Korg Krome-EX 88 Keys Workstation

A whole world of sounds

Thanks to Korg, all the best sounds have been specifically chosen for the Krome. Their philosophy? The music scene is always evolving and changing and because of this, only the most iconic sounds, the most varied sounds, and most of all, the most usable sounds should be shipped with the Krome. You’re getting an up to date library of the best digital sounds the world has to offer. The variety is huge. From massive, polyphonic EDM sounds, chords, pads, leads, and basses big enough to fill the dancefloor, to world instruments. The steel pan drum, the kalimba, the kokyu, all and more are available to spice up your music. As well as musical elements, the Krome also provides Hollywood sound effects for use in commercial or film work. So no matter your creative task, the Krome can handle it.

Krome piano library

Pianos are the foundation of a powerful music workstation and the Krome is no exception. The sounds here are intended for longevity. The foundational part of a workstation is to have great sounding pianos, the Krome provides a deep sample library of piano sounds so you’ll always find the right voice to fit your arrangement. All the piano sounds on the Krome have been recorded with professional sound engineers and have been sampled beautifully demonstrated by the huge amount of clarity coming from the sound engine. Grands, uprights, and more. Whatever piano you need for the task, the Krome provides. As well as great traditional piano sounds, the Krome also provides excellent electric pianos, which are full of warmth and realism. Using a lot of PCM memory, the pianos are deep and rich. Just one of these pianos takes up the space of a typical PCM synthesizer. because of this, you know you’re getting the best possible sound.

Korg’s creative toolbox

Krome comes with a huge variety of tools to help you reach your musical goals. Record all your ideas on to memory and arrange them using the 16-step sequencer. Match the specific genre you’re writing for using the Auto Song Set-up function. When inspiration hits, don’t waste time setting up your sounds and use the Krome’s templates instead. Simply hit record and get your ideas down as fast as you can think them up. The Krome EX 88 is equipped with naturally weighted keyboard action that gives you the feel of a high-end piano and allows performers and writers to utilize very deep dynamics in their craft. As well as this, the Krome also features a very stripped back aesthetic. However, its sleek housing gives it a distinctive design that looks modern that still stands out. To top it all off, the construction features a very clear and intuitive touchview screen that shows all the different parameters but also provides finger-drag editing allowing you to use the on-screen sliders and knobs directly. Total control at your finger tips.

Your very own drum kit

Not only is the Krome excellent for writing melodies, chords, and arrangements. It also has a very powerful drum engine. The Krome comes with over 2,500 drum samples to power the 48 preload kits. Using a generous helping of Krome’s PCM Memory to deliver a completely new level of clarity and realism. You can change the dynamics between the microphone placement too, mixing between direct kit microphones and ambient room microphones, this gives you a very realistic drum sound.

Sound Specifications

• Maximum Polyphony
• 120 voices (120 Oscillators)
• Single Mode, 60 voices (120 Oscillators)
• Double Mode
• The maximum simultaneous voice polyphony will vary depending on oscillator settings, velocity crossfading and whether you are using mono or stereo multisamples.

PCM Memory

• 4GB (In case of 48 kHz, 16-bit Linear PCM converted)
• 728 multisamples (including 44 Stereo multi-samples)
• 2,502 drumsamples (including 574 Stereo Drumsamples)

Program

• Oscillator: OSC1 (Single); OSC1 + 2 (Double): Stereo multisamples are supported 8 velocity zones per oscillator with switching, crossfades and layers
• Filters: Four types of filter routing (single, serial, parallel, 24 dB). Two multi-mode filters per oscillator (low pass, high pass, band pass, band reject)
• Driver: Per-voice nonlinear driver and low boost
• EQ: Three bands, with sweepable mid
• Modulation: For each oscillator, two envelope generators (Filter & Amp), two LFOs, two key tracking generators (Filter & Amp), two AMS mixers, Pitch EG, Common LFO, two common key tracking generators

Combination

• Timbre Number: Max 16. For each Timbre, keyboard and velocity split/layer/crossfades. Modifications to the program settings via the Tone Adjust function

Drum Kit

• Stereo and mono drum samples. 8 velocity zones switch (crossfades and layers)

The number of Combination / Program / Drum Kit

• User Combination: 768 Combination (512 Preload)
• User Program: 1536 Program (896 Preload)
• User Drum Kit: 80 Drum Kit (48 Preload)
• Preset Program: 256 GM2 Program + 9 GM2 Drums Program

Effects

• Insert Effects: MIDI
• Master Effects: 10
• Total Effect: 30,000 Notes Approximately
• Timbre / Track EQ: Quarter Note= 10- 500
• Effect Types: 120 Ticks Per Quarter Note
• Modulation: Audio File WAV 44.1 kHz
• Effects Control Busses: Stereo side chain (Limiter, Gate, Vocoder etc.)
• Effect Preset: 32 preset per effect

Polyphonic Arpeggiator

• Program Mode: 1 unit
• Combination, Sequencer Mode: 2 units are available
• Number of pattern: 5 preset Arpeggio pattern, 1,088 User Arpeggio pattern (960 Preload)

Drum Track

• Preset Patterns: 710 patterns (Common with the preset pattern of the Sequencer mode)
• User Patterns: 1,000 patterns (Pattern created in Sequencer mode can be converted to drum track user pattern)
• Others: Configurable “Trigger Mode / Sync / Zone”

Sequencer

• Tracks: 16-track + 1 master track
• Number of Songs: 128 Songs
• Resolution: ♩=1／480
• Tempo: 40.00 – 300.00 (1/100 BPM resolution)
• Maximum memory: 210,000 MIDI events
• Template Songs: 16 preset / 16 user template songs
• Cue List function: 20 Cue List – Songs can be arranged consecutively or repeatedly in up to 99 steps, a cue list can be converted back into a song.
• Pattern / RPPR (Realtime Pattern Play and Recording): 710 Preset / 100 User pattern (Per song). 1 pattern set per song
• Format: KORG (KROME) format, SMF format 0 and 1

Media

• Load, Save, Utility, Data filer functionality (Save and Load MIDI System Exclusive Data)