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Originally posted by Dan Phillips:
The tricks are to make instruments with technically superior algorithms, resulting in noticeably better audio quality; to make those algorithms and their environment computationally efficient, so that the musician isn't significantly hampered by performance limitations; and to create sounds which use those algorithms and our hardware controllers to good musical effect. We are fortunate to have many good people working for Korg, and can make all of that happen.



The operative word is "CAN" the question is if they ever will make that happen? So far that hasn't happened yet and it's the primary reason I got rid of my Oasys. The Oasys is a phenomenal synthesizer with incredible build quality but hardly what I'd call a complete workstation. The audio recorder and sequencer are lackluster at best and were afterthoughts in my opinion. Being that the Oasys is computer based Korg could easily have made a custom DAW/Sequencer combo that was similar to top brand competitors but they didn't. Why? Korg should have just sold the Oasys as a real time performance synthesizer which it is but I doubt many people would pay $8000.00 for that.

I owned an Oasys and Korg could have kept me as an Oasys user had they only updated the software to make it a viable workstation. That never happened and instead Korg chose to add new EXi banks rather than functionality. I saw the writing on the wall much like I did with Yamaha and the 9000 Pro so I moved on to greener pastures while the grass was still green. Now it seems the Oasys may be discontinued which most likely means little to no future software development. Only time will tell.