Currently, the MSRP of Korg Creator™ is $79.95. It is dual-platform - both Mac and Windows version are included.

You can purchase at our retail arm SamplerZone.com, or at many music stores. Sometimes SamplerZone.com has sales periodically.

Yes, we call it Korg Creator™ Free. It primarily exists to show you the program and shows you how easy it is to use, and what it feels like. You can use it to move files around and to format proprietary disks.

Go the the Download Korg Creator™ Free page to download it.

Korg Creator™ is a physical product and MUST be shipped to you.

However, so you can use the program immediately, we offer a temporary build that you can download after you order from SamplerZone.com, to use for the time being. That temporary build expires by the time the CD arrives.

Updates are available for immediate download from our Web Site, using our easy-to-use updating method from the program itself.

(Please notify us if any of these links are dead.)

• SamplerZone.com

More distributors, such as Guitar Center, AudioMIDI.com, Sweetwater, BestService GmbH, and Time+Space are being lined up as of this writing.

Obviously all/most translations will be to a certain extent "lossy." The point is to get as close as possible to achieve coherency, just like language translation does. All samplers share basically the same attributes, with supersets of the basic OSC-FILTER-AMP-ENVELOPE-LFO scheme. Translator is extensively documented on the abilities and limitations of it's translations.

Korg Creator™ can potentially build better and faster, with it's automated tools.

For example, the Ensoniq ASR-X imports Ensoniq EPS/ASR sounds, but there are certain critical translation problems, the effects DSP information is not translated, and it has to be done one-by-one.

In addition, the ASR-X can translate Akai and Roland formats, but only the wavedata and the keymap arrangement on the keyboard.

This is also the case with many other manufacturers translations - they want to expand the reach of their product, but have not had the resources to truly get the job done right. Translator improves on this situation for your benefit.

Call or e-mail us and give us SPECIFIC information on the problem - best of all, send us the actual source file in question - you may do this without prior permission.

• Report the incident at our Bug Report Page - this is all you need to do.
• OR, you can e-mail us it regardless of size (beware: your outgoing server probably restricts e-mails sizes).
• OR, FTP it to our site (do not include spaces in the file name you are sending).
• For more info on sending files, see the Sending Files area of the documentation.

Chicken Systems uses a information-intensive bug-solving apparatus that allow us to diagnosis any problem. We listen and may upload or e-mail you an update within 24-48 hours.

The Kronos has a real nice feature - an internal Sold State Drive (SSD) that holds everything that the Kronos plays (pretty much). The Kronos can also STREAM from sample files from the drive - cool!

However, that also stipulates that transferring files created from Chicken Systems software (Translator, Korg Creator, etc.) needs to be done with some care.

OUR STUFF STREAMS
First, by default the Kronos conversion on Translator sets it for streaming; that is Virtual Memory. That means you have to copy all the files to the SSD drive first, then load it. Those files can't load from a jump drive.

MAKE SURE YOU UNMOUNT JUMP DRIVES
Also be aware that if you are using jump drives, that you eject/unmount them first before you detach them from your computer. This can mess up files that are on the drive. You do this on the Mac by opening a Finder window and click the EJECT button next to the drive. On Windows, right-click on the drive and click EJECT. A balloon window will show at the bottom to tell you that it's ejected.

If your computer protests, make sure any programs that might be using the files on the drive are shut down or are not using the file(s).

WHAT THE KMP/KSF KSC IS WHEN STREAMING
In the case of streaming/Virtual Memory, please remember that the KSC that truly loads the folder of KMP/KSF is the one with the SAME NAME as the folder, not the one with the same name as the PCG. The version will load off a jump drive; but even so, you'll want to move this to the SSD drive anyway.

USE FTP TO TRANSFER FILES TO THE KRONOS
We advise not using jump drives but use a NetworkCat5->USB adapter and transfer files via FTP form your computer directly to the SSD drive. These are easy to get (Amazon, eBay) for between $10-$20. Then use a FTP application to connect with your Kronos and transfer files that way. See your Kronos manual for more information.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO STREAM
If you don't want to stream, you can set Translator to simply create the memory-version, go to Format Preferences-Korg and you can set it that way. Then you get one PCG, one KSC, and the folder that holds the KMP and KSF files.