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[polop]

I think KORG could make an effort for a machine which costs this PRICE this is not a Toy

TO take example on ROLAND

[Zeroesque]

I sincerely hope Korg does not "update" the graphics in the Kronos or future workstations in the manner that people are talking about. It's a tool and should function easily and efficiently way before it looks like a hot new website. I find each new version of the DAWs that I use to be more difficult to operate than the last one, with the sweet spot for MIDI editing form/function to be MasterTracks Pro circa 1995 and the sweet spot for audio editing to be a Pro Tools or Nuendo version from about a decade ago. The graphics that have been put into these things since then have usually been to the detriment of actually using the program, though they do look cooler to the people sitting behind the engineer (thus increasing sales, perhaps).

The Roland screenshots all seem to have a contrast that's best for reading in the dark and also seem to show less info than the compared Korg shots. I know which one I want to use.
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[jimknopf]

+1

Even if the Korg UI design can be improved, it should NOT be eye-candy, and NOT follow Roland designs, but should follow its own way of functional design.
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[polop]

hi I respect your vision but I would prefer to have the choice, a template mode for change graphic it's very good, for me the actual graphic are very bad, i had a motif xs and Yamaha had excellent idea with template skins graphic, with this template you can change or not the visual and all people are satisfaient.

[michelkeijzers]

I understand graphics is quite nice for a gimmick, but I rather have Korg time spend their probably costly development hours to things that really care, like sounds, samples, engines and UI usability.
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[X-Trade]

Would you rather they spent the money on developing better sounds and features, or making the UI look pretty?

I like the Korg UI, it is informative and not too fussy. It's functional, which is what you expect for a technical craft tool.
I'd admit it's not brilliantly beautiful, but that's missing the point - it's unnecessary and even a waste of Korg's resources that could be spent on better things.

Being able to select the colours perhaps, might be nice - like in a number of major software DAW products currently available. But we don't need fancy graphics..
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Current Gear: Kronos 61, RADIAS-R, Volca Bass, ESX-1, microKorg, MS2000B, R3, Kaossilator Pro +, MiniKP, AX3000B, nanoKontrol, nanoPad MK II,
Other Mfgrs: Moog Sub37, Roland Boutique JX03, Novation MiniNova, Akai APC40, MOTU MIDI TimePiece 2, ART Pro VLA, Focusrite Saffire Pro 40.
Past Gear: Korg Karma, TR61, Poly800, EA-1, ER-1, ES-1, Kawai K1, Novation ReMote37SL, Boss GT-6B
Software: NI Komplete 10 Ultimate, Arturia V Collection, Ableton Live 9. Apple OSX El Capitan on 15" MacBook Pro

[michelkeijzers]

There would be some items that would increase the UI usability, like a symbol or small level meter to show which timbres are actually sounding (a simple icon in every tab would be more than enough tough).

And some menu functions to find out which program is used by what combi and some intelligent copy/paste functionality.
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Developer of the free PCG file managing application for most Korg workstations: PCG Tools, see https://www.kronoshaven.com/pcgtools/

[polop]

You understand now.

but i prefer the sound of kronos, one cannot all have

[X-Trade]

Well those last two relate to Features - Piano Roll, Track View, Level Meters would be good too.

But these are features. I don't think the general 'look and feel' is worth worrying about on the other hand.
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Current Gear: Kronos 61, RADIAS-R, Volca Bass, ESX-1, microKorg, MS2000B, R3, Kaossilator Pro +, MiniKP, AX3000B, nanoKontrol, nanoPad MK II,
Other Mfgrs: Moog Sub37, Roland Boutique JX03, Novation MiniNova, Akai APC40, MOTU MIDI TimePiece 2, ART Pro VLA, Focusrite Saffire Pro 40.
Past Gear: Korg Karma, TR61, Poly800, EA-1, ER-1, ES-1, Kawai K1, Novation ReMote37SL, Boss GT-6B
Software: NI Komplete 10 Ultimate, Arturia V Collection, Ableton Live 9. Apple OSX El Capitan on 15" MacBook Pro

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