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Shouldn't the OASYS PCI have its own section under Computer - Music? It can't work without a computer (unless you're a Terminator or Robocop or Cylon with terminal connections in your fingertips and can hold the OASYS PCI in your hand and make the music come out of your mouth... OK, that's a strange image, but not uncommon for me.) I'm getting ready to explore the depth of this device, and hopefully with two of them. Finding information even in this forum is rare. It might help if OASYS PCI users had somewhere more specific to go, instead of the Korg Synths (General) which, frankly, makes me feel like I'm stuck at the little kids' table on the side during the holiday dinner. OASYS PCI users are grown-ups, too. Perhaps more daring and dedicated, even, than most Korg users.

gridsleep wrote:unless you're a Robocop with terminal connections in your fingertips and can make the music come out of your mouth... OK, that's a strange image, but not uncommon for me

honestly, this is the first post i've ever seen on OASYS PCI. It wasn't a very successful product...you'd prob be the only one posting in that forum.

Anywho, most of us here are grown-ups... you should think of this sub-forum as the old folks home for retired gear. but a lot of people who check this forum know what they're talking about, and have a lot of experience with Korg relics, some have probably used your OASYS card at some point or another. I just think you'd get more answers to your questions here, and not an isolated sub-forum that few people would check on a regular basis.

Assuming the oasys pci is pretty similar to the oasys, and really any korg synth (you use one and its not too hard to figure out the rest...)
i dont see why you cant post in the OASYS section!
or maybe we can add the PCI to the oasys section?

whatever you do dont make the following thread

"Kronos comes out - OASYS PCI no longer current?
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Why did KORG ditch the PCI, wtf, this is a bad company! please update the PCI with EP-1 and whatever else is missing! merp!"

OASYS PCI is similar to OASYS the way a VW Beetle is similar to a Porsche 959. However, if there's that little going on with it here, I guess I'll just experiment with it in my fortress of solitude.

Interesting mix should be having my Roland V-Synth GT attached to the Mac G4. Roland don't see fit to support Windows XP x64, which is another reason I tend to prefer Korg who are more liberal in their support efforts. But, Roland do provide PowerMac USB drivers, so my V-Synth GT will be connecting with the G4 (also with everything else through the MOTU MIDI buses, but I wanted to have that more intimate kind of control the way the Korgs are accessible when connected by USB, as opposed to general MIDI.) Thus, the V-Synth GT will be in direct communication with the OASYS PCI. And I just got the SynthKit, so I will be writing my own virtual synthesizers. I have some ideas for a new type of sound engine based on fractal progressions. If it sounds good, it might be that "new sound" that everyone is looking for, since every company is only turning out highly powerful repackagings sound production techniques that have been around since Adam. Really, what was the last genuine new synthesis engine? FM? Wavetable? Analog modeling is probably the latest trend and that hasn't been looked at seriously since the Hartmann Neuron and Technics SX-WSA1 (both of which I have--like Lydia Dietz, I find myself attracted to the strange and unusual, by dint of being strange and unusual.) Thus, when I saw an OASYS PCI, I just grabbed it. All that power in an innocent little circuit board. I suppose I could have gotten a Kronos, or an original OASYS for a bit more, but I already have so much of its capabilities covered, and there's no wow factor, really. Those new ubermaschines are really more intimidating than fascinating. I suppose I could enjoy a 200-mph supercar, but I think I'd have much much more fun in an old MGB or Kharmen Ghia. It's like with John Bowen's Solaris. Is there anything new in it? Or is it a clever repackaging of tried and true methods? In this day and age, when everyone is trying to come up with the replacement for the petrol engine, but no one seems to come up with anything truly revolutionary (electric? hybrid? they still need humongous fossil burning electric generating stations to produce the electricity for batteries or to catalyze that hydrogen--no better than before) except for Joseph Newman, and the government is foiling his research and progress at every turn, the synthesizer makers are in the same rut. There are no new engines. Just fancier frames in which to run them. The OASYS PCI is a place to invent new synthesizer engines that are aeons more powerful than any VST can be.

gridsleep wrote:makes me feel like I'm stuck at the little kids' table on the side during the holiday dinner

Probably because that's exacly where it is on Korg's palette and in the real world... Not saying that it is a bad product, but as mentioned, not very successful even at the time.

But it is no reason for you to retire experimenting in your 'solitude', I'm sure more than a couple of us would be interested how you're getting on with your 'new' toy!

Good luck - btw. I think this forum is the best place for vintage gear assistance and info sharing...