This Synth is Simply Padtastic!

Kross sounds surprisingly great! Loving the trip down amnesia lane - so good to hear many of the 80s tracks that got me hooked on synths!

Yeah, I had a Kross 2 61 until just a couple of months ago. I do kind of regret selling it.

First, a great overview and thank you for the video. But the KROSS is not my cup of tea. It is okay when you are searching a cheap preset collection of famous Korg sounds with a playable keyboard. But in my opinion it is lightyears away of a real synth. Building a Pad sound from scratch is nearly impossible for me and the modifications of an existing sound is not intuitive and powerful. The presets are very good and they are used very often. But I feel sick when I hear a sound almost everywhere. Where is the creativity and charakter? Lost in famous Korg presets and menuediving.

Very very portable, nice progs & combis to edit, sampler mode, many other options, a great synth!

super demo

The pads on the Kross are quite epic. It doesn’t sound like there’d be much room left in the mix with some of these patches. It makes me wonder how nicely (or not) this plays with other electronics/instruments…

Bra Woody! Feels so good coming in with OMD music.

And how is it together with Logic?

Wish you would do more instrument vids again, Woody. You were (and are) the best.

Thank You Woody for this video! I'm considering myself a Roland person, but KORG had really mastered the pad sounds since the time of mighty WAVESTATION and they are still going strong.

Iridium all day long for pads mate.

Seems competent like recent Yamaha etc workstations, something you can have lots of fun playing! :) A synth has lots more knobs or at least parameters easily accessible, I think.

Pads are like pancakes stack em up!!!

OMD still strong, love your improvisation :-)

I had no idea of just how much changing things like resonance does during these multi-layered performances, sometimes exposing unheard new layers of sound on my MODX. Thanks for posting. PS I'm not sure if you have done any videos on how to create some of your excellent performances - with a mind to chords used etc, but I will check and if not, I'm sure there would be plenty of newbies like me who would want to watch and learn.

Love the hide and seek !

Shouldn't my Nautilus be able to produce everything as this Kross, or am I missing something? Regardless, it does sound fantastic.

Hi Woody, I have some questions about some keyboards used in some music, and thought you might be able to give me the correct answers!? ( since your musical taste is mostly 80s music ) Let me take you back to the early 80s with the music artist, SHANNON! She had two hits on her debut release. 1- GIVE ME TONITE and 2- LET THE MUSIC PLAY My question to you is, DO YOU KNOW WHICH SYNTH/S WERE USED IN MAKING THESE SONGS???? I love those sounds and im not sure which synth/s were used in creating them. Please give them a listen, and let me know if you can figure it out.? Thank you in advance!

Fantastic 'off the cuff' demo woody. This Synth produces some real good value for money. Like you my 2nd port of call on any synth is the pads - Especially those which fizz quickly with warmth remaining. Love the way that thing sings in the end demo with the 'Follower Pad'. Brilliant stuff!

King Korg. I'm getting a Wavestation EX tomorrow and covering Aquatic Ambiance off Donkey Kong Country in the future..

Gonna be a lot of broken keys on that axe.

This is the kind of instrument I love! Because you can sound like a pro audio producer without needing to do much work or spend piles of money... plus, you can make it sound like SimCity4, the best ambient soundtrack in the world.

Did you perform ? ok Vampire Hunter D !

I don’t like the synth but I love your video and you and your energy and your explanations so thank you again for uploading!

Are these presets

Last year I owned a Kross for a few weeks, but it didn't sound like this. So I decided to exchange it for the Yamaha Modx6.

Been fantasizing for a while on the Kross series for live playing. Seemingly, it ticked 80% of the boxes, and intended to use my other controller keyboard for (the lack of) after touch (recognized though). However, as I entered a shop to play on it, I was rebute by its keyboard. Didn’t mind the overall build quality if it meant better portability, but the 61 version felt just like melting butter. I had the feel I was playing on a broken instrument, a toy perhaps...Even my old n364 (Korg as well) was better in this regard...

Thanks for the reply about the presets. Gives me an excuse to dust off the Kross

Охуенный синт 👍🏻

Thanks for the pad demo Woody, I bought the Kross 2 for my daughter, she is still making her way through it. Quite a step up from what she has had previously!

SÜPER FANTASIC MÜZIK 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍

Зеленыи цвет дерпвьев красота что отражает солнца свет как след летящиих небеса лучеи расыпаных вокруг

Korg pedigree.

I still remember why I got the Kross 1- because we tried it out at Guitar Center and were blown away by the sounds!

The Kross 2( the 61 key in particular)....is the best workstation Korg has ever created, in my opinion. Reasons being is essentially...it's feature set across the board, is unmatched....for it's price point. A recessed and angled display screen, rubberized coating on the chassis, audio interface, beautiful overall design & build quality, ultra compact & lightweight, sampling, audio exporting and almost twice as many physical controls than the Nautilus! What I would really love to see at Winter Namm 2023, is a successor to the Kross 2(with a Kross 3!)

I'm just amazed by the magic sound of this synthesizer! His sounds are fabulous. Thanks to this video, I loved it from the first sound! Therefore, I made an order for its purchase and look forward to it. 👍🏻

The sounds are usefull but not amazing. The operation and the display is horrible like in the 90s. No innovation at Korg?

Hello. I wanted to ask, what happens when you change presets, programs or "favorite" in de middle of a performance? does the audio cuts off or it keeps it until you release the sustain pedal like in the more premium korg workstations?

What do you think of Kurzweil? I have a PC3 and I love it.

The machine is great, but its silicone layer, after 5 years of use, has peeled its skin because of that silicone with a rubbery sensation.

Wow, those are beautiful choir aaaaah's !

magic sounds

Another fantatstic video as always Woody! I was so undecided what to get and you have helped me choose one. i always come to your channel for advice take care

Oh my god. You're a Kross and a Grado user too

You should have played pure synths without those annoying drums lines

I would choose a synth sample, play few chords in the middle section, then in the low and in the high sections. Only then I would play some chord progresions using both hands.
Adding drums is a distraction and this video is rather entertaing than useful.

Hey now with the drum tracks its feel like an arranger keyboard