With all due respect but what you have written is completely incorrect.

I have completed many demos and full tracks using the Oasys's sequencer and HD recorder using all sixteen track and I have never had any problems with instability casued by the sequencer or the fact I am using all the tracks available.

Also, any software has bugs. Sp, yes, there have bneen upgrades every six months but those upgrades ahev not just been about fixing bugs. They have also been about adding incredible new features and sound engines like the STR-1 or the Korg MS20/Polysix emulations to name a few.

The problem with 'workstations' that are based on a PC running VST for example.. is that the chances of bugs caused by interations with other programs is vastly increased. Let's also not forget to mention that every VST is updated because of bugs found in it or new features being added but again, the situation can be so much more complex because of the interactive nature of all these different programs, written by different companies on different setups.

I understand you are trying to promote your own product and that's fair enough, given the professional competition you face out there, but let's make sure you quote 'real' facts not just speculation or guess work ok?

Thanks!

So, anyhow....

The Sequencer in the Oasys needs work. Couldn't agree more with that statement but it is quite usable as it is and I have used it frequently and regularly to create some very detailed and complex tracks. Could it be better? Heck yes! I would imagine that Korg is busily working away on an upgrade for the Sequencer as that would seem to be the 'weak' link in what is otherwise an amazing keyboard. Having said that, most people seem to want to use their Computer based DAW of choice anyhow, as that is what they are used to using, to create music. However, I still think that a better built in sequencer would be a huge bonus for the Oasys.

Also, your comment about using Giga for all your Oasys sounds, shows that you have no clue as to what the Oasys is all about.

Example, an STR-1 guitar sound. Not a sample but a modelled sound which means the sound changes constantly, depending on how you play it, how it interacts with other notes you play and so on. No amount of sampling will ever capture that type of modelled sound. You will just get a sterile, stagnent version of the sort of fluid, motion filled, evolving, interactive sounds the Oasys can produce.

For me, the Oasys is all about the 'sound' it produces. There is simply nothing else out there that compares and trying to compare the Oasys to the Wersi or the Neko is simply like comparing apples with oranges. They are not the same or even similar, except for the fact they are keyboards.

That's not to say the Neko, for example, is a bad keyboard because it is not. I had one for about a month on a free trial and I enjoyed it a great deal. My only issue with it, and the reason why I didn't buy it, was because it did nothing I couldn't do with my PC and keyboard for a lot cheaper a price.

The Oasys on the other hand, is something totally different and quite special/unique and something I cannot recreate using a PC and a lot of software synths.

Once you sit down and play an Oasys for any length of time (not just an hour or so but for a few days at least) you suddenly 'get' what it is all about. Going back to using other keyboards is like driving a Ferrari and then having to go back to driving a Chevy S10 truck! You just want to be back behind the wheel of that Ferrari again and nothing else will do.

Just try one out for at the very least, several hours and then see if you still feel the same about the sounds your other keyboards produce.

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[This message has been edited by TheArtOfSound (edited 01-27-2007).]