im not so sure. its a cut throat business and ive seen alot of well known companies capitalising on the loyalty of its customer base at the expense of a couple thousand pissed off people up until its eventual launch. valve did this on half life 2 for instance only everyone had to wait 14 months instead of 3. needless to say, that didnt stop people pre ordering it months in advance of release, and it didnt stop it selling millions. it didnt stop people from never buying valve products again, which is what everyone would have to have done to effectively protest against this kind of marketing. as evidenced by the fact that half the people here pre ordered the virus TI on the strength of access's claims as to the machine's capabilities? well that just shows that access really had little to lose by doing this. and to be frank, i dont blame them with competition like roland and korg seemingly forging away at their next digital masterpeices.

its all well and good saying its poor form on access, but this type of company behavior is pretty much the norm if the stakes are high, and if they make as much money as they do from an as yet non existant, non functional product, then good job access - i like the way their brand name has so much weight to it - its more pressure on them to not fuck it up when the TI eventually does launch.

EDIT: hollowcell - i cant believe you staked your mother's life on the authenticity of that indigo 3 8O you must not value your mother's life that much seeing as blank/jasedee saw through it instantly. *grin* you should definitely try to photoshop a virus modular or a nord lead 4. get some more people whipped up into a frenzy. *grin*

0day, 0day....
 

OMG, it's an absolute monster!

Korg OASYS it definately is. And it's a Triton crusher at the same time. With KARMA technology.

With a 511mb, 4-velocity layered Concert Grand piano, too...

A mutha f'in behemoth.

hmmm thanks for the heads up timo...

everyone's complaining about the projected price tag of this monster - but if you weigh up those features on paper against the TI, have we found a product which gives you better bang for your buck?

i wonder how many people will start reconsidering their TI purchases now? (especially if korg starts shipping from the 20th Jan...)

cheers

blay

This new Korg would appear to be your all-in-one synth solution. OASYS, VA, WAVETABLE and VS.

Very tempting.....however, there are two contraints. We dont know what the UI is like and we dont know its real Cost. Havign said that.....hats off to Korg for finally develping the OASYS concept fully. Its been like 11 years in the making.

DS

Yep, me for one. I loved Korg's Trinity and Moss, including the touchsreen interface - VERY intuitive - which is why I've been grumbling ever since about the Virus' GUI (albeit Indigo v1), it's dreadful.

Damn, I really wished Korg were going to do a 61-note version, though. The price might be just too much for me, in its current form. $7K USD (?3270 GBP, or 5300 Euros) being the rumoured RRP price for the 88-note version (the street price will be cheaper, I'll bet, as will the 71-note version). If the 71-note version ever goes as low as ?2K street price, I'll be looking into getting that as opposed to a Polar TI.

Roll on Namm!

yep i for one would love to be there when it all starts - perhaps korg and access can get booths across from each other and talk trash to each other all week :lol:

"my mamas synth is fatter than yo mamas"

Hehehe, just decided to read these Korg threads and found this gem! Honestly, I really hope Access doesn't have a buggy OS, because the amount of "help me" threads is bound to increase! :cry:

Realisticly though I am guessing there will be bugs. With something this complicated, containing many variables when running in a VSTi realm - they can't test every possible config - can they?. Look at Sounddiver.

Now about this Korg thing. Comparing it to the TI is really strange. Very different machines indeed. I doubt very much the Korg VA will match the TI's VA - having said that though I still like the sound of the MS2000. I just think they will be too different to compare really. Have to wait and see.

It's gunna be a cool Namm this year! Really new stuff hitting the market. Not just the same old VA gear this year. :D Can't wait.

No, I gambled her life against the fact that it wasn't a Photoshop creation. I made it in Photo impression4. I love me mum. :wink:

Looks nice. I want to know the price. That thing could save Korg from certain doom if they don't overprice it.