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spinoria · Junior Member Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 85

Yamaha MOX has been the news today but nobody here at Korgforums have started a thread yet so I guess I could be first.

Obviously not a high end workstation like the Kronos but I think it's look interesting for a lot of reasons.
I'm about to buy a new 88-key keyboard and I guess I will choose from these 3 choices.

1.Korg Kronos (seems to be really cool, good pianos, light weight but very expensive and poor hammond organ)
2. Kurzweil PC3X or PC3K8. I like Kurzweil and it's not to heavy and it's affordable. Lets hope the new expansions have some good sounds (a new piano maybe?)
3. Yamaha MOX8 . Very very light weight, extremely affordable. Let's see tomorrow what the specs and the demos says.

If I don't get everything with the Kurzweil or Yamaha I guess I could always bring my Mac or PC with some VST's for whatever I'm missing. I guess I will miss a really good hammond sound with all these workstations so maybe I should save some money on the Kronos for a Nord Electro or something?

What do you Korg Fans think?
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Sina172 · Platinum Member Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 1194

Ozz · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:38 am Post subject:

Hi

I think that you are a little confused with the MOX... it's not oriented to be competition in quality or price tag with the KRONOS nor the PC3X or PC3K8.

Maybe you should compare it with the M50 or any other diminished version of a top of the line workstation.

Regards.
Alvaro.
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spinoria · Junior Member Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 85

Of course the MOX isn't targeted to compete with the Kronos but still it's an alternative to the Kronos because you want as much sound as possible for your money. If I decide for the MOX I could bring my laptop and software on stage if I need something specific that is not in the MOX.

I said the Kronos was expensive... Well I'm wrong. I don't know if it is expensive but what I meant is that it's a lot of money. Anyway to me it's a lot money.

Also sorry about my statement about the poor Hammond sound but from what I can remember the original CX3 was a meant to be the poor mans Hammond B3 replacement. So Korg does an emulation of a copy !!!
Maybe the emulation of the korg hammond copy is really good.
But it's the real Hammond B3, C3, A100 sound you want and this is one of the things I don't like with Korg sounds. They have never produced a real good hammond emulation with any of the classic leslies.
Maybe you can tweak the CX3 in Kronos but from the demos I heard it's the same old Korg Full drawbars settings that sounds terrible in my ears.

I happen to own a Hammond C3 and a Leslie122 so I like to think that I know what a good hammond organ sounds like.
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peter m. mahr · Platinum Member Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 1030

If you compare the OASYS' CX-3 (probably also the one in Kronos) to Nord's C2 you would realise immediately how good a B3 emulation can sound.

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dimitris · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:19 pm Post subject:

The MOX seems a good choice as a second keyboard! Kronos is the best for me but, because I will own PA3X soon , maybe MOX is better and affordable solution!

Will see...

Regards,
Dimitris
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spinoria · Junior Member Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Posts: 85

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dokido · Full Member Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 114

I was also thinking of getting a mox, it's seems much better than mo6 wich I liked a lot but very bad sequenser, and to the same price. Perhaps I will replace my M50. I dont like cubase though, but perhaps it will function well with albeton? And perhaps karma will come also?

But it depends on how the never ending story of Kronos evolve...(pricing etc) Confused

No Kronos = MOx+M3M perhaps
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Link · Junior Member Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 60

No Kronos = Kurzweil PC3 + M3-M

dokido · Full Member Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 114

well now with the kronos price going up it will be
kronos or mox+m3m+dsi mek
have to decide soon but it irritates me I dont get so much for my m3m
and on the other side, would gladly only have one workstation
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