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[tunaman]

Well, yesterday I did something I didn’t think I would ever do… I bought a Nautilus! I made the mistake of going on Reverb just to take a look (window shop so to speak), and thought to see if the mysterious Nautilus had actually materialized yet.

Not only had they materialized, but there were already a couple of “mint” used units, and some pretty decent discounts on brand new ones as well.

I got to thinking about it, and I’m currently using an aged LE61 as the upper tier at home, and an equally aged TeX61 as my upper tier for practices and eventual gigs. I midi them both to my K2 73s, so they are only used as midi slaves. For my purposes, I figured I could incorporate a Nautilus as a replacement, and it would also serve as a failsafe backup should I have an issue with the Kronos while gigging.

It didn’t take too much more convincing (I’m pretty easily encouragable ), and a seller had a mint unit, purportedly 2 months old, listed for $1800 and I figured I’d offer $1700 and see if they’d bite.

I got a response back pretty promptly, and they countered with $1750 and I accepted it. The Nautilus should be on its way as I type this, or should be soon, as it is coming from the East Coast.

I look forward to incorporating in into my rig, but I’m ecstatic that I still have my beloved Kronos as my flagship!

[KK]

Pics or it didn't happen.



Oh and congrats on the purchase !

[KingKronos]

You've been a bad boy.
Naughty naughty, Les.*
You and your Nautilus. Shame.
You've gone to the dark side.

Now that you *do* have a Nautilus on the way...

Will your Kronos and Nautilus share voices now?
It's the Note Receive on the MIDI/MIDI tab in global.
Was always curious about that function.


*Good thing your real name isn't Lester.

[tunaman]

Thanks KK - pics will be posted on Thursday

King - those are questions to be answered pretty quickly… I’m very interested to see what level of integration can be had, and how tough it is going to be to map out voices from my K2 onto the N1.

I pulled down the VNL today and will be spending time over the weekend doing a lot of stare and compare. Anyone here done any of this legwork yet?

I can’t believe I’m actually excited about the prospects, but the fact that I still have my K2 to do the heavy lifting puts me at ease.

Hopefully in the next year or three Kong comes up with the K3 and all will be well.

Note to self - stay the HECK off of Reverb from now on!!!

[KingKronos]

I know what you mean about Reverb.
I just impulse bought a Beebo and a Bitstream.

I already have 3 MIDI controllers --
BCR, BCF, and nanoKontrol. Do I need another?
But the Bitstream looks to be the perfect do-it-all.

Hopefully my GAS is pretty satisfied now.
At least I'm not wanting for another synth.

Got GAS? Get a Kronos.... the beano of synths!

[tunaman]

[KingKronos]

[tunaman]

First glance yesterday doesn’t look too promising, as the VNL’s didn’t seem to have a lot of similarity, and more importantly I saw the following footnotes related to the piano types:

[KK]