jimknopf wrote:Rob, you really sound depressed, and I'm sorry I can't follow because 1.6 bothers me only at two minor points, of which one has a workaround.
In fact I am more productive with the Kronos, than with any synth I have owned before. So allow me to ask what your trouble is. What kind of music are you making and what doesn't work for you?
Concerning OS2, it seems to me it's not the same kind of "soon" as we heard in connection with the "editor/VSTi" (I write in paragraphs, because I don't consider it to be one in the common sense of the word). Concerning OS 2, Korg Germany has announced it for beginning of August, and so far Korg Germany announcements have never failed, whenever they dared to make one. And I'm really happy with what Korg developed for Os 2.
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No not depressed, quite the opposite really. My take is and has been for a while now, don't get you hopes up to be disappointed again. Yes you are right re unusability of both the editor, and the non developement of the sequencer.
Really i agree there are lots of great things about Kronos. It's the "will they really release this as soon as namm is over", or is this just another broken or delayed promise. God knows how many times have we been here. "Oh look there is an update". Meanwhile 12 months later still waiting for them to get it right.
I paid for a working synth, with a workable editor. No one said anything when the Kronos was released, oh by the way this doesn't work, and if you want to do this You need to use the workaround to get it sort of right. No it's not a car without brakes, but the transmission sure needed more regular and better updates, rather than more features that were already there in Kronos waiting for the day. I.e another ssd, already been installed by many users and owners, increased ram, already installed and used by most owners and users.
It's the upgrades that really were important. Better and more constructive programming for the sequencer, even the M3 standard would have been a step in the right direction. Those minor bugs that could have been rectified with a small patch release a long long time ago. Lets not realy talk about the editor, still a complete waiste of space and confusion on a pc, would have been great if they could have made that the number one driving force in this Version 2.0 update.
Yes i like many use the onboard recording, but would have loved to integrate this board with the pc to unleash it's mighty power.
No not depressed looking forward to the update just like i have looked forward to every update in the past. But remember Korg have a real integrity problem, and that wont be fixed easily and too quickly. And i like many others know thtat the keyboard and other problems were major worries for a lot of us, whilst all the time Korg said no, it must be just you. That was until the problem was so huge they couln't dismiss it with a user blame. The parts used were cheap and nasty, and the quality control off the line was pathetic. So once again not depressed, but very realistic about today and tomorrows purchase.
