There has been a raging debate over this thing at the HC forum, one which I had no interest in participating in. As for myself, I think the asking price might be a bit much for most of the players I know. Perhaps it will sell in some pro studios and for some higher end bands. I am not a big fan of an "all in one" solution to begin with, hence my fascination with using computer based gear, and that's where most of my money goes these days. I surely can't claim to speak for everyone ( or really anyone ) at this forum, but my gut tells me that there won't be a lot of interest for the Oasys here either.

I have to imagine it has some great sounds. I heard some of the voices in person from the old Oasys PCI card a few years back and walked away thinking it was ahead of the competition at the time, but it too was a bit pricy. It was, however, used in a couple of lower to middle end studios that I knew of.

The coolest thing to me are the Karma features / grooves. I liked the whole karma concept, and just loved jamming on one, but I disliked the overall sound palette of the actual board. I had hoped that Korg and Steven Kay would release Karma software that would work with keys and or modules other than those from Korg, and in the early stages it seemed like they were moving in that diection, but then it didn't happen and I lost interest in the whole concept. I wonder if they ever did go through with it ?

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 08-05-2005).]