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Anybody leery of this thing not because of the cost but simply because, like me, they don't like to have all their stuff inside one box?
I don't want all my stuff in one box. Unless it's my cell phone haha.
Seriously though, the surface of a keyboard is big but only so big. That's your interface. I prefer a sequencer interface over there, a mixer interface over here, a synth interface or two or three or four over there, and so on. I look at my studio and count up the surface area that controls the equivalent of what's in the Oasys and it's like 10x as many buttons and controls and displays as the Oasys has.
I feel the same way about jamming everything into a computer.
Taking it to the hotel? You can't really use half of its capabilities in a hotel room. Gonna mix with no monitors? Track with no mics? Wouldn't you be better off with something lots smaller and lighter than 60lbs?
One final observation and then I'll shuddup. The kind of folks that pop $8000 for a keyboard want the best of everything. But the Oasys can't be the best of *everything* for very long. It's not gonna be PT HD and Virus and V-Synth and MPC and you name it. Even if it is now it can't hold that position for hold. So it looks to me like the best of everything folks will inevitably have to focus on some of its aspects (say physical modeling or ... who knows) as the real reason for getting it, and then integrate it into their rigs like any other board. But then its high price will work against it.
-synthoid
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