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Vermeer · 24th March 2006

I really don't think Yamaha or Roland are going to go after the OASYS. The real money is in affortable synths ($700-$1,995). The OASYS is for Korg what Formula1 is for Honda: a way to test technology that may or may not end up in more "bread-and-butter" products. It took them over 10 years to get there.

Korg did the same thing for the Triton range (still milking it by the way...) and they already have the new Radias Synth using some OASYS technology.

Roland and Yamaha have diferent ways of developping affordable keyboards without having a high-price unit like the OASYS. Korg is smaller (btw, Yamaha used to own part of Korg), so every R&D dime must be accounted for. That's how I see it businesswise.

So don't wait for the other guys to "catch-up"; there's not enough in it for them.

Vermeer
"Amateur Korg Historian"

24th March 2006	#28
Vermeer Gear maniac Joined: May 2004 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 158	I really don't think Yamaha or Roland are going to go after the OASYS. The real money is in affortable synths ($700-$1,995). The OASYS is for Korg what Formula1 is for Honda: a way to test technology that may or may not end up in more "bread-and-butter" products. It took them over 10 years to get there. Korg did the same thing for the Triton range (still milking it by the way...) and they already have the new Radias Synth using some OASYS technology. Roland and Yamaha have diferent ways of developping affordable keyboards without having a high-price unit like the OASYS. Korg is smaller (btw, Yamaha used to own part of Korg), so every R&D dime must be accounted for. That's how I see it businesswise. So don't wait for the other guys to "catch-up"; there's not enough in it for them. Vermeer "Amateur Korg Historian"