Rudess' Kronos in Montreal (21/03/14)

Nightale · Post by **Nightale** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:30 pm

Awesome Dream Theater show yesterday night at Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. A whole evening with these talented musicians, that was inspiring (3hours)... One hour into the show, Rudess' Kronos froze and had to be reset during Breaking all Illusion. I could feel his anxiety from the 10th row, poor guy. Haters definitely gonna hate

Any of you were there and know what happened? I won't hide that this is a recurrent nightmare for me... although my Kronos only crashed 2-3 times during rehearsals over 2 years.

PS : mark my words, I LOVE my Kronos, it's the best keyboard I ever had (had Triton, Triton Extreme, M3 before).

drama1 · Post by **drama1** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 2:24 pm

Does Rudess have the X model or older Kronos version?

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 2:44 pm

drama1 wrote:Does Rudess have the X model or older Kronos version?

I don't know what he has but I would expect it to be an X. I've never had mine freeze. I have had it do a couple of strange things though. Once, during rehearsal it didn't load properly but I just turned it off and restarted it. All was good after.

Jordan must have been freaking! I would have been.

Nightale · Post by **Nightale** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 3:33 pm

He did keep his calm even though he looked anxious when his tech came up on stage and looked clueless lol. Petrucci and Myung used this opportunity to have some really good stage presence and draw the attention to them.

What was awkward is that during the freeze, we had the view from the keyboard camera for a long time lol, the one looking down the keys. We could see them panicking when the setlist slots didn't change with the touchscreen or the buttons. BTW, if those top view recordings of Jordan Rudess playing are ever made available, I'd kill to get a hand on them

It's very nice to see how he managed the tricky parts.

drama1 · Post by **drama1** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 3:59 pm

I have to believe he pushes the Kronos to its limits.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:50 pm

He certainly plays it to it's limits!

BasariStudios · Post by **BasariStudios** » Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:20 pm

I love Dream Theater and probably this guy too but already getting tired and bored of him...lol.

JeffB63 · Post by **JeffB63** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:58 pm

I'm getting a bit nervy about the prospect of using my Kronos live.

I've had no problems yet but it seems more a case of when rather than if!

Just got myself an Integra-7 and thinking of using it with a couple of decent controller boards and my computer.

I've used various laptops live for some 15 years and never had a serious problem so I'm more comfy with the computer than the Kronos right now.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:24 am

I wouldn't worry. It happens so rarely that it more unlikely than likely.

jeebustrain · Post by **jeebustrain** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:31 pm

jeremykeys wrote:I wouldn't worry. It happens so rarely that it more unlikely than likely.

I totally agree - if it was a common occurrence, you can bet that Jordan would NOT be using it live. He tried that several years ago with the Fantom G - it completely crashed one evening at a Liquid Tension Experiment gig and was unrecoverable for like 30+ minutes. I don't believe he gigged much with G after that.

NuSkoolTone · Post by **NuSkoolTone** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 4:30 am

Been Gigging my Kronos for over a year now (100+ gigs) and so far has been rock solid. Only thing I've added is a UPS just in case.

marcdeben · Post by **marcdeben** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:01 am

I was at the DT show in Boston last night and Jordan gave the Kronos a workout and it didn't miss a beat. And either did the band! Awesome show with Berkley student Choir and Orchestra. Very nice touch.

Nightale · Post by **Nightale** » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:41 pm

jeebustrain wrote:
jeremykeys wrote:I wouldn't worry. It happens so rarely that it more unlikely than likely.
I totally agree - if it was a common occurrence, you can bet that Jordan would NOT be using it live. He tried that several years ago with the Fantom G - it completely crashed one evening at a Liquid Tension Experiment gig and was unrecoverable for like 30+ minutes. I don't believe he gigged much with G after that.

+1

If that were a common thing,he would not stay with the Kronos

@Jeff : Don't forget this guy gig almost every night and this happened once in the tour. That's not too bad IMHO.

For me, that incident actually made me realize it's not that bad if it happens. People were cheering him. Not more of a big deal then a broken string on a guitar. People that come to gig usually like your music (or at least have an interest for the genre).

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 1:25 pm

Nightale wrote:
jeebustrain wrote:
jeremykeys wrote:I wouldn't worry. It happens so rarely that it more unlikely than likely.
I totally agree - if it was a common occurrence, you can bet that Jordan would NOT be using it live. He tried that several years ago with the Fantom G - it completely crashed one evening at a Liquid Tension Experiment gig and was unrecoverable for like 30+ minutes. I don't believe he gigged much with G after that.
+1

If that were a common thing,he would not stay with the Kronos

@Jeff : Don't forget this guy gig almost every night and this happened once in the tour. That's not too bad IMHO.

For me, that incident actually made me realize it's not that bad if it happens. People were cheering him. Not more of a big deal then a broken string on a guitar. People that come to gig usually like your music (or at least have an interest for the genre).

That's probably not entirely true. We just only hear about the times that it does crash but I'm sure that if it happened a lot he wouldn't use it or at least would always have a spare close and ready to just drop onto his stand. I'd have a long power cable hooked up with the Kronos already powered up too. I bought my K73 in September 2011 and it's only not worked properly at a rehearsal once. It's been fine at every gig.
The only other times it's acted up is because I did something stupid. My fault, not the Kronos.
Jordan also has a tech who I imagine knows the big beastie!