Whats New On Korg Boot Namm 2024, Watch!!!

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Whats New On Korg Boot Namm 2024, Watch!!!

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I am not Impressed with anything, only maybe Poetry.
But, I don't need home piano.
I am afraid that nobody cares, on Kronos forum, about anything which they show?
Nothing about the successor of Kronos, and I doubt that there will be one.
Anyway, see for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0zvlDeQEG0

This is something PS-3300 FS, watch!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wV5LV3vZwo

I hope we will see much better examples of the sounds, of this magnificent synthesizer.
It exist, like standalone and VST!
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Post by KK »

Hi Pedja,

There is already a discussion in the Latest News forum about it.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... p?t=130238
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Thanks @KK for info.

I never read lates news, and I didn't notice it.
It is not out of place to repeat some things several times.
Have a good time.
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Post by KK »

Pedja wrote:Thanks @KK for info.

I never read lates news, and I didn't notice it.
It is not out of place to repeat some things several times.
Have a good time.
Hi Pedja,

That's all fine, only reason I sent you the link is so you can read it and/or add to the discussion if you want.
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Thanks again @KK.
I wish you all best.
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Re: Whats New On Korg Boot Namm 2024, Watch!!!

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Pedja wrote:I hope we will see much better examples of the sounds, of this magnificent synthesizer. It exist, like standalone and VST!
VST versions already exist here and here
Kronos2 73, Presonus StudioLive, Cakewalk / Sonar Platinum, Windows 10
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@timg Thanks for links.
Have nice time.
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Post by ITguy54 »

Kurzweil had more interesting products than Korg, at NAMM.
Kurzweil showed two new keyboards at NAMM 2024: the K2061 and K2088. They appear to be budget friendly relatives of the 2700. Kurzweil is smart enough to keep the 9 sliders/drawbars. If it has all the engines of the 2700 (V.A.S.T., 6 operator FM, VA, B3 emulation, etc) and it comes in at the right price point, then who cares if Korg ever adds drawbars to the Nautilus or comes up with a replacement for the Kronos?
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ITguy54 wrote:Kurzweil had more interesting products than Korg, at NAMM.
Kurzweil showed two new keyboards at NAMM 2024: the K2061 and K2088.
Apples and oranges. Kurzweil keyboards use Fatar - a company who excels at creating unreliable low quality actions. The Korg RH3 is a much stronger and reliable design. Also, their big K2700 machine has a "huge" 3,5 GB of user-samples, which is ridiculous nowadays. Their company used to be great, until about 20 years ago. So it's only normal their products should be less expensive.
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Post by Koekepan »

Hang on a second with a raw size comparison on samples - this is apples and oranges. KORG's approach to sampling is (mostly, there are some tweaks here) basically a straightforward development from old rompler techniques. If you're familiar with the behaviour of the engine you can draw a pretty straight line from the M1 through boards like the M3 up to the modern Nautilus. This is not the most space-efficient approach, but the results speak for themselves. By way of contrast, Kurzweil always took an approach which I would compare to Roland's old LA system. V.A.S.T. is rather like LA on steroids, and they get a hell of a lot more mileage per storage size, but at the cost of higher processing. Kurzweils sound amazing and have their own internal synthesis magic that is almost like having a deep, polyphonic modular synth on each voice. So a raw count of bits is not a useful metric. It's bits + algorithms + DSP.

As for Fatar/RH3, I don't really have an opinion other than to observe that a whole lot of serious professionals whom I've seen, or joined on stage seem to make it through their gigs despite the hideous, crippling handicap of Fatar. So there's that.
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I have to say that I have Fatar TP/40L (uses on K2700) on my Kurzweil PC3LE8. I bought this synth because I Fell in love, at this keyboard, at first touch. I don't like too much RH3. RH3 has too much hard key, for my taste. Without going into the constructive elements, I think it's more a matter of taste. Different people have different tastes and requirements.
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