Controllers and Interface
Once again, Korg has produced an interface that is musically intuitive, elegant, and totally comprehensive. A ground-breaking 10.4” color TouchView display gives OASYS our most impressive interface ever. This adjustable-angle display is graphically rich and provides an intuitive way of working with all the possibilities OASYS offers.
A wealth of real-time controllers is available to support your expression and music-making. The traditional Korg joystick, dual switch and ribbon controllers are joined by an assignable Vector Joystick, eight real-time knobs, 16 switches, 9 sliders, plus three pedal inputs. The eight knobs and nine sliders are augmented by LED status indicators showing their current values. The nine sliders enjoy double-duty as real-time drawbars.
OASYS also features eight great feeling, soft-touch and velocity-sensitive drum pads which can be used to trigger notes, controllers, or chord voicings to use with KARMA or your own performance needs.
The control surface of OASYS has multiple modes of operation – it can be a mixer for the 16 MIDI tracks, as well as a mixing surface for the 16 audio tracks. In these modes you have control over level, panning, track select, solo, channel EQ, FX sends and more.
Control Surface Audio Track Mixing
It is also a complete real-time controller interface for sounds and KARMA parameters.
Control Surface Real-Time Knobs and KARMA Control
Using Tone Adjust, it provides a physical interface to control internal Program parameters. In Combination and Sequence modes, Tone Adjust lets you control up to 33 different parameters for each timbre or track, for quick in-context tweaking without affecting the original Program.
Control Surface Tone Adjust Control
Finally, in External Mode the control surface can be mapped to various MIDI Controller messages to control external gear such as soft synths, computer DAWs and other MIDI hardware. The controllers offer a choice of “jump” or “catch” behavior to match your personal preference.
Please note: Cosmetic and Technical specifications are subject to change without notice
Demo Songs
Ben's Brains for Joe Z. (Mp3, 8.5 Mb)
Ben's Brains uses the HD-1, CX-3, AL-1 and STR-1 engines.
by Ben Dowling
www.bendowling.com
© 2007 Visionsound Music
www.visionsound.com
All rights reserved
Red Square Sinfonietta (mp3, 5.51MB)
by Peter Schwartz
(c) 2005 Peter Schwartz
all rights reserved
This demo blends real instruments with onboard OASYS sounds to show the benefits of using both MIDI and audio recording. The audio tracks are the piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, english horn and viola.
Love Embraces All (mp3, 6.10MB)
by Ben Dowling
www.bendowling.com
© 2007 Visionsound Music
www.visionsound.com
All rights reserved
Teknosis (mp3, 11.3MB)
by Peter Schwartz
(c) 2005 Peter Schwartz
all rights reserved
All parts are internal OASYS sounds.
Heaven (320 bitrate) (15.1 MB, mp3)
by Andreas Gundlach
(c) 2006 Andreas Gundlach
all rights reserved
This demo is part of a CD released in Germany by Korg & More to showcase the OASYS. Everything on the demo came from a single OASYS. It is presented in two resolutions in consideration for your Internet connection speed. For the lower resolution version (192 bitrate), click here (mp3, 8.66MB).
A few production notes:
The piano is the EXs-2 Piano (503 MB), slightly edited to suit Andreas’ touch (velocity curve) and taste (filter response).
The drums were played live into the sequencer from the EXs-1 Studio-Standard Kit (I-E 004), again edited slightly to match how Andreas likes to map drum sounds for playing live (some small mistakes were edited out later, of course!).
The percussion part in the middle was generated by KARMA, then resampled and laid back into the track as an audio loop.
For more info (in German) about the CD, click here.
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