Well something new is on the Horizon for me very soon. Still looking at the menu at the moment. I still have a few questions about the MM6 that I'm waiting to to get a reply to from Yamaha.

The M3 is very impressive too. I think I read somewhere that the 61 key version is going to be around or just under the price of the Yamaha XS6. I'm also curious to see where the prices on the current models will be at once the newer models are released. Very interested in seeing what the Roland Fantom X6 will drop too

I listened to the demos Nigel.Al of them .Theres no doubting the beauty and pathos in the hauntings melody of " a little drop " . Lovely music but surely it just proves my point that the Oasys performs similar functions to an aranger. The changes in the sound textures are very subtle and ifthe recording was all done in one take then that in itself is impressive but isnt that essentially what an arranger does ?

Im sorry i still dont get what all the fuss is about with Karma.loved the violin in "trust", It was very authentic sounding. and i like what i am hearing in gneral for that genre of music but couldnt all of that have been produced on contemporary synths but you would have had more direct control over the sequences ?

The Karma still seems to me to be just the next step up in arranger technology

GREAT post nigel!!! if anyone wanted more about Karma they would have to ask stephen kay...i am seriously looking at the M3 now, having dismissed the MM6 as a bit of a gimmicky toy...also if i read correctly, the m3 will also be available as a standalone module, which if true mean i will order one sight unseen!!
dennis

It looks a bit like one of those Technics arrangers (kn6000/7000) dont'cha think?

Building on the success story of the original Karm....yeah..RIGHT..


Kay is the only one in the world that can demo it..He has lived with Karma for what 6 years...

Tell me guys, what gigs are you going to work with the M3..It is a novelty instrument..A repackaged Triton synth with Karma modes....

Sorry, I am not interested ..

It does sound good with Kay at the helm..but I could barely get thru the demo..for my ears..NO GO

No offense to you folks that liked it...just my own opinion..

I was thinking K7 also

just as a matter of interest, out here there is a group called Rogue Traders and 80% of their sound is created by an Oasys...just thought i'd mention it..the band is a female lead singer, drummer and a keyboard player with the oasys and from what i hear in their music the karma tech is used a LOT, so i dont think its just stephen kay who can play with karma...granted it is a lot more hi tech and in depth with what you can tweak, arrange, setup etc etc, but it seems if you bother to learn it it would be very rewarding, more so imho, than the same style sounding exactly the same way for 90 bars...it is the subtle differences that make the biggest impact, once again just my own view.
cheers

miden, I am sure you are right, but I can't see the average arranger player using this board for Pop music and Dance music..

Most of the players here have complained about setting up the keyboards..they mentioned they want to play out of the box..No way they are going to use the M3..

Personally, I like the challenge of programming and setting up my keyboards to suit me..the M3 might just be a little more for what I would get out of it..

yeah, i agree with you on those points fran, im assuming you mean "dance " as in pop, pop-rock, sorta stuff...coz the m3 and karma would be ideally suited to hiphop, garage, funk, modern rock,house, teckno etc etc
dennis

that is right Dennis..