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Waldorf Blofeld and Kodamo Essence FM would both give you sounds with a different character to the gear you already have. Beyond that, there are more boutique/experimental modules around - it depends how much you want to spend, and how far out you want to go with your sounds. You don't mention ...

Hi Sharp,

Thanks so much for getting this forum back online. I appreciate all the effort you put in - this forum has been a huge help to me for a number of years now, and it would have been really sad to have lost it.

Pete.

Hi Chris, That's really interesting about the inability of the newer Roland to deal with what the older one can. It does sound like it may well be to do with processing power, although I have no technical background in these things so I'm the wrong person to judge. However, it reminded me of ...

Thanks for all these helpful suggestions. There are several things in there that I've not investigated before. I'm going to work back the recent piece that became screwed up for some mysterious reason, and start picking away at sysex, filtering and Global Midi settings to see what happens. Even if I ...

Hi HardSync, Thanks for another helpful reply. I bought my Blofeld second-hand, and it came with bits of the manual - but not the technical stuff at the end. I've now downloaded and printed off those bits, and I'm going to investigate them more closely. As you say, it's a pain to have to get ...

Hi HardSync, Thanks for such a comprehensive reply. There's a lot of useful stuff in there. You're right - I am talking about being in Sequencer mode. The reason I didn't mention specific problems is because of the random nature of them over the course of several years, although certain units seem ...

Hi voip, That's kind of you to reply. I like to keep my set-up very minimal, nearly always just using one sound module plus the Kronos per piece. I'll have another module racked up but switched off, and I'll swap it all out for different modules from time to time, whenever I do a periodic clean out ...

I've had my Kronos for about 12 years now, and during that time have hooked up quite a number of sound modules to it - I can think of seven or eight, from various manufacturers. What frustrates me is the variation in performance I get, and I'm just wondering whether other users have the same ...

You might find what you want here - https://www.piyanistset.com/korg-kronos/. There are several sets of copyright-free samples of instruments from Eastern Europe and beyond. The website's owner occasionally posted on the forum to let us all know they were available. He had one or two negative ...

That's a shame. I know that it's easy to make a sound evolve using the ribbon, joystick, knobs etc, but I like your idea of using a Kaoss pad. I'd really like to see it. Maybe it will be included at some future point - Korg obviously still like the format, and the upcoming NTS-3 has been opened up ...

I haven't used it, because I felt it looked expensive for what it is. I think there are more interesting hardware samplers out there, and I didn't think it would give me anything that I can't already produce with my existing set-up. That's just based on my reading of reviews and taking a look at the ...

I've just started a new thread specifically for people to share any technical info or practical tips they have for future reference. I hope it helps to pool the information that some of us will unfortunately need some day.

Korg no longer supports the Kronos in the way they used to, and a couple of users have recently highlighted the impossibility of getting hold of replacement motherboards directly from Korg. There are, however, quite a few instances of users replacing the original motherboards with generic ...

Like Gargamel314 said, if our community can figure out how to replace burned-out motherboards with generic motherboards, that would be a huge blessing. There is a lot of expertise on the forum, and it has obviously already been successfully done by some users, so perhaps it would make sense to start ...

Really sorry to read of your hassles. Fortunately, I've had no problems so far, but you got me looking online and there are certainly instances where people have replaced their motherboards with generic motherboards - not always because of faults, but just to improve performance. Here's one video ...