Korg OASYS PCI

OASYS PCI
Korg OASYS PCI
Manufacturer	Korg
Dates	1999-2001
Price	$2,000
Technical specifications
Polyphony	16 (maximum; may vary depending on DSP load)
Timbrality	12
Oscillator	depends on synthesis engine
Synthesis type	PCM, Physical Modelling, Sampler, Analog Modelling
Filter	depends on synthesis engine
Input/output
Keyboard	no
External control	MIDI

The Korg OASYS PCI is a DSP-based PCI-card for PC and Mac released in 1999. It offers many synthesizer 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.

Some of the models were taken from Korg Z1 hardware synthesizer.

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

Korg released Synth Kit software for Mac OS 9 for extensions developing. Some of addition plugins were released to expand card capabilities:

Because of fast market fail, no drivers were released for (then) modern operation systems including Windows XP and Mac OS X. Most of users had to have dedicated computer for Korg Oasys PCI.

The Korg OASYS workstation synthesizer released in early 2005.

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