Korg Kronos main board.

Regarding electronic music devices, I'm more of a 'hold style'. I like beautiful, well-constructed main boards. While consulting on Internet which deal with this subject, I have just discovered that the Kronos range from Korg, works on an Intel motherboard base, and more particularly the D510MO version. 

The first generation of Kronos:

The Intel mother board :

In the idea, why not. The machine works with a customized version of Linux, and some additional boards made by Korg.

But hey, given the price of the machine, we could have expected a professional motherboard, to say the least. But no, this is a low-end motherboard whose long-term reliability is absolutely not the objective.

Personally, I don't really like this way of doing things. We will say that Korg produces good material... but much too expensive for my taste given the way it is developed. You do the same with a low-end PC at 500€, a good sound card and a T1 used for its keyboard and bought for $125 (as me), all for less than $1000!

Note that this probably allows convenient management of the touch panel display. Because for the rest, still very small buttons resembling those of your FM tuner from the 80s, designed to be used 10 times a month like those of the T1. Unacceptable for equipment wanting to be professional!

I may not make friends here, but really, is it serious?!!!