Canoehead Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Hello all. I just realized that the Marvel character Korg, is a Kronan. I wonder if somebody at Korg is a Marvel fan. Carry on! Cheers, Gord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16251 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Naw, it was the Incredibles. [video:youtube] Quote AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psionic11 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 In order to track your addiction to it, there's a Kronos website tool devoted time management. True story, at my last place of employment, I had to log into this daily to fill out my time sheets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psionic11 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 There was the Triton, a Korg workstation. Also, a Greek god of the sea. And there is Kronos, Greek god of time. Also, a Korg workstation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefDanG Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Everybody knows that Kronos was named after the alien energy-sucking robot in the 1950s movie, 'Kronos'. Quote Professional musician = great source of poverty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonglow Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Quote "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 There was the Triton, a Korg workstation. Also, a Greek god of the sea. And there is Kronos, Greek god of time. Also, a Korg workstation. Close, but no cigar. Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea. Trton is his son, I believe. ...and I don't think there is a Greek god of time, per se. You may be thinking of the leader of the Titans, who was more the god of the harvest if memory serves. I was big Greek mythology fan growing up. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psionic11 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 There was the Triton, a Korg workstation. Also, a Greek god of the sea. And there is Kronos, Greek god of time. Also, a Korg workstation. Close, but no cigar. Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea. Trton is his son, I believe. ...and I don't think there is a Greek god of time, per se. You may be thinking of the leader of the Titans, who was more the god of the harvest if memory serves. I was big Greek mythology fan growing up. dB Fair enough, it all gets jumbled about thru the ages. Five years of Latin here, props to old school education. The annual Latin conventions were a blast (first kiss, first dance, first crush, first place in Etymology and Derivations). As you know, the ancients had many gods and goddesses, and they were often patrons or protectors or villains of any given natural phenomena or human endeavor. And they were not exclusive. And so there any numbers of gods of the sea or harvest or fertility or sky or underworld or of the hunt or partying. E.g. Dionysus / Bacchus being patron of winemaking, ecstasy, and fertility, and madness (funny how excess in one leads to excess in the next). Poseidon was 'the' sea god, but his son Triton was also a sea god, a messenger, a trumpeter of the sea. More technically, Triton was the eldest of the Titans, and Cronus was the youngest. Chronos, the personification of time, has gotten mashed up with Cronus, god of seasons and harvests, and time. Both are alternately spelled Kronos. Zeus killed his father Cronus. Lol. Stuck in the dark without electricity during a severe thunderstorm, trying to cool off with beer on ice. Unwanted mythology lesson on iPad ensues. /end nonsense Maybe Korg"s next-gen Kronos killer ought to be called the Zeus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 You're all wrong. Qo'nos was the Klingon homeworld. Quote "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyNQ Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 I'm fairly sure Korg's workstation inspired the authorship of this book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psionic11 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Qapla! (Qo'nos theme is in 7/8...!) [video:youtube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJUSCULE Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 While you all work this out, I'll be over at the refreshments table with the cronuts. Quote Eric Website Gear page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Williams Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Zeus killed his father Cronus. The version I read (about 1/2 century ago, to be fair) said that Chronos killed Ouranos (Uranus) and then Zeus did the same to Chronos. Then, while researching my junior high (nowadays called "middle school") report, I discovered a non-children's version that said that they castrated their dads -- eew! I harmonized the two accounts by saying that Zeus "cut his dad's head off." As a result of that one report, I passed a semester of English I would otherwise have failed. Quote -Tom Williams {First Name} {at} AirNetworking {dot} com PC4-7, PX-5S, AX-Edge, PC361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_Gould Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 "Was the Kronos named after a Marvel character?" ...well, it sure wasn't named before one. I'll be here all week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnderGroundGr Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 In Hellenic Mythology (i am from Hellas), Kronos and Rea was born 9 children(6 boys and 3 girls). Kronos ate them all(except Zeus that later killed him). Kronos workstation has 9 synth engines... In Korg company, they know about Hellenic mythology... Quote Kurzweil K2661 + full options,iMac 27",Mac book white,Apogee Element 24 + Duet,Genelec 8030A,Strymon Lex + Flint,Hohner Pianet T,Radial Key-Largo,Kawai K5000W,Moog Minitaur,Yamaha Reface YC + CP, iPad 9th Gen, Arturia Beatstep + V Collection 9 https://antonisadelfidis.bandcamp.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 In Hellenic Mythology (i am from Hellas), Kronos and Rea was born 9 children(6 boys and 3 girls). Kronos ate them all(except Zeus that later killed him). Kronos workstation has 9 synth engines... In Korg company, they know about Hellenic mythology... Ok I think this explanation wins the prize Also - word is the next Korg workstation is the Uranus Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markyboard Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 [video:youtube] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Poseidon was 'the' sea god, but his son Triton was also a sea god, a messenger, a trumpeter of the sea. Chronos, the personification of time, has gotten mashed up with Cronus, god of seasons and harvests, and time. Both are alternately spelled Kronos. I know it! Way goofy. Don't mind me - I wasn't looking to correct as much as I was digging the idea of geeking out on mythology. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 In Hellenic Mythology (i am from Hellas), Kronos and Rea was born 9 children(6 boys and 3 girls). Kronos ate them all(except Zeus that later killed him). Kronos workstation has 9 synth engines... In Korg company, they know about Hellenic mythology... Ok I think this explanation wins the prize Also - word is the next Korg workstation is the Uranus IIRC, Cronus mangled Uranus pretty badly with a scythe. dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Fortner Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Can't wait for the new Yamaha Gyros arranger workstation! Quote Stephen Fortner Principal, Fortner Media Former Editor in Chief, Keyboard Magazine Digital Piano Consultant, Piano Buyer Magazine Industry affiliations: Antares, Arturia, Giles Communications, MS Media, Polyverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 I have a soft spot in my heart for Kronos, Leader of the Four Horsemen from the Highlander series. Kronos, Methos, Caspian, and Silas .... I think. Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 I have a soft spot in my heart for Kronos, Leader of the Four Horsemen from the Highlander series. There is no Highlander series. There can be only one! Quote Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Emm Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 I say it was named after the next high-end Korg executive whose name began with a K. He's still a salary-man, but it was his turn. Quote "I want to be an intellectual, but I don't have the brainpower. The absent-mindedness, I've got that licked." ~ John Cleese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightbg Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Chief Dan G nailed it: Loaded with cheeze, but for a 6 year old kid in 1957 this was great stuff. A Bell 47 and a Boeing B47 in the same movie, but the F100 Super Sabre with the bomb bay hatch was bogus. Jake Quote 1967 B-3 w/(2) 122's, Nord C1w/Leslie 2101 top, Nord PedalKeys 27, Nord Electro 4D, IK B3X, QSC K12.2, Yamaha reface YC+CS+CP "It needs a Hammond" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrythek Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I always enjoy reading the assumed deep logic and thought that goes into naming products. A task that I despised across my many years in the business... not because it can't be creative and fun, but because you can never get a diverse group of company staff and distributors to agree on anything! I love good names, as opposed to alphabet + number soup. I was deeply involved in naming Korg products from 1997 up through the Kronos. Often, the task would begin with a simple chosen assumption: Triton - the successor to the Trinity and I wanted it to start with a T again. We gathered ideas from every sort of discipline imaginable, some logically related to the word Trinity, others from... wherever. Mythology won out, but not for any meaning related to the sea etc. It was just a strong word that spoke well. In fact, I forbid the ad agencies from trying to make any advertising/marketing related to the God of the Sea. Too corny... M3 as a successor to Triton seems like a strange turn, and it was. Someone powerful in Japan wanted to make it the M2, the second coming of the M1. Nostalgia, pride, who knows? My only success was to convince them to make it 3, not 2, so it wasn't such a "too late to the party" attempt to leverage the M1. And I made sure that we didn't draw any comparisons... or at least too many direct ones. Jumping ahead to the Kronos, as a succesor to the OASYS we didn't want to name it based on OASYS again... and by that time I had been pushing hard for using K in naming and such, perhaps my corny sense of playing off the company name (although I was often accused of trying to get my name involved as well!). KAOSS Pad... (Karma doesn't count, since that was Stephen Kay's technology name, but it fit within that concept, so... win/win). So looking for K names in all the various places we again came to mythology. And it is a great, strong name. But the various direct meanings had no bearing - remember that Chronos doesn't count, no K. In fact, the various ugly elements of the Greek god's story came up as a reason not to use it. Until I showed the various members involved how many Greek companies used the name for beauty products, food and more. The majority of the public doesn't read the same sense that "there must be a meaning" behind a name. Funny aside, the first pre-production prototypes came in from Japan with the front panel screened... Chronos. I still have mine. The engineer in charge of the silk-screen design looked up the name and thought that was what we meant. Guess they didn't get the memo! And yes, someone on the voting panel rejected the name out of hand because of the cheesy 50's sci-fi movie. Said we'd be a laughingstock. My opinion is that almost any name, once used enough, and repeated becomes comfortable and accepted. If we can all fondly remember and discuss the characteristics of the 1176 in our industry and it is accepted, then any name that is not downright silly, ugly, profane or hard to pronounce will work itself into the vernacular over time.I think Kronos worked out well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 That's a fascinating piece of history, thanks Jerry Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Karma doesn't count, since that was Stephen Kay's technology name. He called it that when he brought it to you guys? When he showed it to us at Alesis he was calling it Sorceror, so I always guessed that it was Korg who turned it to KARMA for the alliterative. Not so? dB Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrythek Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 Karma doesn't count, since that was Stephen Kay's technology name. He called it that when he brought it to you guys? When he showed it to us at Alesis he was calling it Sorceror, so I always guessed that it was Korg who turned it to KARMA for the alliterative. Not so? dB It was his naming... Kay Algorithmic Real-time Music Architecture. I can"t remember if it was called that in the first demo he showed me (he and Athan were working together at IVL at the time). But it was him, not us (Korg) for sure. Great name... and fit in with my alliterative preference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Williams Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 In Hellenic Mythology (i am from Hellas), Kronos and Rea was born 9 children(6 boys and 3 girls). Kronos ate them all(except Zeus that later killed him). Kronos workstation has 9 synth engines... In Korg company, they know about Hellenic mythology... I like this explanation better than the real one. Quote -Tom Williams {First Name} {at} AirNetworking {dot} com PC4-7, PX-5S, AX-Edge, PC361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrythek Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 In Hellenic Mythology (i am from Hellas), Kronos and Rea was born 9 children(6 boys and 3 girls). Kronos ate them all(except Zeus that later killed him). Kronos workstation has 9 synth engines... In Korg company, they know about Hellenic mythology... I like this explanation better than the real one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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