Korg Kronos discontinued?

danmusician · Post by **danmusician** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:16 am

Bertotti wrote:I looked at the sweetwater site and they say Korg has confined some shipments will be arriving soon, soon being relative I am sure. I doubt they would say they are going to have more if they weren't. I would bet the Kronos will be back full force and probably with a better mono then we have now. The Kronos X2!

The wording at Sweetwater for the 61 and 73 now says, "We've confirmed with Korg that more of this item should arrive within a week. Place your pre-order now to reserve yours, and your order will ship in the order it was received."

The 88 says "This item is normally in stock at Sweetwater, but not right now. We're on top of it and more should arrive in our warehouse soon. Order now to reserve yours, and we'll ship it the very same day we receive it from Korg."

Sounds like they are not expecting more 88s.

slowtrain · Post by **slowtrain** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:37 am

I think American Musical Supply has X 88s in stock. They also have a payment plan fwiw.

Mike Conway · Post by **Mike Conway** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:00 am

SanderXpander wrote:Krtwos?
Kronos 64? (one can hope)
Kronos i7?
Zeus seems kind of a given...

Korg Hercules
Korg Hydra (7 types of synthesis!)
Korg Prometheus
Korg Kratos

Actually, I like the Korg Quantum.

danmusician wrote:The wording at Sweetwater for the 61 and 73 now says, "We've confirmed with Korg that more of this item should arrive within a week. Place your pre-order now to reserve yours, and your order will ship in the order it was received."

I believe that will be the case. Without a Kronos successor even announced, I'm pretty sure they will be selling them through next spring. Many people still want the Kronos. It's still far and away the bee's knees of synth/sampler workstations.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:46 am

The Korg Kreator! It will have 16 sound engines. The keyboard will physically morf from weighted to unweighted depending on whether you are playing piano iRig organ. The entire surface will be a contoured touch screen. It will have 7.1 surround outputs. The sequencer will take a direct feed from your drummers brain; if he has one; to keep in sync with live playing. It will be coloured ethereal blue. It will have a socket for a talk box hose. It will weigh 7 pounds for the 88 key version. It will come loaded with every sound ever made. Every single one! And best of all, it will only cost five dollars!

phattbuzz · Post by **phattbuzz** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:09 pm

jeremykeys wrote:The Korg Kreator! It will have 16 sound engines. The keyboard will physically morf from weighted to unweighted depending on whether you are playing piano iRig organ. The entire surface will be a contoured touch screen. It will have 7.1 surround outputs. The sequencer will take a direct feed from your drummers brain; if he has one; to keep in sync with live playing. It will be coloured ethereal blue. It will have a socket for a talk box hose. It will weigh 7 pounds for the 88 key version. It will come loaded with every sound ever made. Every single one! And best of all, it will only cost five dollars!

What? Only 88 keys?

Diego5150 · Post by **Diego5150** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:21 pm

phattbuzz wrote:
jeremykeys wrote:The Korg Kreator! It will have 16 sound engines. The keyboard will physically morf from weighted to unweighted depending on whether you are playing piano iRig organ. The entire surface will be a contoured touch screen. It will have 7.1 surround outputs. The sequencer will take a direct feed from your drummers brain; if he has one; to keep in sync with live playing. It will be coloured ethereal blue. It will have a socket for a talk box hose. It will weigh 7 pounds for the 88 key version. It will come loaded with every sound ever made. Every single one! And best of all, it will only cost five dollars!
What? Only 88 keys?

I am still stuck on the drummer having brains......... someone who beats things with a stick.........

Derek Cook · Post by **Derek Cook** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:14 pm

Diego5150 wrote:
phattbuzz wrote:
jeremykeys wrote:The Korg Kreator! It will have 16 sound engines. The keyboard will physically morf from weighted to unweighted depending on whether you are playing piano iRig organ. The entire surface will be a contoured touch screen. It will have 7.1 surround outputs. The sequencer will take a direct feed from your drummers brain; if he has one; to keep in sync with live playing. It will be coloured ethereal blue. It will have a socket for a talk box hose. It will weigh 7 pounds for the 88 key version. It will come loaded with every sound ever made. Every single one! And best of all, it will only cost five dollars!
What? Only 88 keys?
I am still stuck on the drummer having brains......... someone who beats things with a stick and has brains sounds like a reality show.

I take my hat off to anybody who can move four limbs independently in time. I think you have to be doubly schizophrenic to do that!

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 9:26 pm

phattbuzz wrote:
jeremykeys wrote:The Korg Kreator! It will have 16 sound engines. The keyboard will physically morf from weighted to unweighted depending on whether you are playing piano iRig organ. The entire surface will be a contoured touch screen. It will have 7.1 surround outputs. The sequencer will take a direct feed from your drummers brain; if he has one; to keep in sync with live playing. It will be coloured ethereal blue. It will have a socket for a talk box hose. It will weigh 7 pounds for the 88 key version. It will come loaded with every sound ever made. Every single one! And best of all, it will only cost five dollars!
What? Only 88 keys?

The following version will have the Bosendorfer upgrade with the extra keys. You just gently tug on the left end and they pop out and swing around into position. Really quite obvious when you think about it.

Synthmaestro · Post by **Synthmaestro** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:45 pm

According to most suppliers both the Kronos and Kronos X are now discontinued. This was Korgs reply when I asked them about it: "We currently have no stock but will confirm the position by mid November 2014".

Whether or not that means that they will have new electronic parts to build more of the Kronos or they may let us know if they are going to be releasing anything new at Winter NAMM.

My only concern is that the Triton series was great which was replaced by the M3. In my opinion the M3 had a good few additions but the sounds were not nearly as good sounding to my ears. Now the Kronos has been around for sometime will the replacement be better than the kronos?

Who knows but we wont be getting our hands on newly built Kronos's anytime soon!

slowtrain · Post by **slowtrain** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:12 am

I'm really looking forward to their new workstation. It should be interesting (and presumably 64-bit compatible). I wonder if they've had time to get Jeremy's Bosendorfer upgrade integrated

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:17 am

I bet they've gone way beyond that now! I'd expect to see a second manual that just flips up from underneath the primary key bed!

Bertotti · Post by **Bertotti** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 2:57 am

I'm thinking they have developed a new state of the art keybed that will easily switch between hammer action and synth action, but the catch will be that the controller will have to be paired with the software much like maschine.

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Sat Oct 18, 2014 10:12 am

A quality keybed and a quiet fan (if a fan is required), that should be a good start.
KORG can go in a zillion different directions with the OASYS concept, so I'm very curious to see what they will come up with.
I expect at least an upgraded ROM engine which incorporates DNC, and an upgraded sequencer.
I still find it odd that after four years none of the others have come up with an answer to the KRONOS.