Korg Kronos

[elwoodblues1969]

It's about Godd**n time Korg got off of their cellulite-ridden butts & manufactured their next flagship workstation-as it's been nearly 5 years in the making! 
The new slogan from Korg now reads; "get ready to be amazed",but I think the price of this new workstation will set the tone for the level of amazement,if there is any feeling of amazement to be had at all(in terms of sheer overall sound quality in contrast to the competition).

There are of course,some amazing features of the Kronos,which are the 9 sound engines,a maximum of 400 note polyphony,16 audio tracks(in addition to the 16 midi tracks),the built in 30GB SSD,the 8" touch screen display,the expansion options and the 12 insert effects(16 in total,with 4 master effects).

After having heard the demos,the Kronos just seems to be a regurgitated version of the M3,as the electric guitar sounds & guitar effects are gravely disappointing as usual,in contrast to what can be had with computer software.

Equally disappointing,is the amount of PCM data of the Kronos-which is just over 300MB of ROM,which is less than half of what the Yamaha Motif XF offers.

In conclusion,I believe that the Kronos will be indeed be amazing,provided that they keep it well under the cost of the Motif XF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1o2Woa8PBk



-Thom

  

[kwandar]

Funny, I was thinking ... hmmm ... if gets down to the price of the WK-7500 THEN I will be amazed

[kara]

I guess the launch price will be in the order of the launch price of the OASYS, which was around 5.000 $ ! 

k
 

[elwoodblues1969]

Actually,the Oasys prices were around $7500 for the 76 key & $8500 for the 88 key(USD).

As for the Kronos,there are no U.S. prices as of yet,but here are the euro prices;

Kronos 61 - $2,999.00
Kronos 73 - $3,499.00
Kronos 88 - $3,799.00

The Kronos isn't quite the equivalent of the Oasys,but it seems they did a good job making a reasonable facsimile of the Oasys....so the price isn't all that astronomical....but all I can think about,is the monster computer I could buy with that money!!



-Thom 

[elwoodblues1969]

Oh sh*t.....I am officially amazed,bewitched,bewildered,dumbfounded & flabbergasted by the Korg Kronos now.....BEHOLD...this incredible video demo from Korg!!!!  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHV3rnkGt3E



-Thom

[folderol]

That is one hell of a beast

Edit:
Did you notice that where many artists would use an arpeggiator Jordan was playing the notes real-time!
Kudos

[elwoodblues1969]

Actually,the Oasys prices were around $7500 for the 76 key & $8500 for the 88 key(USD).

As for the Kronos,there are no U.S. prices as of yet,but here are the euro prices;

Kronos 61 - $2,999.00
Kronos 73 - $3,499.00
Kronos 88 - $3,799.00

Correction; These prices are actually in U.S. dollars,as this information was recently posted by a Korg software developer,so it's official!
Someone on the Karma-Lab forum had said these prices were in euro,so someone had got their wires crossed somewhere along the way.


-Thom



-Thom 

[kwandar]

If buying the Kronos would result in me playing like Jordan, I'd shell out $3,500 in a second ..... unfortunately, hell would have frozen over before that happened

[elwoodblues1969]

If you were aware of the Korg Kronos's potential & it's infinite possibilities,you would realize what a great buy the Kronos really is....especially so,when you consider that it's nearly a mirror image of the Oasys workstation-which for the 73 key,was going for $7500!!

The best part about the Kronos,is that it functions just like a computer workstation,but it will NEVER catch a virus and it will NEVER crash!


-Thom

[Fred S]

I want me one of those!

[kwandar]

If you were aware of the Korg Kronos's potential & it's infinite possibilities,you would realize what a great buy the Kronos really is.... -Thom

I'm sure its great .... but I'm equally sure nothing will have me playing like him, irrespective of cost!

[kara]

A real beast ! Great sounds, great workstation, great all
If i would have the money to buy one, which I don't, I would buy one

What surprised me the most, is that Korg finally managed to make a grand piano which sounds as a real grand, which is a real breakthrough for them.

When the Oasys came out, I was invited by my music shop to play a couple hours with it. And I was disappointed by the piano sounds.
My brother has the M3, and I was disappointed by the piano sounds...
But that new grand on the Kronos sounds great !

k

[elwoodblues1969]

Kara,

The grand piano of the expansion set of the M3 is actually impressive sounding-that is,very authentic in most aspects,but there was still that trademark "metallic klinky-ness" to the sample.
That being said,I assume(or rather hope),that this artifact of the that piano sound was corrected in the Kronos.If by chance the Korg piano is not quite up to par,there's always the option for adding a 3rd party piano sound-set and the Kronos has all the room one could need to expand!!

The thing is though,is that the subtleties of a piano sample-that is the unwanted sample flaws rarely ever present themselves in an online demo,so one needs to demo the Kronos in person & really study the piano programs.


-Thom

[Marc JX8P]

The Kronos promises to be an amazingly powerful workstation. I love the big demo event (the link Thom posted) and aside from the wonderful sound and the great flexibility of the sound engines, I love the little details like how easy the performances are switched, how intuitive the display GUI is and most of all, the fact that it integrates with a DAW so well. I'm very, very tempted!

[kara]

I'm very, very tempted!

You will be able to play one very soon Marc.... Moon will order one 

k