The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton Extreme. Unlike the Triton series, the OASYS was implemented on a custom Linux operating system and was designed to be arbitrarily expandable via software updates, with its functionality limited only by the PC-like hardware. It was officially discontinued in April 2009.
The standard Oasys comes with a hardware similar to many personal compu...
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The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton Extreme. Unlike the Triton series, the OASYS was implemented on a custom Linux operating system and was designed to be arbitrarily expandable via software updates, with its functionality limited only by the PC-like hardware. It was officially discontinued in April 2009.
The standard Oasys comes with a hardware similar to many personal computers:
It features Korg's OASYS (acronym for Open Architecture SYnthesis Studio) technology, which allows multiple synthesis engines to be used simultaneously. The OASYS also includes second-generation KARMA technology (with the first generation having first appeared in the Korg KARMA). It has either a 76-key synth-action or 88-key hammer-action keyboard.
As of December 20, 2008 the latest version of the OASYS OS is 1.3.1, featuring the following synthesis engines:
The HD-1 is a sample+synthesis engine with a two "oscillator" structure. In...
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