Why are you buying a Kronos when you did not buy an Oasys?

pragmatist · Post by **pragmatist** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:00 am

Migration from Roland!!

Akos Janca · Post by **Akos Janca** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:38 am

Another thread could be also interesting:
Why are you buying a Kronos when you already bought an OASYS?

robinkle · Post by **robinkle** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:58 am

One word. "PriceAndLackOfTotalIntegrationWithAcomputer."

krazy78 · Post by **krazy78** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:03 am

Simply because here in Australia the Oasys costed
$13,999 AUD 76 key
$14,999 AUD 88 key

peter_schwartz · Post by **peter_schwartz** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:17 am

robinkle wrote:One word. "PriceAndLackOfTotalIntegrationWithAcomputer."

Is that a Welsh word?

robinkle · Post by **robinkle** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:27 am

peter_schwartz wrote:
robinkle wrote:One word. "PriceAndLackOfTotalIntegrationWithAcomputer."
Is that a Welsh word?

LOL I'm sure it is! haha!

Rosen Sound · Post by **Rosen Sound** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:42 am

pragmatist wrote:Migration from Roland!!

We welcome you to a better world

synthguy · Post by **synthguy** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:21 am

rderderian wrote:So if the Oasys was the same price as the Kronos is now with all the adds, you would have selected over the Motif or Roland?

Oh heck yes! In fact, I bought a Roland Fantom on the strength of the instrument samples, which are always very strong. It wasn't until I lived with the Fantom a few days that its shortcomings bit me, and I lamented not buying an OASYS over everything else I bought that summer.

But as everyone else says, an OASYS repackaged with even MORE instruments available and streaming from an SS drive, for half price? I think most keyboardists could come up with the cash for that eventually, without needing a loan.

I just hope I can this year, with everything else I need to buy... *crosses fingers*

billysynth1 · Post by **billysynth1** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:38 am

Yeah in Australia the recommended retail was close to $15K...but you can always negotiate down. I got it for $10.5k in 2005...well the expansions did cost me another thousand on top.

Regards
Billy

Zeroesque · Post by **Zeroesque** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:49 pm

1) Cost.
2) Size.
3) Weight.

These were also the same reasons that many people stayed away from the K2500 and K2600 'boards, and the 88-key versions of many workstations that are over, say, 10 years old.

orpheus2006 · Post by **orpheus2006** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:17 pm

- price
- size of the keyboard
- some of the new unique features: set list, smooth transitions, SSD and quality of piano samples

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:43 am

Kronos has a number of notable advantages over OASYS...

... cost

... weight

... high quality 4.7 gb pianos

... SSD functionality for rapid loading of whatever set of samples you need

... the set list function

jimknopf · Post by **jimknopf** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:48 am

and more:

... first class EPiano engine

... better audio recording specs

... better processor

... half the price

Frankly, the original question looks quite naive and uneducated to me.

JPWC · Post by **JPWC** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:14 am

Simple, my wife would have killed me, stuffed me into the box it came in and send me back to Korg, Oh yea, she would have kept the keyboard.

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:10 am

I'm just new to Synths and such. I never heard fo a Oasys until I got sucked into the Kronos black hole!

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