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Zeroesque · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:01 pm Post subject: Five year club.

Anyone else been loving the Kronos for 5+ years? I got mine on June 6th, 2011. Haven't wanted for much since (other than maybe an 88!), but I've been very pleased by the updates.

Thanks Korg! This is still the best "total package" keyboard ever produced.
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GregC · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:57 pm Post subject:

I started a similar 5 yr club post 2 or 3 months ago.

I recall we had about 100 posts to that topic and added their stories.

Lets do that again !
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Derek Cook · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:21 pm Post subject:

No, just a two year newbie myself, but I tend to keep good work horses. I have had my Yamaha EX5 since 1999, Nord G2 Engine and FS1r since 2005, An1x since 2006 and Yamaha SY series (in various guises) since 2007; and the Kronos feels like a similar keeper! Very Happy

Ask me again in 3 years. Smile

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Zeroesque · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:25 pm Post subject:

fclef · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 45

My K73 (serial #160) has been rock-solid for more than five years. It's truly a remarkable musical instrument with capabilities that I'm still experimenting with.
Ended up adding a K61 several years ago for light gigging. The lighter weight is much appreciated on load-ins.
When playing in a pit orchestra, the Set List has proven its worth time and time again.
It will be interesting to see what Korg comes up with next (although I'm in no hurry for a replacement).
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SeedyLee · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:42 am Post subject:

I will be a member of the five year club come November. I believe mine was part of the first shipment to arrive in Australia, which was delayed a couple of times from memory.

My Kronos still forms the heart of my studio and I'm constantly discovering new tricks and techniques. I have barely touched the surface of some of the synth engines, particularly MOD-7 and STR-1, but I'm starting to delve into them now.

Although I originally purchased the Kronos with the intention of using it with a PC-based setup, I have found myself gradually moving towards a purely hardware-based arrangement using the Kronos as my DAW. Whilst the sequencer and audio recorder built into it don't compare to the capabilities of a computer, I actually find this to be of benefit - I spend less time trying to fix a bad take, and more time getting it right in the first place.

I also find the effects in the Kronos much more inspiring and musical than the effects in a DAW, which for composition is important. Seems to me that the effects bundled with a DAW are more aimed at mixing and mastering than at composition. I particularly appreciate how the effects in the Kronos can be modulated in real-time, adding an extra dimension of expressiveness.

Overall, I am just as inspired by my Kronos today as I was nearly five years ago when I first opened the box. It has been rock solid for me too, and Korg have done an exceptional job of continuing to add new features and expansions to it. If my Kronos died tomorrow, I would replace it immediately.
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BillW · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:18 pm Post subject:

Also got my first Kronos 61 on June 6, 2011. I added a second 61 in 2012 as a backup. I upgraded both to 3GB of RAM and both are still going strong. I briefly had an X73 too, but flipped it.
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Burydudexxx · Joined: 09 Mar 2014 Posts: 40 Location: Uk

Had mine now since 2011 - no hiccups or problems until this week ! WTF ! started to not load (when turning on - gets stuck) this has happened 3 times this week + has started to freeze for no apparent reason - hoping this is a passing phase .....
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jazlover · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:20 am Post subject:

5 years... and all is well. ... no problems to date. I love this keyboard for gigging!
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runningman67 · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:13 am Post subject:

Yes fully payed up member of the 5 year club. Nice post.
Only issue was the keybed, which Hamiltons in Preston and Korg, replaced within a week.

It's been a dream machine.

Had a wobble and thought I needed a change, but what I needed was something to complement my K73. So I've added a Waldorf Blofeld to my set up and a Eventide Space is on the way.
The Blofekd has been a great learning tool for creating sounds and tweaking the Kronos too.

The Kronos is still, simply awesome. Very Happy

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Chrutil · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:28 pm Post subject:

Wow it's been five years already?
I have about two weeks to go until my five year anniversary. Not sure what day I actually picked it up, but I can find an email from my dealer on 7/25/11 saying it's there and a 'thanks for registering your Kronos' from Korg on 8/3/11 so sometime during that week it happened.
The last few years I have been obsessing more about building out my modular, but I do play on my Kronos every week.
I mainly use it to learn to play the piano though, but it sounds so great!!
It's upgraded to 3GS and two SSDs and as far as I recall it has only freaked out once (loud high-pitched buzz following by a system crash) a reboot solved it, so I think I can say it's been absolutely reliable for me.
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jeremykeys · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:59 pm Post subject:

As of September 10,I'll be a full fledged 5 year member! I'm still absolutely floored by my K73. AS far as I know, I bought the fifth one in Canada. I still haven't really got a clue on Mod-7 or the String Modelling engine. I really figure that in another 5 years, I'll understand about 25% of her.

It's hard to imagine how it could be made better. Unless Korg out right buys companies like Omnishere for example and enables soft synths to operate right in the new machine. After all, the engines in the Kronos are as far as I know, soft synths.
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rickster1 · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:12 am Post subject:

I remember GregC's similar thread a coupla months ago. My 5 yr club induction will come next February. I love my K73, a couple of screen freezes on gigs & I did have the keybed problem but it was fixed in under a week by my closest service center in Ga. Have played a lotta gigs with it; will buy another one soon. It's kept me off the streets for the first two yrs of my retirement.

jeebustrain · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:40 am Post subject:

Ha. I'm bad at math. I was thinking it was 4 years. I pre-ordered mine 5 years from a week from now. Got it on 9/1/11

It's been absolutely awesome and rock solid.... until last night. It was all set up to go at the gig and literally 2 minutes before we started the first set, I went to hit a key and it was playing one of the SFX kits (when it should have been a piano). I checked and my combi had messed itself up. Thinking I had inadvertently done something wrong, I rebooted the Kronos. Came up with a blank white screen... dead. I was mortified. After messing with it for about 5-6 minutes, I gave up and played the set on nothing but my Prophet 12. Fortunately I had programmed some semi-bread#&butter type sounds on it for just such a case. Don't Stop Believing sounded more like Whitney Houston though with that Honkey FM sounding tinkertoy piano, though Razz

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JPROBERTLA · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:58 am Post subject:

I will become a 5 year member on 11/28/16, although I have replaced my original K61 with a K288, being almost 65 tears old and still doing 45-50 gigs a year, I am hoping they come out with a "Super Kronos" that adds more processing power and polyphony, otherwise I would have 250 sequences to transition and that would take about 9-12 months. Not sure I would do that unless it possessed some additional significant improvements.
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