Jordan Rudess Plays Korg KRONOS

I've been working on the Korg KRONOS and OASYS development teams for the last decade. It was a great honor to see Jordan Rudess, a masterful musician and keyboard player, performing on the KRONOS. Very rewarding to to see what such a talented player can do with the instrument our team created.
Apologies for the shaky video and mediocre audio. This was recorded, hand-held on a Canon HF200, using the built-in mic, in the very crowded Korg demo room at the 2011 NAMM show, January 15, 2011.
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[WillTocaJr]

He's so cheesy :b

[NNITRED]

i love Rudess but he has plastered his name alongside so many major synths and workstations I don't give his endorsements nearly as much weight as I once did in years past. Roland , Kurzweil , Korg, Muse....the list goes on.

Great playing as expected though.

[johnplanetz]

@KLSinCT - the maximum for the SGX-1 piano model is 100 notes (stereo notes with damper resonance). The other synthesis types have different max polyphony- see the full specs at korg. com/kronos

[Superphilipp]

@NNITRED Well, what do you expect? There isn't a professional keyboard (or guitar for that matter) player out there who would sincerely claim that one instrument was the best for all situations.

[mr4y]

@johnplanetz On the VST, is not a delay. It's now at the point of false advertising. It was announced since the beginning in videos and even Korg's website(it should still be there yet). It even was one of the marketing strategies from Korg. Delayed or not delayed there's no excuse for that. If they didn't had a editor ready, then they shouldn't announce it in the first place. Period.

[johnplanetz]

@mr4y - Korg has publicly addressed the RH3 issues. If your Kronos has a keybed problem, contact Korg for repair. The VST editor delay is unfortunate, but these things happen sometimes. Your "Mute pet peeve" is a matter of perspective. There are benefits to the Korg Mute implementation, but it clearly is not your personal preference. You're making way too big a deal out of it, and completely ignoring what I've said. Please that's enough on that here, thanks.

[mr4y]

@mr4y And this is not even the biggest issue with the Kronos in general. The biggest issue is the numerous faults with the RH3 keybeds as well as the VST editor false advertising. What I'm talking about could be described as a pet peevee.

[mr4y]

@mr4y Is no excuse to make such a primordial effect while still calling this keyboard a game changer? What changed? Korg keyboards already had this issue years ago.

[mr4y]

@johnplanetz I'm not making that. I can tell you that a number o Kronos owners agree that Kurzweil has the upper hand in this regard. Keep in mind that the whole issue is not about voice stealing algorhythms. The whole isse is that muted voices in Combi mode will use polyphony and this doesn't happen with the PC3, which can have 32 layers per program and up to 16 programs in "combi" mode, while having no polyphony used when layers are muted, which does happen in the Kronos.

[johnplanetz]

@mr4y - Playing a single note on a layered Kronos combi can request literally 1000s of voices- it has to make some choices about what will sound. Every system has its limits. The stealing algorithm in Kronos is really quite sophisticated. Broad generalizations and comparisons such as those you're making are meaningless. The Kronos will exceed its competitors in some areas, and not in other areas. If you like the PC3, great- buy one! But claiming it "runs circles around the Kronos" is silly.

[johnplanetz]

@mr4y - if you like, imagine that the current Mute button says something like "Silence", and the status-off selector says "Mute". Now that button works just like you're requesting, and there it is, already there. And as I said, it's a good suggestion to add a global preference to let you select "No Polyphony Usage when Muted" for the Mute button.

[mr4y]

@johnplanetz Switching elements off defeats the whole purpose of using combi mode. You have all that supposed power under the hood(although it's inferior processing wise to the early OASYS) and you would think that basic stuff like polyphony limit wouldn't be a issue, like it wasn't with the PC3(intelligent voice stealing algorhythm and no polyphony isue with muted layers) or the Jupiter 80 (256 note polyphony). In this regard, PC3 run circles around the Kronos.