Oasys discontinued...

pegnafroy · Post by **pegnafroy** » Wed May 14, 2008 3:43 am

That's true or not?

Froilán

Wafer · Post by **Wafer** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:24 pm

Last week. I call to Korg distributor in Thailand to order OASYS 88 and they also said that OASYS is discontinued by Korg.

Pr0 · Post by **Pr0** » Wed May 14, 2008 1:48 pm

That's strange. It's still fully available at Korg site and in all major stores... Are you sure it's not the Oasys PCI card?

Wafer · Post by **Wafer** » Wed May 14, 2008 2:06 pm

pr0 : I also see Sweetwater still sell Oasys maybe it's old stock of them.

I'm still wonder about this , for Korg distributor in Thailand they said they didn't have any in stock so they had to place new order to Korg but Korg's already discontinued Oasys 88.

Now I hope that rumors about Oasys II to be true. I think I will wait for summer NAMM in June. Maybe there will be something about Oasys from Korg.

elvisjohndowson · Post by **elvisjohndowson** » Wed May 14, 2008 6:52 pm

I'd think it's about time Korg discontinued the OASYS and come up with a new refresh model. It's way outdated in terms of hardware specs and it's probably difficult to source those parts anyway.

Maybe if and when they do announce an OASYS II, they will provide existing users with an upgrade kit to update some of the core internal hardware to the new specs.

MartinHines · Post by **MartinHines** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:10 pm

elvisjohndowson wrote:It's way outdated in terms of hardware specs and it's probably difficult to source those parts anyway.

You really can't compare the OASYS with personal computer specs. If you use that comparison, the Yamaha Motif XS, Roland Fantom-G and Korg M3 are EXTREMELY outdated. The OASYS has significantly more raw processing power than "traditional" workstations.

Also, it is probably easier for Korg to source some of the parts for the OASYS than it is for parts for other Korg products, since the "computer parts" were created in alot larger quantities than your more "normal" workstation parts. When a manufacturer creates a product, part sourcing is one of the things they plan for. This is also why manufacturers pre-purchase and keep spare parts in inventory.

People shouldn't be any more worried about sourcing of OASYS parts than Korg Triton parts, or Radias parts or any other workstation/synth parts.

Pr0 · Post by **Pr0** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:15 pm

MartinHines wrote:
elvisjohndowson wrote:It's way outdated in terms of hardware specs and it's probably difficult to source those parts anyway.
You really can't compare the OASYS with personal computer specs. If you use that comparison, the Yamaha Motif XS, Roland Fantom-G and Korg M3 are EXTREMELY outdated. The OASYS has significantly more raw processing power than "traditional" workstations.

Also, it is probably easier for Korg to source some of the parts for the OASYS than it is for parts for other Korg products, since the "computer parts" were created in alot larger quantities than your more "normal" workstation parts. When a manufacturer creates a product, part sourcing is one of the things they plan for. This is also why manufacturers pre-purchase and keep spare parts in inventory.

People shouldn't be any more worried about sourcing of OASYS parts than Korg Triton parts, or Radias parts or any other workstation/synth parts.

Agreed.

RobertPlatinum · Post by **RobertPlatinum** » Wed May 14, 2008 10:26 pm

Imo the only thing that is dated on the O is the support for only 16 bit samples and recording. The silver lining is that these 16 bit samples and recordings are being processed in 32 bit effects.

Question to anyone who knows are all the oscilators, synth engines 32 bit also in terms of processing?

elvisjohndowson · Post by **elvisjohndowson** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:28 pm

MartinHines wrote:You really can't compare the OASYS with personal computer specs. If you use that comparison, the Yamaha Motif XS, Roland Fantom-G and Korg M3 are EXTREMELY outdated. The OASYS has significantly more raw processing power than "traditional" workstations.

Martin, you really should give it a break! I recall someone else observing that you always jump into Korg's defense, so predictably, and imply we shouldn't wish things would improve for the better and be satisfied with what we have, and oh, look at poor Roland or Yamaha and , hey I'm really better off than them, rather than wondering what a new revision of the OASYS platform could bring, if it had more processing power and more capabilities and higher bandwidth!

If today, you invent something and are still far ahead of the competition, yet, you know you can develop something better, and the possibility exists to do so(in terms of COTS hardware) do you simply do nothing and wait till it gets old and outdated?

You've stated this argument many times, yes, I know the keyboard, I know it's limitations, please don't remind me of this point over and over again, many people have, and I take it in it's holistic sense and the way it's meant to, the OASYS is a music making tool, not a computer, blah blah, blah. But the fact is, it can be made better. Its really tedious you harping the same message over and over again. I remember what you say, if you say it once. You seem to forget, you harp the same messages to many people and it's getting to be so boring and predictable.

Pilgrim · Post by **Pilgrim** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:28 pm

MartinHines wrote:
elvisjohndowson wrote:It's way outdated in terms of hardware specs and it's probably difficult to source those parts anyway.
You really can't compare the OASYS with personal computer specs. If you use that comparison, the Yamaha Motif XS, Roland Fantom-G and Korg M3 are EXTREMELY outdated. The OASYS has significantly more raw processing power than "traditional" workstations.

Also, it is probably easier for Korg to source some of the parts for the OASYS than it is for parts for other Korg products, since the "computer parts" were created in alot larger quantities than your more "normal" workstation parts. When a manufacturer creates a product, part sourcing is one of the things they plan for. This is also why manufacturers pre-purchase and keep spare parts in inventory.

People shouldn't be any more worried about sourcing of OASYS parts than Korg Triton parts, or Radias parts or any other workstation/synth parts.

Thanks Martin

PJohn

MrT-Man · Post by **MrT-Man** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:12 pm

I think the processor or components used in the Oasys are irrelevent. I don't care if it has a P4 or Core2Duo or 386 or what. I only care about what it can do for me.

Yes, one would assume that putting dual quad-core Xeons in there could lead to a more feature-rich, better sounding, more capable synth -- you'd have the horsepower to have 1000 notes polyphony, and 192khz sample rate, and 50 insert effects, etc. etc. But it's not quite that simple -- someone has to write all the software needed to take advantage of all that, & that's not trivial.

So I don't blame Korg for continuing to ship a synth with a P4. Functionally, it's extremely capable, & I can understand that there would have to be a multi-year development project (perhaps already underway) required to take advantage of a newer CPU.

Pr0 · Post by **Pr0** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:02 pm

MrT-Man wrote:... you'd have the horsepower to have 1000 notes polyphony, and 192khz sample rate, and 50 insert effects, etc. etc. But it's not quite that simple -- someone has to write all the software needed to take advantage of all that...

I think that the current hardware is already capable of that. It's still just a matter of software/programming... right?