Hi Ian.
James, myself and a buddy can get a mint OASYS very cheap (estate sale) and it would be good to know what update was wanted...and, what do you feel the sequencer needed.
The wish lists are posted on KORG Forums but sort of spread out, so basically the the OASYS Sequencer has everything you need to write a song right now in full, heck it even has a full blown 16 Audio Tracks recorder that run along side the 16 Midi Tracks. So it's fully functional and then some. No other keyboard sequencer I know of can do much of what the OASYS can.
The things people wanted where based on the history of KORG more so than the OASYS itself. Its more about how things haven't changed much in how things function rather than all the new features that were added.
People wanted stuff like Piano Roll editing and so on in addition to the way KORG take are of all these requirements in the first place.
So it's more about total interrogation of the systems in addition to a few DAW like features that people wanted. Either way the Sequencer is fully functional as it stands.
I mentioned in this tread about how it works with KORG, they really do listen and if you ask for the impossible, chances are you will get it from them. In this case we didn't get everything we wanted but we did pretty good on other systems.
I know the function of a company is to make a profit, but I will tell you straight out that KORG are the only company I know of that give you the impression that they lock the accounts in the back room. You only need to look at their You Tube video's and hanging out with them to know that they are the same as us. Musicians.
Regards
James.