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billbaker

Has anyone here actually had their hands (or ears) on the Kronos? I'd be interested in hearing from someone who knows first hand, and (no offense intended here) who is not "pimping" it for Korg Korp.

-- seen the NAMM demos LIVE?

-- participated in sound design?

-- allowed to touch the actual keyboard?

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billbaker · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:31 pm Post subject:

Peter -

Pardon my vernacular.

People who get paid to say Kronos is the greatest thing since the invention of fire may actually believe it's true, but because they're being paid there's just a tinge of doubt.

My intention was not to tick off people who have a job that, frankly, I'd love.

If you're one of them, or just sympathetically vibrating with perceived insult, I apologize to you, too.

But the question is legit.

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Sina: did you play just ONE Kronos?

Not FIVE of them?

Pheewwww... Are you downshifting on your usual pace?

18 Tritons, 6 Oasys, and now just one Kronos?!?

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Zeroesque · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject:

billbaker · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject:

There's an Indian fable about the Blind Men and the Elephant. Each of them has a perspective based on which part of the elephant they happen to be touching.

So my question had more to do with asking if anyone had actually "seen the whole elephant" or whether all the discussion here was based solely on the video releases... and the 15 or 20 sounds out of the thousand + that are on the board.

And my three questions, while short and answerable Yes/No were intended to elicit a response beyond the monosyllabic... "it's in there" -- not to muzzle the discussion down to binary response.

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...and yes, getting my own hands on it will be the deciding factor.

'Til then I'm just looking for what you are --- more informed opinion.

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RichF · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:24 pm Post subject:

I realize I'm ABSOLUTELY not the guy you want opinions from, but as far as "getting your hands on the keyboard," there are facts I an point to that should illuminate.

If you've played the M3-61 keyboard, you know how the KRONOS-61 keys feel.

If you've played anything else that has our RH3 action (SV-1, SP250, M3-88, M50-88, LP350, Pa588), you know how the KRONOS-73/88 keys feel.
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billbaker · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Rich...

It's not so much that I absolutely did NOT want to hear from you... I recognize your talent and experience in presenting as much information as you have in the relatively small windows provided by the NAMM videos.

Great job there... as you can tell by the excitement (including mine) and the dialog they've inspired.

So... maybe I should've just asked you.

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I'm 55 and at the point in my career (such as it has been) that my next keyboard will probably be my last.

And nothing I can recall has had the allure and hold that Kronos seems to have on the ears and imaginations of keyboard players (at least at this forum) so my original questions were directed to guys like me - long time players who might be at NAMM watching you do those demos; I wanted to know what they were thinking - has it "changed the(ir) game"?; are they blown away? was there an opportunity to play a key or twist a knob?

I know you've got years of making Korg synths of all descriptions look like the "last keyboard I'll ever need" - I just wanted to know if anyone else had reached that conclusion based on actual time on the machine.

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Ajbbklyn · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:48 pm Post subject:

billbaker · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject:

No lack of optimism - I plan to play forever... just think my kids will have better things for me to do with my money.

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