Considering adding a Korg OASYS!!

MeloManiac · Post by **MeloManiac** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 6:34 am

I know you can buy OASYS cards for 500 dollars in the US now, but unfortunately that is not the price in europe, more like 1000. So I see this 2nd hand card going for 500 and I almost phoned the guy up instantly. However I decided to do a bit of research, and there are a couple of things nagging me. First, I want to use this in my Tbird machine running on an MSI K7T Pro 2a motherboard, but I read of compatibility problems with VIA chipsets and AMD CPUs - anyone running succesfully on a KT133 or 133a chipset? I COULD put the board in my Pulsar 2+1 machine - Korg states that this will work, but I think I read about people who cant get it working? Second, I would really like to go Windows 2000 on both of my machines, and I am pretty sure we will never see 2k drivers for OASYS - true?

Third, I would really like to HEAR how it sounds! Cant seem to find any demo MP3s anywhere. I like the Korg Trinity and Korg Z1 - will I be able to make the PCM synth sounds of the V2 OASYS software sound as big and nice as those synths? I also read it has a TB303 emulator - is this better than the TeeBee on Pulsar? If anyone has some demo songs to share I'd be really interested!

TIA!

My email is melo@marble-eyes.dk, if you have something to send:)

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 8:29 am

I suggest you do a PlanetZ Search on the keyword "oasys" ... note that Creamware+Oasys on CUSL2 doesn't work (hard locks) if you use heavy Creamware reverb/sampler projects.

Thalamus · Post by **Thalamus** » Mon Sep 17, 2001 8:34 am

Hi,

I run OASYS, scope + pulsar II, and UAD-1 on the same maschine, no probs so far. (remember to assign IRQ's manually, one for each card, and be sure if you use the first PCI-slot, that it doenst share IRQ with your AGP graphiccard.!)

Hear the OASYS here...

http://www.korg.com/oasyspci.htm

there are a lot of sound and effects demoes.

Win2k drivers? well, I don't know, but hoping for sure. You should be aware of the OASYS has NO onboard hardware midi, so you cant just send midi to it with your main PC, it must be in the same computer...