Members carbon111 Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 That fan would be easy to replace for a silent one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 They pretty much threw a whole PC in there, didn't they?But I'm afraid it really is radioactive. I turned off all the lights in here but the images still eerily glowed from my monitor with glowing atomo-nucular luminescence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 That fan would be easy to replace for a silent one.That's good to hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 They pretty much threw a whole PC in there, didn't they? But I'm afraid it really is radioactive. I turned off all the lights in here but the images still eerily glowed from my monitor with glowing atomo-nucular luminescence. I just watched a tonne of declassified nuke test stuff and I say the whole world is pretty well covered by now. Not sure how we can escape it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ghostpaw Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 That settles it. I'm not purchasing any Earth-made synths until they've cleaned up the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bernard Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burster Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 So Openlabs put a pc in a keyboard and everyone screamed they hacked it together but... ...Korg does the same thing and every fanboi screams game changer. Whatever. They could of at least left access to the vga port for an external monitor. There are a lot of softsynths as good or better than whats in the Kronos but, after I try it I could maybe see getting one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members nobeatnik Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 Cute diagram! But of course that's all background radiation which has existed since the dawn of man and we've evolved mechanisms to deal with it. I did mention in my post that there are modern sources of radiation ABOVE background levels that are probably far worse than anything you'd find on a (tainted) Kronos: granite countertops, ceramic toilet bowls and bathroom sinks, and also let me add coal-burning plants which spew tons of radiactive particles into the atmospehere a year. Frankly I would rather live next to a modern nuclear reactor than a dirty coal-burning plant any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stillearning Posted July 12, 2011 Members Share Posted July 12, 2011 Personally, I would just as soon not live too close to either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members McHale Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 That settles it. I'm not purchasing any Earth-made synths until they've cleaned up the place. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Son of HuHefner Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 So Openlabs put a pc in a keyboard and everyone screamed they hacked it together but... ...Korg does the same thing and every fanboi screams game changer. Whatever. They could of at least left access to the vga port for an external monitor. There are a lot of softsynths as good or better than whats in the Kronos but, after I try it I could maybe see getting one. once again, Kronos is not your uncles $600 PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members veracohr Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 That settles it. I'm not purchasing any Earth-made synths until they've cleaned up the place. You're in luck! All the hot new synths are coming out of Zeta Reticuli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burster Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 once again, Kronos is not your uncles $600 PC You are correct. It's more like my daughters $400 netbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 This is probably the mobo:It features an Intel ATOM processor. Coincidence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Those pics Bernard posted don' show all the innards. There's more in the case than that PC mobo. The sound is coming from other circuitry. Someone post moar pics, pls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cydonia Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Someone post moar pics, pls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Can't see it from work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricPuppy Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Yep, the Kronos is way overpriced, when all it has is a $200 mo-bo in it. Especially overpriced since it certianly doesn't have a whole 'nother board in there with custom ICs, it doesn't have a totally customized Linux environment and UI (because, you know, those programmer all work for free). There's no SSD, no keyboard, no hardware controls to speak of, no display of any kind, no case whatsoever. And besides all that, Kronos' are spontanteously self-assembling! Even the R&D just fell out of the sky! So how can they have the audacity to charge for anything more than that $200 mother board, since that's all it has in it? What a rip-off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Oh, the motherboard's only $80 including the proc. It's the fan that jacks it up, mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zzzxtreme Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 yeah, EP, I'm appalled by claims of it being overpriced. expensive yes, overpriced when comparing to a netbook+software? hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burster Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Yep, the Kronos is way overpriced, when all it has is a $200 mo-bo in it.Especially overpriced since it certianly doesn't have a whole 'nother board in there with custom ICs, it doesn't have a totally customized Linux environment and UI (because, you know, those programmer all work for free). There's no SSD, no keyboard, no hardware controls to speak of, no display of any kind, no case whatsoever. And besides all that, Kronos' are spontanteously self-assembling! Even the R&D just fell out of the sky! This also describes the Oasys and Openlab products. The thing is a lot of the Kronos R&D was paid for by the Oasys. The Linux os, the softsynths and I'm sure a lot of the controller software all came from the Oasys. Take an off the shelf pc board, off the shelf power supply, a controller board and you have the Kronos. Don't get me wrong I think the Kronos is pretty cool but, I would guess there is a lot more custom stuff in a Jupiter 80 than the Kronos. Just sayin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zzzxtreme Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 the keyboard itself, high quality keybed with aftertouch, with the sliders, buttons, touchscreen, ribbon, joystick I would guess $1500 is a fair price comparing to Maudio/novation stuffs ok let's make is $1000 then, industrial strength SSD, let's say $200 ? subtotal = $1200 ok, cheap mobo and CPU u say? $100 subtotal == $1300 HD-1 multigigabyte contents , $200 is fair price you'd think? subtotal = $1500 the other synth engines - $500 fair? no? $300 after discount? subtotal = $1800 what about the built-in dsps/ics/audio interface, ad/da converters/controller board - well maybe $300 ? subtotal = $2100 manufacturing cost ? R&D ? programmer's salary ? I challenge anyone to assemble an intel atom CPU + keyboard controller + audio interface that is more capable than kronos. make it a $4000 challenge ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members burster Posted July 13, 2011 Members Share Posted July 13, 2011 Sounds good to me... ...so when do we eat... ...I'm starved... ...Waffle House anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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