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keywhiz61 Full Member
Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 103
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:34 pm Post subject: Kronos sound quality vs. Oasys |
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Since the Kronos is largely an Oasys under the hood, I'm curious if people are finding any significant differences/improvements in the quality of the sounds vs. what already existed on the Oasys?
Are the pianos better? worse? The organ patches? etc. |
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robinkle Senior Member
Joined: 14 Jan 2011 Posts: 382 Location: Norway
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Wish I had the oportunity to compare. But I'm allmost certain that the Pianos are better on Kronos, since there is a dedicated engine for Piano for this purpose. But among bread and butter sounds I do not know, except that there are many sounds that comes from Oasys, that are also on the Kronos.
Hope for an answer from an owner of both keyboards. |
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Kevin Nolan Approved Merchant
Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 2524 Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'm an OASYS owner and not a Kronos owner but already it is known that the Kronos SGX and EP1 pianos will be in a different league to those on board the OASYS.
Also - since I believe a lot of the signal path is at a bit depth of 24 bits, there should be greater dynamics available - especially on newly samples packages that are not on the OASYS (unless they were all recorded at 16 bits?). I would very much like someone form Korg to be comment on the plausible extension in dynamic range the Kronos might deliver in performance and recording on this front.
Finally, since the D-A converters are newer and possibly 24 bit too, then you'll potentially get better dynamics at this juncture.
Overall, I'd expect the Kronos to sound very much like an OASYS but with a bit more fidelity to it (or - 8 bits more fidelity!)
There are probably other improvements - for example - having two processors and improved MIDI timing will lead to punchier, tighter recording, Karma performances and wave sequencing; while the use of two processors shared across effects and synth voices will mean lower latency on key note-on for large layered voices AND potentially richer reverbs, among other effects.
So despite the concern on the physical controls issues; audio wise this will be something special - and is most noticeable when you push it to deliver top-notch recording - it will keep delivering even when pushed very hard - even my OASYS has worked exquisitly within jobs using the very best sample libraries and the like; and has held its own within the most demanding scenarios - I expect Kronos to be superlative too - and significantly superior to OASYS - in this department. Have no worries in this regard.
Kevin. |
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CfNorENa Senior Member
Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 437 Location: SF Bay Area
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Kevin Nolan wrote: | Finally, since the D-A converters are newer and possibly 24 bit too, then you'll potentially get better dynamics at this juncture |
Not sure about that. This issue was much discussed when the Kronos was first announced, and as far as I remember, there were several "official" postings here, by RichF and Dan, stating that the converters on the Kronos were identical to those on the Oasys. And that's certainly good enough for me! _________________ Korg gear: Kronos 73.
Other gear: Oberheim SEM | SCI Prophet 5 | Roland MKS-70 | Waldorf Microwave XTk |
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danatkorg Product Manager, Korg R&D
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 4204 Location: California, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Kevin Nolan wrote: |
Also - since I believe a lot of the signal path is at a bit depth of 24 bits, there should be greater dynamics available - especially on newly samples packages that are not on the OASYS (unless they were all recorded at 16 bits?). I would very much like someone form Korg to be comment on the plausible extension in dynamic range the Kronos might deliver in performance and recording on this front.
Finally, since the D-A converters are newer and possibly 24 bit too, then you'll potentially get better dynamics at this juncture.
Overall, I'd expect the Kronos to sound very much like an OASYS but with a bit more fidelity to it (or - 8 bits more fidelity!) |
Both the OASYS and KRONOS have 32-bit floating-point internal signal paths and 24-bit D/A.
The KRONOS does support 24-bit HDR, an improvement over the OASYS's 16-bit HDR.
Hope this helps,
Dan _________________ Dan Phillips
Manager of Product Development, Korg R&D
Personal website: www.danphillips.com
For technical support, please contact your Korg Distributor: http://www.korg.co.jp/English/Distributors/
Regretfully, I cannot offer technical support directly.
If you need to contact me for purposes other than technical support, please do not send PMs; instead, send email to dan@korgrd.com |
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