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rpowell01 · Full Member Joined: 03 Feb 2011 Posts: 224

With HOPES:

1. With CURRENT technologies out there first and foremost maybe Korg will re code their Kernal to enable 64bit. Just by doing that alone will cut the boot up to mere seconds because 64bit will enable more memory, as long as Korg used the better hardware next time around and not some hardware that was made 10 years ago. More memory will allow more sampling data.

2. Set up the next board to allow AUTOMATIC and USER banks to be added on their own. I know it would not be hard whatsoever to create the code. 10+ years Alesis Fusion allowed this and it was worth buying the the Fusion just to have such setup.

Other that those two things I cannot think of anything else to be honest.

psionic311 · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 4:07 am Post subject:

There is one glaring omission that no one ever seems to mention in all these numerous threads wishing and whining for a real Kronos successor.

What if they lack the engineering resources?

Korg has had quite a few technical flops and marketing near misses lately*, and it's costing them (KingKorg*, Electribe2*, NuTube*). That's R&D, mass production, and marketing all down the toilet. They need to milk their best-selling flagship because it gets the most return for the least amount of new investment. They're not that large a company, but everyone's gotta get paid.

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Think about that engineer Tats who designed the latest iteration of Korg analog engines. It started with the monotribe, then the Volcas. That tech made it into the Monologue, then Minilogue, then Prologue*, and now Minilogue XD. Tats left Korg almost 3 years ago now.

I'm thinking it's probably the same for the Oasys - Kronos - Grandstage* - Vox Continental* iterations. The underlying tech is the same, the original engineers not in the game, and they don't seem to have the (newer) engineering resources to really innovate.

It seems like all the fresh, real engineering talent isn't being retained at Korg, Roland, Kurzweil, and Yamaha. They seem to have either retired or gone to boutiques, software development, and Music Group. my2c

LewTheKeyboardGuy · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:02 am Post subject:

billysynth1 · Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:06 am Post subject:

But manufacturing and selling boutique synths is/are expensive. Kronos is cheaper not to mention all the cheaper Korg products. People are buying expensive synths...Solaris, Moog, Dave Smith/Sequential and others. These companies are still alive and thriving selling expensive analogues synths.

What’s the issue with the 4 x Work Station manufacturers?. Maybe it’s because it’s the same old crapola work station and people are sick of it.

These workstations are just a variation on a theme...same same for three decades now actually since the M1.

They need to release a Hybrid Work Station now!!!...The left side of the keyboard should look like an analogue synth, all the knobs buttons, sliders etc, the middle a large touch screen, the right side the usual numeric keys, dial, preset buttons etc. a full power house behemoth.

Price? Yeah, it will be expensive but revolutionary.

Moog One is expensive....and they can’t keep up with demand. I believe a Hybrid work station will make a killing.

What these synth companies should do is this...do a god damn Apple, Samsung and now Tesla...build your own synth online, add what you want to your basket, what you can afford to pay so to speak, pay at the check out and have it delivered to you. You have the possibility to upgrade later when you have more cash.

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jeremykeys · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:10 am Post subject: Re: KRONOS Successor?

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kronoSphere · Platinum Member Joined: 04 Jan 2012 Posts: 697

billysynth1 wrote "Moog One is expensive....and they can’t keep up with demand. I believe a Hybrid work station will make a killing. "

I agree with that because Moog has a "sound" but I am not sure that Kronos has a "sound", it has plenty of sounds but, helas, not a sound that makes a true legend.
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Lightbringer · Senior Member Joined: 07 Jan 2018 Posts: 356 Location: USA

I felt the same way when I bought mine - that a UI upgrade would be nice. I still think that to some extent.

In its defense, it grows on you. My impression a year into owning one is that a lot of thought has gone into making the UI extremely fast and fluid- after you have learned it well.

GregC · Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:03 pm Post subject:

Devnor · Full Member Joined: 30 Jan 2011 Posts: 222

In just a few years the jump in computer technology will put the workstation out of work if it has not already. Keyboard mfrs have to make keyboards its really a question of do they want to re-invent the wheel via a next gen workstation or somehow bridge the gap between software & hardware? In 2019 why should I try to make a Kronos sound like a Jupiter 8 when I can just use the plug in? Then when I get tired of that plug in, I move on to something else. You can't do with a work station. AL1 been around 10+ years. If it's not already in a preset, it's not getting used at all because there are better & easier ways to get the same result.
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