I know its been posted but Kronos X upgrade to it or not?

[Night Spirit]

Personally I don't want Big Red X, I like my Kronos the way it is appearance wise. For resale I could give a rat's ass I am not ever selling this so really the swap to the X would be specifically for Did Korg fix issues or just Put an X to take our concentration off the older problem boards.

Reason I am waiting it to find out what issues are going to arise from the New X, I still have a year to swap this out so plenty of time to wait watch and read.

And yes I know about the ability to adjust the volume of damper mechanical noise and all that in the options. I have to run mine at -25db or I hear it extremely easily and very loud. If I have it set to 0db it sounds like garbage, loud ringy noisy. I hear it when listing to headphones from the Kronos, hear it with my Quarter inch cables, and with midi so its inherent on all tracks with any recording I do.

Now I do have the 88 Kronos with the RH3 but what is this velocity you are talking about?

[KronosX]

Yeah your right.. no reason to do this but just asking.. I would never load every sample engine on my Kronos then activate them illegally.. that is wrong..

Do you think there is anything wrong with sharing activation codes?

Yes, it is totally wrong. It's call theft.

[MartinHines]

If you have 3 buddies that all have Kronos and you all buy additional EX sample sets? Do you think there is anything wrong with sharing activation codes? Is there like a rule to this?

You can't "share" activation codes.

They are linked to the machine ID of any given Kronos.

Exactly. Assuming the Kronos is similar to the OASYS, there is a physical card inside the unit that drives the Machine ID. Each Kronos will have a unique Machine ID.

The activation codes are generated based on both the Machine ID and the expansion.

It would be stealing if you could share Activation Codes, but you can't share them even if you wanted to.

[Night Spirit]

Has anyone got their hands on one of these yet? Or know the release date eagerly awaiting the good or bad news for this

[JPROBERTLA]

michelkeijzers wrote:

Do you hear it when you play directly from the Kronos or when using another keyboard MIDI wired to it?

In the last case, a velocity of 127 is used making the noises even harder.

dfarner wrote

You're right, I was playing the KRONOS piano from an external weighted keyboard that didn't send release velocity, so the piano release "noises" were set to maximum...hmmm, maybe that's one reason why the KRONOS pianos sound better on a 73 / 88 with the built-in RH3 keybed...


When this first came to light, I contacted Korg. The Kronos piano mechanical noise for note off/release is set to default 64 for keybeds that don't send it.