The

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OASYS PCI is a

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-based

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-card for PC and Mac released in 1999. It offers many

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engines from sampling and substractive to FM and physical modelling. Because of its high market price and low polyphony, production was stopped in 2001. About 2000 cards were produced.

Engines

Some of the models were taken from

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hardware synthesizer.

ROMpler

Virtual Analog

* Analog 1 Osc - basic analog synthesizer with one oscillator; * Analog 2 Osc - same as previous, but with two oscillator. Consume less DSP-power than two copy of Analog 1 Osc; * Analog Bass-Lead - simple synthesizer dedicated for solo and bass sounds; * Comb Synth - same as previous, but with comb filter; * KB-303 - model of

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bass synthesizer; * Mini Synth - model of

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synthesizer; * Noise Synth - noise synth for percussion sounds and effects; * Pro Synth - model of

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synthesizer; * Pro Synth Mod - same as previous with two more envelope generators and control elements.

Physical modelling

* Reed Piano - model of popular e-piano; * Plucked String - acoustic guitar and other plucked string instrument model; * Small Plucked String - lite version of previous mode. Consume less DSP power; * Slap Bass - bass guitar model; * Small Slap Bass - lite version of previous mode. Consume less DSP power; * Tonewheel Organ - electric organ model. * Z1 Organ - model taken from Korg Z1. Sounds pretty the same; * Tenor Sax - physical model of

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Drum Synthesizer

* Percussion Synth - drum machine similar to Korg Electribe R. * Percussion Synth 2 - same as previous with one more envelope generators; * Beat Box - 3-track drum machine with 16-step sequencer and two Percussion Synth 2.

Virtual Phase Modulation (
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)

* VPM 2 OP - 2-op FM synth with one ADSR envelope; * VPM 4 OP - 4-op FM synth; * VPM 4 OP Select - 4-op FM synth with 8 algorithms of operators connection. Specification close to

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TX81Z and FB-01.

Effects

Card comes with basic effects package based on 17 categories. Many of them taken from

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synthesizer.

Extensions

Korg released Synth Kit software for

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for extensions developing. Some of addition plugins were released to expand card capabilities:
Harm Visser
(acoustic modelling instruments)

(effects and tools)

(VA and percussion synthesizer)

(Orion synthesizer)

Compatibility

Because of fast market fail, no drivers were released for (then) modern operation systems including

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and

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. Most of users had to have dedicated computer for Korg Oasys PCI on Windows ME/98.

Successor

The

Korg OASYS The Korg OASYS is a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005, 1 year after the successful Korg Triton Extreme. Unlike the Triton series, the OASYS uses a custom Linux operating system that was designed to be arbitrarily expandable via softw ...

workstation synthesizer released in early 2005.

Bibliography

* (see also a column on this article: "''Native Vs DSP: Dan Phillips (Korg R&D) On Processing Power''") {{Portal bar, Electronics, Music, border=yes Z Sound cards