It flew a bit under the radar, but not completely. I think if you scroll up in this thread, it only turned into a thread about the sale recently, like after 400 or so posts.
Personally I had been wanting one for a while. I couldn’t justify the full price, because I have a Digitone (which I absolutely love). I impulsively ordered an Opsix yesterday, and I don’t really care too much about Korg’s master plan, because it’s going to be a sound design playground, as you said!
I’m holding out a small bit of hope that maybe it’s because of the Drumlogue they teased like a year and a half ago.
fwiw, this is my favorite video example of it so far:
also Korg’s Reverb shop appears to have 300 of them left at the moment. so don’t order from somewhere where you have to wait on stock.
A perpetual 300 it seems so far, we’ll seem how much longer this goes on.
And I wonder if the Korg warehouse seller on reverb will be able to keep up with the shipping, considering the sale. I think I’ve seen that number of units in stock go down to 0 and then back up to 300+ since yesterday.
That seller usually ships within a couple days, but I don’t know how disruptive this sale is to them, compared to usual shipping volume.
This is when companies hire temp workers through an agency.
are there any signs of this being contatigous, any other devs about to go this route?
If Korg had priced these all at $400 or $450 from the start I think it would have been a monster seller. The MSRP was just silly, totally off-base.
This is when a warehouse manager just asks the impossible of his warehouse workers.
I couldn’t resist the $330 price either. Checking out some of the Korg sound packs. Sinevibes has some in there. The Drums and Percussion sound promising.
Might spring for the Yasuhiko Fukuda ones too - a legend worked on Bomberman and countless other projects.
https://korg.shop/sound-libraries/opsix.html?___store=english
The new presets introduced with v2.0 sound great to me, actually. Might not pick up any optional sound packs for a while.
any presets that come across as very organic that you might recommend?
I just ordered mine minutes ago. I don’t have it yet, so my ability to comment on its presets is very limited at this time.
The v2.0 preset demos are here. I like most of them, but not all of them.
YMMV
If they do a new version, given how they closed this version down, suggests a few things to me.
The new version will be announced and be available fairly soon.
It will cover much of the same territory as this discontinued version, so they couldn’t keep the present version and have another along side like with the two Minilogues.
It will also be markedly better, so they decided to pull the plug rather than letting this one slowly sell down.
It also seems to me probable there is a replacement, because, (a) this version wasn’t a failure ( i disagree with those that might suggest it was ), and otherwise (b) they would have just let this one sell down slowly.
The suggestion that they ran out of warehouse space, as a reason for this close out, is garbage. A company might dump stock to meet payroll ( been there ), but Korg is nowhere near that territory. And the idea that they flubbed a number on manufacture volume, or lost track of goods in shipment is ludicrous.
So Ryan, i really think you’re right — there will be an expanded follow-on, maybe a Mk2 or even something more than that !
Anyone dreaming about the replacement.
I really hope so. I don’t mind having the humble mk1 version. It really is a special synth. Imo, it is THE modern FM synth. There is nothing else that is as comparable saving the digitone- and even then there is an exception to be made.
As much as I despise the commenter that couldn’t look past the plastic to appreciate the offerings of this synth, I do think a heavier more luxury version of this synth would be a welcome addition.
Outside of that, I can’t think of anything outside of external inputs for fx that I could reasonably dream for a mk2.
I genuinely love this synth. The interface is as perfect as could be understood. The features were generous. The workflow was superb.
I wish I could think of a reason to own two so I could join in on the deal
They seem to be gone now. 
I meant from the korg-shop, but…
May I direct you to the thred to consol each other?
Well, i don’t have mine yet, so can’t help ya there.
I’ll probably get the Nori Ubukata + Yasuhiko Fukuda packs because Google tells me they’re fucking legends… I’ll let y’all know if the packs are all that or if they suck.
Ah damn, I’m going to soon end up buying all three of these aren’t I?
If they are clearing stock to release a new version, I wonder how that’ll work for the recently released VST? Not sure how I feel about that theory.