Flagship upgrades

[ITguy54]

But most off all I think what a lot of us long time users are not mentioning here is that the Kronos has become a boring Keyboard. A decade plus of the same sounds and features becomes very stagnant over time. Those updates really do give these workstations new life. Adding in more features and sounds gives you more inspiration to use and create with these things. The Keyboard that is a Jack of all trades but master of none because of a lack of updates isn't exactly exciting to play around with all the time.

Does it logically follow, then, that the Nautilus is also a boring keyboard?

[kronoSphere]

Ho yes ! Nautilus was old even before its birth.

[Jogger]

I wish Korg would do a redo of the Berlin grand. Some notes just don't sound even and the tuning in high treble is off.

[ChrisDuncan]

Having played the Montage M8x Hamburg Grand, CFX and Imperial, I don't think it would be worth it for Korg to resample the existing Kronos pianos.

While improvements could be made (there are some hinky notes on the German Grand as well), what's really needed is an expansion of the architecture to allow them to go as deep into multisampled pianos as Yamaha has. The dynamic range and responsiveness of the M is light years ahead of the Kronos, which is understandable since the Kronos is much older tech.

I still enjoy playing the Kronos pianos (I favor the German Grand) and play them for what they are, but to get on par with Yamaha it really will take a new version of flagship hardware.

Whether or not they're actually interested in doing that is the $4000 question.

[blazerunner]

But most off all I think what a lot of us long time users are not mentioning here is that the Kronos has become a boring Keyboard. A decade plus of the same sounds and features becomes very stagnant over time. Those updates really do give these workstations new life. Adding in more features and sounds gives you more inspiration to use and create with these things. The Keyboard that is a Jack of all trades but master of none because of a lack of updates isn't exactly exciting to play around with all the time.

Does it logically follow, then, that the Nautilus is also a boring keyboard?

Yeah, if it's not necessarily adding anything new and ground breaking that the Kronos didn't originally offer. The Kronos is a great Keyboard but it feels like it was prematurely abandoned in the sense that during it's active lifetime Korg could have done much more with it than they did and it's age really shows in the Nautilus.