According to 'guys-in-the-know', including one who created many of the Trinity's and Triton's programs and combinations, the Oasys was a concept keyboard. Much like a concept car, many of the features may not make it into production, and some may be adopted by differnt products. The original projected selling price of the Oasys was going to be about $10,000 US. I can't see too many lining up for a synth in that price range.

BTW, the Oasys didn't have HDR, either.

For the money, the Triton beats the Trinity in these key features:

1) Polyphony (62 instead of 32 notes)
2) Touch Screen speed (you'll know what I'm talking about if you own a Trinity)
3) Audio Outputs. 6 instead of 4, and it doesn't take rocket science to implement them, either.
4) Sampling. Flash RAM is good, but the erasing time sucks.
5) Upgradable ROM samples. Add another 32Mb of samples with snap-in modules.
6) Arpeggiator. Love it or leave it.
7) Song Templates.
8) Direct-from disk playback
9) General MIDI compatibility. (or is that a minus?)
10) Cue list.
11) 200-song, 200,000-note sequencer.
12) All options are user-installable.

The stuff you may miss:

1) HDR option
2) Digital outputs
3) Flash-RAM option (but it's $500 US for 8 Mb!)

Steve Martin
Ward Music