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Originally Posted by Merlot
I think Korg will realize that the OASYS is way to damn expensive, and either reduce the price, or come up with an LE/rack/software (TI sort of thing) version at a major discount.
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Well, the discount should be 50% or more to make it to be reasonaby priced. Will this be enough to compensate the R&D costs? The major problem with Oasys is that it's just an average synth with fancy specs. The sound just isn't what you would expect from a synth like that. The PCM side sounds thin on most areas and the purely synthetic side is average... For example that Alesis fusion costs less than 2000 euros and could even sound better than Oasys (still waiting for the demos...). This will definetly cause trouble for Korg. If Fusion sounds ok Oasys should be priced to 3500? to be considerable competitor for Fusion and that's quite hell of a price drop from that eight grands.
This year will definately be hard for Korg. If it won't go bankrupt, it will at least be in touch and go state for a while. The only Korg products that have sold ok have been cheap stuff/software like MicroKorg and Legacy. I think Korg should start manufacturing budget stuff and software because it seem to be good at that stuff. Korg seem to be able to produce high tech gear, but somehow the sound is always something else than high tech.