules may operate like the M3, (4x2).

This is what a lot of people wanted, a more road & gig-friendly workstation.
It's not what I wanted. But KARMA Generation 3 is worth exploring.

prashanth_estra · Post by **prashanth_estra** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:50 am

No pads??and looks like the x-y control option is missing!

TSUNAMI · Post by **TSUNAMI** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:52 am

Pads and X-Y controllable from screen !!!

prashanth_estra · Post by **prashanth_estra** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:58 am

@TSUNAMI: yeah that may be right...but will the screen be velocity sensitive!?

WorknMan · Post by **WorknMan** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:00 am

From the looks of it, it looks like they dropped the 'Komponent' system. Coming from somebody who's half blind and appreciated how you could tilt the M3 so that the screen was closer to your face/eyes, that sucks

Also, they forgot to throw in an FM synth engine along with the kitchen sink

TSUNAMI · Post by **TSUNAMI** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:01 am

No reason why not they had touch sensitive ribbon back on the Trinity and Prophecy 10+ years ago !!!

prashanth_estra wrote:@TSUNAMI: yeah that may be right...but will the screen be velocity sensitive!?

prashanth_estra · Post by **prashanth_estra** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:09 am

Oh yeah...

TSUNAMI wrote:No reason why not they had touch sensitive ribbon back on the Trinity and Prophecy 10+ years ago !!!

A comment in the synthgear.com page: "Disappointed really. They discontinued OASYS, stopped developping open architecture synthesis, and now they come back with carbon copy probably not open architecture."

do you guys have any idea whats happening??

orpheus2006 · Post by **orpheus2006** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:48 am

Great beast from the specs, new features like the 8-layer piano and KARMA 3 mixed with excellent existing modules from the Korg labs + appealing dirt-resistant design w/o any experiments + a great product name.

I'm glad there is no need to change over to the yammie camp

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