There's one thing I don't touch with a 10 foot pole, and that's the sequencer. I see a people post how Kronos isn't that bad, it's a great sequencer for the money etc. but really, no. It's not. I'm still using my Roland Fantom G6 if I want to quickly jot down ideas and it's an amazing sequencer with an incredibly good usability. Nowhere near as versatile as a real DAW but what it does, it does well. And maybe with the exception of their "phrase" concept, totally easy to grasp even without a manual.
The Kronos sequencer is a barren wasteland. The midi event editing is a joke and feels like painting a room from the outside, through the keyhole of a locked door. Now for some this may be totally adequate, and that's fine by me, but there's no debate about whether and how this compares to what's out there.
So there's plenty of updates but they're mostly small bugfixes with a few notable exceptions. All nice and dandy.
But then, this:
Why does the M3 have a usable sequencer, the $1000 Krome has a usable sequencer, but the Kronos is stuck with this barebone implementation?
It's not price, there's no way to argue about how $1000 nets you a good sequencer but almost $3000 does not. It's also not the later date because unless I'm mistaken, the M3 got it's sequencer update before the Kronos came out.
Is there any hope for the Kronos to get some sequencer love? Like a proper piano roll, a more modern midi event editor (doesn't have to be super visual, heck the "microscope" view on the Fantom is pretty basic but highly usable and gets the job done!) visual copy/paste and arrangement functionality etc?
