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The thing sounds great! I'm sure the Kronos is a little better in sound quality. But without comparing side by side, I'm completely satisfied with the Krome. The Piano sounds good, EP's sound great!, I'm on the fence with the organs but good I think. The drums are nothing to right home about, but they will work jamming to. I didn't by it for drums any. The strings are pretty good, Not impressed with the horns or sax's. The world sounds I've just skipped right on passed. Synths are pretty good. I like some of the pads. But I use my Prophet 08 and Ion for this. It's light weight. Keys are not the best but this isn't a $3000 machine either. would have loved aftertouch. But I bought for piano, ep's, organ, and controlling my external equipment. **If your looking for a keyboard to control you other midi devices, change banks and programs. This is the one to get. The Roland FA doesn't do it. Yamaha motif, moxf, etc only allow you to control 4 midi devices. The Krome works great with your external synths and effects. I have several rack effects and external synths. I don't play them from the Krome (you can) but just storing my songs and patch changes in combi mode I can change everything in one button press.

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For a while I've been wanting to add a synth action workstation to pair up with my sv-1. I considered the Kronos, but was held back due to the price. I tried a roland juno gi. While it had a great keybed and seemed to be built well, its functionality left me feeling I'd be done with it in a month. I promptly returned and decided to wait it out. The Krome was announced and I was pretty excited. We get the great piano and e-pianos from the Kronos mixed with the likes of an m50 with a better display. All this for a great price. While this certainly isn't a Kronos (still the edsx engine and not a sampler) it inspires me. When you tune into that perfect sound and hit the drum track or arp, you can really get caught in a great amount of creativity. This is exactly what I needed, and what the Juno couldn't quite deliver. With that said, there are some cons. The keybed is not as good as the gi or the kronos in my opinion, but still good enough to get feel and not feel like you're going to break it. I wish the synth sounds were a little bigger. They are good, but after hearing what the Kronos can do, I'll always be wanting that. The boot time is slow, so if you're a live performer keep this in mind. I understand this thing is just a computer anyway, so using it my apartment, this is not a con. Lack of extraneous outputs like xlr or additional inputs. Power button feels cheap Has an external power supply (may be a pro for some). No live set view (software update or upgrade Korg? I know this is possible). With that said, this purchase was well worth it. Highly recommended for someone needing a entry level to mid level workstation.

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I shopped around for a keyboard with good natural sounds for a while before deciding on this one. Thankfully they had one on display at my local guitar center so I was able to test it out in person as well. The keys aren't very resistant but they play just fine. I love the piano sounds, and the fx are great as well (some nice verbs). It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the Kronos but I was only looking to add keys and sounds to my production studio.

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This is an amazing keyboard. The sounds are among the best I've heard. Great deal for a board with so many options to choose from.

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I have had the Korg krome, 1st version for a while now, and I wonder how any musician/ composer can do without it.It is an all in one keyboard that does just about everything. It is more intricate that a workstation or synthesizer. You can use it as both, plus you can get into tge engineering aapect of being a musician ( creating original sounds as well aa rythms). Paired with the Yamaha mx88, you have an ultimate keyboard rig that can do almost anything. zZounds is in my opinion, the best retail source in the industry.

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Korg has always been in my top three keyboard manufacturers. And the Korg krome does not disappoint. Very easy to navigate through the sounds. 61 doesn't come with the hammer keys, but doesn't effect the quality at all. You can't loose with this work station and it's price. Shipping took about 3 days so that was great.

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I just love the new Korg Krome & the zZounds play as you pay plan beautiful sounds & a wonderful payment plan I wish I would of did this years ago but I kinda felt cheated lol but I know now so I'm finally on top of my game with the latest equipment from zZounds I highly recommend them to any musician or novice player I rate zZounds 1 out of 10 on a scale I give it a 20!

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A lot of interest out there on which one to buy. I'm forturnate now to have both. The 61 Krome and the 88 key MOX8. This is my opinion. Not really a fanboy of either Yahama nor Korg, and mainly a guitarist wanting to refresh his keyboarding and songwriting/recording skills. Haven't got into the deep aspects of each board, which both seem extensive. So going on sounds alone...the Yamaha wins easily. It has a lot more to offer (over 1000 vs. 640?, greater variety, and the combo modes are very inspiring and downright cool in some cases. The Korg combos seem like quick layering and are mainly piano and something else. While I was expecting to be blown away by the much touted Korg uncompressed unlooped piano, that was the biggest dissapointment of all. There's still something about it that sounds artificial even compared to the Yamaha. Ya maybe its a little robust due to those aspects, but the phony sounding attack gets me. Yamaha does it much better, just wish they offered more piano varieties like the Korg. Korg's touch screen is great compared to the yamaha, but there's also a minute boot up time vs the 10 secs or so for the Yahama. I think no one minds the boot up time if the sound delivers, but I was left underwhelmed going through the Korg the first time. I control the Korg via the MOXs 88 weighted keyboard, which is obviously better, as the Korg's 61 keyboard does feel cheap, but understandable I guess giving all the features offered. I read where yamaha wins vs the 88 version of the Krome, but I can't comment. The yamaha controls it well, with no noticable difference in sound between the Korgs keys, which sometimes happens. As a side note, its interesting to note to my ear the IKmedia Piano Ipad app has a great a piano that gives both Yamaha and Korg a run for the money in realism...and theres a free version. To rap up the Korg is a nice board, and for what I paid for the 61 version I'm content. But having purchased the MOX8 a week earlier, I am very glad I bought it and did so in the 88 key version. I still look forward to spending more time with the Krome and will keep it. It does have some great patches that yamaha doesn't. But if I had to have just one, it would definitely be the Yamaha. Hope that helps...

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I bought a blemished Korg Krome in April 2015, and I usually have good luck with blemished, open box, display units, and used. I save a few bucks here or there in exchange for some scratches and dings or whatever. 95% of the time it's worth it for the discount, so I knew what I was getting into when I went down that road. I joined a new band that wanted me to play some keyboards in addition to guitar, so I needed a new board quickly. I'm a prior Korg user (Triton), but it wasn't working, so I figured I wanted something new, in the same family, to make the learning curve easy. The Krome is at a good price point for the features, especially at the blemished price point. It's a watered down version of a full blown workstation/sampling synth. No sampling, sample file playback, or vocoder, in case you are wondering. Overall, the keyboard has good, but not great, factory preset sounds. The interface is easy to work with, and it's pretty straightforward to create combinations and edit sounds. There are a lot of base sounds that are usable out of the box for cover songs, after you set up your combinations and splits. There are definitely a lot of the Korg staple sounds that have been around since the Tritnity days, and some are a little dated. There's not a lot of 'new' sounding stuff, so if you want to do dubstep and new EDM out of the box, this probably is not the board for you. For decent pianos, organs, electric pianos, horns, pads and some synth lead sounds, it's pretty good. As far as the playability goes, the keys feel a little on the cheap side, and they also feel a little narrow on the black keys. I guess it's to be expected for a lower end board. The touch sensitivity is a little awkward and doesn't track the best. In defense of the keyboard, I'm more used to a 88 key weighted feel, but the keys on my Novation Impulse feel better than the Krome. I'm not a key feel snob, though. My daughter's $80 Yamaha beginner board has better key feel to me, so your mileage may vary. Volume knob stops increasing the volume after about the 3:00 position. I don't think it's an issue with the board, I think it's the design. After I purchased it, I got my old Triton back from the shop and did a little sound comparison. While the Triton is almost 15 years old, I have to say it sounds a little better, it's a little punchier, a little brighter, and a little clearer. The Krome sounds a little muffled in comparison, I assume this is due to the quality of the D/A converters and audio components, but I have no idea really. At the same time, the electric pianos and organs on the Krome are a little more accurate in terms of the samples themselves, even if the output is a little flat. The main reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that while I purchased it as 'blemished', it wasn't a blemished item, it was a returned/reboxed item, and I may still return it, mainly because of the issue below:. There is something inside rattling around. Keyboard works, but I don't like that something is inside moving around and could potentially short it out. I called the support line, and they said I could return it, or take it to a certified repair shop to get it looked at. Problem is, I need something for rehearsals and gigs, I don't really need it in the shop. Haven't made a decision yet, I still have a few days left before I need to decide whether to return it or keep it. Other issues that aren't really a big deal but worth noting: 1) Wrong type of USB cable came with it, clearly just packaged up and sent, and not looked over. I have spare cables, so it's not the end of the world, but I can't give it 5 stars because of the lack of attention to detail.. 2) Manual has all kinds of liquid stains on it, like a coffee mug, etc. I don't care about this, and it's not affecting the ratings, it just lets me know that it's a returned item and not a blemish. The board itself was clean, and works fine, like I said, major concern is the rattling inside. Overall, as an entry level pro board, it was a value at $750. Not sure I would pay $1000 for it though.

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This keyboard looks very nice with the touch screen display. It has very good sounds. I wished I could replace the key-bed because I could not keep the keyboard, I had to return it as the key-bed was so poor. If you turn down the main volume and try to play, all you hear are cracking/squeaking/rattling sounds from the key-bed, it was so frustrating and annoying. I returned it. I couldn't get it, why would a keyboard that costs about $1000 have such a poor, cheesy, unmatched type of key-bed? The explanation is probably simple, they spent so much putting in the touch screen and miscalculated the consequences of putting a good key-bed perhaps due to cost. More people would have bought and kept the keyboard if the key-bed was sturdy and good. I am not even a professional musician and I won't waste my time keeping a keyboard like this, because in the long run that will bring you only more frustrations and headaches...It is about time they throw away this piece of thrash key-bed and replace with a much better and deserved key-bed...otherwise it is a nice keyboard.

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Great Value , Ease of use, Great sounds, Sets up well with the computer.

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Excellent keyboard. Very pleased with it.

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it does not work now . the brain is a simple sd card like the one in your phone . goes bad in three months . Don't be a dummy and buy this keyboard .

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