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[unixmill]

some good reasons:
-new look
-some new sounds, including a new piano
-cheaper

anything else? not so convincing

If I was marketing director at Korg for kronos division, I would need to think twice about value for the money and how to allure more users.

existing kronos owners:
-need to provide some value to existing kronos owners. there is nothing since OS v3 is available for existing kronos
-is the new hardware faster? still takes same 2 mins to boot up, may be faster for other tasks, but older kronos was just fine
-DAW integration? does not look like anything new. motif is years ahead.

new kronos owners:
-price does not justify a workstation.
-pick up an older kronos for lot of cheaper

Korg, what is your marketing plan? tell me why I should buy a new kronos?

[runningman67]

I've got the original Kronos and I don't feel that I need to buy the new one. I don't think that Korg would expect me to either, it's customer choice.

It's just normal that a company evolves it's products. I think it's great that Korg are moving forward, I am imagining how good my next Korg Workstation will be in say, 5 years when I'm ready to change again.

That's how I see it anyway.
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[genehart]

I think there is no marketing conspiracy behind ,
probably someone who didn't realize in time , how great this thing is
were disappointed that previous models are discontinued.
and those who realize will never sell their own
KORG just made some more beautiful instruments to make players happy.
SGX-1 pianos were better and better from their first German grand
to Austrian .
It's been confirmed many times that OS 3 will be available by the end of month for previous models owners as well as new Berlin piano , which I've no doubt is even better than previous SGX pianos .
It still boots 2 minutes , so what ...
Why look for the "cons" , while there's lots of the "pros"
Thanks to it's possibilities Kronos can swallow motif and other big keyboards using sampling , of course if we take enough time and work on it well .
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[GregC]

[burningbusch]

Nice first post troll.

I suggest you pick up one of those new white Motif XFs

Busch.
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[unixmill]

Korg is in the business of selling musical instruments to make money. Sustaining their customers and alluring more clients is very important to them.
I posted this message 30mins ago, I got 44 views in 30mins, at least 1 view per min. just based on that, I say Korg is very successful on this marketing. I love my kronos. but I am seriously looking into buying the new one. Hence my ranting... , nothing negative about korg nor kronos but strictly facts. That is all

[GregC]

[slowtrain]

They have mentioned DAW integration in one of the videos, but they haven't said anything specific yet.
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[SDDP]

Regarding V3, here's a question for you techies.
As you know up grading version in .1 or .5 is fine. but going from a . to a whole number generally uses more cpu and computer resources. Case in point on a Macpro or even an iPhone if you have ver 6 that it came with and it's perfectly fine to up grade to 6.1, 6.4, etc. but once V7 comes out and you upgrade to that, the product DOES take a hit in processing and speed. Which is why I never (or rarely) upgrade any of my products unless it have to for a specific software that I need that also requires the new update. I run a protools studio and NEVER upgrade the mac software to a new ver.. Again unless the the latest protools that I need requires it and I have no choice and yes I do notice a hit.
So with that being said, would it be the same scenario with upgrading the Kronos when the new ver comes out?
And I DO NOT want my 2min to upgrade to 3.5 min.

Thanks
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[genehart]

we'll see in time )
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[GregC]

[michelkeijzers]

[Broadwave]

From what I can tell, all the maximum voices for each engine are the same, so I doubt if the CPU is any faster... why should it be, it does the job (maybe it's a software limit... maybe it IS a faster CPU and you lucky new Kronos users might get a V3.1 upgrade that doubles polyphony. Who knows?)

Regarding the boot time, I have never seen it as a problem, there's an awful lot of data being loaded there - still faster than my old (and sold) Fantom X.

I can also see that the new V3 PRELOAD.KSC, with EXs17/18, leaves you with 760MB RAM free, as opposed to 1,129MB with the Kronos/X, so yes, loading times are probably going to be longer.

I have no idea what Korg have in store for the Kronos, but remember that the basic design has been with us since 2005 with the Oasis, and let's be honest... not much has really changed, it's all been a logical, and increasingly more affordable evolution. Korg never mentioned that the Kronos would be an "Open System" like they did with the Oasis, but that's precisely what they've given us (so far), and I sincerely applaud their commitment to us older Kronos users.

There's STILL nothing on the market like it after all this time.
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[jeremykeys]

If you don't like V3 I beleive you can always go back to whatever you were using before you updated. No problem!
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