This is sort of off topic but still related to keyboards. Looks like Korg released an absolute monster of a synth. However, a monster synth isn't complete without a monster price. Folks be prepared to trade in your cars, and take out another loan on your homes for this new synth. Here's the link and price. It would be best to take a deep breath first and be sure you're sitting down before you see the price!
http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/korg/

Sounds like Korg is following Lionstracks's Media Station. The only thing with that korg keyboard is that unlike the media station, for that price it does not have arranger features. But the good thing is that other keyboard manufactures are finally seeing the wisdum of including multi tract recording on their hardware keyboards.

To me, today there is no reason why a keyboard can not do all that a music production software can do.

Squeak: I suspect the prices given are the inflated list price and that the actual street price substantially lower. Those inflated list prices must eventually drop to meet the competition as we all know that the actual manufactering cost is only a FRACTION of the listed price. I like the concept of the 'all in one' recording studio approach for portability, allowing for musical creativity anywhere (both in the studio & on the road). The Oasys appears to be Korg's answer to the GEM Genesys. If Korg would have only included the PA1X Pro's 'arranger features', the Oasys would truly be the: 'be all' all in one production studio. - Scott

Honestly I don't think Korg wants to include arranger functions on their synths like this new one. It appears to me as with other makers that they want to keep a definitive line between the arrangers and the synths. It wouldn't have been hard to include arranger features on this new Korg either. I think (my opinion), that the makers feel that customers will not take a synth like this seriously once they see arranger capabilites due primarily to the negative sterotype attached to arrangers. I know that price is inflated, but given all this new Korg has that price isn't going to come down too much. It's still going to be quite expensive.

Squeak

It seems that KORG is copying WERSI!
checkout the Icarus http://www.wersi.co.uk/html/products.html
Same (a little biger)tilting Touch Screen,
CDRW,sliders and lighted buttons,audio recording etc-but no arranger features.
Even the name is close: Wersi OAS -Korg OASys!
On the serious side, the specs look great.Let hope it sounds as good as it looks.

cosel,
I think so too. It seems they're competing in a way with Wesri, Mediastation, and what's that other one?

Squeak

SqueakD
the other one should be OpenLabs Neko,Windows based monster keyboard(without DSPs??!!).Be shure that after Yamaha aquiring VST rights the next 'big thing' form them should be a DSP/'Open' system.
One (big?) difference is that OASYS does not seem to allow to intergrade third party software audio generators like the rest 'Open' systems.
For the history the Wersi Pegasus was the first (again!) keyboard to use touch screen and built in hard disk -all these in 1993, and the Korg i30 looks very much like an 'improved' version of the Pegasus.And the Wersi OAS is out since 1999 (I got mine in 2001)-Icarus was launched in last year's Winter NAMM.

Let me just say...

$7999.00

Phil

Definitely in the "Home Organ" price category.

Is it really better value than buying a second hand Tyros now and then trading up later this year a Tyros II and then in 2 years time a Tyros III?

Jerry

One thing about SZGAF is it's 'dependable'