Oasys Wishlist

[Daz]

Please post your Oasys wish list items in this thread. In order to keep the thread focussed please stay on topic and/or use other threads for discussion relating to wish list items.

Thanks,

Daz.

[risanecek]

Please post your Oasys wish list items in this thread.

Emulations. I want a "all-in-one" machine as is just possible.
had the DX7, the Kawai K5, Waldorf. It should not be that hard
to emulate these - and probably others. So I vote for a
80ies Legacy collection. Fairlight emulation - yeah!
200 - 400 bucks worth to me.

And ethernet!
80 bucks.

And a bigger Hard Disk! At least 80GB.
Price difference to 40GB.

The P4 is probably a suboptimal decision, A HE-Opteron
would be better. Probably with more ram.
The thing then should be named Oasys X
Hmm. Should be cost neutral as of today.

Can I have a breath controller plugged to the Oasys? That's
not a question of life and death to me, but I would jump in if
it'd cost less than 100 bucks.

Richard

[alpha80]

Sampler

After recording one single sound/several sounds, for use in a user-made multisample...

...I'd like to have the option, when spreading the sample across the un-sampled (fill-in) keys...

...to select for :

#1. Standard Auto-Pitch Transposition (as always)

(when the sound is pitched up the keyboard, the time/duration of the sample's playback is decreased, and when pitched down the keyboard, the time/duration of the sample's playback is increased)

...just like every other sampling keyboard ever made...

also have the option (when creating a user-made multisample), to select for :

#2. Auto-Pitch transposition without affecting time/duration

(when the sound is pitched up the keyboard, the tone/key is identical to standard transposition, however, the time/duration of the sample's playback, IN ANY KEY, would be identical to the original recorded sample, and when pitched down the keyboard, the pitch, again, would be in perfect harmony with it's standard transposed counterpart, but the duration of each descending note would not change, and remain identical to the time/duration of the original recorded sample)

...much like a few innovative, horrible sounding rackmount samplers...

...the key for the Oasys in doing this, would be it's ability to have it sound great, as everyone acknowledges the great multiple sound engines it has.

BTW, reducing polyphony in the second type of transposition, even by a large margin, would be very acceptable. ...

...as long as it sounded great !!



Sequencer

#1. Increased resolution ( 480 PPQ @ least)

#2. More MIDI tracks


Icing

#1. Bigger hard Drive ( the bigger, the better )
(the 1 TB (terabyte) (you heard right!) Toshiba would be nice )

#2. Ethernet

#3. Even more great sounds


Were korg to implement those features/components (besides the 1 TB Toshiba ), i'd buy an 88 key Oasys ASAP.


Yo Korg !!! ... ... .......



BTW, thanks for the sticky Daz !!

[Bachus]

Okay and then my wishlist of feautures (repost )

-2 yearly hardware updates (Motherboard,processor), so the Oasys can grow with us over time.

-Smaller hardware updates like (the memmory we allready saw) and a bigger disk or even better a seccond disk. (just stick to the laptop drives 2,5" asthey are better suited for a gigging robust interface)

-Vst interface. Or the possibilies to controll my vst's from an interface on the Oasys, while the Vst's stay in the computer. So only the MMI on the Korg and the Communicating VST host on the PC hardware (something like V-stack or Kore) Its not like the Receptor, as the Vst's will be on a PC and the UI on the instrument.
[Very technical >Maybe they could use something like the citrix idea to send the MMI to the instrument but using all the processing power from the PC.
Also with the option too route Vst instruments through Korg effects, and Korg sound through my Vst effects.

-More Physical modelling instruments on the Oasys. Virtual wind and brass instruments espescially. (still like what the Yamaha VL-1 did, or the Arturia brass vst-i)

-32 track sequencer (like everyone else states too), just 2 pages of the current equaliser. with double the resolution of the current sequencer.

-Automatic accompaniment option. This little program could be easilly implemented to the Oasys (as the code is allready available from the PA series) and this could open up the instrument to an all new group of customers, making the Oasys(on demand) an arranger keyboard. This would be true to the open architecture of the instrument.

[laughing_bear]

OASYS as is
1. Full Integration of KARMA OASYS Software
2.- Recording/playback on/from external Harddrives
2.1 Enable RAID for external Harddrives
3. Feature that enables Track volume representation using the Fader LEDs

Possible Future OASYS
1. more generous hardewarespecs for RAM and possible athlons/opterons
2. Higher polyphony count
3. 24bit/96khz or higher as option for audio recording

....sniff.... he killed the longest thread I ever created on IA....sniff....

[Francois]

For me, the most important feature would be to give users as many independent IFX as audio tracks available. That would make a lot of my kit redundant and would become a true all-in-one machine.

[thekeymaster]

For me, the most important feature would be to give users as many independent IFX as audio tracks available. That would make a lot of my kit redundant and would become a true all-in-one machine.

Yep that would be cool as long as it did'nt eat away at Polyphony too much.

Me the higher Seq resolution would be welcome,plus the ability to not be limited by one midi ch per seq track.Phrase tracks like Rolands hardware Seq would be much better.16 midi channels on all sixteen tracks.Audio editing given a similar track view DAW style interface.The screen is big enough.If the Fantom X series can do this i'm pretty sure Korg can incorporate it on a much more powerful system.Go Korg ,you know you want to..

The link KBD to tracks button on the control surface page in seq mode replicated in Combi mode to allow switching of timbres from the eight Buttons to coincide with which timbre you play.This would be invaluable for live use and using the OASYS has a master keyboard controller.

I shall return with more in due course.

[Daz]

A few ideas from the world of Kurz that I would welcome in the O :

• A MIDI Monitor - much like the MIDI Scope feature in Kurz's products.
• The ability for Program mode to have multiple active programs each assigned to a different MIDI channel (or the ability to hit Function+Program to enter Program mode for the currently selected Timbre in Combi or Seq mode)
• To compliment everyone's requests for 32 tracks of MIDI in the Sequencer, add the ability to soft switch MIDI thru to become a second MIDI out.
• File loading macros (KSC ++) and the ability to set a macro as the boot macro so that samples can be loading automagically at startup
• A new EXi that takes HD-1 sample playback and adds the filter and modulation abilities of AL-1 plus some other things from the Korgs toolbox (Waveshaping a la Electribe etc.) - to give something more akin to the VAST model. (not to mention the MMT model !)
• Something akin to Kurz's Mark/Jump/Prev Page navigation options. So it's easy to jump from a field where you setting the depth of a modulation or AMS source to the page where you configure that particular source (e.g. LFO or EG)

Daz.

[danatkorg]

Hi Daz,

Thanks for your suggestions.

[*]The ability for Program mode to have multiple active programs each assigned to a different MIDI channel (or the ability to hit Function+Program to enter Program mode for the currently selected Timbre in Combi or Seq mode)

To clarify - I'm guessing that, by the above, you are meaning the ability to edit Programs within a multi-timbral context (as you've talked about before, and which I'd like to see as well). Correct?

[*]To compliment everyone's requests for 32 tracks of MIDI in the Sequencer, add the ability to soft switch MIDI thru to become a second MIDI out.

MIDI Thru is often a hardware connection, which (among other things) provides simplicity of operation, device isolation, and low latency. My guess is that this is the same with OASYS, although I'd have to check. (I know that some MIDI hardware uses soft thru, but most does not.)

[*]A new EXi that takes HD-1 sample playback and adds the filter and modulation abilities of AL-1 plus some other things from the Korgs toolbox (Waveshaping a la Electribe etc.) - to give something more akin to the VAST model. (not to mention the MMT model !)

I look forward to future sample playback synths, as well. In the meantime - note that while the STR-1 isn't designed specifically for sample playback, and has much lower polyphony than the HD-1, it does offer the AL-1's filters and modulation capabilities along with mild-to-radical processing of PCM through the string. You can also just use the PCM by itself, of course. However, several HD-1 features are not present due to constraints of working in the context of the physical model (e.g. anything to do with PCM crossfades, including velocity xfades and Wave Sequences).

Best regards,

Dan

[Mag66]

Okay.. as this thread has sort of restarted afresh..

#1 request for me is the quantising of Karma start/stop/change scene. The ability to change a scene on a specific beat... so if you change scene slightly early then the scene change will wait until the beginning of the next bar for example..

#2 The ability to use the pads for other things such as;

a) Changing scenes (Much easier to press than reaching across to the scene buttons)
b) midi controller codes.. (Program selection for example.. again, much simplier than reaching across and pressing smaller buttons)

#3 Ability to record to HD without using the seq function.. ie, record like a multi track digital recorder.. Press rec.. and play whatever.. changing programs/combis on the fly during record of one track. Playback of that track with recording of second track in similar way... Simple to use recorder. with insert/edit of waves to be made simple too via graphical interface like a visual kind of Acid or SAW front end


Ok.. enough for now!

Nigel

[Daz]

To clarify - I'm guessing that, by the above, you are meaning the ability to edit Programs within a multi-timbral context (as you've talked about before, and which I'd like to see as well). Correct?

That's the one ... just a slightly different take on it, having seen how Kurz do this. It was at least a month since I mentioned it

I look forward to future sample playback synths, as well. In the meantime - note that while the STR-1 isn't designed specifically for sample playback, and has much lower polyphony than the HD-1, it does offer the AL-1's filters and modulation capabilities along with mild-to-radical processing of PCM through the string.

I've enjoyed using the STR-1 in that capacity, it's just plays havoc with poly if you get carried away, as I often do

Thanks,

Daz.

[Daz]

I mentioned this on Stephen's forum (god bless it!) but thought I'd mention this idea again here.

It would be cool IMO to expand the Karma scene concept to cover non-Karma related settings too. For example a scene could also contain Tone Adjust and mixer settings.

Thanks,

Daz.

[sasori]

The most important thing, that I can think of is that you have to add quantize to the karma switching.
Ableton Live has this. And, the ESQ1's sequencer had this.

Currently, the thing is a bit unwieldly in trying to hit any one of the 16 switches in perfect time and while playing something.

Being able to put your next karma selection in a holding pattern to execute when the current pattern reaches its end, is a critical step in the improvement of this workstation.

Next, you'll have to add the same feature to the next iteration of the sequencer.

[laughing_bear]

....speaking of Kurzweil....

A new FX module with focus on multichannel applications, the Kurzweil KSP8 may serve as a guideline in terms of quantity and quality.

[elfrabo]

After playing the Triton Extreme for 1 1/2 year and the big O for just 3 weeks now I have the following suggestion:

Please give us back our pattern grids

to create drum sequences and any other type of sequence like in the Karma Triton software. RPPR, wave sequences and step sequencers are nice but not handy enough to create patterns easy...