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[Lou]

Maybe Santa Korg has a surprise for us?
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[jahrome]

[McHale]

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[michelkeijzers]

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[michelkeijzers]

[thehost250]

[McHale]

[jahrome]

[StudioF]

Korg has to build 9 synthengines into 1 editor, thats a lot of work. give them time...
The editor will come. be patient..
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[jimknopf]

Korg has simply failed to deliver in this case - deliver something which was part of the original advertising and even of the paid package I bought. That's a simple fact and NOTHING of all the lame excuses exchanged here can be of ANY relevance concerning this simple fact of non-delivery.

I guess everyone of us would have shown some understanding and patience for a delay of 2-3 months, resulting from complications during the process. But a delay of half a year is an indication not of minor problems, but of altogether wrong planning and not enough man power put into this task by the Korg management.

That definitely a no go from my view, and the very last thing this calls for is user patience! You can't proudly advertise an important DAW integration feature as part of the package (it was NOT announced as merely possible addon happening much later!), and then instead of delivering soon, completely ignore your responsibility towards your buyers afterwards, as if nothing had happened.

So this advertising and selling of something in fact not existent for a much too long time, is a bad failure from the Korg management, and nothing to be excused in any possible way from my view. What irritates me most, is that in this situation no one from Korg shows up to stick with their resposibility, but all we get is a lame "we are working on it": as if there were no responsibility to deliver within some acceptable time frame at all!
That reminds me a bit of lame politician style (don't ever remind us of being responsible) of a kind I surely don't like.

As I already said: everyone knows how much I like the Kronos and the Korg team members as far as we know them. I defended the project and the team against unjustified criticism more than once! But I do not have to like everything they do or don't do, and in this case my criticism is not for the programming team, but for the management of the OS/plugin development: they really deserved this critisism well! I think Seedy nailed it when writing in another thread:
"Of course, if we had an editor, it may not be as much of a problem. But I suspect Korg only have one programmer working on the editor, after the same solitary programmer finished 1.5 ona diet of energy drinks and cocaine, he's understandably drained."
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[michelkeijzers]

I know for sure they have more developers.

I work alone and PCG Tools can only handle about 20 parameters or so (like name, mute, program, combi some references etc). WHen I would have to write a fully tested editor for the Kronos it's manyears (probably like 20-50?), not sure though how much in total.

You want to wait 50 years for your editor? Or accept that software engineering is a very human intensive task.

Also it's very hard to add a lot of people towards the end of the project to speed up the development time, because overhead and learning time will be added.
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[Cpilot]

Well it's par for the course for Korg. The Kronos was late in delivery (some are still waiting!), OS 1.5 was late so why not the editor as well. I think we should all be used to late deliveries by now. Don't forget that Korg isn't the same size concern as Yamaha. Yamaha are the biggest manufacturer of musical instruments in the world and they've been at it for a lot longer than Korg, so you would expect them to get their act straight. In any case, there's so much to learn about the Kronos that it will take me a long time to get round to the editor.

Bryan

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