Paul Woodward

Yup, that was the price I would have grabbed it as I know I would use it more than the other pianos, and it turns my Keystage and iPad into a decent sounding instrument. But, £30 is really milking this when something new and much more powerful like the Nerd synth is £4.99. For the record, I always thought Korg app prices were very reasonable, especially given the regular sales, but this is their most expensive expansion and, for that, you might hope for a Kronos quality piano set.

I certainly don't think the Oasys piano deserves a £30 price tag.

Nice choice. Enjoy

Hard to say really, depends on what you need for your live set. I couldn't imagine gigging anything more than a small gig with just an iPad, but I would still want a stage piano regardless of whatever VSTs I had. A laptop will have greater flexibility even if some iPad have more power under the hood

I would normally agree on that, but once in a while you need some simple sound, sample or hit as well as the two main sounds. Alternatively you may wish to stack sounds in one or both sides of the split as I had to on the CK61 to get some big synth or pad sounds. Nord and Yamaha have had three simultaneous sounds for years now and multitimbral options go back decades. Regardless of preference, this is the latest keyboard to market and you would hope it had the option at this price when the CK does it for half the price. It has already chosen to exclude poly AT and a decent display/interface. It's clearly not for me, but someone will love it I'm sure. I just don't get the lure other than being able to leave the laptop at home assuming you only use Arturia plug ins. If it let you add others it would be a different matter. The price just confuses me even more when you consider the top end controller keyboard features you are NOT getting. A small laptop or tablet and full featured controller gives way more power and flexibility and probably for a lower price. Still, if this had an Apple badge on it and ran Logic and AU plug ins, it would sell like hot cakes.

Given they upgraded little on the Grandstage X, I can't see this happening...which is crazy with that CX-3 organ engine. Original GS had no way to map a controller to the drawbars either...

Ditto, long time Yamaha piano user up to the CP4. Loved Korg synths, never liked any of their pianos. Grandstage changed that and, after trying a Yamaha CP88 and owning two YC61's and a CK61, I decided to stick with the GS.

Oasys piano only just released in the 'sale' so no idea what full price is 🤔 from memory, many of the others seem to be 50% off...but I bought quite a few already so it's not showing me the prices.

Seeing as you are considering AUM, why not go down the Gadget route so you can integrate the full blown synths such as Polysix, MS20, M1, Wavestation etc. With decent acoustic and electric piano expansions, gadget is getting close to 'budget' Kronos sounding territory at that point. This is my gripe with Module; can't integrate my Korg apps, but it's a better live set up than Gadget (unless you invest in AUM)... Gadget already supports the Keystage functions. If it updated to include the live set functionality, I would likely move from Module altogether.

Try the demos first, but Hybrid 2 has been useful and some simple synth tweaks in that engine. I'm really on the fence about Oasys piano, I really enjoyed it for pop/rock playing.

Know what you mean about the sale prices, I can't believe Oasys piano is £30 full price so maybe just a smaller than 50% discount. You might expect that price for Ivory, but one sound set from 20 years ago?!? The sales happen regularly so wouldn't worry unless you need them all now.

You really need the pro expansion that offers layers, splits, cc learn and more. Scarbee is fantastic, can't recall what organs are in there as I had the organ and clav expansion from day one. Hybrid expansion is useful but not found Triton to be invaluable yet. Ivory piano better than stock, but I would probably choose the Oasys piano now for band work. I use with the new Keystage and really hope Korg update Module to make the most of it as it's a really smooth lag free experience.

Wow, I forgot about the Fusion. I had the 8HD which was setup in a shop next to the Korg Oasys. It was a 'budget' version of the Oasys (in terms of sound engines and workstation functions), price slashed massively soon after launch then discontinued quite early in it's life. Didn't Rick Wakeman demo it at one stage?

Have to agree. Love their software, and they make some solid controllers. I think reception will be like warm for this and criticisms of the poly limits, missing poly AT, small screen, lack of controls and one split layer as well as others will either see this as something they just leave on the shelf in the future or update fairly quickly. I have to wonder who their focus groups were that never highlighted these limitations. I don’t know how many of those operating limits could be updated on the board itself, but the hardware limitations (and cost) mean I have just passed this off as something I won’t own, even if it was sub £1k with full software. If its USP is simply loading in same sounds from the DAW software to take onstage, there are better and more affordable options IMO.

For those with lag, try restarting the iPad and then turn WiFi and Bluetooth off. Also close any unused apps. Made a noticeable difference for me.