So it's true that the Korg Oasys will retail for $8000 US , I heard that but I thought that info must be wrong . Yes the specs look impressive but come on one could almost buy a Triton Extreme , Fantom X and Motif ES for that price . I don't understand why the Korg Oasys would cost four times as much as the Alesis Fusion .

Actually I'm not really all over the place with what I want . When I say I don't want to sound too vintage then I mean I don't want to sound like DM with Vince Clarke or what Erasure sounds like . If you know the latter DM with Alan Wilder then you know that those synths are strong and powerful in their sound . I would also like some good sounding accoustic instruments in there .

Some people may not understand why I am against soft synths period but as I already explained I don't wish to be tied to a computer at all times when I create music .

I like the Korg Triton Extreme because it simply has so many preset voices but I don't like it's somewhat harsch sound .

The Fantom X looks very good and seems to have no obvious definecies which would greatly bug me though I can't say anything about it's sound quality , supposedly it ain't as harsch as the Triton Extreme .

The Yamaha Motif ES is renowned for it's great sound but what bugs me about it is one is practically forced to buy extras with this one . It has no sampling memory so one is forced to buy some to sample and while the memory it uses is relatively cheap it's still an extra expense . Add to that the fact that it seems unnecessarily complicated to move samples from and to a PC on the Motif ES.

[This message has been edited by Darksounds (edited 04-03-2005).]