I think we've established it may be OASYS.
>>This info seems to be pushed towards the possibility of this being a late release of the Oasys platform...
However, the stuff that Artur spouted at the top of the thread was ripped from the Vanille.de site, and that stuff is years old. Artur just turned it into a synopsis simply because he heard the name OASYS mentioned on the forums.
The guys there don't know jack all about any more insider info confirming it 100% one way or another, or adding to any info that was already freely available from the OASYS-PCI back in 1998.
I'm hoping it IS OASYS though, as it would be a monstrous concept. And an equally monstrous price tag.
If a 61-note synth action version came under $4K street price, I might even consider it over a Polar TI. I loved the flexibility of Korg's significantly more basic "Moss", but the sound quality of the Oasys is completely on another level to Moss. You could program a hypersaw and wavetable in a release of Oasys as it was meant to be (back in 1994, when the Korg visionaries imagined such a concept, but didn't have the available technology at that time), I'd imagine, which is what I'd be getting a TI for (as well as the Virus characteristic sound, of course). I think that blue joystick effort may even be a hint to wavestation wavetable madness, who knows?
However, I'm not paying owt
more than ?2K for a ruddy synth, though, no matter what it does! hehe