The Korg Oasys was a real battleship of a keyboard, really bulky. I wanted on of these back then but did'nt want to sell my kidneys for one! The Kronos is like a refined Oaysy, but still a little pricey!
@j s Tell that to Korg, see if they'll give you one of these for a handful of rocks instead. Money is just money, flimsy paper, nothing special, who needs it? But rocks! Now those have weight! Some are jagged, some are smooth, but they're all hard! Wow!
@Born To Sing With The Guitar Definitely agree about the aesthetics. The Triton Extreme was a dead sexy piece of hardware. Kronos looks like a weird bulbous dork by comparison. And yeah, its interface is super confusing.
@@looneyburgmusic I distinctly remember the mod matrix and insert fx routing being rather baffling. Having worked with a Triton for years, I *thought* I knew what I was doing, but it just wasn't working the way I expected it to when I tried to map certain parameters to the physical modulation controls.
I love my Oasys 88, She sits beautifully within my Korg Rig and I would never be with out it, despite weighing 32.1 kg 😬 Sounds, Interface, and Mmmmmmmm ease of use , Definitely worth the swollen Knackers😀
To me, the Ensoniq ASR-10 was the best keyboard ever made...it was very easy to use and you could make some great beats with it, plus, it sounded fantastic!!
Funniest thing is, after the Oasys didn't do as well as Korg hoped, (it was just too damn expensive), they went right back to what worked - building on the M1 lineage, with the M3, M50, Krome, before finally getting it all right with the current King of the Mountain - the Kronos.
I still prefer the M3 over the Kronos in a lot of ways. I've owned both in the past and Im about to try and pick up another M3 soon. The 61 keybed was so nice and the sounds were great. I love the pads and karma and everything. That was a great video I was just wondering where the M3 fit in the timeline
@@keeverw12 honestly, the sound generation tech reached peak point back in the early 2000s, since then it's mostly add more of everything, but little in the way of improvement
To me, the real replacement for the Oasys is actually the new Roland Fantom since you have a workstation with all faders, knobs, touchscreen, pads,… but you can also add more synthesis and sounds by software update. I had an Oasys 88, and I liked it at the time. I also had the neKo 76 and Muse Receptor to complete the whole setup. But today, I don’t find any keyboard good enough, most of them are just cheap plastic keyboards with really bad sounds, mainly in comparison to what we get with software such Komplete. That’s why my new “workstation” is actually the new MacBook Pro 16” M1 Max with 64GB and 8TB SSD with a shit tons of software. I might even add the Korg Collection and Roland Cloud just to get all old Korg and Roland sounds to top all other plugins such Arturia, UVI, Omnisphere, Komplete Ultimate Collector, Eastwest Collection and such… you name it.
I can see someone saying that because Roland really did copy the look of the Oasis interface but the Kronos is the exact same layout minus all the light up buttons. Korg treats their workstations like a PS2 controller. They update it but don't stray to far from the original layout. Going way back to the Trinity era they all have that same keyboard layout. You can add sounds and expansions to the Kronos. Downloading and uploading the expansions in to it. Problem thoug his that it's a PITA to do and the expansions are ridiculously expensive.
Yes, I was tempted to go into debt and buy the fantom due to its different synth models based on their classics from the past, I also liked the logical straightforward way it's sequencer is laid out. But it is a tad on the expensive side for me, in the end I picked up a s/h AKai force for £500 and with the latest update I am pretty happy with it, a totally different machine from when it was first released, now I just need to learn the thing, thank god I have youtube to help me.
Ill make your mac set up sound like toy soldiers compared to the fatness especially from old anolog gear...don't you ever come out your mouth saying Roland fantom replacement for oasys...watch your mouth. Stop spreading toxic thinking... I bet your front end is questionable...? and much more. ...no disrespect tho...
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing documentary. I still remember myself trying the Oasys at the local shop back in the day, experiencing laggy menus and all sorts of bugs. Duh! But yeah, a truly revolutionary instrument that came… at a cost! :-)
I love hearing about legendary gear like this. I remember going into a local music store and saw music making pc console type thing for like 4 grand. It didn't look like a regular PC, and definitely didn't look like anything we use today. But gear like this is what makes me want to eventually invest in a keyboard workstation. I got an arranger keyboard now which is nice. GAS is a bitch.
Lol I feel you..Good thing you didn't buy that console for 4grand lol..You definitely got to do your homework before getting some of these things.. Especially keyboard workstations.
This workstation really put me in the mind of the Neko and Meko workstations. Too much at one time and then it just died. I saw a Neko at the pawn shop with case for $500. I was tempted. Very. But I passed.
Love this video bro 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 I still own my Oasys. I brought it in 2010 for half the price. It had the Korg Karma technology in it and a sampler and a CD burner. So both of those was great for me. I should sell it tho. I became a FedEx driver because I needed the money to buy the Oasys. Lol I’m still a driver. Also don’t forget the Korg M3 was a affordable Oasys. I brought that too…..the sampler quality was limited and not that great.
This keyboard was the THE BUSINESS when it came out! But it cost more than my car at the time lol. The Kronos is a worthy successor, and I still can't afford that!
@@tuneunleashed Way ahead of you bro, been using software for over 20 years. But keyboard workstations, and hardware in general, offer a different creative experience.
I agree, software is powerful but I don't feel the excitement and creative energy when wiggling a mouse around compared to sitting at a real musical instrument like a hardware synth.
Kronos was a good replacement. Over a decade later and no keyboard workstation can f&&^^ with any Kronos. Not even Korg's dumb down version of Kronos 2 (Nautilus).
You could not have built a studio for that price back then in the old days. There is very expensive equipment nowadays that in 15 years will be cheaper. Technology is expensive in the research and development stages. But it is on the cutting-edge frontier , however future generations will reap the benefits. 25 years ago cell phones were not affordable enough for the average family to have. Now everyone has one. ☺👍
When this goliath came out in 05 I was at a music store and they guarded like a bank guarding its safe..lolz. It was retailed for 10,000 CAD and it was ridiculously expensive! I remember one guy made a comment saying he has to remortgage his home if he were to buy one. Others would say why not buy two Korg Triton Studio instead of this thing. As for weight and portability issues, it is a different story! This thing weighs a metric ton!!!
I owned an Oasys for about 5 years. Sold it 2 years ago, cause I was too scared it would break on me and it couldn't be fixed. Still made me a lot of money. But I parted with it with pain in my heart 😅
Love you series of videos they are hilarious. Wanted to ask does the sound library have the wave files included so that I can use them in the MPC studio?
I feel you..Its just that the modeling technology was very realistic..Roger Linn and Dave Rossum in an interview said that was the goal of musicians in the 70's.. They were trying to recreate real instruments.They didn't want to lug a huge piano on stage Lol.
You didn’t mention the 1994 OASYS “Blue Bomber” prototype keyboard that was teased 4 years before the OASYS PCI card. Modeling technology from that trickled out into subsequent modeling synths like the Prophecy, Z1, and yes the MOSS boards for the Trinity and Triton.
Great video, love your delivery! I reckon Korg looked at how they could reduce build costs on the OASYS and at the same time, bring the price down to a level that was more affordable whilst also increasing the synthesis power on offer. And that's what gave rise to the Kronos, which IS the OASYS but in repackaged and upgraded form. Quite a clever move really and one which has clearly paid off given the longevity of Kronos and the spin off products that have emerged as developments of its individual synth engines - OpSix, Wavestate, Modwave etc.
Korg really didn't have to look at reducing costs, the technology did that all on it's own. The processor in the Kronos is considered a "low-end", (Intel Atom I believe), compared to what was in the Oasys...
@@jgh548 I don't think Korg realized just how quickly the Oasys hardware was going to be rendered utterly obsolete due to the rapid advances in CPU tech which really kicked into high gear right after it was released. The Oasys was amazing, for maybe a year or two, then it was just left in the dust. Every time I think I want an Oasys I just remind myself that all I have to do is attach a midi controller to my $500 Microsoft Surface Go, load up some Vsti's and the game is over.
When a company offers a product for 8000 bux, it's not for a bedroom producer anymore. It's for a studio which can afford one. There are a lot of hardware like that. Studios purchase these kinds of products to attract customers, in the first place.
This joker is was so expensive, that they basically started making the triton again, with the m3 and m50. Total redesign tho. Them3 was they first keyboard with the backlit joystick. Krome is basically a triton too.
@@LuckyFlesh I’m more of a Yamaha man myself but I know the listing price of the K2000 was that of a SUV and now they can be found for a fraction of that.
@@infiniteheight excellent point. A legit, original Moog ain't gonna be cheap. I'm old-ish (53). I remember in the late 80s and 90s , when "digital" was the hot,new thing, you could get any Moog you wanted for 50 to 75 bucks at a pawn shop. A smart man could've made a killing... alas, I wasn't that smart.
God bless you and Jesus loves you. The Yamaha EX% tried to jam all kinds of things in that keyboard and it didn't work all that well I owned one and ended selling it due to its issues that they also said they would fix the issues but they never did. it's a shame too as I liked the board
Man, the introduction of the “workstation” is when I bailed out of buying new synths. I still have synths I bought in the 80’s and 90’s and I got all I needed out of them until I started working in the box. No way in hell was I going to menu-deep dive for $8K on an Oasys when I already had multiple synths, samplers, drum machines and sequencers.
Korg, or Keio Electronic Laboratories as the original name was is owned by Yamaha since 1987. Yamaha is not a small company, Korg had their backup. From what I heard, Korg M1 shared the same keybed as the DX7!? Maybe a rumor. Unfortunately Korg made a keyboard aimed for pro musicians only with this. This keyboard wasn’t the most expensive one, kurzweil had a model that costed like two or three of these ones, maybe more. “K2500 Audio Elite”. Maybe not aimed for a schoolboy or girl either. High price and a time when computer technology still accelerated like nuts, it wasn’t worth it for me, I love playing music, I just do it with less power. I still have my old Triton and my xp80 running with, just a sloppy Korg pitch bender and a Roland Jog wheel that has seen better days. I love them. Keep on rocking folks.
Upgradable keyboards are from all time. GEM had the upgradable S-series, but it never got after the first update. Korg had the Trinity, it got a few updates, but a newer plaltform, the Triton came a few years ahead of the Trinity. The Korg Kronos is the longest living platform of all updatable keyboards.
All right, Cat Killer (that's pimpin'), another winner! It's amazing how much gear is out there... A couple hours ago I was listening to some Mariachi music wondering when will the vattos hook up their accordians with refrigerator and car parts and convert 'em into synthesizers?
Little surprised the Alesis Fusion wasn't brought up. While it lacked the touch screen and robustness of some other hands on control, it's synthesis engine(s), polyphony, memory, inputs, hard disk recorder, etc. were not only basically was able to hang with the OASYS (and in some areas exceed it), but it did so while coming in at half the cost. (in fact, at the end of the Fusion production run I was able to nab one totally brand new for only $600 [Fusion 6HD]) Kinda hard to think anything other than "Someone(s) at Korg must have been pissed...." As told in the video, Korg had spent some years touting the coming OASYS but then the same very year they finally release it (2005), here comes Alesis with their own multi-engine, multi Tiger Shark DSP chip powered, multi-track sequencing and recording (with 8 analogue ins and up to 32 part multi-timbre), monster of their own at under half the price. Topping it off, much like Korg, Alesis had assured continued support and growth of engines and things..... granted that continued support would never come to be, as the Fusion would prove to be the last synth made by Alesis before they were bought out by InMusic (whom had also bought out Akai Music) and Alesis, as it had been, basically ceased to be (and Fusion support collapsing right along with it. Alesis R.I.P. Not sure how the Korg OASYS story can at all fully be delivered without including the Fusion (and vice versa), most notably given how massively Alesis managed to undercut Korg's price point while managing to generally overall match the OASYS feature set. The OASYS assuredly having a more flexible and intuitive User Interface with more immediate hands on control options and wave sequencing capabilities while the Fusion arguably beat out the OASYS in areas of acoustic physical modelling, FM synthesis, modular patch programming capabilities, multi-timbre parts possible, and hard disk recoring capabilities. It's arguably not until the current gen of workstations that things would come to rival what Alesis had achieved in 2005 as a standard. Korg to date arguably hasn't moved much sense the OASYS.... their current Kronos arguably being little more than the OASYS brought down to a more feasible price point, InMusic/Akai to date has (arguably) never offered the anything offering the same amount of synthesis engine power and depth after having aquired Alesis, Roland and Yamaha only coming to match similar polyphony levels, and just about major market player coming to match what could essientially be up to 40 recording and playback tracks (32 channels of MIDI and 8 audio). At the time of it's release, really the only thing that remotely competed with the Fusion feature set was the OASYS and unfortunately for Korg, the only things that competed with the Fusion feature set at it's price point was nobody, no one, and nothing.
Good point..Nice that you got yours for $600..Alesis made alot of good machines..People hate on stuff like the MPC 5000..But its a really good sampler..But your right about the synthesis thing. After the 4000 akai never came up with another machine with a great synth.
@@DyReckProductions interesting side note, Alesis Fusion 2005 and the Akai MPC 5000 2008. It always seemed to me that all Akai had done was repackage the Fusion into the MPC 5000 but for some reason trimmed the Fusion down a good deal in the process. Gone were the acoustic physical modelling and FM engines and going for only 2 LFOs, 2 Envelopes, on the VA architecture rather than the Fusions up to 8 LFOs and up to 8 envelopes AND then going for more of a hard set architecture(s) over the much more free modular architectures of the Fusion. Suppose it made sense for Akai to put some of the Fusion capabilities to use after the acquisition, but as to why they would trim it down so much.... well that may remain a mystery.
@@neilaspare8398 Yeah..I think back then Akai was trying to do things as cheap as possible and didn't know there consumer base would notice..They even made some false claims back then and took alot of heat when folks opened up some of there machines and found out they were lying..But they changed there ways..They started asking there consumers about the features they wanted and having much more respect for the beatmakers.
In my opinion Korg OASYS really represents the right direction for synthesizer architecture, but sadly it arrived a few years too early to make it cost effective. Compared to specialized DSP chips, general purpose processors are becoming increasingly faster and cheaper thanks to the wide adoption of smartphones, so it no longer makes sense to develop special hardware DSPs for synthesizers.
"so it no longer makes sense to develop special hardware DSPs for synthesizers." - Actually, it does. Just take a look at what Roland has done with the DSP based ACB-engine in the Boutique line. Sometimes, you really need that dedicated hardware chip running the show.
@@looneyburgmusic Well all those things can also be done easily on a decent general purpose processor. Roland still does it in hardware probably because it is difficult for a large company to completely change its technology stack. Do you know that nowadays a $35 raspberry pi board has better performance compared to the $3000 Korg Kronos? Consumer tech companies like Qualcomm and Samsung have put hundreds of billions of dollars into developing high performance processors and there's no way for the digital instrument industry to match this kind R&D cost. Hence the smart way to go is to take advantage of the tech industry rather than trying to compete with it.
Korg should have created a Korg Kronos III with some of the key elements of the OASYS. 1. Folding high resolution OLED 10-12 inch screen. 2. Full illumination of the buttons. 3. Capable of adding external monitor. 4. A more personally... better workflow UI. 5. A 16 to 32 step button sequencer. Out of curiosity, the interface for the OASYS looks very similar to the Kronos. Can anyone chime in?
The Kronos is actually a declination of the Oasys, so they share a similar User Interface. I still think the Oasys was way better with the tilted screen, the 8 pads under the screen, the illuminated faders, knobs, way better material quality. Sure it was very expensive, but it was good quality. The Kronos in comparison feel like a cheap plastic keyboard.
I still have my fusion 6. I actually loved it a lot ( not as much as my motif classic tho lol). Unfortunately the fusion had a buncha hardware problems. I found a website that had a diagram showing how to upgrade some components so that it was more reliable and even increased functionality.. I can't wait till I can afford to repair my boards. The fusion even tho a bit menu driven had a helluva modmatrix and the sounds were amazing just out the box but when ya dug in and really worked the mod matrix it clearly showed it's power. Even used it as a sub mixer for my beatboxes just to test the multi track on it. Sorry for rambling.....:'( I miss my fusion packed up collecting dust due to life being so hectic I can't repair it for a while . I'll never sell it tho.
@@LuckyFlesh yeah I had em too lol...never even got to use em lol...and yeah mine did same thing lol.... As I mentioned there IS a website SOMEWHERE on SOME forum where it describes in DETAIL how to mod and replace fusion stuff to make it reliable . Apparently HD and power supply parts were common failures. Normally I would ditch problematic gear like that but the fusion REALLY was a work of art and in my heart deserves not to be given up on lol... Maybe if my circuit bending / software skills improve ( or I make the money to outsource ) I'll turn my fusion into a ONE of a kind fusion and build it like a damn tank. Damn shame Alesis gave up on such an incredible potential. I sure won't make their mistake ;)
@@DyReckProductions unfortunately Intel just wasn't innovative; and they were complacent. Pentium Pro and Pentium 4 turned out to be not optimal. It took AMD to solve that (I assume; I'm not real up on PC stuff from that era and later).
Not disagreeing. Similar for me… but then you would get amazing players and it sounded good🤷🏽♂️ its so odd how I can hit middle C and it sounds normal, but those players hit the same note and I wanna buy vinyl of them playing.
@@jazzatnight F&&&^ him. I prefer Korg. I've played all their flagship synth workstations, from M1 to Kronos 2 and Nautilus. Yamaha, Roland, kurzweil, etc cant f&^%^ with Korg workstations.
@@dianevrules of those 4 I prefer Korg as well. I did always want a nord stage piano though. The round body of the SV-2 doesn’t let you put anything on top.
This is why I say the follow up to the Kronos will be epic. The OASYS was epic .... the Kronos was epic and wildly successful. With the success of the Kronos, there is no reason for them to pull punches. Furthermore, since the Kronos, we've had three Nord Stage's and two different Montages. Korg is in the lab building a monster. Mark my words. The past 20 years of flaghship releases from Korg says I'm right.
Evolved into the Far less expensive Kronos...... Opened up mine to replace the solid state drive and was a PC running Linux! Very cool and reliable...😃With a 1200+ page parameter guide. Nothing is as powerful to this day!
Not really…Kontakt has better sounds and it’s much more cheaper than the Roland Integra-7. Not gonna lie for a hardware the Roland Integra-7 is pretty good!
Bought pasta in 2005 whe I was yong , still have it, but now it’s freezes on me sometimes, wasn’t worth 8k for sure, sounds were good but not that good, not reliable for live, takes too long to boot
Love ya Content Bruh....keep 'em Coming. I was a "Korg Guy" totally...Period!! I had many Korg Products and researched their Oasys project to come finally finding out the construction final keyboard would cost $70,000 bucks...I lost alot of testosterone behind that post. I bought the $1800 buck Oasys PCI Card being blown away from it's sound quality!! Didn’t know how but I vowed when the keyboard version dropped, so was my money. That came to fruition and I in essence has two Oasys products. As you stated....despite promises of open architecture and updates....Oasys was dropped!! Pissed off is understandable but when Korg brought out the Kronos shortly after??!!!???....I to this day hate those damn Japanese at Korg, still get migraines from photos of the Kronos, and ready to pull that burner out and I don't mean Cd either!! Mackie did the same with the D8b Digital Mixer and I was a Mackie user 5 mixer generation back!! Now......I wouldn't buy a Korg nor Mackie Bubble Magnet for ya Fridge!!! I'm still looking for a representative to Donkey Stomp from those Companies...believe that!!! Roland is now profiting off the Oasys architecture at the right time in software designer strength!! I contemplate eventually buying one...but with my experience...Imma wait 2-3 years to see how Roland supports this product. Thanks for allowing my overdue early 2000's batching release!! Bless Up. 🙏🏿🕊🍷
No they weren't. And I'm a huge Korg fan. Korg has never been a serious threat to Yamaha, don't forget, you're talking about a company that even went as far as bailing Korg out from going broke at one point. The Motif line dominated the workstation market for years, from its release until the coming of the Kronos. Just take a look at how many Motif boards you see in videos of groups playing live, versus workstations from Roland or Korg. Especially the Motif XF, that board was everywhere at one point.
@@looneyburgmusic Word. I have their follow up to Motif (which motif owners religiously deny is a follow up), Yamaha Montage, and although It only got two synth engines, FM-X and AWM - it's an absolute crazy beast of a synthesizer, I've had mine for a year (and I'm a programmer type of guy) and still finds it too complex, it's kind of trying to be a jack-of-all trades, while Korg now went back to their simpler roots (look at the Modwave, Wavestation (and SE) etc series. based on a 5 dollar computer - raspberry pi. And they're doing tons better for it).
@@joonglegamer9898 We've reached a point where synth-tech has become so advanced that a 5 or 10 year old synth is just as good as something brand new. That's why the "Big-Three" are going backwards - there is no where else to improve the current generation of synth engines. The Montage is an update to the SY77/99, Roland has their Boutique line and the System-8, and Korg is busy being Korg.
@@looneyburgmusic We mostly agree, except the Yamaha's FM-X Deep Learning Morphing function is def. new and kind of revolutionary. Have you even seen it?
@@DyReckProductions and thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos. It can’t be easy to not only research these golden products but also make the fun content with it. It’s literally a breath of fresh air and very inspirational. I can’t wait for more material to watch over and over again. I salute you brother.
Back in the day it was unbelievably expensive and almost impossible to get a polished finish without going to an expensive studio. The only issue now is that everything sounds so polished and auto-tuned it sounds the same. Hard to differentiate, sonically speaking, rock, pop and country music now.
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The Korg Oasys was a real battleship of a keyboard, really bulky. I wanted on of these back then but did'nt want to sell my kidneys for one! The Kronos is like a refined Oaysy, but still a little pricey!
Lmao!..I feel you.
@j s Tell that to Korg, see if they'll give you one of these for a handful of rocks instead. Money is just money, flimsy paper, nothing special, who needs it? But rocks! Now those have weight! Some are jagged, some are smooth, but they're all hard! Wow!
@Born To Sing With The Guitar Definitely agree about the aesthetics. The Triton Extreme was a dead sexy piece of hardware. Kronos looks like a weird bulbous dork by comparison. And yeah, its interface is super confusing.
@@rdean150 The Kronos isn't confusing - you just have to look at it as being nine synths in one, instead of one that does everything just about.
@@looneyburgmusic I distinctly remember the mod matrix and insert fx routing being rather baffling. Having worked with a Triton for years, I *thought* I knew what I was doing, but it just wasn't working the way I expected it to when I tried to map certain parameters to the physical modulation controls.
I love my Oasys 88, She sits beautifully within my Korg Rig and I would never be with out it, despite weighing 32.1 kg 😬
Sounds, Interface, and Mmmmmmmm ease of use , Definitely worth the swollen Knackers😀
32 kg? I thought my prophet 5 was heavy at about half that. How do you carry it around, you have to employ a bodybuilder?
@@uv77mc85 Strong wheeled case and heavy duty built stand.
Was a bodybuilder years ago 😃👍
To me, the Ensoniq ASR-10 was the best keyboard ever made...it was very easy to use and you could make some great beats with it, plus, it sounded fantastic!!
The TS murdered the ASR. I will never forgive myself for selling mine
@@looneyburgmusic
With a sampler, you can get any sound you want. Not the case with the TS
@@dannydaniel1234 there is more to it than the number of raw sounds you have...
@@looneyburgmusic
Ok, my friend.
Funniest thing is, after the Oasys didn't do as well as Korg hoped, (it was just too damn expensive), they went right back to what worked - building on the M1 lineage, with the M3, M50, Krome, before finally getting it all right with the current King of the Mountain - the Kronos.
I feel you.
I still prefer the M3 over the Kronos in a lot of ways.
I've owned both in the past and Im about to try and pick up another M3 soon.
The 61 keybed was so nice and the sounds were great. I love the pads and karma and everything.
That was a great video I was just wondering where the M3 fit in the timeline
@@keeverw12 honestly, the sound generation tech reached peak point back in the early 2000s, since then it's mostly add more of everything, but little in the way of improvement
To me, the real replacement for the Oasys is actually the new Roland Fantom since you have a workstation with all faders, knobs, touchscreen, pads,… but you can also add more synthesis and sounds by software update. I had an Oasys 88, and I liked it at the time. I also had the neKo 76 and Muse Receptor to complete the whole setup. But today, I don’t find any keyboard good enough, most of them are just cheap plastic keyboards with really bad sounds, mainly in comparison to what we get with software such Komplete.
That’s why my new “workstation” is actually the new MacBook Pro 16” M1 Max with 64GB and 8TB SSD with a shit tons of software. I might even add the Korg Collection and Roland Cloud just to get all old Korg and Roland sounds to top all other plugins such Arturia, UVI, Omnisphere, Komplete Ultimate Collector, Eastwest Collection and such… you name it.
I can see someone saying that because Roland really did copy the look of the Oasis interface but the Kronos is the exact same layout minus all the light up buttons. Korg treats their workstations like a PS2 controller. They update it but don't stray to far from the original layout. Going way back to the Trinity era they all have that same keyboard layout. You can add sounds and expansions to the Kronos. Downloading and uploading the expansions in to it. Problem thoug his that it's a PITA to do and the expansions are ridiculously expensive.
Yes, I was tempted to go into debt and buy the fantom due to its different synth models based on their classics from the past, I also liked the logical straightforward way it's sequencer is laid out. But it is a tad on the expensive side for me, in the end I picked up a s/h AKai force for £500 and with the latest update I am pretty happy with it, a totally different machine from when it was first released, now I just need to learn the thing, thank god I have youtube to help me.
Good point the Roland cloud does have all the vintage sounds..Gotta check up on that.
Ill make your mac set up sound like toy soldiers compared to the fatness especially from old anolog gear...don't you ever come out your mouth saying Roland fantom replacement for oasys...watch your mouth.
Stop spreading toxic thinking...
I bet your front end is questionable...? and much more.
...no disrespect tho...
You make music? I don't see nothing on your channel. Only games.
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing documentary. I still remember myself trying the Oasys at the local shop back in the day, experiencing laggy menus and all sorts of bugs. Duh! But yeah, a truly revolutionary instrument that came… at a cost! :-)
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it!!
Got one….. best keyboard Ive ever had! Love it still!!
Nice!
I love hearing about legendary gear like this. I remember going into a local music store and saw music making pc console type thing for like 4 grand. It didn't look like a regular PC, and definitely didn't look like anything we use today.
But gear like this is what makes me want to eventually invest in a keyboard workstation. I got an arranger keyboard now which is nice. GAS is a bitch.
Lol I feel you..Good thing you didn't buy that console for 4grand lol..You definitely got to do your homework before getting some of these things.. Especially keyboard workstations.
This workstation really put me in the mind of the Neko and Meko workstations. Too much at one time and then it just died. I saw a Neko at the pawn shop with case for $500. I was tempted. Very. But I passed.
I would've grabbed that Neko just because lol
Love this video bro 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 I still own my Oasys. I brought it in 2010 for half the price. It had the Korg Karma technology in it and a sampler and a CD burner. So both of those was great for me. I should sell it tho. I became a FedEx driver because I needed the money to buy the Oasys. Lol I’m still a driver. Also don’t forget the Korg M3 was a affordable Oasys. I brought that too…..the sampler quality was limited and not that great.
No doubt the Oasys actually got you paid..Nice!
I love your vids man. I can tell you put a lot into it
Thanks bro!..I really appreciate it!
This keyboard was the THE BUSINESS when it came out! But it cost more than my car at the time lol. The Kronos is a worthy successor, and I still can't afford that!
Don’t need to…go software
@@tuneunleashed Way ahead of you bro, been using software for over 20 years. But keyboard workstations, and hardware in general, offer a different creative experience.
I agree, software is powerful but I don't feel the excitement and creative energy when wiggling a mouse around compared to sitting at a real musical instrument like a hardware synth.
Lol..I feel you.
Kronos was a good replacement. Over a decade later and no keyboard workstation can f&&^^ with any Kronos. Not even Korg's dumb down version of Kronos 2 (Nautilus).
I agree with you 💯
Have you used the Roland Fantom? Infinite settings/customization and yet idiot proof.
@@nelauren my Fantom is sitting in a corner lol
Softs synths does…..for half the price 🤷🏽♂️.
@@tuneunleashed I'm a gear hoarder I don't think there will be a DX7 soft synth that sounds authentic for example.
Man for $8000 I can build an entire studio for that price. 😂
Not in 1994 only a full fledged music studio could have competed. Technology was new and very expensive back then.
The Oasys is an entire studio. I’ve had mine for 12 years.
You could not have built a studio for that price back then in the old days. There is very expensive equipment nowadays that in 15 years will be cheaper. Technology is expensive in the research and development stages. But it is on the cutting-edge frontier , however future generations will reap the benefits. 25 years ago cell phones were not affordable enough for the average family to have. Now everyone has one. ☺👍
Not much of a studio for that kind of money.
When this goliath came out in 05 I was at a music store and they guarded like a bank guarding its safe..lolz. It was retailed for 10,000 CAD and it was ridiculously expensive! I remember one guy made a comment saying he has to remortgage his home if he were to buy one. Others would say why not buy two Korg Triton Studio instead of this thing. As for weight and portability issues, it is a different story! This thing weighs a metric ton!!!
Lol I feel you.
I owned an Oasys for about 5 years. Sold it 2 years ago, cause I was too scared it would break on me and it couldn't be fixed. Still made me a lot of money. But I parted with it with pain in my heart 😅
Love you series of videos they are hilarious. Wanted to ask does the sound library have the wave files included so that I can use them in the MPC studio?
Yup over 1800 wave files.
I still don’t think a guitar sounded like a guitar but yeah they did good✌🏽 and that pentium 4 processor 😂 Herbie is the man🔥
Yeah..Herbie is a legend.
I always thought Herbie was locked into Casio. I loved those commercials back in the day.
@@titanjake8640 I feel you.
3:20 - Synthesizers were never originally designed to sound like any instrument. It was made for NEW sounds. No one remembers that.
I feel you..Its just that the modeling technology was very realistic..Roger Linn and Dave Rossum in an interview said that was the goal of musicians in the 70's.. They were trying to recreate real instruments.They didn't want to lug a huge piano on stage Lol.
Dude, I LOVE your style of telling the history of these things :)
You didn’t mention the 1994 OASYS “Blue Bomber” prototype keyboard that was teased 4 years before the OASYS PCI card. Modeling technology from that trickled out into subsequent modeling synths like the Prophecy, Z1, and yes the MOSS boards for the Trinity and Triton.
Ooh good point!
Great video, love your delivery!
I reckon Korg looked at how they could reduce build costs on the OASYS and at the same time, bring the price down to a level that was more affordable whilst also increasing the synthesis power on offer. And that's what gave rise to the Kronos, which IS the OASYS but in repackaged and upgraded form.
Quite a clever move really and one which has clearly paid off given the longevity of Kronos and the spin off products that have emerged as developments of its individual synth engines - OpSix, Wavestate, Modwave etc.
Yeah..They did make a come back with the Kronos.
Korg really didn't have to look at reducing costs, the technology did that all on it's own. The processor in the Kronos is considered a "low-end", (Intel Atom I believe), compared to what was in the Oasys...
@@looneyburgmusic Good point. Makes you wonder if they designed OASYS like they did with that in mind. Kronos gets the job done, mind.
@@looneyburgmusic Oh ok.
@@jgh548 I don't think Korg realized just how quickly the Oasys hardware was going to be rendered utterly obsolete due to the rapid advances in CPU tech which really kicked into high gear right after it was released. The Oasys was amazing, for maybe a year or two, then it was just left in the dust.
Every time I think I want an Oasys I just remind myself that all I have to do is attach a midi controller to my $500 Microsoft Surface Go, load up some Vsti's and the game is over.
I owed that card too I loved my Oasys card with all of its patches It was really dope God bless
Thanks bro!
I loved the way you presented the story, very entertaining! Nice job!
Thanks fam..I appreciate it.
May Yahweh bless you brother thanks so much for helping us out and the love you have for us!!!!!
Thanks fam!..I appreciate it.
When a company offers a product for 8000 bux, it's not for a bedroom producer anymore. It's for a studio which can afford one. There are a lot of hardware like that. Studios purchase these kinds of products to attract customers, in the first place.
I feel you.
This joker is was so expensive, that they basically started making the triton again, with the m3 and m50. Total redesign tho. Them3 was they first keyboard with the backlit joystick. Krome is basically a triton too.
Korg oasis was not playing around it was the real deal I’m looking for one now lol
Few on eBay and reverb. Still love my 88 key!
I remember when It came out, the write up on it said literally....if you have to ask how much...don't even think about it!.💯
Wow! lol.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH DYRECK ON IT
No doubt bro!
Cool video! Kurzweil K2000 springs to mind as a synth to look into. Or what happened to the Access Virus series!
Agreed!
Then again, I'm a complete Kurzweil fan boy.
@@LuckyFlesh I’m more of a Yamaha man myself but I know the listing price of the K2000 was that of a SUV and now they can be found for a fraction of that.
@@infiniteheight being 30 years old might have something to do with the price. :)
@@LuckyFlesh it goes either way. Look at the 909! Look at Elektron!
@@infiniteheight excellent point.
A legit, original Moog ain't gonna be cheap.
I'm old-ish (53). I remember in the late 80s and 90s , when "digital" was the hot,new thing, you could get any Moog you wanted for 50 to 75 bucks at a pawn shop.
A smart man could've made a killing... alas, I wasn't that smart.
Just love your vidéos,real talk!!big thanks from france👌👏👏
Thanks fam!..Appreciate the love!
Insane. They can probably release this for 1000 now and make money.
Kronos was an update over oasys but without retrocompatibility.
@@thelabby9998 Yup.
God bless you and Jesus loves you. The Yamaha EX% tried to jam all kinds of things in that keyboard and it didn't work all that well I owned one and ended selling it due to its issues that they also said they would fix the issues but they never did. it's a shame too as I liked the board
Thanks fam..I feel you.
Man, the introduction of the “workstation” is when I bailed out of buying new synths. I still have synths I bought in the 80’s and 90’s and I got all I needed out of them until I started working in the box. No way in hell was I going to menu-deep dive for $8K on an Oasys when I already had multiple synths, samplers, drum machines and sequencers.
Lol..I feel you.
Korg, or Keio Electronic Laboratories as the original name was is owned by Yamaha since 1987. Yamaha is not a small company, Korg had their backup.
From what I heard, Korg M1 shared the same keybed as the DX7!? Maybe a rumor.
Unfortunately Korg made a keyboard aimed for pro musicians only with this. This keyboard wasn’t the most expensive one, kurzweil had a model that costed like two or three of these ones, maybe more. “K2500 Audio Elite”. Maybe not aimed for a schoolboy or girl either.
High price and a time when computer technology still accelerated like nuts, it wasn’t worth it for me, I love playing music, I just do it with less power.
I still have my old Triton and my xp80 running with, just a sloppy Korg pitch bender and a Roland Jog wheel that has seen better days. I love them. Keep on rocking folks.
But interesting how Korg used touch screens in Trinity, Triton and OASYS like years before iPhone.
Yup.
Apple Newton touchscreen device 1993, before the Trinity.
Dangerous young ruthless eclectic calculated killa
Lmao!...Nice!
Up to this day..I still want one!!!
I feel you.
I sold two of them when I worked at Guitar Center. I sold one to this church just because they liked the piano sound.
Nice.
Upgradable keyboards are from all time. GEM had the upgradable S-series, but it never got after the first update. Korg had the Trinity, it got a few updates, but a newer plaltform, the Triton came a few years ahead of the Trinity. The Korg Kronos is the longest living platform of all updatable keyboards.
Oh wow.
All right, Cat Killer (that's pimpin'), another winner! It's amazing how much gear is out there... A couple hours ago I was listening to some Mariachi music wondering when will the vattos hook up their accordians with refrigerator and car parts and convert 'em into synthesizers?
Ah man Lmao!
Dude, your videos are amazing! Much love from Texas!
Thanks bro!..I appreciate it!
Santa got fired lol🤣🤣 I am a Roland Fantom X8 owner! Love your videos :D
Lmao! Thanks fam.
@@DyReckProductions 🎹🤘
Little surprised the Alesis Fusion wasn't brought up.
While it lacked the touch screen and robustness of some other hands on control, it's synthesis engine(s), polyphony, memory, inputs, hard disk recorder, etc. were not only basically was able to hang with the OASYS (and in some areas exceed it), but it did so while coming in at half the cost. (in fact, at the end of the Fusion production run I was able to nab one totally brand new for only $600 [Fusion 6HD])
Kinda hard to think anything other than "Someone(s) at Korg must have been pissed...."
As told in the video, Korg had spent some years touting the coming OASYS but then the same very year they finally release it (2005), here comes Alesis with their own multi-engine, multi Tiger Shark DSP chip powered, multi-track sequencing and recording (with 8 analogue ins and up to 32 part multi-timbre), monster of their own at under half the price. Topping it off, much like Korg, Alesis had assured continued support and growth of engines and things..... granted that continued support would never come to be, as the Fusion would prove to be the last synth made by Alesis before they were bought out by InMusic (whom had also bought out Akai Music) and Alesis, as it had been, basically ceased to be (and Fusion support collapsing right along with it.
Alesis R.I.P.
Not sure how the Korg OASYS story can at all fully be delivered without including the Fusion (and vice versa), most notably given how massively Alesis managed to undercut Korg's price point while managing to generally overall match the OASYS feature set. The OASYS assuredly having a more flexible and intuitive User Interface with more immediate hands on control options and wave sequencing capabilities while the Fusion arguably beat out the OASYS in areas of acoustic physical modelling, FM synthesis, modular patch programming capabilities, multi-timbre parts possible, and hard disk recoring capabilities. It's arguably not until the current gen of workstations that things would come to rival what Alesis had achieved in 2005 as a standard. Korg to date arguably hasn't moved much sense the OASYS.... their current Kronos arguably being little more than the OASYS brought down to a more feasible price point, InMusic/Akai to date has (arguably) never offered the anything offering the same amount of synthesis engine power and depth after having aquired Alesis, Roland and Yamaha only coming to match similar polyphony levels, and just about major market player coming to match what could essientially be up to 40 recording and playback tracks (32 channels of MIDI and 8 audio). At the time of it's release, really the only thing that remotely competed with the Fusion feature set was the OASYS and unfortunately for Korg, the only things that competed with the Fusion feature set at it's price point was nobody, no one, and nothing.
Good point..Nice that you got yours for $600..Alesis made alot of good machines..People hate on stuff like the MPC 5000..But its a really good sampler..But your right about the synthesis thing. After the 4000 akai never came up with another machine with a great synth.
@@DyReckProductions interesting side note, Alesis Fusion 2005 and the Akai MPC 5000 2008.
It always seemed to me that all Akai had done was repackage the Fusion into the MPC 5000 but for some reason trimmed the Fusion down a good deal in the process. Gone were the acoustic physical modelling and FM engines and going for only 2 LFOs, 2 Envelopes, on the VA architecture rather than the Fusions up to 8 LFOs and up to 8 envelopes AND then going for more of a hard set architecture(s) over the much more free modular architectures of the Fusion.
Suppose it made sense for Akai to put some of the Fusion capabilities to use after the acquisition, but as to why they would trim it down so much....
well that may remain a mystery.
@@neilaspare8398 Yeah..I think back then Akai was trying to do things as cheap as possible and didn't know there consumer base would notice..They even made some false claims back then and took alot of heat when folks opened up some of there machines and found out they were lying..But they changed there ways..They started asking there consumers about the features they wanted and having much more respect for the beatmakers.
In my opinion Korg OASYS really represents the right direction for synthesizer architecture, but sadly it arrived a few years too early to make it cost effective. Compared to specialized DSP chips, general purpose processors are becoming increasingly faster and cheaper thanks to the wide adoption of smartphones, so it no longer makes sense to develop special hardware DSPs for synthesizers.
"so it no longer makes sense to develop special hardware DSPs for synthesizers." - Actually, it does. Just take a look at what Roland has done with the DSP based ACB-engine in the Boutique line.
Sometimes, you really need that dedicated hardware chip running the show.
@@looneyburgmusic Well all those things can also be done easily on a decent general purpose processor. Roland still does it in hardware probably because it is difficult for a large company to completely change its technology stack. Do you know that nowadays a $35 raspberry pi board has better performance compared to the $3000 Korg Kronos? Consumer tech companies like Qualcomm and Samsung have put hundreds of billions of dollars into developing high performance processors and there's no way for the digital instrument industry to match this kind R&D cost. Hence the smart way to go is to take advantage of the tech industry rather than trying to compete with it.
@@ravenrush7336 they don't have to compete with CPU design, that's what FPGA chips are for, someone else did all the research for them :-)
Korg should have created a Korg Kronos III with some of the key elements of the OASYS.
1. Folding high resolution OLED 10-12 inch screen.
2. Full illumination of the buttons.
3. Capable of adding external monitor.
4. A more personally... better workflow UI.
5. A 16 to 32 step button sequencer.
Out of curiosity, the interface for the OASYS looks very similar to the Kronos. Can anyone chime in?
The Kronos is actually a declination of the Oasys, so they share a similar User Interface. I still think the Oasys was way better with the tilted screen, the 8 pads under the screen, the illuminated faders, knobs, way better material quality. Sure it was very expensive, but it was good quality. The Kronos in comparison feel like a cheap plastic keyboard.
That would be cool.
Kronos is a tad bit stripped down from oasys. Same sonic power, if not better.
Nailed it.
Lol..Thanks fam.
You should do the Alesis fusion :)
Word! And the Andromeda A6
I still have my fusion.
I think it looks awesome in a 1950s futuristic way, but everyone else I know thinks it's ugly.
I still have my fusion 6. I actually loved it a lot ( not as much as my motif classic tho lol).
Unfortunately the fusion had a buncha hardware problems. I found a website that had a diagram showing how to upgrade some components so that it was more reliable and even increased functionality.. I can't wait till I can afford to repair my boards.
The fusion even tho a bit menu driven had a helluva modmatrix and the sounds were amazing just out the box but when ya dug in and really worked the mod matrix it clearly showed it's power. Even used it as a sub mixer for my beatboxes just to test the multi track on it.
Sorry for rambling.....:'( I miss my fusion packed up collecting dust due to life being so hectic I can't repair it for a while .
I'll never sell it tho.
@@mikeroberts5019 I also loved those Hollow Sun packs.
Too bad my hard drive loved to crash. :(
@@LuckyFlesh yeah I had em too lol...never even got to use em lol...and yeah mine did same thing lol....
As I mentioned there IS a website SOMEWHERE on SOME forum where it describes in DETAIL how to mod and replace fusion stuff to make it reliable .
Apparently HD and power supply parts were common failures.
Normally I would ditch problematic gear like that but the fusion REALLY was a work of art and in my heart deserves not to be given up on lol...
Maybe if my circuit bending / software skills improve ( or I make the money to outsource ) I'll turn my fusion into a ONE of a kind fusion and build it like a damn tank.
Damn shame Alesis gave up on such an incredible potential. I sure won't make their mistake ;)
Yo, thanks for the Big Daddy Kane reference. Very nice.
Lmao!..No doubt fam!
Bruh your delivery... lmfao love it
Lmao! Thanks
i been waiting for another vid , you my favorite yt'er rn dawg . would love to chop it up with you about music soetime dawg ...
Lol Word up!..I appreciate the love fam!
I'm a keyboard fanatic yet I never heard about this keyboard.
It's too new for me 🤷🏽♂️
It was a real big deal when it launched..But they had to discontinue it too soon.
@@DyReckProductions Pentium 4 does that
@@KC9UDX Lol.
@@DyReckProductions unfortunately Intel just wasn't innovative; and they were complacent. Pentium Pro and Pentium 4 turned out to be not optimal. It took AMD to solve that (I assume; I'm not real up on PC stuff from that era and later).
I still have mine. It was worth the 8000
Nice!!
How do i sum up the sound of Korg products. and the fact a lot of great musicians endorse them. in one word-THIN!!!!!
What brands do you prefer Yamaha or Roland?
Not disagreeing. Similar for me… but then you would get amazing players and it sounded good🤷🏽♂️ its so odd how I can hit middle C and it sounds normal, but those players hit the same note and I wanna buy vinyl of them playing.
I hear you..Korg isn't the greatest when it comes to sound..At least in there mid level gear..But they make good products.
@@jazzatnight F&&&^ him. I prefer Korg. I've played all their flagship synth workstations, from M1 to Kronos 2 and Nautilus. Yamaha, Roland, kurzweil, etc cant f&^%^ with Korg workstations.
@@dianevrules of those 4 I prefer Korg as well. I did always want a nord stage piano though. The round body of the SV-2 doesn’t let you put anything on top.
can you make a video about the korg zero8/zero4 mixers??
This is why I say the follow up to the Kronos will be epic. The OASYS was epic .... the Kronos was epic and wildly successful. With the success of the Kronos, there is no reason for them to pull punches. Furthermore, since the Kronos, we've had three Nord Stage's and two different Montages. Korg is in the lab building a monster. Mark my words. The past 20 years of flaghship releases from Korg says I'm right.
Had I not bought a Open Lab Neko, I would have bought one. After seven OL products in hindsight I should have purchased one.
I feel you.
Hey, it's @Joshua Lee D productions. Can you please do another "WHAT HAD HAPPEN WAS" video of the Yamaha ypg 535? Thats my request.
No doubt fam..Gonna put that on the list..Loving your videos..I see you rocking the church crowd!.. nice!
I used to want this so bad and go to the Guitar Center to window shop over it.
Lol I feel you.
Evolved into the Far less expensive Kronos...... Opened up mine to replace the solid state drive and was a PC running Linux! Very cool and reliable...😃With a 1200+ page parameter guide. Nothing is as powerful to this day!
Oh ok cool.
Pocket operators episode is what I’m anticipating
Lol..No doubt.
3:14 Jordan Rudess and that other dude were goin in LMFAO
Lol.
Which is better, the Korg Oasys or the Korg Kronos?
The kronos basically fixed any issue the Oasys had..And is more modern right now.
That depends on how strong your back is? I've only ever owned the Kronos 2 and am extremely happy with it.
Kronos is an Oasys on crack...
I can’t find these anywhere
You should do the Korg N series
No doubt..Gonna definitely put that on the list.
Could you talk about technics
Oh wow! Thats a good one..Gonna put that on the list.
In all honesty the Yamaha Motif ES guitars at the time left the much more expensive Korg Oasys for dead.
Oh wow.
Always wanted one of these but then settled for a fully expanded Korg M3 with Radiaus board and never had the OASYS itch again
Nice!
Great content
Thanks bro.
Bro give us some history on the Dr 5 from boss and the micro x from korg that would be cool 😎
The micro x was literally a triton without the touch screen
2Gig Ram.. 40 GB Hardrive 😮😯 and now? It’s tough to give away
I feel you.
The Roland integra has those sounds in it even tho it's made by korg the integra bang for ya buck
Oh ok.
Not really…Kontakt has better sounds and it’s much more cheaper than the Roland Integra-7. Not gonna lie for a hardware the Roland Integra-7 is pretty good!
@@tuneunleashed you used the integra 7 ?
hi, did you allready done a video about akai mpx 8 and mpx 16?
Not yet..But ima put those two on the list.
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Im one of the lucky 3000 I love my OASYS 88. way better than nord
Nice!
Dammit I am suscribing 😂
Lmao! Thanks fam.
Can you do the Kurzweil 2500x?
Lol You know I got a Kurzweil in the bag.
hahaha the original MIKO!!!
8k lol I thought the Yamaha montage was expensive for 3k.
I got one and fantom g8
I feel you.
Nice!
i still have my Oasys PCI Windows 98 Box. great stuff
Nice.
I am scared of that keyboard - give me a Triton!
This was/is a Triton on steroids and Meth. The workflow was the same just a lot more for the oasys
In South Africa around 15 000$ ....
Dang!
There wasnt even harlem shake videos for another 8 years when it came out lol
Lmao!
could never trust Korg with that much money
Lmao!
Bought pasta in 2005 whe I was yong , still have it, but now it’s freezes on me sometimes, wasn’t worth 8k for sure, sounds were good but not that good, not reliable for live, takes too long to boot
Bought oasys, damn auto spell
Oh wow..Thats crazy.
And all i wanted was a Korg Kronos and i am 54.
Why did you take it off the market korg?
Lol I feel you.
Probably due to the availability of the Atom mainboard/CPUs.
Love ya Content Bruh....keep 'em Coming.
I was a "Korg Guy" totally...Period!!
I had many Korg Products and researched their Oasys project to come finally finding out the construction final keyboard would cost $70,000 bucks...I lost alot of testosterone behind that post.
I bought the $1800 buck Oasys PCI Card being blown away from it's sound quality!!
Didn’t know how but I vowed when the keyboard version dropped, so was my money. That came to fruition and I in essence has two Oasys products.
As you stated....despite promises of open architecture and updates....Oasys was dropped!! Pissed off is understandable but when Korg brought out the Kronos shortly after??!!!???....I to this day hate those damn Japanese at Korg, still get migraines from photos of the Kronos, and ready to pull that burner out and I don't mean Cd either!!
Mackie did the same with the D8b Digital Mixer and I was a Mackie user 5 mixer generation back!!
Now......I wouldn't buy a Korg nor Mackie Bubble Magnet for ya Fridge!!!
I'm still looking for a representative to Donkey Stomp from those Companies...believe that!!!
Roland is now profiting off the Oasys architecture at the right time in software designer strength!!
I contemplate eventually buying one...but with my experience...Imma wait 2-3 years to see how Roland supports this product.
Thanks for allowing my overdue early 2000's batching release!!
Bless Up. 🙏🏿🕊🍷
"Bitching Post"
Lmao! Ahh man you made my morning !! LOL.
Just bought an Opsix for seven hunnit
Oh wow ok cool!
There was a sliver keyboard for $20K
Crazy.
The oasys dont even seem that much better than the roland fantom which was half the price at the highest end
But can Oasys play wonderwall? Wait…
Lmao!
YEAH, the cutting edge is always the bleeding edge. Consumer testing at its finest. Cheap for the company.
Yup.
Yamaha was sweating bullets when this thing came out cuz their Motifs were getting a bit stale lol.
Lol.
No they weren't. And I'm a huge Korg fan. Korg has never been a serious threat to Yamaha, don't forget, you're talking about a company that even went as far as bailing Korg out from going broke at one point. The Motif line dominated the workstation market for years, from its release until the coming of the Kronos.
Just take a look at how many Motif boards you see in videos of groups playing live, versus workstations from Roland or Korg. Especially the Motif XF, that board was everywhere at one point.
@@looneyburgmusic Word. I have their follow up to Motif (which motif owners religiously deny is a follow up), Yamaha Montage, and although It only got two synth engines, FM-X and AWM - it's an absolute crazy beast of a synthesizer, I've had mine for a year (and I'm a programmer type of guy) and still finds it too complex, it's kind of trying to be a jack-of-all trades, while Korg now went back to their simpler roots (look at the Modwave, Wavestation (and SE) etc series. based on a 5 dollar computer - raspberry pi. And they're doing tons better for it).
@@joonglegamer9898 We've reached a point where synth-tech has become so advanced that a 5 or 10 year old synth is just as good as something brand new. That's why the "Big-Three" are going backwards - there is no where else to improve the current generation of synth engines.
The Montage is an update to the SY77/99, Roland has their Boutique line and the System-8, and Korg is busy being Korg.
@@looneyburgmusic We mostly agree, except the Yamaha's FM-X Deep Learning Morphing function is def. new and kind of revolutionary. Have you even seen it?
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Thanks!
@@DyReckProductions and thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos. It can’t be easy to not only research these golden products but also make the fun content with it. It’s literally a breath of fresh air and very inspirational. I can’t wait for more material to watch over and over again. I salute you brother.
@@jayonbaby Thanks man..I really appreciate it..More videos to come! lol.
Just cause u could...
Don't mean u should...
Might be right on that one.
Bet those people that brought one are still making payments on it to this very day.
Lmao!
@@DyReckProductions actually, my local synth shop refused financing for the Oasys, heard lots of other shops were the same - it was too risky.
@@looneyburgmusic Dang!..They was like cash or nothing lol.
Harlem shake wasnt even out in 2005
Lol!
Back in the day it was unbelievably expensive and almost impossible to get a polished finish without going to an expensive studio.
The only issue now is that everything sounds so polished and auto-tuned it sounds the same. Hard to differentiate, sonically speaking, rock, pop and country music now.
I feel you.
What had happened was!!!
Lol!