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Korg's New Keyboard Powered by Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the under-the-hood dept.

jgwong writes "Korg's newest keyboard, called OASYS, will run Linux with a propietary software developed by themselves. With a 10.4" touchscreen, CD burner and 16-track HD audio recording this looks pretty neat. No information about availability or price, though."

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  1. Keyboard? by Boinger69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    PS/2, AT, or USB?

    1. Re:Keyboard? by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 5, Funny

      lol... sorry... I saw the 'K' and assumed it had something to do with KDE.

    2. Re:Keyboard? by CastrTroy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Despite your 5-digit slashdot ID, you must be new here. Did you buy it off e-bay?

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    3. Re:Keyboard? by trs9000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dude, a toilet could run Linux and it would make the front page of slashdot.

    4. Re:Keyboard? by SirDaShadow · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude, a toilet that ran Windows ALREADY made the front page of slashdot!!!

      http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/188215 &tid=109&tid=133
      http://news.com.com/html/ne/msft_pop.html

    5. Re:Keyboard? by WasteOfAmmo · · Score: 4, Funny
      wellllll, now that you mention it:

      Here is the toilet running Linux.

      and I can find nothing about it on /. (yes I tried several other searches).

      [all this talk about toilets....]brb

    6. Re:Keyboard? by prockcore · · Score: 2, Funny

      I really wish that the poster/editor had made an effort to designate that it was a *music* keyboard.

      Yeah, because Korg is well known for making all those *other* keyboards.

  2. All well and good... by Xpilot · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but does it run...Lin...uhhh... shoot.

    Well, with the stability and reliability of Linux, Ashlee Simpson will never make a lip-sync gaffe again!

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    1. Re:All well and good... by blueish+yellow · · Score: 5, Funny
      It's great that everyone thinks this is such a simple mistake nowadays but back when Milli Vanilli did it the backlash resulted in a suicide.

      On the SI scale of humiliation what Ashlee Simspon did measures about 400 milliVanillis.

  3. Know what you mean... by TommydCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    In my X setup, I see 101-key, 102-key, etc, but where's the 61-key option?

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  4. Obligatory Oasis joke by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, being called "OASYS", that means all your songs will end up sounding like a mix of two Beatles' songs with a bit played backwards.

  5. Great! by dickeya · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one welcome our keyboard playing overlords.....

    ... except for that Yanni guy.

  6. Re:Having checked out the promotional video... by chochos · · Score: 2, Funny
    It looks like the UI on the touch screen could use some work.

    Yes, well, they're probably using Gnome. Should have gone with KDE instead, or WindowMaker to save memory for the synths.

    Be thankful it doesn't just have a command line, or we would be bitching about the default shell used (bash vs tcsh vsh zsh etc).

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  7. vaporware by soupdevil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this thing actually for sale? The OASYS has been the Duke Nukem Forever of the audio world for at least five years.