Musikmesse 6th April

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:33 pm

If someone can tell me how to upload an image from my computer - I have a jpeg of the picture.

ozy · Post by **ozy** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:45 pm

synthguy wrote: if oz-man's find was cleaned up a bit, that red spray paint rubbed off and the duct tape yanked,

... nahhhh... without duct tape it would lose that je-ne-sais-quoi... that "vintage flavour"...

but of course you missed all the pop-cult references

:

the red-spray paint is a tribute to graffiti-art,

the low-fi cut and paste artwork is a tribute to post-minimalist-punk hyper-protools-edited cheesy trance music,

the fact that it has no audio outputs is a tribute to john cage,

and the fact that you have to slam a 25% tribute on its 4000 usd price tag for importing it into Europe is... a tribute, stop.

Synthoid · Post by **Synthoid** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:05 pm

apex wrote: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/kb_201105/#/2

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/kb_201105/#/6

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/kb_201105/#/18

All these links are dead now. Someone's getting chewed out somewhere...

DaveBoulden · Post by **DaveBoulden** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:06 pm

You can still see it in the thread at GS: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electron ... ad-10.html

Synthoid · Post by **Synthoid** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 8:54 pm

Yes, and if you leafed through that online magazine, you would have seen some other surprises. One thing though, the Kronos won't see any competition at Messe this April.

apex · Post by **apex** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:22 pm

Synthoid wrote:Yes, and if you leafed through that online magazine, you would have seen some other surprises. One thing though, the Kronos won't see any competition at Messe this April.

like what?

Synthoid · Post by **Synthoid** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:47 pm

Yamaha MOXS & Hammond SK-1 for starters.

Here's some info about the SK-1:

http://www.hammondorganco.com/index.php ... Itemid=158

synthguy · Post by **synthguy** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:30 pm

I wonder if Roland hit on some magic formula with its SuperNatural algorithms. I've heard some good things about them, just like I've heard some good things from Yamaha's Super Articulation engine, or whatever they're calling it. Just six more days, is it, five? At this price, and going to the highly prized Jupiter name for this thing, they seem to think they have something pretty special on their hands.

We've gone without awesomely lifelike expressivity in our keyboards for decades now, though we've sure grouched about wanting it. That's one of the key points of the DX synths, with the dynamics of FM synthesis, in which each keystroke sounded unique and unstatic. In the not-so-old days, synthmakers worked around it by offering more wave rom with longer samples, and more velocity sampled layers. After all, how many would use an M1 with its skimpy wave rom to score orchestral strings, or use its piano in a solo classical piece?

We all want these sampled sounds in our workstations. I sure do, and yet everyone grouches about them... other than me. Well, these guys are trying to make us happy, Yammy with their articulations, and Roland with theirs. I'm sure willing to listen.

I'm curious how many of us would like to see KORG pull something like this in an update to the KRONOS. Say, sacrificing a few voices of polyphony, or a few dozen voices, in order to supply some articulations for HD-1 sampled voices. Let me be the first to raise my hand on that one. *raises hand*

By the way, pardon me if I drool a bit over that Hammond...

EXer · Post by **EXer** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:07 am

Synthoid wrote:Here's some info about the SK-1:

An interesting thing about this Hammond organ is that it can emulate VOX and FARFISA combo organs.
The Clavia NORDs can do that, too.

Why does CX-3 not include VOX Continental and Farfisa combo organ models?

Korg, please...

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:18 am

Countdown starting:

2 days to go.....

Did Korg announce the Kronos too early... Why isnt it ready??

Does Roland have a virtual game changer too (virtual, as in no-one has seen one yet)?

Cant wait for Wednesday!

StephenKay · Post by **StephenKay** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:23 am

RKfan wrote:Countdown starting:

2 days to go.....

Did Korg announce the Kronos too early... Why isnt it ready??

Maybe you heard about that pesky little "disaster in Japan"?

RKfan · Post by **RKfan** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:04 am

Thanks for your reply Stephen...

Yes There was a whole long thread on it ... Here is a question posted in another thread which is related which maybe could point you in the direction of what we would like to hear from Korg

What we want is a statement of it being 'on time'/ 'not on time' at a minimum, and 'when' is the desired piece of information.
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Cheers,
Unicorn

I am not criticising Korg because we all know the hell that Japan is going through at the moment....

But often companies do give out information like ... because of the problems we are having at the moment.... we have to reschedule things.... and think that we hope to begin shipping in .... [insert estimate] ... Its called keeping people informed

I hope I didn't annoy you too much with my Karma Chameleon joke last week

EnjoyRC · Post by **EnjoyRC** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:09 am

I'm still very curious about what Korg is gonna announce in 2 days. The "Ready to tweak some real Analog hardware?" statement advertised in the iMS-20 app.

mrk · Post by **mrk** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:12 am

are you sure that was not another april's fool joke? I never saw such a commercial screen and I launch that iMS-20 app almost on a daily basis.

EnjoyRC · Post by **EnjoyRC** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:13 am

mrk wrote:are you sure that was not another april's fool joke? I never saw such a commercial screen and I launch that iMS-20 app almost on a daily basis.

I just launched it to get the exact verbage.. it's still there.

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Musikmesse 6th April

Two whole days

Re: Two whole days

Yes I did