Korg OASYS
Music Workstation Synthesiser

The Korg OASYS was launched in 2005 as the next Workstation in the Korg Workstation linage.  At $8,000 or more the workstation was too rich for many musicians, but was aspirational.  

The design philosophy behind the instrument was to use a standard computer motherboard running a real time linux operating system.  The synthesiser ran a series of software driven synthesiser engines to generate the synthesis.

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The idea was to update the synthesiser, you just loaded new software.  In essence this was a hardware VST host.

Three versions of the workstation were build between 2005 and 2009 when it was discontinued; the 61 key, 76 key and 88 key.  All versions operated the same operating system and had the same features.