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A friend of mine said he came across some YouTube demos of the Oasys where there were images and videos on the touch screen.

Is that just fancy editing, or something that's easy to do?

If I recall, there are some arranger keyboards (not necessarily Korgs) that can show videos, mainly for the purpose of helping a composer sync the audio to the video. Also, some of the newer keyboards that run Windows-based OSes and play back VSTs might be able to do that. Are you sure he didn't see one of those? Beyond that, I'm pretty sure it's fake, if it's actually an OASYS.

The video's also had the LED's in the buttons changing colours.
None of it was real though, everything was superimposed after the video was recorded.

I know what I'm looking for so I'll have a search on YouTube for them.

Regards
Sharp.

Found it in one go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaQgdmhfpXA

And here for the complete collection.
http://www.youtube.com/user/zolhof

Regards
Sharp,

All fake? That's what I thought.

Check out this video of the Lionstracs Groove X-6.
http://www.youtube.com/lionstracs#p/a/u/0/xoPuZvqtgW4

Now that's not fake. It's playing back 2 DVD's at the same time as surfing the net and lots of other things.

Regards
Sharp.

Bit off topic, but:

Speaking of YouTube... where can I get a program that will generate colorful swirly and kaleidoscope-type patterns for a video background?

Synthoid wrote:A friend of mine said he came across some YouTube demos of the Oasys where there were images and videos on the touch screen.

Is that just fancy editing, or something that's easy to do?

Hey synthoid, your friend probably watched one of my videos and those are all superimposed in Sony Vegas after the main footage is done. It's just for fun and entertainment of the viewer

I lost count of how many times I was asked if the Oasys play videos and if I have modded my buttons to blink like a christmas tree hehehe The blinking/color fx is just a camera thing, not on purpose

Sharp wrote:Check out this video of the Lionstracs Groove X-6.
http://www.youtube.com/lionstracs#p/a/u/0/xoPuZvqtgW4
Now that's not fake. It's playing back 2 DVD's at the same time as surfing the net and lots of other things.
Regards
Sharp.

I would be superb if OASYS had that kind of interface, really. Quasi-3D-scroll through sounds. For example, that would be a superb way to do editing of programs in COMBI mode.

Yep, the second I saw it doing that I instantly though about being able to leave the pages open I was working on and just flip to an entirely new desktop to get at something else.

On a single PC screen your desktop can get very cluttered if you have many things open, where on the Lionstracs X-6 you can have a VSTi Synth on each desktop full screen if you wanted with quick access to every desktop. Lionstracs are also saying it supports external use of multi monitors (up to 3 at the same time) and you can even use an external touch screen.

And to think KORG have this port blanked off at the back of the OASYS.

Regards
Sharp.

Sharp wrote: On a single PC screen your desktop can get very cluttered if you have many things open, where on the Lionstracs X-6 you can have a VSTi Synth on each desktop full screen if you wanted with quick access to every desktop. Lionstracs are also saying it supports external use of multi monitors (up to 3 at the same time) and you can even use an external touch screen.

Yeah, virtual desktops are one of many Linux window managers' features, all of them. Pretty handy. And tidy and just as it's supposed to be. Gotta tell you, when I realized that there's a VGA port on the background, I was in the mode... but now... not so much

Sharp wrote:And to think KORG have this port blanked off at the back of the OASYS.

It's not simply blanked off; it's what's driving the built-in screen. It's easy to take off the plate and see the connection yourself.

- Dan

Hi Dan.

I understand but I guess what I saying is that it offers no additional function, no expanded view or even a multi desktop view. For example, here's a simple idea that would be cool. If you could get the Function Key to send the current page display on the internal monitor to the external one, allowing you to change the internal to another page while still being able to see all the information from the previous page on the external. That would be cool.

Think about it, you could maybe have the main sequencer mixer page on the external display while on the internal display you would have the sequencer editing page open.

Start moving sliders, knobs, muting tracks and so on, you would see all that on the external display since the hardware controllers are already mapped to do all that.

Just a thought, nothing more. Maybe the card in the OASYS wouldn't even support a multi monitor.

BTW:.... is it ok to connect a monitor to the OASYS and leave it connected right now as it stands ? I have a spare 15 inch that would simply look cool connected rather than sitting in a corner unused.

Regards
Sharp.

Sharp wrote:I understand but I guess what I saying is that it offers no additional function, no expanded view or even a multi desktop view. For example, here's a simple idea that would be cool. If you could get the Function Key to send the current page display on the internal monitor to the external one, allowing you to change the internal to another page while still being able to see all the information from the previous page on the external. That would be cool.

It sounds like we may still have a misunderstanding. There is a single VGA port on the OASYS. This is the one under the plate on the back. If you look at that connection, you'll see that there is a right-angle cable plugged into it. This connects to the internal screen. There is no possibility of connecting a second independent monitor. If you were to disconnect that cable, the internal screen would go blank.

At some trade shows, we have rigged up a VGA splitter with one side routed back to the OASYS screen and the other connected to an external monitor. The external screen mirrored the internal screen. Perhaps this is what you are thinking of, since I believe that we have talked about this before.

Best regards,

Dan

Doooh. Ho well.
Thanks Dan.

Regards
Sharp.