Major Announcement on 9/4

Johnny Sniper · Post by **Johnny Sniper** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:30 pm

Slapped onto the front of Korg's website is the slide that reads "09/04 @ 2:30 PM EST. Go to livestream.com/korgusa for a major announcement."

What do you think it could be?

A new synth?

Workstation?

Another shot into the Kaoss series?

phattbuzz · Post by **phattbuzz** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:42 pm

A new tuner?

Post by **Sharp** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:43 pm

Major Announcement ?
I wonder what the heck it is.

KRONOS Rack ?

Regards
Sharp.

Post by **Sharp** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:44 pm

phattbuzz wrote:A new tuner?

Or, a Cow Bell with a Tuner built in.

That thing would be sweet. You can never have enough Guitar Tuners or Cow Bell.

Regards
Sharp.

Pepperpotty · Post by **Pepperpotty** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:59 pm

How about a microkronos? Lol

My money is on Kronos Editor v2.

gjvti · Post by **gjvti** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:11 pm

Hm, interesting. Korg founded on 1962 so Korg now celebrates very round 50 years in business. Can't imagine new workstation especially after recent Kronos OS update. So ... something full blown analogue? Micro Kronos?

... only if it was iOS app

Anyway, best wishes and long live for Korg!

Trinity2112 · Post by **Trinity2112** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:03 am

Sharp wrote: KRONOS Rack ?

Judging by the colors and font used I'd say it's probably Kronos related.

lunaluna · Post by **lunaluna** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:05 am

Bet it's a watered down Kronos , M50 style only better than M50 .

John Hendry · Post by **John Hendry** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:00 am

I know exactly what it is! It’s a new secret.....
But it comes with a very short warrantee and won’t last long.

Humm, what could be inside it making it tic so hard??? KARMA 3 upgrade 4 free or discounted for KronosX owners…….? (1st guess)

Whatever it is it’s something "Major" that shows the power that KORG possesses over us where our own feelings are the needed key. Now how the heck are we supposed to get any sheep with an announcement like that out? Maybe it’s a trap to capture our attention…..or just a typo.

Wait….as Trinity 2112 mentioned it has the right colors to be Kronos related. Maybe a new monster synth…..”Super KronosXYZ”. The last synth you’ll ever need because it has polyphonic aftertouch and polyphonic release velosity so we can actually make use of aftertouch and have real control of release response. From this point on it’s mostly software because the hardware function basically remains the same so maybe it's time to bring back the past and the good things hardware related left behind. Such a synth would be a religious experience catching up with itself. The Elka MK series like the Yamaha A80 controller and some top of line synths has poly AT and the JD800 has release velosity.

It could be a new Korg oriented Master Controller with poly AT and RV that doesn’t make any sound and just sends and receives command data to process.

It also says: “Korg KronosX workstation….eXpect more”

Oboy……someone needs to set up a countdown timer on this puzzling announcement so we wake up on time. And someone at Korg should get an A+ in marketing.

John^^

BobTheDog · Post by **BobTheDog** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:01 am

New Editor?

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:20 am

BobTheDog wrote:New Editor?

Sounds logical since it is announced (but without a date).

BobTheDog · Post by **BobTheDog** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:31 am

Would it be major though?

I know it would be for Kronos users but probably not in general.

It would be nice to have a TI type multi-timbral editor though, fingers crossed

Jan1 · Post by **Jan1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:12 am

At this point the announcement could be anything, from a new editor to a merger with another company.

Maybe Roland has decided that instead of going through the trouble of building a KRONOS competitor it is easier to simply merge with KORG and make the KRONOS work for them.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:34 am

Jan1 wrote:At this point the announcement could be anything, from a new editor to a merger with another company.

Maybe Roland has decided that instead of going through the trouble of building a KRONOS competitor it is easier to simply merge with KORG and make the KRONOS work for them.

Sounds interesting, some Korg converted Roland or Yamaha EXIs.

Broadwave · Post by **Broadwave** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:39 am

Considering how popular the Monotron series is, I somehow expect a Poly/Megatron... with real keys

EDIT: Damn... I see someone has already thought of it and produced a mock-up.

I can't imagine Korg shoe-horning a Kronos into a rack