KORG KROSS2-88-MB 88 notes - heavy touch black matte

For the first time, at this price point, you get a true workstation with a 16-track Midi sequencer and a multiple audio recorder drawn from the SR1's technology. The Kross also features a drum track with over 700 patterns and a dual arpeggiator with over 900 different arpeggios.

But that's not all! The Kross also features a step sequencer for quick rhythm creation! Enough to seduce fans of vintage synths.

Need to play outside? No problem, the Kross can also run on batteries!

Furthermore, the 88-note heavy touch version benefits from a new design offering a lightness never before achieved. Your back will thank it.

The famous Korg piano with countless features is now available in a beautiful matte black finish in 88-note heavy touch.

Diversity of sounds enabled by additional PCM:

A diverse range of more than 1,000 preset sounds has been supplemented by an additional PCM bank with 128 new programs including piano and electric piano. Finally, 27 drum kits round out the list to multiply your creative outbursts.

With the KROSS2, Korg has greatly expanded the functionality and sound collection of instruments. You will find that these new versions a good thousands of sounds, additional PCM memory of 128 MB, a new sampler with 16 pads, a polyphonic mounted to 120 voices or a USB audio/MIDI interface.

The look of the workstations has also been reworked, the Kross 2-88 meanwhile has a new compartment in the front for access to the batteries, but also to store cables and spare batteries. This model features a Dark Blue finish and all models have an illuminated logo on the back.

- Touch: Dynamic

- Key size: large

- Display: Backlit screen

- Category: Workstation

- Synthesis type: Digital

- LFO: 1

- Filters: Multimode filter

- Wrapper: ADSR

- Accessories included: AC power supply

- Backup type: SD card

- Split & layer: programmable split

- Sound generator: PCM

- Dimensions (mm): 1448 x 383 x 136

- Weight (kg): 12.30 kg

- Memory: 128 MB

- Velocity sensitive: Yes

- Aftertouch: No

- Sequencer: Yes

- Arpeggiator: Yes

- Transpose: Yes

- Sampler: Yes

- No. of pads: 16

- User memories: 1,280

- No. of effects: 134

- No. of keys: 88

- Max polyphony: 120

- No. of presets: 768

- Additional specs: - EDS-i synthesis engine

- Polyphony of 60/120 voices/oscillators depending on oscillator parameters (stereo multisamples, velocity crossfading)

- 128 MB PCM memory, 496 multisamples (including seven stereo) and 1,014 drum samples (including 49 stereo)

- 128 MB PCM expansion memory

- 2 oscillators with stereo multisample support, 4 velocity zones per oscillator with switching, crossfade and layers

- 2 multi-mode filters per voice (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and band-rejection), four routing types (single, serial, parallel, 24 dB)

- 2 envelope generators (filter and amp) per voice, two Lfo, keyboard tracking generators (filter and amp), two AMS mixers, pitch generator, common Lfo and two common keyboard tracking generators

- Rhythm kits based on stereo and mono samples, with adjustable crossfade shape (linear, power and layer)

- 896 user combis (384 preloaded)

- 1280 user programs (768 preloaded)

- 58 user rhythm kits (42 preloaded)

- 265 pre-programmed programs (256 GM2 and 9 drum GM2)

- 8 banks of 16 favorites (128 total)

- Effects section with 5 insert effects to choose from 75, two send effects and two master effects to choose from 101 for effect 1 and 120 for effect 2 ; 134 effect types in total; dynamic modulation, stereo sidechain for limiter, gates, vocoders...

- One polyphonic arpeggiator for programs and two for combi and sequencer, with different directions (up, down, alt1 and 2 and random) ; 1280 patterns on 12 tones and up to 64 steps

- 64-step sequencer with 12 tones and 1 accent

- Rhythm track with 772 patterns, Trigger mode, Sync, and zone parameters

- 16-track Midi sequencer with up to 128 songs and up to 210,000 Midi events

- 8 banks of 16 sample pads with auto-save to SD card, can play up to 4 pads simultaneously ; 16-bit / 48 kHz PCM recording of approximately 14 seconds of stereo sound for each pad; waveform display, start point editing, looping, normalization.

- 16-bit / 48 kHz PCM audio recorder up to three hours (depending on SD card capacity); up to 200 songs

- Controls: pitchbend and modulation wheels, two switches, Select button and two pots for real-time control

- 9 V DC power or 6 AA batteries