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Bertotti · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 7:17 pm Post subject:

Hmmm seems to me to be a guitar synth tuner.

In gold!

Bertotti · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:05 pm Post subject:

Now in all seriousness, I would be excited to see a software version of Kronos 64bit utilizing all the best of a Seaboard as a controller!

jimknopf · Platinum Member Joined: 17 Jan 2011 Posts: 3374

Might be something with NuTube (like SV-2), since NuTube is working in some new Vox amps as well...
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synthguy · Platinum Member Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 661

Well, it's been too long since I visited. Wink

Happy New Year!

If KORG wants to make a splash this NAMM, the New Toy needs to be one of these things:

And by the way Jack, if you're still reading, I want to lobby for you to lobby KORG for that ARP Chroma polysynth. Pray

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Hooked On Sonics · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 8:46 pm Post subject:

Bachus · Platinum Member Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 3126

There is another possibility...

A Havian 400 pro, .. pa4x in a stage piano version...
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billysynth1 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:01 pm Post subject:

I think the hint is in the words "The Future".

This can't be some previous technology...it must be something more sophisticated that hasn't happened yet.

NuTube technology certainly is the future, and if they have used it in this new product then it must be hardware related...but what have they put it in?

Given this site is heavily Kronos inclined...it could be as Sharp states a new and sophisticated workstation.

Also, the hardware items released on the 12th were just limited number items, they will not be around for long except for the Mac Gadget.

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Hooked On Sonics · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:08 pm Post subject:

Hooked On Sonics · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:03 pm Post subject:

IMO, excluding the workstations. Korg just doesn't have anything that can go up against the DM12 and MatrixBrute, my gut feeling says ... now they do
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synthguy · Platinum Member Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 661

"The future of electronic music" is quite an avidly debated topic. I'm hoping that one day, every synth maker is producing their own Synclavier 9600 system with a nice big flashy controller, a big ribbon and the usual controllers, and a polypressure keyboard. But that probably goes with flying cars. Razz

One thing that people speculate is that the traditional workstation is almost dead. Yamaha has concluded that with the Montage. That the way forward is a powerful synth with decent controls, a MIDI player onboard, but that the sequencing is handled by a bundled DAW. And then people lament that they didn't make a workstation out of it, and many of them buy a Roland, KORG, Kurzweil or a used Motif instead. So it's hard to say.

But maybe this is a dual approach by KORG. You can buy a Kronos workstation, or you can buy a newfangled performance synth with all those engines and maybe a few more (Radias II, KK modules etc), with a nice well endowed control panel. The New "Optimus Prime" has tons of patches, an onboard SSD for sample playback in a high definition sampler/rompler engine, delicious pianos, organs and other traditional keyboards, modeled or semi-modeled, marvelous, rich synthesizers, managed with a nice color touch screen. It has space for SMF playback of multitrack MIDI performances, but it comes bundled with a quality DAW for full musical production of MIDI as well as audio, a serious DAW like Presonus' Studio One or Pro Tools, but easy to use and with plugin support for third party VSTs.

Maybe this will be more like Roland's JD-XA, a hybrid synth with a similar super control panel, a variety of synth engines on board and a performance oriented sequencer.

Either one sounds rather tasty.

Will that be the way KORG goes? I don't know, but doing something "future" had better be pretty ambitious.
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Hooked On Sonics · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:40 pm Post subject:

Bald Eagle · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:46 pm Post subject:

if it is some flagship class of synth I don't think it will be a Kronos replacement or full workstation. Maybe something along the lines of the Montage or a hybrid analog/VA. That's what I'm hoping for.

Timo · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:24 pm Post subject:

My bets to the "future" is a controller keyboard with large touch-LCD running a Gadget app-type ecosystem.
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spaceman3 · Platinum Member Joined: 25 Jan 2015 Posts: 520

Maybe its one of these?

http://www.korg.com/uk/news/2017/0112/