All user reviews of 5/5 for the Korg Krome 61

All is said ...

UTILIZATION

Very good ergonomics, allows to work with logic and without taking the head, very intuitive for a synth / workstation ... Certainly incomparable with virtual analog with all the knobs that can work in real time.

SOUNDS

The sounds are good to excellent, Korg excels in sound called "synthetic" in recent years as well as pianos. The Krome confirms this trend.

Pianos: 10
Electric pianos: 10
Organs: 8
Pad / lead: 10
Strings: 9
Guitars: 9
Winds: 8
Low: 9

Obviously touch is pretty average in this price range but is by far not the worst compared to its competitors ...

OVERALL OPINION

For me it is a mid-range workstation and not input range. I find it very well built and with good overall finishes, two different aluminum finishes on the front are great, it changes ALL the plastic of its Japanese competitors 2. Its large clear and readable touch screen is a real asset and can work quickly and logically. With its very low price, this synth / workstation has everything you need and more! When I read some reviews that compare Krome with its big brother the Kronos or Yamaha XF I find it completely irrelevant and ridiculous, when comparing a product is done with objectivity and especially in the price category EVEN ...

See the features because the list is too long and see test synthwalker!

UTILIZATION

Config is easy on the arm of good speakers and the fact ca., The manual explains it well no worries we dive into the book a few hours and a few hours we get a practically use a good part of potential, surf synthe all know most of the pages, build your own arpeggios, manufacturing sequences, and use the splitter etctera effects the rest is practice.
The use of simple effects when using but when you enter the heart of the beast is more complex as to modulate the sounds but not too much because it is intended analogique.Dans not all the Krome is ready to use.

SOUNDS

I love the soul funk and electro and I think the electric pianos are the best that I had in my hands, but I've had quite a fall are the rhodes floor and is I prefer that as organs and they are very realistic drum kits nothing to say there is a choice in most synthesizers styles.Les sounds are great for those who love the soul and rock to techno trance and it will delve into the heart of her womb to make péter.Les low acoustic and synthetic sonnet also good but it is better to stand out a good sound to enjoy the islands richesse.Les instruments such as marimba and spend company but it is not my style musique.Les violins and brass is way better I've heard elsewhere, but they are perfectly passable.Quand to ca pads is very well the case when a few key effects and parameters to modulate it comes out sounds impressive that have nothing to do with the original sound while remaining propre.Mention special for combis there sounds a drop floor, engineers have to korg Taffer well as Most of the machines I find that there are always sounds well built that make me a slap.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a few weeks and the fun is always, I admire what design it is beautiful ... for me it is the most beautiful of all the series of arranger keyboards korg synthesizers analog of . It is a very modern black suits better the m50 that I already had in my mains.Son brush is black and shiny and its shape is not impressive mini gabarit.En more what I 'like most is its display brightness is a fantastic it shines it gives all the info you need time réel.Les additions piano roll mode and sequence as sequencers general synthe makes more clean . And the fact that you can decaler a note a semitone or a place before or after promising accurate is this is the only one ca expertise on all synthesizers that are running on the same roland g6 ca do not know yet it is one of the few to have a good séquenceur.Mais of the sequencer Krome is very powerful to create its own morceuax as its arpeggios.
One thing I do not like (and yes it must be the negative) is all of these patterns you can put on every preset there are hundreds and hundreds impossible to listen to all the hours I would lose has the écouter.Avant this kind of synthe had 100 rhythms and pacing had half that were based on the bossanova music Russian music and the other was OITE dispatches between rock and dance music so we exploited them thoroughly that there are hundreds and hundreds but it's too because there are plenty that are zero, as a North lead with 2x 1000 sound board to know parcoeur bah courage.Toujours good spirited to complain. ..
That said the sequencer panel and sounds very modern design accompanies a hell actually a very good synthesizer workstation, I used the roland yamaha but this one is the battle in the stars it carries our ideas with confounding effects, it is this is not jupiter m3 or motif but Krome has no reason to be ashamed he is in the semi pro category as I can throw it in your own sounds not many current styles, make concerts semi pro! I already turned in groups and performed concerts with synthesizers and rotten people liked! Then a workstation such as this can wreak havoc if you feel like grooving ...

Features on the Korg website, it is a workstation, I took the 61 keys version.
The Krome comes with an editor ... I have not yet tested.
I find the synth very snazzy, it has the mouth. I had one M50 workstation and a Fantom X6 and I have just sold my Motif XF again so I'll give you my first impressions.
Even the keyboard is of good quality, much better than the M50

UTILIZATION

The large color touch screen is a definite plus and it seems better quality than the M50. Navigation and editing are thereby much improved and it becomes very simple. I have not yet had to open the manual ... and I hope I never have to do! We will

SOUNDS

Here is the part that I think needs to be expanded a bit ... Sounds ... What is it???
I can slightly compare with the hardware I've owned, I would not refer to virtual instruments, I do not see the point because often the advantage goes to them
 OK, let's start ...
The piano: Superb, better than the Motif XF to my ears, and there are quite a few and for all tastes.
The EP: Very convincing, nothing to say
The organ sounds very good in all styles with a special mention for the church organ which I taped ... Nothing to do with the MOTIF
The strings: very good also, good presence, as good as those from fantom or motif to me.
Brass defend themselves well throughout, the sax of the MOTIF is a little better but the difference is minor.
Guitars ... I was a little scared remembering those of M50 and there ... pleasant surprise for acoustic tzing tzing do not have a good record, but it is easy to further improve by adding some reverb and playing with the sustain and release. In the electrical korg are generally of good quality, again it is a success.
The choirs: They defend very well and are 100 times better than those of my XF which were actually  ... non-existent!
Bass are striking at will, of good quality and varied.
Cloths, pads, synth sounds are excellent as always from korg, good electro sounds.
Finally, Drums, all excellent and much better defined for me the XF or the Fantom, but again this is a personal opinion

OVERALL OPINION

For three days I have the Krome and I confess that I am not conquered this machine. She plays her role perfectly general workstation, with sounds that are generally all very good, clear and crystalline suspicion. There are certainly fewer sounds than on the XF but at least they are all different. The Krome is perhaps what I was looking for a while, a workstation easy to use thanks to its particular screen, sounds very good generalist covering all styles of music, a correct keyboard in this price range .. . Yes I think Korg has succeeded ... To see the time!
Of course I've tried other model and I chose the Krome for all these reasons. The value for money is excellent and I have made this choice before if the Krome was released ... before.

I would put a second opinion I think when I toured the beast!