Ben,
make sure to put on a good demo this year for sonicstate.com :lol:

That is one of the main reasons why i am simply waiting for the TI and havent jumped ship to the g2. Albeit the G2 is a completely different beast, it has caught my eye. :lol:

What are you trying to say? ;)

This is going to be the first showing of the TI to the public (hopefully), so make the wait worth our while! :D Please, demo some of the new osc's (which I am sure you are already going too), we already know what the filters sound like. :P

Boys and girls......

I woke this morning after a nightmare i couldnt remember. I had breakfast and a nice cup of Earl Grey Tea.......and then something hit me....

The specs of the new Korg look impressive. But sadly this isnt as innovative as first seems. All these technologies have been existence in one form or other for some time. True, this is a keyboard that brings it all together.....but it would appear to be at cost. Now I dont know about you....but for me, there is a significant difference affording a ?1500 synth as opposed to a ?4000 one.

I have to say I was never tempted

DS

There's no sense in comparing Oasys and Virus TI. Oasys is a real all-around workstationg, when Virus TI is a top notch VA. Also this "Virus TI killer" speak is total nonsense. I can bet my arm that Oasys won't have even near the same quality VA section as Virus TI does. Afterall Access has focused 100% on VA's for years when Korg has been wokring more on sampling stuff and done just few silly VA's that didn't rival with Virus even when Access was young company.

I'd say that Oasys is good, but not as good on VA section as Virus TI.

Damn. I can't wait till next Thursday when the official Oasys details are released. I'm most interested in the pricing. I really, really, really hope that Korg doesn't overprice it... It would be shame if Korg would ruin their first good product in a decade by ridiculous pricing.

I'm not very excited on this new korg synth if those are the specs. I mostly need virtual analog/analog synths. I had a Korg Z1 earlier and I both liked/hated it but these days we have all kinds of software to do sounds. For physical modeling, the new Sculpture in Logic7 may be the best one available. This new korg can be a great synth but who's gonna buy it if the price will be $7000? Maybe Jarre. :lol: I doubt that any company will bring us a new synth at NAMM 2005 which would be better than the Virus TI. The Virus C already is quite a synth.

Yup. Afterall the new Korg is for players. Brilliant work horse on stage. It has everything you need: Hammond modelling, VA with nice wavetablestuff and sampling. It also good for recording a band and making allaround stuff from quick demos to even fully finished stuff.

Yup. I believe this new Korg will be a great synth. Only thing that can ruin it is the price (or the plastic samplings, but I hope it's the past... Ih ope...). I really fear that the price is too insane. I'd be ready to pay lots for that synth, but too much is too much.

You are not lying. Sculpture is freakin amazing. The physical modeling and fx section on it are top notch.

I too must comment that it should have been firewire, and I don't think that would have significantly altered the price seeing as I put a firewire card in my computer for less than 30 bucks when I got my MOTU

I'm really wondering what the VA section will sound like...
They mention ultra-low aliasing osc delivering crisp and spot on high freq response, that's a very interresting feature since I believe the aliasing on the virus is one of the worst I've ever heard.

Maybe they will make the whole thing available in separate modules as well...Would be quite cool!