Saw this one on sequencer.de:"MOD-7 Waveshaping VPM Synthesizer
New EXi MOD-7 Waveshaping VPM Synthesizer with „classical” synthesis procedure, whose flexibility was increased here in the almost immeasurable. A demo version is contained in system V1.3."
sequencer.de states: "it does not look like 6 OP FM or something since Korg never did complex FM, but possibly something new or different since they tell us it is 'unbeliavable and unlimited'.
As of this post there is only mention of the 1.2 OS on the OASYS site.
If you know more, feel free to comment.
Update via the comments:
"More info here [Look for "Tour the OASYS Virtual Interface – Now includes the new MOD-7!!" and "New Operating System"]
And sounds here, at the bottom of the page [second to last section]
From Korg.com:"A demo version of the Legacy Analog collection is installed with OASYS software version 1.2"
ReplyDeleteWhat? You pay u$s8500 for this AMD PC and then you have to pay for the Legacy Collection? Is that right?
I wish I had a nickel for every time some new synthesis technology promised to be 'unlimited'
ReplyDeleteWait... wait... next thing you're going to say is the 'only limit is my imagination' or that I can 'make any sound imaginable'
I predict it is Korg's version of Casio's Phase Distortion synthesis. A classic, reborn!
ReplyDeleteAll I want to know is if it can sample my belches across the keyboard like the mighty SK-1.
Who cares! I want to know what the thing with the holes is!
ReplyDeleteFinally, orchestral instruments and a new synth engine! Dayum!
ReplyDeleteI love the Oasys.
ReplyDeleteIt really is quite great.
Even with a puny AMD in it.
It's well coded, and you can get things done in it easily. The UI is very fast to navigate.
Well, my Hartmann Neuron is based on the Pentium iii engine, and I love the way it sounds. Of course, it cost half of what the Oasys does (and was STILL damned expensive!). And I'd still love to get an Oasys (of course, that would mean abandoning my wife and daughter, but, hey, an Oasys!).
ReplyDeleteMY Wife was ready to can me over a cmu-800r..I swore she was gonna kill me in my sleep with the 106, she used to curse at it everytime she walked past it, she thinks the bass station keys is cute though!
ReplyDeleteFunny how some new synthesis is always created, I'm still trying to figure out KARMA and "HI" synthesis,they are all just a computer with keys/non analogue IMO. Rather have the new M3 w/ radias board than the oasys.
ReplyDelete...is it just me or does KORG need to put some knobs all over the M3
ReplyDeleteexcellent, great expansion!
ReplyDeletepeople who never owned or touched an oasys will always contribute their comments, lacking any detailed insights. so be it, that's just the meaningless noise, they produce. no reason to pay any attention.
"I wish I had a nickel for every time some new synthesis technology promised to be 'unlimited'"
ReplyDeleteNote that this was from a web translation of text from a German distributor. Here's the official English version of the text: "The new EXi MOD-7 Waveshaping VPM synthesizer takes a classic form of synthesis into new and uncharted territories."
More info here: http://www.korg.com/gear/prod_info.asp?A_PROD_NO=OASYS
And sounds here, at the bottom of the page: http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Synthesizer/OASYS/demo.html
actual links:
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While I'm not keen on marketing hyperbole, there is obviously a lot of thought behind the software. The flash demo reveals a lot of details. Sort of reminds me of what Kurzweil's VAST would have been in 2007, had they not laid off their development team.
ReplyDeleteFrom Korg's description, it looks a little like where AFM might have gone if Yamaha had stuck with the SY99's technology - the SY99 already had freely routable operators, a pair of filters, and PCM crossmod, and later evolutions of Yamaha's FM technology have added arbitrary waveforms (eg the MA7 mobile phone chip).
ReplyDeleteAnd about time too! FM was always a massively underutilised synthesis technology, even with sine-only operators; once you allow other waveforms to play, things get much more interesting. My V50 is probably the synth I spend the most time programming, even despite the limitations of Yamaha's 4-op FM implementation, simply because it's fascinating to see what can come out... It's nice to have the filter too, though; filter sweeps are troublesome with "raw" FM, and if you can use a filter for the harmonic decay you get more freedom to use FM for harmonic evolution. Not surprisingly, additive and subtractive synthesis methods complement each other nicely :)