Korg Forums

jimknopf · Platinum Member Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Posts: 3374

I regard all this completely out of proportion talk about "a ring of LEDs around each knob" as utterly ridiculous and pathetic. I would only understand such criticism, if anybody were reluctant to correct some little typos or oversights.
But that's not the case.

And every time I hear people talk about "making their perfect job while expecting the same from others" I hear a new FAT stone crashing into someone's personal glass house. Laughing

ozy · Guest

StephenKay · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject:

zahush76 · Junior Member Joined: 09 Mar 2011 Posts: 98

Thoraldus · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject:

Kevin Nolan · Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject:

Ozy -

You really are unfair in your comments. Korg are among the very best companies at delivering complete and robust products. I know you can list issues here and there (as for all companies), but the underlying tone of your posts if unfair and inaccurate and needs to be corrected.

I was a beta tester for OASYS for over a year and I can tell you that their procedures are impeccable. I can speak from hard experience - I was a test lead engineer for Sun Microsystems for two years in the late nineties and Korg are every bit as impeccable as Sun (who made their reputation on stunning quality in UNIX workstations).

And as has been flagged, the quality of the documentation provided for such a small user base is second to none. Forget OASYS hangovers - THE vital issue is that every last important issue in these gargantuan instruments has been explained in exquisite details. They are utterly comprehensive, utterly professional and masterful.

Furthermore, during the testing of MOD-7 a few of us beta testers recommended to Dan vwery late in the produc cycle that some extra explanation on MOD-7 would be desirable - and at that very late stage Dan wrote, single handedly, the fabulous MOD-7 tutorial you now find in both the OASYS and Kronos Parameter guides. Dan developed THE perfect step by step guide, with THE optimum examples and drafted it virtually typo free in such a short time - he went far and beyond the extra mile to squeeze every last drop of resource into the MOD-7 manual.

And in general, I have to say, from the rapid development of a diverse range of awesome technologies for such a relatively small company, they are deserving of the very highest accolades of innovation, design and implementation. Nothing could be further from the perspective you are propagating here. I mean, almost as an 'aside', they release iMS20, monotribe and wavedrum mini, without batting an eyelid, and all of exceptional qualtiy and innovation.

I could go on about Stephen Kay even more. All I'll say is - from what I believe he single handedly conceived, designed and developed all the code for Karma for all current synths, has written countless thousands of pages of documents and also had the ability to manage the amazing karma-lab site with its forums, wiki, tutorials and so on. When you consider what a precarious protocol MIDI can be, given the fact that KARMA manages hundreds of MIDI paramters - in real time and bug free - you just begin to get a sense of the underlying quality of Karma as implemented by Kamra-Lab. It is totally taken for granted, IMO.

So Korg / Kama are among THE most innovative and extensive music technology environments you can avail of today, at the very highest echelons of quality. I know I'm laying it on 'thick' here - but I'm no fanboy - this is an exquisite company and it is grossly unfair to suggest otherwise.

And with the greatest of respect - Kurzweil have been peddling the same VAST OS for twenty years, with arguably a few percent of the innovation of Korg in the same time - and - their K2500 manuals are a disgrace - they are impenetrable IMO. I find Kurzweil documentation (and their OS) among the most user unfriendly systems to engage. So I think you should pull back on this comparison.

I'm saying all of this because Ozy, while you come across as a very smart guy and a very engaging and talented person whom I have a lot of time for on this forum, you are simply dead wrong to cast Korg in this light; and the record needs to be set straight for new and unsuspecting readers to your posts on this thread.

Kevin.