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 software updates, with its functionality limited only by the PC-like hardware.
OASYS was a software implementation of the research project that ultimately resulted in the OASYS PCI, a DSP card which offered multiple synthesis engines. The original OASYS keyboard concept had to be scrapped because of too high production cost and limitations of then-current technology.
Production of the OASYS was officially discontinued in April, 2009. Korg sold just over 3000 units worldwide. The final software update was released on November 24, 2009.
In 2011, Korg Kronos, a successor of Korg OASYS, was introduced on Winter NAMM Show.
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