danatkorg wrote:First, let's clear up the misconception that the Pa3X Oriental was developed by an independent third party.
Tnx for chiming in Dan! I'm happy to see you respond here.
This thread have taken a spin that I couldn't think of when I started it.
I was actually encouraged by that Pa3X-Oriental rumor
and others efforts to find out the nature of our baby kronos and when the opportunity came up I truly believed in the community 'helping out' as have been done in other similar ways in other products.
This has resulted in a system that we're very proud of, with great-sounding algorithms and outstanding runtime efficiency
I am also proud of your efforts. This oasys/kronos is great work and that's why it is such great fun to add just that bit of extra stuff - The icing of the cake, so to speak
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From my point of view it's like having a BMW with a speed cap (unfortunetly they are capped that in my country) and I (with others) want to remove that cap. Now, I've already done that by the help of 3'rd party efforts being made. Does that analogy make any sense?
The idea that one or two people could successfully reverse-engineer and completely understand these binaries in a few weeks and then modify them successfully in a few months of part-time work, without the source code, and without unintended negative side-effects, is simply not credible.
The thought was not to have one or two people re-write the kronos os- and audio engines, but rather tweak and focus on specific stuff. This is much easier than doing major rework.
Because of this, it's not surprising that the third-party technical analyses posted in this thread have been rather incorrect.
That's the core nature of doing analysis. One tend to work from an theoretical and initial understanding and having to revisit the premature conclusions being made - That's the beauty of analysis. Sometimes you are right, and sometimes you are wrong along the way.
I'm now official 3'rd party
I'll go into one example. As we've said before, all synthesis, effects, and audio processing is done within the Intel CPU, and naturally the sequencer and KARMA as well. The third parties have proposed that this was not the case, and specifically suggested that changing the USB buffering scheme (currently carefully optimized for low latency - a fundamental musical concern) would somehow affect "rhythms" continuing across SST. One might note that rhythmic wave sequences, step sequences, and LFOs do in fact continue across SST, while KARMA and the sequencer/drum track stop, and easily conclude that this is unrelated to USB buffering.
I'm admiring you guys to pull this of. Especially by only using a "low-end" atom based resources.
This is also why it's so hard to believe that all this is being made on the mobo without the help of shark and therefor one start to speculate on "the inner workings".
As I somewhat said before, proposing isn't the same as doing. The initial effort of the usb was to see if there was a way to speed up the boot time in some way or another and based upon initial assumptions ideas always pops up.
You should only consider our published efforts to be more like a blog of progress along the way, rather than factual statements and I believe the community understands that.
Such high-level technical misconceptions by these third parties strongly suggest that they have overestimated their current readiness to begin modifications, and that it is unlikely that their promises of improvements would ever have been fulfilled.
This may, or may not, be true but now we'll never know...
About overestimation - Do I dare to mention the kronos editor?
I.e. I for one wanted the cx-3 to respond to two or even three midi channels instead of the twisted effort of range splitting the keyboard to have upper/lower manuals.
I also wanted to have the vga-output to sync lyrics/chords with my set-lists.
Such specific tasks should in theory be able to become fulfilled since they rely on functionality already there one way or another.
Many of the suggestions posted on this forum are on our wish lists as well. We are listening, and it is our goal to make instruments which are as useful to you as they possibly can be (and to us - we play them too!).
And we are like kids, waiting for what you may come up with the help of our wishes.
We're grateful to have you as customers and fellow KRONOS-users, as this wonderful instrument continues to evolve.
And I for one is proud of being part of the korg community since way back due to the great stuff you come up with.
Best regards,
Dan
Thank you Sir. All the best!
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