Talk:Korg OASYS

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[edit] GPL

Anyone know if Korg is complying with the GPL for their included Linux software? 24.165.233.150 04:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the source code covered under the GPL and LGPL is included on the CD-ROMs distributed with the product.

There was a Korg Oasys PCI launched in 2000 I think. As far as I know it has much in common with this Korg Oasys workstation. And also there was a Korg Oasys Workstation introduced about 10 years earlier on one of the music fairs and never continued. I remember something about from this earlyer disrupted project has the Trinity, the Triton and the Z1 gain birth. Does someone know anything about these things?

You can find some informaion here: http://www.synthony.com/museum.html under the name Korg Oasys KBD

I could also find this: Along with the Korg Prophecy, the Korg Trinity synthesizer was a descendant of the Oasys mega-synth that the company previewed in 1994 but never marketed. It's in wikipedia about Trinity. So I've remembered right.

Ok, finally I've found this page: http://www.vanille.de/extras/oasys/oasys.html I think there's enough information on this page about the long Trinity-and-Triton-and-Z1-and-Prophecy-and-PCI-card-instead-of-Oasys-project. It is intresting.

[edit] OASYS PCI

Yep, I used to have one of those. It sounded great, but almost as soon as I got it I had to migrate from Win95 to Windows XP, and although Korg had made a big deal about understanding how important driver support was to buyers, when the PCI didn't take off (high initial cost, many initial delays), they took a pragmatic decision to cut their losses and not spend more money to develop an XP-compatible driver for it. So mine spent a lot of time gathering dust or dangling from auxiliary secondary PC's in homebrew Heath-Robinson-type network arrangements while I waited for mLAN to get its act together. In the end I gave up and sold the thing. The card probably still has its fans out there.

Oh, and it was a ....very.... long PCI card, it wouldn't physically fit in some PCs.

[edit] length

(it was a full length PCI card, matching the PCI spec; some Windows PC cases didn't support full-length cards, and may not have always been clear about the restriction.) 71.117.94.212 21:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)