Korg OASYS

[Montana]

Korg owns the world in these areas:

synth choirs. They do incredible synth choirs. The best.

pads and moving synth sounds -the best.

bells, organs.


They need to give up on the accoustic rompler shit and develop their physical modelling more. They really do nothing esle well. They did with the Z1 - the Z1 can do awesome strings, ep's synth noises, etc.

[electro]

Does it have Digital Output (ADAT/AES/EBU)? Is there any Acoustic Physical Modelling on it? Isn't the CX-3 physically modelled?

BTW what sampling rates does it suport?

[talynidm]

Uhm, its about $7000, its still only at 48hkz, One could purchase a Kyma workstation and a Virus TI for the same price. The Kyma does 100KHZ in and can do any type of synthesis possible (except noodle synthesis: that isn't even real ) and the TI does 192Khz in I called korg and they said they might be able to expand it due to Open architecture in the future,...but we all know how well they supported the Oasys PCI. It still only has a 16 track sequencer.....You could also purchase a hardware Hartmann Neuron,...A used wavestation and a real analog (not analog modeling) for cheaper and they are all individually better than the individual aspects of the Oasys,....hey can u tell i dont like the idea even for half the price it sells for????

[floridamusicco.com]

i worked for a mfg 6 years ago it look nearly the same thing lynx/windows syth thingy.
http://www.en.wersi.net/html/products.html
regards chris

[saint]

My 2 cents -- Instead of making this god awful synth. I think they should go back re-release the Oasys PCI card and write some decent OSX and WinXP drivers. I think Korg seriously dropped the ball on this one. We have seen how successful (i.e. UAD-1, Powercore, etc) the DSP boards can be. Why release this piece of crap? Korg really needs to get a business development team with some sense of reality.

2 cents over --

Cheers,

:: chuck hasek
:: dj saint
:: boulder / denver co
:: www.mercury26.com

[atomic_(no)afro]

I know this might be a little on the nose but....



ATA

[Kent]

On the nose? More like in the nuts!

Seriously, that's the funniest (maybe because it says it all so succinctly) post I've seen on any internet forum in quite some time!

[biggrime]

I wanna know how close is the Oasys PCI to the keyboard? Being that the keyboard is too much money. The PCI is affordable. Is the PCI is just another way got korg to make money off of soft synth junkies(as some say poor mans synths)?

[greendoor]

FWIW - I have a Z1 and use it as my midi controller (really nice key action). The sounds are not bad, but frankly I don't use them. My VSTi are as good, if not better. Albino2 can do the analog stuff, FM Heaven can do the FM stuff, MrRay and MrTramp do better EP's, etc, etc. There is nothing I really miss that forces me to break out the midi cables and audio cables and sacrifice perfect timing over.

However - something I learned from the Z1 sounds - if you strip off the effects, it sounds like most wimpy VSTi stuff. The built in effects are nothing great - VSTfx are way better. Don't underestimate the effect of effects A bit of compression, eq, saturation, chorus etc can make all the difference.

[e-modic]

You can create the same sounds with a free vsti! jk

what was the name again of that free VSTi?

[Yossarian]

I wanna know how close is the Oasys PCI to the keyboard? Being that the keyboard is too much money. The PCI is affordable. Is the PCI is just another way got korg to make money off of soft synth junkies(as some say poor mans synths)?

Not close at all. From what I’ve read, the only thing the keyboard Oasys has taken from the Oasys PCI is some fx algorithm (O-Verb). The analog and tonewheel modelling probably also builds on what’s in the PCI card but in a more developed form.

The Oasys PCI is an old, discontinued product (launched in 1999), doesn’t have any Windows 2000/XP or OS X drivers and is a bit short on dsp power. That said, if you’re prepared to dedicate an old Win 98 or OS 9 machine as an Oasys PCI host it’s definitely a worthwhile purchase. It has some very nice sounding synths and fx and the physical modelling is still among the best available.

/Yoss

[xoxos]

FWIW - I have a Z1 and use it as my midi controller (really nice key action).

me too, tho will 'correct' you re: 'replaced by s/w' - you haven't played w/ the sax/brass models lately then...

c'mon chris kerry! fdn w/ inline waveshaping help me now!

lovely models, people dont know what theyre missing.

[soulata]

My 2 cents -- Instead of making this god awful synth. I think they should go back re-release the Oasys PCI card and write some decent OSX and WinXP drivers.

ditto, or a fw card oasys for 1000$, few times the power of oasys pci.

k

sorry for bringing the old thread back, but sos review of oasys made me do it.

[spritex]

I don't know if this was mentioned here before, but:

Korg are releasing the first additional expansion instrument for the Oasys next month. A plucked string physical model. Seems to be pretty cool: http://www.korg.com/OASYS/STR1.html

Many features that the PCI plucked string models didn't have.

[TVD]

http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM05 ... tudio.html

THIS is the most important synth ever created since the Synclavier!!!

And it's a damn shame it costs more than a new car!

Message to Korg: Can I have an OASYS on layway?!?