KORG OASYS WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS.. 

These videos really open up my eyes to how expensive music production gear used to be. Us producers starting out in the last like 5 or 10 years got it lucky.

The Korg Oasys was a real battleship of a keyboard, really bulky. I wanted on of these back then but did'nt want to sell my kidneys for one! The Kronos is like a refined Oaysy, but still a little pricey!

I love your vids man. I can tell you put a lot into it

Love this video bro 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 I still own my Oasys. I brought it in 2010 for half the price. It had the Korg Karma technology in it and a sampler and a CD burner. So both of those was great for me. I should sell it tho. I became a FedEx driver because I needed the money to buy the Oasys. Lol I’m still a driver. Also don’t forget the Korg M3 was a affordable Oasys. I brought that too…..the sampler quality was limited and not that great.

Funniest thing is, after the Oasys didn't do as well as Korg hoped, (it was just too damn expensive), they went right back to what worked - building on the M1 lineage, with the M3, M50, Krome, before finally getting it all right with the current King of the Mountain - the Kronos.

Kronos was a good replacement. Over a decade later and no keyboard workstation can f&&^^ with any Kronos. Not even Korg's dumb down version of Kronos 2 (Nautilus).

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing documentary. I still remember myself trying the Oasys at the local shop back in the day, experiencing laggy menus and all sorts of bugs. Duh! But yeah, a truly revolutionary instrument that came… at a cost! :-)

I love my Oasys 88, She sits beautifully within my Korg Rig and I would never be with out it, despite weighing 32.1 kg 😬 Sounds, Interface, and Mmmmmmmm ease of use , Definitely worth the swollen Knackers😀

Love you series of videos they are hilarious. Wanted to ask does the sound library have the wave files included so that I can use them in the MPC studio?

I loved the way you presented the story, very entertaining! Nice job!

i been waiting for another vid , you my favorite yt'er rn dawg . would love to chop it up with you about music soetime dawg ...

To me, the Ensoniq ASR-10 was the best keyboard ever made...it was very easy to use and you could make some great beats with it, plus, it sounded fantastic!!

Dude, your videos are amazing! Much love from Texas!

Just love your vidéos,real talk!!big thanks from france👌👏👏

Got one….. best keyboard Ive ever had! Love it still!!

I love hearing about legendary gear like this. I remember going into a local music store and saw music making pc console type thing for like 4 grand. It didn't look like a regular PC, and definitely didn't look like anything we use today. But gear like this is what makes me want to eventually invest in a keyboard workstation. I got an arranger keyboard now which is nice. GAS is a bitch.

To me, the real replacement for the Oasys is actually the new Roland Fantom since you have a workstation with all faders, knobs, touchscreen, pads,… but you can also add more synthesis and sounds by software update. I had an Oasys 88, and I liked it at the time. I also had the neKo 76 and Muse Receptor to complete the whole setup. But today, I don’t find any keyboard good enough, most of them are just cheap plastic keyboards with really bad sounds, mainly in comparison to what we get with software such Komplete. That’s why my new “workstation” is actually the new MacBook Pro 16” M1 Max with 64GB and 8TB SSD with a shit tons of software. I might even add the Korg Collection and Roland Cloud just to get all old Korg and Roland sounds to top all other plugins such Arturia, UVI, Omnisphere, Komplete Ultimate Collector, Eastwest Collection and such… you name it.

Man for $8000 I can build an entire studio for that price. 😂

Yo, thanks for the Big Daddy Kane reference. Very nice.

This keyboard was the THE BUSINESS when it came out! But it cost more than my car at the time lol. The Kronos is a worthy successor, and I still can't afford that!

I still don’t think a guitar sounded like a guitar but yeah they did good✌🏽 and that pentium 4 processor 😂 Herbie is the man🔥

All right, Cat Killer (that's pimpin'), another winner! It's amazing how much gear is out there... A couple hours ago I was listening to some Mariachi music wondering when will the vattos hook up their accordians with refrigerator and car parts and convert 'em into synthesizers?

Great video, love your delivery! I reckon Korg looked at how they could reduce build costs on the OASYS and at the same time, bring the price down to a level that was more affordable whilst also increasing the synthesis power on offer. And that's what gave rise to the Kronos, which IS the OASYS but in repackaged and upgraded form. Quite a clever move really and one which has clearly paid off given the longevity of Kronos and the spin off products that have emerged as developments of its individual synth engines - OpSix, Wavestate, Modwave etc.

This workstation really put me in the mind of the Neko and Meko workstations. Too much at one time and then it just died. I saw a Neko at the pawn shop with case for $500. I was tempted. Very. But I passed.

Cool video! Kurzweil K2000 springs to mind as a synth to look into. Or what happened to the Access Virus series!

can you make a video about the korg zero8/zero4 mixers??

I owed that card too I loved my Oasys card with all of its patches It was really dope God bless

When this goliath came out in 05 I was at a music store and they guarded like a bank guarding its safe..lolz. It was retailed for 10,000 CAD and it was ridiculously expensive! I remember one guy made a comment saying he has to remortgage his home if he were to buy one. Others would say why not buy two Korg Triton Studio instead of this thing. As for weight and portability issues, it is a different story! This thing weighs a metric ton!!!

Bruh your delivery... lmfao love it

God bless you and Jesus loves you. The Yamaha EX% tried to jam all kinds of things in that keyboard and it didn't work all that well I owned one and ended selling it due to its issues that they also said they would fix the issues but they never did. it's a shame too as I liked the board

Santa got fired lol🤣🤣 I am a Roland Fantom X8 owner! Love your videos :D

You didn’t mention the 1994 OASYS “Blue Bomber” prototype keyboard that was teased 4 years before the OASYS PCI card. Modeling technology from that trickled out into subsequent modeling synths like the Prophecy, Z1, and yes the MOSS boards for the Trinity and Triton.

Which is better, the Korg Oasys or the Korg Kronos?

Great content

hi, did you allready done a video about akai mpx 8 and mpx 16?

Hey, it's @Joshua Lee D productions. Can you please do another "WHAT HAD HAPPEN WAS" video of the Yamaha ypg 535? Thats my request.

3:20 - Synthesizers were never originally designed to sound like any instrument. It was made for NEW sounds. No one remembers that.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH DYRECK ON IT

i still have my Oasys PCI Windows 98 Box. great stuff

May Yahweh bless you brother thanks so much for helping us out and the love you have for us!!!!!

I owned an Oasys for about 5 years. Sold it 2 years ago, cause I was too scared it would break on me and it couldn't be fixed. Still made me a lot of money. But I parted with it with pain in my heart 😅

Man, the introduction of the “workstation” is when I bailed out of buying new synths. I still have synths I bought in the 80’s and 90’s and I got all I needed out of them until I started working in the box. No way in hell was I going to menu-deep dive for $8K on an Oasys when I already had multiple synths, samplers, drum machines and sequencers.

Dangerous young ruthless eclectic calculated killa

I can’t find these anywhere

Nailed it.

I remember when It came out, the write up on it said literally....if you have to ask how much...don't even think about it!.💯

Up to this day..I still want one!!!

Korg oasis was not playing around it was the real deal I’m looking for one now lol

Dammit I am suscribing 😂

When a company offers a product for 8000 bux, it's not for a bedroom producer anymore. It's for a studio which can afford one. There are a lot of hardware like that. Studios purchase these kinds of products to attract customers, in the first place.

Can you do the Kurzweil 2500x?

This joker is was so expensive, that they basically started making the triton again, with the m3 and m50. Total redesign tho. Them3 was they first keyboard with the backlit joystick. Krome is basically a triton too.

Bro give us some history on the Dr 5 from boss and the micro x from korg that would be cool 😎

Could you talk about technics

Little surprised the Alesis Fusion wasn't brought up. While it lacked the touch screen and robustness of some other hands on control, it's synthesis engine(s), polyphony, memory, inputs, hard disk recorder, etc. were not only basically was able to hang with the OASYS (and in some areas exceed it), but it did so while coming in at half the cost. (in fact, at the end of the Fusion production run I was able to nab one totally brand new for only $600 [Fusion 6HD]) Kinda hard to think anything other than "Someone(s) at Korg must have been pissed...." As told in the video, Korg had spent some years touting the coming OASYS but then the same very year they finally release it (2005), here comes Alesis with their own multi-engine, multi Tiger Shark DSP chip powered, multi-track sequencing and recording (with 8 analogue ins and up to 32 part multi-timbre), monster of their own at under half the price. Topping it off, much like Korg, Alesis had assured continued support and growth of engines and things..... granted that continued support would never come to be, as the Fusion would prove to be the last synth made by Alesis before they were bought out by InMusic (whom had also bought out Akai Music) and Alesis, as it had been, basically ceased to be (and Fusion support collapsing right along with it. Alesis R.I.P. Not sure how the Korg OASYS story can at all fully be delivered without including the Fusion (and vice versa), most notably given how massively Alesis managed to undercut Korg's price point while managing to generally overall match the OASYS feature set. The OASYS assuredly having a more flexible and intuitive User Interface with more immediate hands on control options and wave sequencing capabilities while the Fusion arguably beat out the OASYS in areas of acoustic physical modelling, FM synthesis, modular patch programming capabilities, multi-timbre parts possible, and hard disk recoring capabilities. It's arguably not until the current gen of workstations that things would come to rival what Alesis had achieved in 2005 as a standard. Korg to date arguably hasn't moved much sense the OASYS.... their current Kronos arguably being little more than the OASYS brought down to a more feasible price point, InMusic/Akai to date has (arguably) never offered the anything offering the same amount of synthesis engine power and depth after having aquired Alesis, Roland and Yamaha only coming to match similar polyphony levels, and just about major market player coming to match what could essientially be up to 40 recording and playback tracks (32 channels of MIDI and 8 audio). At the time of it's release, really the only thing that remotely competed with the Fusion feature set was the OASYS and unfortunately for Korg, the only things that competed with the Fusion feature set at it's price point was nobody, no one, and nothing.

You should do the Alesis fusion :)

In my opinion Korg OASYS really represents the right direction for synthesizer architecture, but sadly it arrived a few years too early to make it cost effective. Compared to specialized DSP chips, general purpose processors are becoming increasingly faster and cheaper thanks to the wide adoption of smartphones, so it no longer makes sense to develop special hardware DSPs for synthesizers.

But interesting how Korg used touch screens in Trinity, Triton and OASYS like years before iPhone.

I sold two of them when I worked at Guitar Center. I sold one to this church just because they liked the piano sound.

You should do the Korg N series

Insane. They can probably release this for 1000 now and make money.

Upgradable keyboards are from all time. GEM had the upgradable S-series, but it never got after the first update. Korg had the Trinity, it got a few updates, but a newer plaltform, the Triton came a few years ahead of the Trinity. The Korg Kronos is the longest living platform of all updatable keyboards.

Still have my Oasys after 16 years and wouldn't part with it. Built like a tank and sounds and looks amazing. Gigged all over Europe numerous times without a hitch. Have a Kronos2 and still prefer the Oasys. Cheers.

Had I not bought a Open Lab Neko, I would have bought one. After seven OL products in hindsight I should have purchased one.

3:14 Jordan Rudess and that other dude were goin in LMFAO

This is why I say the follow up to the Kronos will be epic. The OASYS was epic .... the Kronos was epic and wildly successful. With the success of the Kronos, there is no reason for them to pull punches. Furthermore, since the Kronos, we've had three Nord Stage's and two different Montages. Korg is in the lab building a monster. Mark my words. The past 20 years of flaghship releases from Korg says I'm right.

How do i sum up the sound of Korg products. and the fact a lot of great musicians endorse them. in one word-THIN!!!!!

I used to want this so bad and go to the Guitar Center to window shop over it.

Korg should have created a Korg Kronos III with some of the key elements of the OASYS. 1. Folding high resolution OLED 10-12 inch screen. 2. Full illumination of the buttons. 3. Capable of adding external monitor. 4. A more personally... better workflow UI. 5. A 16 to 32 step button sequencer. Out of curiosity, the interface for the OASYS looks very similar to the Kronos. Can anyone chime in?

The Roland integra has those sounds in it even tho it's made by korg the integra bang for ya buck

I'm a keyboard fanatic yet I never heard about this keyboard.

I am scared of that keyboard - give me a Triton!

I still have mine. It was worth the 8000

Bought pasta in 2005 whe I was yong , still have it, but now it’s freezes on me sometimes, wasn’t worth 8k for sure, sounds were good but not that good, not reliable for live, takes too long to boot

There wasnt even harlem shake videos for another 8 years when it came out lol

In South Africa around 15 000$ ....

2Gig Ram.. 40 GB Hardrive 😮😯 and now? It’s tough to give away

Evolved into the Far less expensive Kronos...... Opened up mine to replace the solid state drive and was a PC running Linux! Very cool and reliable...😃With a 1200+ page parameter guide. Nothing is as powerful to this day!

hahaha the original MIKO!!!

8k lol I thought the Yamaha montage was expensive for 3k.

Always wanted one of these but then settled for a fully expanded Korg M3 with Radiaus board and never had the OASYS itch again

Just bought an Opsix for seven hunnit

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Im one of the lucky 3000 I love my OASYS 88. way better than nord

First!!!!!

And all i wanted was a Korg Kronos and i am 54. Why did you take it off the market korg?

There was a sliver keyboard for $20K

😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥

In all honesty the Yamaha Motif ES guitars at the time left the much more expensive Korg Oasys for dead.

But can Oasys play wonderwall? Wait…

YEAH, the cutting edge is always the bleeding edge. Consumer testing at its finest. Cheap for the company.

The oasys dont even seem that much better than the roland fantom which was half the price at the highest end

Pocket operators episode is what I’m anticipating

could never trust Korg with that much money

What had happened was!!!

Love ya Content Bruh....keep 'em Coming. I was a "Korg Guy" totally...Period!! I had many Korg Products and researched their Oasys project to come finally finding out the construction final keyboard would cost $70,000 bucks...I lost alot of testosterone behind that post. I bought the $1800 buck Oasys PCI Card being blown away from it's sound quality!! Didn’t know how but I vowed when the keyboard version dropped, so was my money. That came to fruition and I in essence has two Oasys products. As you stated....despite promises of open architecture and updates....Oasys was dropped!! Pissed off is understandable but when Korg brought out the Kronos shortly after??!!!???....I to this day hate those damn Japanese at Korg, still get migraines from photos of the Kronos, and ready to pull that burner out and I don't mean Cd either!! Mackie did the same with the D8b Digital Mixer and I was a Mackie user 5 mixer generation back!! Now......I wouldn't buy a Korg nor Mackie Bubble Magnet for ya Fridge!!! I'm still looking for a representative to Donkey Stomp from those Companies...believe that!!! Roland is now profiting off the Oasys architecture at the right time in software designer strength!! I contemplate eventually buying one...but with my experience...Imma wait 2-3 years to see how Roland supports this product. Thanks for allowing my overdue early 2000's batching release!! Bless Up. 🙏🏿🕊🍷

I’ll stick with software this way to much loot plus I play keyboard

Just cause u could... Don't mean u should...

Harlem shake wasnt even out in 2005

8 GRRAANDD!!