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Hi guys.

My name's Lewis. I'm from north Wales in the UK, just had my OASYS for 1 day and already love this. I used to be an owner of several synthesizers from Roland, yamaha, akai, clavia and of course my old friend KORG. in particular the 01W, M1, Trinity, wave station and a triton classic etc. Now with the OASYS I'm glad it's a single system rather than tons of modules and stands everywhere. though knowing me it won't stop me buying old gear lol hahaha


OK here's a couple of questions here which I hope someone could help with.
1: is there a way of hooking up the oasys to my mac for data transfer and control etc?
2 what sample ram do I need for the OASYS to upgrade it to its full sampling support?
can the hard drive and cdRW drive be upgraded?
final question... Does anyone know of anyone producing sound sets etc for the oasys?

cheers and if you can help please leave a message. would greatly appreciate it.

yours with thanks

Lewis Alexander
totally blind professional musician, composer, studio engineer and accessibility programmer for the blind.

Hi and welcome to KF - here are my answers:

1. No, but you can store your data on external HDDs/USB-Sticks etc. for backup or direct use. But other than that and MIDI there's no computer interface provided as the Oasys is meant to be a workstation on its own (well - the last statement is an assumption )

2. I suggest an upgrade to its "full" potential = 2 GB RAM. Factory version is one GB. The drive of the newer Oasys is a DVD-drive. The older ones have CD-drives. So my guess is you don't have to upgrade - Korg doesn't offer to do so anyways. Simple way for finding out is inserting a DVD (eg. one the sample libraries you can buy from Karo, Sharp etc. or any other DVD storing readable data).

3. You can load the programs in normal order or producer order - both are delivered with the Oasys. The 2nd one isn't used that often and you might get problems when loading combis which usually refer to the normal order of programs. However, as the Oasys offers enough of HD-space for programs, you can load the different orders easily.

Out of curiosity: if you are totally blind ... does your computer read the text to you? Or does someone else do that?

Have a great time here!

cheers for the info mate

yes my mac uses voiceover. a very powerful screen reader which reads text through speech but I'm using a braille display which sits in front of my macbook pro.

the reason I use a macbook pro for all my recording work. simple. nothing worse than finding you have to go to a client, no workstation with braille support and you need to take mobile recording tools etc. so the macbook pro is the beast for me and does everything. USB external 4tb drive hooked up for data handling.

don't suppose you know of anyone who creates programs and combis / exi's for the oasys?

also does anyone know how I can contact Jack Howtop at Korg?

cheers dudes

lew

lewisjalexander wrote: don't suppose you know of anyone who creates programs and combis / exi's for the oasys?

also does anyone know how I can contact Jack Howtop at Korg?

cheers dudes

lew

Hello Lewis,
There are a few people who do make Programs/Combis for the Oasys.
1 www.karo-sounds.com
2 www.irishacts.com thats Sharps from this forum that created those!
3 www.karma-lab.com/sounds/catalyst1.html these are Combis made by Stephen Kay, the creator of Karma.

also make sure you check out the download page for the Oasys here which are free Instruments, PCG...etc for the O;
http://www.korgforums.com/?show=1
those are the main sounds of which I know!

enjoy!


puravida
dj

Hi -

Also check out the oasys resource list sticky post on this forum:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=21331

Kevin.