I'm really debating about whether to get the KRONOS. I want to hear it live before I would plunk down any cash although if the demos are any indication of the sound quality then it should be one great keyboard. I wanted to mention also that the SSD hard drive is 30GB total but only the "factory" data can actually be streamed off the hard drive which would be 12 GB total. The other 18 GB can be used for everything else.

Kudos to Korg for igniting so much excitement in the workstation arena once again. They have priced the KRONOS comparable to other workstations currently on the market plus I believe the SSD hard drive is included along with the purchase price. What will be interesting to find out is the price of the add-on boards i.e. the EXs expansions. There are a total of nine so far with the possibility of even more?? We'll see. But if Korg prices the expansions relatively high... say $399.00 each... then that is going to start to add up really fast. $400 x 9 = $3,600 which is roughly the same price as the KRONOS 88 keyboard! Hopefully Korg won't "gouge" their customers once they "hook 'em" into purchasing the KRONOS itself. FWIW, I would in NO way purchase a KRONOS without first knowing the prices of the expansion boards. It's one thing to get a good deal on a bleeding edge keyboard but it's quite another to be "taken to the cleaners" on the expansion boards Korg will offer. Hopefully that won't be the case but we'll have to wait and see.

All the best,
Mike