franzlp wrote:I have a simple question though.... If you have a Oasys why would you want anything else or even have anything else in your studio? The Oasys does it all. Many of us after the Oasys don't really dedicate time to anything else after we buy it.
Even though others have chimed in many times here about your statement, I'd like to offer my own spin on it.
When I started getting back into music and hung out at local music store learning as much as I could from a guy working there (he became a good friend) about the "new" stuff (meaning synths). He walked the walk as both a musician and producer, etc. I remember him telling me when I was mulling over the purchase of a new Korg T1 (because my Grand Piano was loosing pitch due to poor pinblock material), that even though the T1 was incredible, one synth could not do it all. At the time, having been a guitarist, bass player, drummer, piano kind of guy, (meaning one at a time) I thought not unlike you.
16 Synths later (many rack mount modules in that) it occurred to me looking back, that he was indeed correct. Of course the technolgy was older (minimum polyphony, midi latency, small memory,ect,etc, etc) so some of our "work flow" was different then. So was 16 synths too many? Not to me, because the sum of them all could produce most any sound set simultaneously on play back, but I could still build tunes one instrument at a time.
My experience once getting the O, is that I had to shift more time to it (as you pointed out) because it is so deep, however, even the O has polyphony limits, and does not have all the sounds onboard that the others can bring to a work. Layering can be a many splendored thing.
I still have all the gear and enjoy being able to bring the "best" sounds in each of those out to play, when the muse dictates!
I might just buy a radias now too!
Thanks for letting me know how great it is Synthia.
Ken
