Uncle Dieppe wrote:128 midi tracks should be a minimum count these days and!!!!I mean a workstation thats only able to address 16 Midi channels per se and compromise those between int or external is shocking in this day and age
I wouldn't expect anything close to sensible, forget about tight, MIDI timing with 128 tracks running simultaneously so I'm not sure how useful that would be anyway.
Yeah 16 channels in total seems quite limited for a studio center piece. For stand alone use however it somehow makes sense with the somewhat limited amount of effects available. I've never tried the Kronos, still in the process of researching it, but to me it most of all looks like a highly capable synth workstation that's super flexible for stand alone use with perhaps a more complicated workflow than necessary. I'm considering getting one but it's not like I'll be selling off my MPC's or anything, I'll get it primarily for its massive stand alone potential.
That's the gear industry for you. I don't even want a workstation. I just want a capable synth engine with a flexible set of effects, a fair amount of voices plus realtime sequencing and it seems the Kronos is the only product on the planet that has this covered. In addition to a lot of other neat things as well off course, like a full fledged sampler. So except maybe for the cumbersome workflow, the cons of the Kronos seem to be of a nature I could learn to live with as I don't really need it to be what it's sold as being
