Oasys Wishlist

[XVampireX]

Ok, so I heard that the vocoder in Oasys is not as good as the one in V-Synth GT and so on. So how about next OS version, have a vocoder synth engine specifically dedicated to that? All the more progressing to a real all-in-one workstation

[danatkorg]

Ok, so I heard that the vocoder in Oasys is not as good as the one in V-Synth GT and so on. So how about next OS version, have a vocoder synth engine specifically dedicated to that? All the more progressing to a real all-in-one workstation

I heard that the vocoder in the V-Synth GT can't do most of what the OASYS vocoder can do, such as using vocoding with any synth engine (not just a limited, vocoder-only synth). How about Roland updates their vocoder to be competitive with the OASYS?

[Daz]

If I am being quoted there, I actually said the V-Synth is actually more than just a vocoder, I didn't say it was better than the Oasys ... I said it was different. Also FWIW the V-Synth GT (unlike previous V-Synths) can use it's full engine in Vocal Designer patches. A very nice new feature in the GT.

Off topic ... a very impressive thing in the Oasys that comes to light after using the VGT is how the Oasys manages such a high poly figure with the AL-1 low aliasing oscillators in comparison to the quite poly hungry HQ oscillator types on the V-Synth.

Daz.

[peter m. mahr]

Ok, so I heard that the vocoder in Oasys is not as good as the one in V-Synth GT and so on. So how about next OS version, have a vocoder synth engine specifically dedicated to that? All the more progressing to a real all-in-one workstation

I heard that the vocoder in the V-Synth GT can't do most of what the OASYS vocoder can do, such as using vocoding with any synth engine (not just a limited, vocoder-only synth). How about Roland updates their vocoder to be competitive with the OASYS?

Dan,

I had the V-Synth XT and its "typical" Vocoder sounds - to me - sounded much better. Sounded? I sold it because in one of their ads (or was it a press release) they said they will launch new synths on cards for the V-Synth... what they really did was a launch of V-Synth GT. On the day I read the news about GT instead of new synths my V-Synth found itself on eBay and a week later a new home in Germany.

Still I would like to have a tool in OASYS to make these "old" Vocoder sounds in the quality V-Synth has. But also the Vocal Designer.. I think it was the first preset in the V-Synth was unbelievable good.

peter

[RC-IA]

Ok, so I heard that the vocoder in Oasys is not as good as the one in V-Synth GT and so on. So how about next OS version, have a vocoder synth engine specifically dedicated to that? All the more progressing to a real all-in-one workstation

I heard that the vocoder in the V-Synth GT can't do most of what the OASYS vocoder can do, such as using vocoding with any synth engine (not just a limited, vocoder-only synth). How about Roland updates their vocoder to be competitive with the OASYS?

i think you are both right! i own oasys and v-synth XT (for its vocoder + voice treatment and variphrase)

[vEddY]

There's a new exciting update to be announced in a day or so, but still I'd like to make a wish..
It would be nice if the fader LED's could show levels of sequencer tracks and combi tracks in real time. You know, pumping with the music, or with what you play.
It's difficult sometimes to get a grasp on what channels in a combi, for example, are actually producing the sound.
I haven't missed something in the manual, have I?..

So, the upgrade is out and - here's an idea for the future one (after all, this is a wishlist thread). Maybe it would be good to have a patch/sound/sample/EXs editor, since most of the OASYS owners definitely don't use ALL of the samples inside the OASYS. Here's what I had in mind.

With 2GB of memory, there's no more space to do a lot of EXs's, new EXf's, whatever, even with loseless compression. So, the first thing that would be cool is to have the ability to select which samples from each of the individual EXs's people could load. That, by chain of dependency, means that the same application should have the ability to detect which programs and combis are using selected EXs samples and to mark them for loading when necessary.

By doing this, KORG would make two good things - first, they'd free up some sample/memory space for possible future upgrades (whatever the upgrades might be), and two - allow for the customers to actually - customize their OASYS keyboard. By doing that, it would also be cool to take care of the basic thing that would be very cool to have - VST/AU/RTAS/whatever plugin so we can control the OASYS from within the outside sequencer (sound editor and everything related). I have zero problems with sequencer not being updated but then something should be done to help controlling the OASYS from other standardized sequencers.

Just my 2c.

Cheers,
vEddY.

[tonybanks]

Just discovered this (obvious) one.
I have two preset in a combi: one playes the lower and the upper part of the keyboard, the other one the middle part.
The two presets are completely different one to the other.
To do this you have to assign the first preset to two different tracks in combi mode, covering the lower and the upper part of the keyboard.
What happens if this preset has portamento?
Simple, you don't get the portamento between the lower and upper part of the keyboard, as they are, in that combination, two different and indipendent tracks.
I wish a more flexible "keyboard zone" page, with multiple bottom/top zones for a single track.
The top and bottom slope, which is on the same page, can be IMHO overridden by adjusting the Amp keyboard tracking in program mode............
I know that this can mean the duplication of the presets (more presets with different VCA key tracking) but we have plenty of memories in our O.

[Arend Groot]

There's a new exciting update to be announced in a day or so, but still I'd like to make a wish..
It would be nice if the fader LED's could show levels of sequencer tracks and combi tracks in real time. You know, pumping with the music, or with what you play.
It's difficult sometimes to get a grasp on what channels in a combi, for example, are actually producing the sound.
I haven't missed something in the manual, have I?.. .

You can count me in on this one.

So, the upgrade is out and - here's an idea for the future one (after all, this is a wishlist thread). Maybe it would be good to have a patch/sound/sample/EXs editor, since most of the OASYS owners definitely don't use ALL of the samples inside the OASYS. Here's what I had in mind.

With 2GB of memory, there's no more space to do a lot of EXs's, new EXf's, whatever, even with loseless compression. So, the first thing that would be cool is to have the ability to select which samples from each of the individual EXs's people could load. That, by chain of dependency, means that the same application should have the ability to detect which programs and combis are using selected EXs samples and to mark them for loading when necessary.


Cheers,
vEddY.

Totally agree. With KARO strings and the Granular I am glad it is not a EXs. Right now I can choose which samples to load and save to a favourite file. I would like to do the same thing with the other Exs ( not with the beautiful Grand Piano )

Arend

[Sina172]

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[vEddY]

Future MOD-7 idea - I went through all the settings and stuff and can't find if this is possible so if it is - I'm covering with my ears and shutting up. Is there a way to copy EXi parameters into an EXi program directly from another EXi program? For example, I have this MOD-7 EP that uses one instance of MOD-7 and I'd like to add another MOD-7 instance by copying the MOD-7 settings from another MOD-7 program.

It would be cool overall to be able to do this on any kind of EXi, not only with MOD-7. It would also superb if you could choose which MOD-7 setting to copy. For example, you have a single-instance MOD-7 program and you're copying from a double-instance MOD-7 program, then it would be cool if you could copy settings from, for example, second instance of the second MOD-7 program.

This is all familiar stuff, it's possible to do this with effects when working on a COMBI sound or in SEQ.

Just my 2c.

Cheers,
vEddY.

[Brandon Daniel]

It would be cool overall to be able to do this on any kind of EXi, not only with MOD-7. It would also superb if you could choose which MOD-7 setting to copy. For example, you have a single-instance MOD-7 program and you're copying from a double-instance MOD-7 program, then it would be cool if you could copy settings from, for example, second instance of the second MOD-7 program.

Try the "Copy EXi Oscillator" function in the pull down menu on the Program->Common->Program Basic page. I think you'll be pleased to find that this copies the settings from either half of any EXi program to either half of the current EXi program.

[vEddY]

Try the "Copy EXi Oscillator" function in the pull down menu on the Program->Common->Program Basic page. I think you'll be pleased to find that this copies the settings from either half of any EXi program to either half of the current EXi program.

Awesome, thanks. I can't believe I missed that one. Thanks B!

Cheers,
vEddY.

[pandel]

My only wish: Some kind of optional, external USER BRAIN (perhaps connected to one of the four User-extendible Slot Brain ports) to handle all the possibilities we got so far! *SCNR*

[Tokke]

* More intelligent wave file saving routines

I find myself saving the same sample and sequencer files over and over, even when they are not changed.
When saving a seq file that has regions and wave files attached, it should be possible to decide whether or not the wave files should be (re)saved. That should make hard disk management so much easier...

*The possibility to play seq files from usb disk

*The possibility to divide a stereo file to two mono files in disk mode

*The possibilty to use KSF files in the regions in seq mode (even if the 48Khz limitation is necessary)

* Abort function when saving sampling files (Saving 1.5 Gbyte of samples on harddisk takes forever - beware of mistakes! )

*And if I go on dreaming freely why not set the sample file directory in the relevant files (like eg in the KSC file or in the region section of the SEQ file)

[RC-IA]

Please make the CC list available somewhere in the help menu.