My personal wishlist - change of mind
On February 11th, shortly after starting with this blog, my personal wishlist for OASYS was posted here.
Now eight months later we have some more tools, MOD-7 already arrived and EXs3 will be released within the next weeks. Fine. As someone who likes to program I really appreciate what we got. The posting below about the angry family members in my studio is a joke. But in german we have a saying “jeder Scherz hat einen wahren Kern”, which means more or less that there is always some truth underlying the joke.
I could make an actual foto of my studio which would show you how much space I have now. Space for manuals, books, CDs, paper etc…. and somehow also space for ideas, but this is a completely different story. So OASYS by the time took over more and more responsibilities as to me it is the tool I was always looking for.
It was in the year 1990 when I entered a music store named “Stelzhammer” in Vienna to purchase Yamaha’s SY-77, the succesor of my beloved DX-7. And I was really working hard to fulfill this wish… but at the end I left it with a Korg T-1, as to me it seemed to be much more flexible in the things I wanted to do. It is fine for others to discuss about the specs and all the possibilities one has, routing here, matrix there, modulation, carriers, etc…. nice, but I was looking for a tool which gave me the possibility to realise my ideas in the shortest possible time… or lets say it the other way around, it should be a tool that does not stop the working flow and is not becoming a brake for creativity.
Korg’s T-1 had several limitations - no doubt - the number of voices was just one but the most important of them. But its sound was good compared to other instruments costing much more during that time. And it was good enough to convince a person named Fred Jakesch who left my home with the wish to buy something similar for his studio…
The years passed and meanwhile OASYS is standing in the studio, being the central. Now it is providing so many different sound engines that everyone who is honest, probably will agree in that to use their full potential it would at least take a year… no? Do I see some scepticism? If you give STR-1 and MOD-7 a serious try and you are not one of those users who only want new machines because of the new factory sounds - which is nothing bad at all (!) - … then you most likely have to admit that this is true. On the other hand there are of course always people like the one from the “Fruehschoppen”, die sich nicht über ihr Equipment definieren, aber im Profil genau dieses bis ins letzte Detail angeben 
, they always know it better - this is a law and if not “dann ist hinten vorne” (© Falco) .. sorry for this short excursion - and we even did not discuss AL-1, did not mention what combinations can do for you as soon as you start putting several sounds together and use all the controllers one has access to (underestimated in my opinion).. and heij, there is KARMA as well, which is adding some live to sounds… this again within a combination… you see, there is a lot possible, when it comes to sounds and how to perform them… live. What I want to say is that in this aspect OASYS is meanwhile one of the strongest and most flexible instruments. But even I honestly have to admit that there is only one weak point at the moment - its sequencer.
It is proven, you can work with the internal sequencer! RC aka Richard Courtel and Mike Conway are just two examples and today I heard a third one of someone who finished a complete production within OASYS, obviously also using the internal HD recorder.
But still there is the wish of many users to improve OASYS’ sequencer… and myself always being on the synthesizer / sound side asking for new EXis, I am now one of them as well. On top of my actual wishlist stands the internal sequencer making OASYS to a complete and perfect production station. It does not need to be dp, Logic or Cubase, just higher resolution, please also add a piano roll and make better use of the great GUI…. this would make OASYS to the perfect tool.
Another good reason for improving the sequencer is, that there are quite a lot of people with whom I would like to collaborate. Interestingly most, if not all, are using OASYS. Thus wouldn’t it be very convenient for us to just exchange the data files? In times of people working over big distances by using data transfer via internet and without meeting personally in the “real” world (whatever that place is, btw) wouldn’t it be great to just exchange the PCGs + Sequences?
Thanks.
ps: I just had a look at the wishlist poll… and guess what? .. best to click here.
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