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[GregC]

Dan, I think sometimes we have to get out of our bubble on what we think today.

I haven't met anyone who can accurately predict the future.

Its about the collective community of Kronos owners, I think this bigger picture
is more important.

Communicating to Korg Inc is fair game. Today.

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[GregC]

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[Lightbringer]

I guess my feeling is that the best thing we could do as a user community in asking for a software update is to offer up a prioritized list of what we feel is important to us. I know there are some existing threads but they are sort of scattered and perhaps a bit dated - people who submitted ideas years ago may have moved on from Kronos.

Personally I wouldn't rule anything out that can be done in software since we don't have access to the intellectual capital to know what might be a small vs. huge effort. We could make educated guesses but there may be things we don't know too.

For bug fixes if we could include steps to reproduce I'm sure that would be helpful.

Maybe a new thread to collect ideas for enhancements? There has to be some website that would let you create a list of things and let people vote for their X favorite items to identify top choices...

My 2 cents. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll do a few enhancements that are high on the list and not huge costs.

[KK]

It's only normal that people buy different things/choices and of course many associate newer with better, hence the other two hardware things. Software use is increasing too, hence why the era of hardware workstations is slowing down and possibly ending with, as I mentioned, the Kronos as its most significant example.

[GregC]

[kronoSphere]

Once again, and then once more : If, at best, Korg has in his boxes a project to build a successor to the Kronos, my only faithfull hope is that he has a downward compatibility with the current Kronos.
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[janrhansen]

I know it has been discussed many times before that workstations like the Kronos is a thing of the past, and a Mac/PC with software synths is far superior in some areas, but will never be easy to manage on stage. The Oasys was the first "real workstation" to include a magnitude of different Sound Generators to cover just about "everything a musician could want". The hardware is outdated .. the code is outdated and some of the sound engines is also inferior to what you can buy for the Mac/PC today, but the fact is that really many of the top pro session keyboard players all around the world still use one or more Kronos'es in their lineup .. and then there is all the rest of us. The Kronos is still popular for those that have the time to get to know the beast, and it remains one of the best keyboards now nearly a decade later.

That is why I don't get Korg isn't interested in developing more for the Kronos when they have such dedicated well known users as eg. Jordan Rudess that still after over 2 decades still use the same Korg hardware as his main setup. I know he is propably also getting payed for it, but anyway. The Kronos is still a viable choice today even it shows its age compared to some of the newer top products its up against, so give people some upgrades, even I had to pay for it, I would propably be willing to if it ment dissing a couple k's out on a hardware and software update that braught the Kronos into the 2020's with 64bit OS, a modern upgradeable hardware platform with a new hi-res display, VST support, better i/o connectivity.

I know it'll most likely only be a dream, but one can dream .. right

I was seeing one day, how Yamaha (in Asia) offers people upgradeable kits of their Electone organs to put them up to the latest models. And Organs is a very small niche market today .. even there live a lot of people in Asia, the majority off them don't have the money to even buy a 20 year old Electone. If I would buy one of those in Asia and get it shipped to Europe the top Electone would cost as much as min. 5-6 Kronos together, so Its only a question if you want to develope it and let those who have the money pay for the ultimate "Kronos" or at least a small hardware updgrade.

Even the switch to a fairly cheap 4/8 core mobile board and 8gb ram .. upgradeable to 32 with sodimms would be more than 10x as powerfull as the current Kronos2 hardware, and I'm pretty sure Korg has the devs to make it happen if they wanted.
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[Jan1]

For what it’s worth, I’m setting aside money for next year.
Even with the change in management I find it hard to believe that the current CEO would abandon the OASYS concept.
It was successful with the Kronos, and even when the original prototype in the early nineties proved to be too expensive it provided the elements for the Trinity.
It’s tied in with KORG’s image and reputation as being ‘the king of workstations’, so it stands to reason that a next generation will see the light of day.
And yes, in terms of hardware and coding the Kronos is old compared to what’s available today.

[GregC]

[Bertotti]

I am still very with my Kronos X but I would love to see a hardware upgrade path. Components go obsolete and I would love to see a path to keep my Kronos going long term with updated hardware we could swap into our beloved Kronos box.

[GregC]

[jerrythek]