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Randelph · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:43 am Post subject:

Of course, the production line is already rolling, there's no time to add that capability (I'm assuming)...

However- it would be good to know from someone that knows, like Dan, or someone who could get the info:

Is it POSSIBLE to do this RAM upgrade to 4GB?

How difficult would it be?

Of course, to me, it sounds like a slam dunk: the processor is capable of using 4 GB, so a little tweaking to the OS and its done, right?

But then there's the "little" matter of installing it- there's probably no easy access.

Then there's certifying which memory modules are 100% compatible with the Kronos (which means testing on Korgs end).

Yamaha built a little money machine into their XF by making the flash memory super pricey (actually, I don't know how pricey flash memory is compared to regular RAM).

It's obvious Korg didn't plan for that contingency, so whatever they come up with will be an upgrade path that's slightly fraught with peril for them: users opening and upgrading their Kronos, does that void the warranty? I know some such restriction applies for the M3 (this came up around replacing the internal SD card).

Whatever- hard to know all the pitfalls. It would be good though to at least know if this upgrade is possible and what how much work it would be to tweak the OS to recognize the extra memory.

Randy
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JimH · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:54 am Post subject:

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JimH · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:15 am Post subject:

OS change is not a problem. I was talking about if additional chips are added.

Are there higher capacity chips with the same pinout, given the chips they use? Have they run all the necessary address lines on the board? I'm not a hardware engineer so I could be wrong.
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Citizen Klaus · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:39 am Post subject:

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Even if KORG had a custom Atom motherboard made for the Kronos, rather than a basic, standard off the shelf, stable and fast mobo, I'd think only mind controlled zombie engineers wouldn't be thinking, "User ram is dwindling... maybe we should address that."

We all know that computer memory fluctuates a bit in price over time, but the capacity grows exponentially while the price remains about the same. So it's not a matter of being able to afford ram for Kronos. Designing a motherboard with sufficient memory slots isn't hard. More slots don't increase the cost of the board much at all. It just depends on whether the engineers spend half a minute to think of all the ways The K are going to be used.

For those DAW users, and us soon to be DAW users, the matter isn't a huge deal, assuming we're going to be using our Kronoses in the studio exclusively. When the time comes to record stuff we want done with additional user loaded samples, assuming there will never be a memory upgrade (very strange), we can dump everything from ram and load stuff in up to a gig or so I believe. But... I just have to think that a performance oriented synth like the Kronos just can't be designed by people so blind to such a significant factor as user sample ram capacity, and something so simple to upgrade. And anyone that doesn't think they can, any nephew should be able to, or a happy tech at our local music store. Or the shop we buy ours from. I just can't believe something as grandiose as the Kronos would be stuck with such stingy ram these days, especially after the tamtrums so many musicians threw over the measley 300 some-odd megabytes on the M3. And how well the Karo guys have been supporting KORG.

I guess I'll just keep faith alive, and if I'm proven wrong... oh well, there's always other synthmakers for sampling.
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