Hi Frank,

Thanks for educating me on the world of software arrangers and software synths. You seem to be on the cutting edge and keep providing us with the latest enhancements in this emerging arena.

I am going to check out the sYnerGI Soundfonts.

The future lies in software synthesis. The Korg OASYS put all doubts to rest on the capability of a well designed software synthesizer. The Korg team have total control over this technology. They coded their own OS, they crafted the modeling engines, and then wrapped it inside their own hardware controller casing.

I have played on the OASYS several times at our local dealership. Each time I came back more amazed at the capability and sound quality. Korg put several years of research into this, and is years ahead of the competition. They have a potential time bomb in their hands.

What is preventing Korg from blowing away hardware arrangers like the Tyros2? Think about this. Dan Phillips, Jerry Kovarsky, Stephen Kay and the Korg Team could get together any time and decide to implement arranger functionality on their OASYS on top of their superb combis and Karma functionality. They do not even have to create another hardware arranger. All can be done with an OS update. Their existing OASYS has all the hardware controls, sliders, velocity pads, rotary knobs and touch screen ready to go.

Ok, so maybe they will not do this right away because that would mean killing their own line of Pa1X arrangers. But who is to say they will not someday blow away every other hardware arrangers and even soft synths like Native Instruments and Spectrasonics with a surprise announcement. The potential is already in place inside the OASYS, and Korg has the technical and intellectual capital within their company.

I think we are looking at a very bright future as competition and innovation heats up in the hardware/software arranger market.

Tapas