chansensturm wrote:Hedegaard wrote:Well, I think the complaining O users should all feel a little guilty about Korg's latest offering.
Imagine a company is giving 'something' to past customers, already now 6 years old product.
I think Korg probably feel a little pressured about this and I think we should stop pestering them for more "free things".
Respectfully have to disagree.
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Dear chansensturm,
You have a right to disagree and thanks for doing so, then one can learn something new, from someones else opinion (but in this case not).
Thanks for your time taken to express your thoughts .......but you're completely wrong (afraid to point that out)
You see:
Linux kernel e.t.c its NEVER as easy as it looks like from the outside. Its easy for a user to point out for example SSD til HD e.t.c. but takes a whole lot more to get it to work.
I too would like to pay for an "upgrade" but I dont think its possible.
Korg isn't Apple or Microsoft, they simply don't have the power to do these things as we'd want.
Oasys being an "open system" simply means that its not hardware encoded signal processors on a chip, its all inside the software, meaning that it was possible to add new things to the Oasys system, without investing in new microchips, which is also what Korg did-offering a whole bunch of stuff through the years.
It dosent mean that its "open" for 3rd parties to add stuff, or open in the sense that the platform allows for constant upgrades over an extended time.
If by your reasoning it all comes down to "beans" i.e. money, then the math is even simpler, because had you paid just 1000USD for your Oasys, then you wouldn't have any gripes at all about the discontinuation of the product. But probably you sold ½ your soul to the devil to get it, therefore the discontinuation of the product feels emotionally more harsh.
And that emotional state of, shall we say, 'discomfort' leaves you trying to find the logic in what exactly happened here.
Your logic then turned to the "software" part of the problem. But software just simply isn't enough.
A Ford car from 1908 and a Ferrari from 2010 have many things in common, 4 wheels, an engine, petrol to drive the engine, but you can't take a Ferrari steering wheel, or windshields and put that on the Ford, they're simply not compatible. And if you re-design the windshields and steering wheels and 99.999% of the other parts to fit the Ford, then in actual fact, you have the Ferrari and not the Ford as the end result.
Same here, the external hardware would be different, i.e. the keys, the plastic black stuff that makes the Kronos fragile e.t.c is what most of the difference is.
No, dear sir, the BEST thing to do, would be in actual fact, to get an upgrade-kit in the form of:
new mainboard
new CPU + RAM
new SSD instead of HD
few other bits of s**t, like a converter board for the touchscreen.
Take out the old stuff from the Oasys and put these upgraded things into the Oasys hardware, so that you have a Kronos interior and an Oasys exterior.
THAT would save, time, money, research, development e.t.c from Korg AND we could get a 'Kroasys' or whatever other Greek/Roman mythological God.
Korg could ask a 20% markup price for this fictitious upgrade-kit and ensure that they get their money, yet again, from Oasys users, AND Oasys users would be happy, except for the few that would complain it wasn't given for free.
This makes more sense, than to yet again, rewrite a whole bunch of code to make it backwards compatible for age old hardware.
.....Still waiting for the allusive, missing EXf for Oasys.....
