The new Single Manual Organ from Wersi, details on the SZ Wersi forum here

Enjoy

Bill

76 keys top of the line.... to bad it requires a Ketron SD40 to have top quallity styles...

And that at a price of €8000 thats almost 3 pa4x's...


Biggest pro, offcourse, the sound technollogy is more then a decade ahead of anything else, except Varranger...

Looks amazing, love the big display and drawbars, nice layout
High Mod Wheels & No Joy-Stick? But hope to hear demos soon also. Thanx

I hope it alllows for adding an extra keyboard as lower manuall.. just as with the Abacus or the wing...

I would think they made it single to take out and gig with it?

Yes for sure, but still stays mostly organ, and is sought after by organ players, and they want 2 manualls and pedals... so having the option to add another manuall (and pedals) allows gigging organ players to build up the organ on stage...


For most keyboard players, its probably a no go for gigging at its weight of 23 kg..

Currently the styles are the weak part of the Wersi OAX range of instruments...

There is an easy way to repair this, and thats by adding support for Varranger... that would definately improve the arranger capabillities of this organ... also its missing multipads, which should be part of any high end arranger(you can only trigger audio clips, but no midi phrases)

A few more details on the Wersi Direct Site here intrigued about the new VST Host & Real Drum/Audio style creator.

Wonder if they will make an OAX Up version for the Abacus, just like they did for the other organs.

Bill

Seems most german wersi players think we will nit see an upgrade kit for the Abacus, on top of that, this keyboard is almost as expensive as an upgrade kit...

Good thing is that organ pedals are confirmed, sadly not yet a lower manuall, but i still asume this is the definitive abacus replacement, and it should be able to function with a lower keybed just like the abacus and the wing...

Trying to find some more information about oax version 1.30

Some details here however looking at the OAX 1 spec it only shows some of the new features, so we will have to wait until it comes out to confirm all that's in it.

Enjoy

Bill

This video shows why Wersi players love having 2 manualls...




The incredible Florian Hutter shows some really nice organ licks...
This is obviously also the reason why Wersi sticks to very basic styles, because thats all that organ players like Florian need, just a basic beat..

Try lugging around this very heavy board. And the price is
way out of line. Styles are not up to par with Korg or
Ketron. Wersi will need to lower price a lot to attract
buyers. Lloyd

The OAX 1 will be good for at least 10 years (OAS lasted for 16 years) and is constantly being updated with new features and sounds etc. so taking into account the number of boards you will have bought during that time (Losing money every time you change your board), you will have spent more than the cost of the OAX 1. (Wersi & Bohm Instruments have always been about long term investments, not a quick turnover)

If you’re looking for the Wersi sound in a light portable instrument, then the Pegasus Wing is what you need to be looking at. (OAX (Like OAS) is organ 1st and keyboard 2nd)

There is no right or wrong choice in whatever you buy, it’s purely what you prefer.

Bill

They must have a good following to stay in business, Organ affectionatos enjoy that style of music. Frequent updates alleviates buying a whole new unit also....I like that idea. I get all nostalgic when I hear it myself....so many choices for todays musician and that's a good thing.

Its hard for non European organ players to understand what makes Wersi so great... OAX will imdeed last you atleast 10 years.. its incredible expansive and lightyears ahead of the rest with VST support as well as the user interface and the buildquallity..

Yet it is stil aimed at the organ player, and not as much at the arranger players... and this makes for people on this forum the high price hard to understand. But then, the best thing of Wersi is that they keep developing and adding features..

But not all new features are free of costs, many of the high end features in OAS where payed expansion packs.. so where people buy new instruments every 4 years, Wersi players buy more expansions... keeping overall life costs high for both musicians...


If Wersi really wants to compete with the Korg Pa4x, Ketron SD9 pro or Tyros 6, then they need to improve some of the major arranger features, out of the box style quallity and advancing the SFX effects to support midi phrases like true multipads do and not just audio samples...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3YFfwqDwzIu2_mizGxn1h5RNGrACtRHP

This small youtube playlist shows the sound of OAX, the OAX 1 has exactly the same capabillities as the bigger OAX organs... you can split and layer 16 sounds over the manualls and the pedals(in advanced mode). Soundwise and processorpowerwise these instruments are identical...


Enjoy...

Service has always been a problem with Wersi. Spend a lot of money for a Wersi and when it's time for repair or service they don't know you. It's better in the USA with Ralph Conti in Lancaster,'
PA.

Obviously you haven’t dealt with Wersi in Europe, since Music Store (One of the biggest Musical Instrument Retailers in Europe) bought the brand in 2010.

Bill

Music Store has a splendid service record... so do the other Wersi locations like Wersi Nord, Wersi Hochrhein, Wersi Nederland.. they all have excellent service and their own repair service...

Good thing about Wersi is since they use standard PC parts, most things can allways be replaced...


Actually if you want good personal service, i would adviise people to buy a Wersi at one of the above dealers.