I hadn't upgraded the OS (sounds like that alone is no guarantee against crashing!), but was still not prepared for the 9 complete crashes I experienced the morning of a gig.
Having been an early adopter I expected some problems (and got them, like oscillators detuning spontaneously while I was editing patches), but after spending $4500 on the thing I certainly didn't expect it to let me down on the very kind of gig I bought it for!
And, having purchased at a local store, I had zero recourse, whereas had I purchased at a GC I could have no doubt kept raising hell until they covered me.
As it was the gig was covered with a Roland Juno Di and hastily borrowed Alesis QS6. JEEZ. A Kronos, those two boards ain't.
Yet they were rock steady, sounded surprisingly solid, and weigh about 1/5 as much, so...
Even as my Kronos sits in the shop being upgraded, tested, and returned to me, the seeds of doubt and fear have been planted in my mind, and now I'm not sure I'm willing to hinge really big gigs on it pulling through.
I'll take older, stabler technology any day. Roland D-50? Zero crashes since purchase in 1985.
I ordered an Alesis QS7 just to have it around, and will be programming it to match the needed patches best I can...
Too bad I'm addicted to the sound and features of the Kronos and truly do not like Nord (and the Yamaha and Roland stuff either fails to impress or they don't serve all the functions the Kronos does, especially not that glorious and essential patch remain feature).
If not for that I would have ditched it already, although for what I truly have no idea.
KK
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