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Oasys PCI for sale, mint condition, 250 Euro.
Can do everything (Synths, FX), on-board Emus of Prophet /Minimogg are IMO as good as
the Creamware ones, Physical Modeling is better. Also, great Effects which partly eat Scope´s
- this is especially true for Dan Simmons great Delays (e.g. Voxdelay, Korg DD Emu), Filters etc,
but also its O-Verb is better than most Scope Verbs, even DAs new ones IMO.
Great card, though a bit underpowered - and i need money

Work in OS 9 /95-ME, can run peacefully along Creamware in OS 9 but better is a own box for it,
e.g. and old G3 grey.

PM me !

Kind Regards, Richard

The physical modelling on this is better then anything. including the high end $$$$ "oasys" workstation which is just a PC motherboard with no hardware DSP.

only to build your own, the stuff it comes with is still worth it.

Stardust buying a Mac... now that would be funny.

i know they sent me synthkit when i had oasys on w98, but i cant remember if i ran it on windows, or on a mac when i ran oasys for a couple of weeks on a VERY NOISY mac 3g before i put it on the side of the road for someone to take.

I am sorely tempted to buy it and use it with one of those tiny VIA motherboards running win98

the other thing that does suck about it though is there is no physical midi connectors, so you have to rely on usb > some thru or host software > PCI > oasys
And find a MIDI adapter with win98 drivers
and drivers for the motherboard
bleagh.

maybe i just talked myself out of it.

Well I have two of these guys . I have Itox Dragon I Unit servers and installed fan speed control and DC power supplies. They are completely silent. I have one dedicated to Oasys FX running 4 effect chains on four separate adat pairs. Dan Brown of Korg made some fantastic and free effects (The O-MOD) series which have no real counter part in the vst world. Scope may have it but I don't have all of the commericial stuff for scope. The other oasys is setup in the same manner but dedicated to Synths. I did a quite a bit of work for Harm Visser and Norsez ( sound design and prototyping (Norzes). I love these boards. I did run them on OS 9 at one point but went the dedicated MS 98 SE route when I sourced the servers courtesy of a poster on the Oasys user form. If you have mulitple adat io pairs this is a great way to connect them. I have two RME 9652 cards running Cubase 4. Combined with the creamware platform and my regular synths this is a very efficient system. Oasis was my "back door" into the creamware platfort as John Bowen was hosting Harm Vissers Oasys devices and then I read about Bowens scope efforts and got interested in the platform.

Well, it compliments Scope quite well, and certainly has another basic sound - very clean, punchy, and somewhat 90ies - similar to Z1, but a bit cleaner.
Effects etc are indeed very good, especially the Dan Phillips stuff which are the best Delays on any DSP platform (better even than the Tape Delay s of Celmo IMO), the whole UI is IMo even better than Scope, though
the small DSP power ( roughly Pulsar 2) makes its 12-Channel-Mixer a bit of a joke...Best you integrate via ADAT in your Scope system, and use a different machine ( i have it running with Pulsar on a G4, but when much Delay and Verbs are used, the PCI bus looses interest in scoping with the data, it works only if you use those sparringly).

Regarding Synthkit, it runs on OS 9 only, and, what i heard, is more a modular environment than a language (i suppose SKD is more of a language). Also, it
is a beta thing, not in the state of a finished app, which seems the reason Korg never made it publicly free (though you can have it free if you ask).
Oasys runs on Win 98, but sometimes it won´t work if you change programm while midi comes in, according to my knowledge - for those interested, i would send a simple Midiinterface (serial, non USB) with it which works just fine.

Despite these shortcomings, it is a bit of a queen of the whole DSP card family - if it was possible to stack the cards, it would be the queen, so
it is more of a single crown juwel . This is the reason i sell it, it
has just not enough power to use it as multitimbral synth for a whole track (usually it can provide around 4 several sounds), and achieving the same with Scope is costly - thus i go the hardware route, with a K 2000 as main synth, and sell my beloved card .
But support is still there, there is an Yahoo group and the websites on it are
still amintained, with a big FAQ and many downloads - i guess it was more of an high-tech- prototypical study than a consumer product for the market, which much heart and love going in by its developers.

Kind regards, Richard

Would be perfect for my G4.
Sent you a PM.