The KARO Cinematic ART one contains a wide range of "atmos, pads and ambient samples"

KARO Cinematic ART one Demo13 Vector Morph (Program 103)

KARO Cinematic ART one Demo12 Distant Poly Synth (Program 100)

KARO Cinematic ART one Demo11 Slow Metal Pad (Program 043)

KARO Cinematic ART one Demo10 Synthestra 1 (Program 033)

KARO Cinematic ART one Demo1 Good Old Days 1 (Program 000)

The KARO Modern Grand contains a wide range of "futuristic sounding Grand Piano samples"

KARO Modern Grand Demo2 Modern Grand 2 (Program 001)

KARO Modern Grand Demo1 Modern Grand 1 (Program 000)

The Symphonic Library presents you with all important orchestral registers, soloists and small as well as large orchestral lineups played for us their finest sounds. In months-long affectionate work KARO developed the Symphonic Library out of these recordings finally fielding 256 combinations and 640 Programs of superb quality.

KARO EXs50 Symphonic Library Demo 2

KARO EXs50 Symphonic Library Demo 1

It has been a heartfelt desire for KARO to provide sample based libraries which reflect orchestral sounds. Today, KARO is proud to present their new KARO Chamber Strings for the KORG KRONOS and Nautilus. The Chamber Strings is intended to extend the large orchestras that determine the character of KARO's Symphonic Library and Unison Orchestra by small and fine chamber casts.

KARO EXs52 Chamber Strings Demo 2

The Dark Side of the KRONOS & Nautilus!
The KARO Granular Atmospheres sample library includes playable sounds rarely heard before in a similar quality on any other synthesizer or plugin.
The taken samples were imported and edited in the KORG KRONOS. Granular Atmospheres is perfect for movies and experimental music. Describing them is quite difficult, you have to hear or even better play them.

KARO EXs54 Granular Atmospheres Demo 1

The Dark Side of the KRONOS & Nautilus!
The KARO Granular Atmospheres sample library includes playable sounds rarely heard before in a similar quality on any other synthesizer or plugin.
The taken samples were imported and edited in the KORG KRONOS. Granular Atmospheres is perfect for movies and experimental music. Describing them is quite difficult,you have to hear or even better play them.

KARO EXs54 Granular Atmospheres Demo 2

The KARO Movie Collection is a sample based library which has especially been designed for film composers, avantgarde applicants and electronic musicians.

KARO EXs55 Movie Collection Demo 3

KARO EXs55 Movie Collection Demo 2

KARO EXs55 Movie Collection Demo 1

In 2006, KARO provided our first sample-based library for the KORG OASYS composed of sounds recorded on famous grand pianos.
For over five years, we have continued our work in this sector, provided high quality pianos for the KORG OASYS.
And just recently, we decided to supplement the KORG KRONOS and Nautilus factory piano presets by our brand-new KARO Stage Piano Library.
The grand piano sounds of the Stage Piano are tailored to fulfill the special needs of live keyboardists; they are asserting themselves in all band voicing scenarios. The Stage Piano is based on multisamples of well-known Berlin based piano manufacturer.

KARO EXs59 Stage Piano Demo 3

KARO EXs59 Stage Piano Demo 2

KARO EXs59 Stage Piano Demo 1

KARO presents the Electric Grand.
A world famous electric grand piano introduced in the 1970s was recorded at a sampling rate of 96kHz, each sample quantized with 24 bits.
The mastering was accomplished at a sampling rate of 48kHz with a resolution of 16 bits. The samples are not looped and thus provide an absolute quality.

KARO EXs60 Electric Grand Demo 1

KARO now supplements its meanwhile very successful libraries with the “EXs64 KARO Ethno World”. It was produced in a collaboration with 
Erkan Ucar (Ecomusik) and KARO. KARO's EXs64 rightfully carries the name “Ethno World”. It contains absolutely professional taped Samples and optimizes playable programs, which have never been seen in this amount!
EXs64 is the first World library for the KORG KRONOS and Nautilus and thus the most extensive Ethno package in the world for a workstation!
The most important Ethno instruments where collected around the globe and where arranged to one extremely versatile and varied library.
Now you are able to play new Ethno Drumtracks on the the highest soundlevel, more alive and more versified which is probably not possible with any other Sampling library.

KARO EXs64Ethno World Demo 6

KARO Vintage Synth Explorer I presents three fascinating, style-defining KORG synthesizers that made history: the PS-3200, Sigma and Lambda.
The library provides a huge number of exclusively sample-based instruments found nowhere else, including 216 MB of high-quality samples and 128 Programs especially designed for them. This new collection delivers the popular and timeless sounds of these classic analog synthesizers with all advantages and technical possibilities that today's KRONOS and Nautilus technology has to offer.

KARO EXs65 Vintage Synth Explorer 1 Demo 8

KARO EXs65 Vintage Synth Explorer 1 Demo 29

KARO EXs65 Vintage Synth Explorer 1 Demo 22

KARO EXs65 Vintage Synth Explorer 1 Demo 13

KARO EXs65 Vintage Synth Explorer 1 Demo 12

KARO EXs65 Vintage Synth Explorer 1 Demo 11

KARO's new EXs67 Upright Piano library extends the sonic palette of the KORG KRONOS and Nautilua with the classic, authentic sound of an upright piano. A traditional German piano was sampled with 6 velocity layers, for a total of 1.6GB of high-quality samples, and 37 Programs specifically designed for them - including six by Michael Geisel (Korg&More Germany). 
All sound demos are played by Benjamin Seipel. This new collection delivers the familiar sound of an upright piano with all of the advantages and technical possibilities that today's KRONOS and Nautilus technology has to offer.

KARO EXs67 Upright Piano Demo 3

KARO EXs67 Upright Piano Demo 2

KARO EXs67 Upright Piano Demo 1

In the early 1990s, KORG presented a vector synthesis synthesizer, called the Wavestation. The Wavestation’s sound generation has been based on wave sequencing, a method in which several PCM samples are played successively resulting in continuously evolving sounds.
Unlike any other synthesizer prior to its release, the Wavestation was capable of generating complex, lush timbres and rhythmic sequences that sounded like a complete soundtrack by pressing only one key. In 1995, the Keyboard magazine listed it as one of the "20 Instruments that Shook the World.
KARO are presenting a new library, the KARO Wavestation library.

KARO KRS55 Wavestation Demo 10

In 2008, KARO surprised the OASYS fan club with three sound sets which are dedicated to the FM synthesis, MOD-7 in the KORG OASYS terminology. Two of them have now been rearranged and polished for the use with the KORG KRONOS and Nautilus, namely the KFM-1 and the KFM-2. The new KARO Frequency Modulation captures the classic FM sounds synthesizers. Above all, many programs and combinations use the foot controller. All sounds benefit from a tasteful use of the KORG KRONOS and Nautilus onboard DSP effects.

KARO KRS57 Frequenzmodulation Demo 11

KARO KRS57 Frequenzmodulation Demo 10

It was in 1981 a Japanese instrument builder introduced their first commercial polyphonic FM synthesizers, introducing multi-operator 
equation generators to contemporary music. Unfortunately, these machines were pure preset instruments, capable of playing only such voices which were supplied on little magnetic memory sticks. The amazing sound and the great musical action of them, however, made them highly esteemed by many megastars of modern music. Meanwhile they are legendary. In this KARO library, we introduce 128 newly designed programs which are based on the single and unique 
two times four operators based FM algorithm used in these instruments.
X-Modulation presents warm and realistic strings, choirs, brass and woodwind instruments, which are complemented with electronic and 
acoustic piano emulations, percussive sounds like bells and vibraphone and, last but not least, synthesizer and SFX sounds.

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 7

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 6

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 5

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 4

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 3

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 2

KARO KRS58 X-Modulation Demo 1

The KORG KRONOS and Nautilus complements both programs and combinations with the simultaneous generation of drum grooves by the use of the “drum patterns” feature. At KARO, we are convinced that this option dramatically increases the joy of playing. Therefore, we devoted ourselves to the creation of long drum patterns. And it was most important to us to create such drum patterns which mimic the playing style of a studio drummer of flesh and blood. The result is our first KARO Sophisticated Grooves library. It presents you with 101 drum patterns which have been used in 128 programs based on the internal drum sets.
We are most grateful to our friends of KORG & More in Marburg, Germany, who supported our work by the provision of a KORG PA3X.

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