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Originally Posted by Dirty Halo Curious, you seem to be disturbed by all this. Insecure about your purchase by chance? Hmmm...
BUT, let's call a truce for a moment. Really. |
So, first you get in a few punches, then you ask that people kindly not hit you back?
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Originally Posted by Dirty Halo So, at $8,500.00, why would I want this keyboard that isn't as good as the DAW I have, collectively not as good as all the synths/keys I own, not as good as the outboard gear I have, either hardware or software and doesn't offer a new sound, per se. |
If you don't think that OASYS sounds better than your other synths, and/or doesn't offer new sounds that you're interested in (since I know for a fact that it does actually offer new sounds), then it's not a synth for you. End of story.
Not surprisingly, however, other people may have a different opinion. Herbie Hancock and Jordan Rudess, for example, seem to like it quite a bit (Jordan sold off a bunch of gear to get *three* OASYS keyboards, two for the road and one for his studio). As noted earlier, I'm told that both Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel are digging OASYS as well.
Clearly they have reached a conclusion different from you. That's fine, and does not invalidate your opinion - but it also shows that yours are not the only possible conclusions, as you imply by repeatedly discounting any positive opinions about OASYS as people merely "justifying their purchase," being "insecure," etc.
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Originally Posted by Dirty Halo My point is, who's buying this? Who is this designed for? I am sincerely asking. |
I think you can answer this by looking at the last major keyboard in this price-range, the K2500/K2600. Serious musicians looking for great sounds and powerful synthesis tools in a highly musical instrument.
OASYS makes new sounds (and, I personally feel, interesting and aesthetically pleasing sounds as well) via various technologies, such as wave sequencing, various cool features in the AL-1 (such as the Multi Filter), and the physical modeling of the STR-1. It pushes quality envelopes with the low aliasing of both the sample playback and VA oscillators (via completely different mechanisms), the frequency range of its resonant fiters, the smoothness and speed (updates every 32 samples, and then smoothed at the sample rate) of its EGs, LFOs, step sequencers, etc, and by locking all programmable modulation to the sample rate so that nothing slows down or jitters even when the system is pushed to the max. It offers players many different built-in physical controls (X-Y joystick, vector joystick, ribbon, switches, knobs, and sliders), with a modulation architecture designed to match, and sounds that use all of them in a creative and musical manner.
None of that may matter to you, and if so that's completely fine. Musical instruments are always subject to taste, and tastes differ.
- Dan