I have good news for those of you who couldnt pick one up. I’ll most likely play around with it for a few weeks and then put a dust cover over it and go back to ITB. So if you think about it like that, you’re not missing out.
On topic- the pad sounds are absolutely beautiful. The depth at which you can program is really well done, and in some cases requires a whiteboard to map everything out. I’m beginning tp think that this may have been the most under rated synths of the past year.
My guess is they shipped far too many new units to the states than needed. Probably based on truly odd pandemic era demand, and, combined with poor sales and sudden drop in demand, this was the best way to get back above water. Not just on their production investment, but available warehouse inventory space for forthcoming products.
Akin to what has become the over abundance of available air fryers in the states now. For 18 months everyone wanted one, and they cranked up production for 12 of those months. Now no one wants them and there is a massive glut taking up valuable space.
Global trade is weird sometimes.
So are the reports that the OPSIX is discontinued spurious then ?
Yeah. Inventory management is a big deal. Given this flash sale was restricted to the States, I wouldn’t read too much into it. They probably calculated it was cheaper to sell them at a huge discount and free up some cashflow than re-ship them all to vendors elsewhere.
Mine arrived today (didn’t order during the sale though, hang in there everyone). Answering my own question from earlier in the thread, it’s very performable using the controls, though I miss the “mess with all the modulator or carrier envelopes at once” macro knobs from the Volca FM. Keys are the same as Wavestate. I like them because they have a light touch which feels good for dreamy spacey things. Onboard effects are nice and give the presets a rompler-y feel that reminds me a little of the JV-1010. The overall layout is spacious and I think even people with bigger hands will have no trouble with bumping things accidentally. Overall I had a lot of fun during my session with it and I’m looking forward to more. It seems to boot up a bit faster than Wavestate too.
I’d originally thought of getting both this and Wavestate as a complementary pair to scratch my rompler itch while providing a better interface for creating or editing sounds and having both now I think I was on the right track. The closest alternative I can think of would be like a Nord Wave, but that’s kinda pricey and the keybeds feel weird to me somehow.
Hoping to see a lot of cool sounds in here as everyone gets theirs in the mail. I’m starting to understand GAS for the next new thing because it’s fun to be learning and exploring something with lots of online company.
What we know for sure:
As far as I can tell, everything else is speculation:
I don’t know.
If my speculation were true, that truth still could exist whether or not the opsix is discontinued.
Kraft Music also dropped the listing.
I’ve read several other people in other forums being told by sales people it is discontinued.
I think it would be a really weird stunt. It’s definitely not to generate buzz about the Opsix, because I think people will be far less likely to buy one at full price knowing there was such a deep discount. I don’t know much about marketing though.
I think the US-only restriction backs up the “overstocked warehouse” part of the story. i.e. it’s a stateside warehouse.
I’m sure there’s more to this story though.
Dude. Agreed!
I felt like an idiot paying 700 back when they first came out like, “does it really feel that light and cheap?”
I love the synth, the interface for parameters is superb, but the psychological aspect of the synth was a little disappointing.
Its a stupid thing to factor in on your enjoyment of something based on its physical textures not feeling like 700 vs the capabilities of the tools you’re using.
I will say, for what its worth, I love the synth more after trading a zoia I wasn’t using for it maybe slightly more than when I paid full price for it when it came out(but even then I still thought it was really neat)
Missed. Plus, I’m in Japan.
Rad sounds, by the way!
Man, I’d love one. Wonder if a desktop version is on the way…
I suppose the amount of time till sell out would help pave the path towards discontinuation or improved model.
The cheap build of the Wavestate/Opsix/modwave might be dipping their toes in the water.
If successful, improve the build- like the full size wavestate they released. If unsuccessful. Dump the stock and forget it.
Its good that they released vsts of these so they’ll always be accessible in some way. Still tho. I think the value of the opsixs will go up if there’s no mk2 on the table
I think Thomann lowered the price a bit. It was €555, now it’s €533 if I am not mistaken.
I ordered from reverb about ten minutes after the sale was announced. Shipped yesterday.
Tracking has been added to my reverb purchase of the opsix
Arrives Tuesday 8/9 via FedEx
Yeah, my shipping label was just generated and supposedly it arrives the same day – that’s pretty wild, but I guess it’s not far (Long Beach to LA).
Did all of your orders also ship from Long Beach, CA? Just to add to the speculation, because now it’s just fun to play the “why was the Opsix on sale” game:
The port in Long Beach is a crazy busy port. Since the pandemic, there has been serious congestion at this port, causing supply chain problems all over the country (and beyond). At one point month ago, if you looked out at the water, you would just see tons of stopped cargo ships, waiting weeks and weeks to dock and unload. I read stories of enormous stacks of shipping containers and no staff to unload them. I remember reading that shipping companies were being fined for every empty container they left at the port, and the international flow of containers was affected very badly. The flow has been up and down, but I read it got pretty bad again mid-July.
Is this another data point that indicates a warehousing issue? Could these synths have been floating on a ship for months or a year, after coming from wherever they’re made in Asia, and then Korg just didn’t have space to store them?
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Hasn’t shipped yet but that’s where it says it is originating from.
Total pie in the sky thinking here, but it’d be cool to see a larger keyboard with all three synthesis engines on board - sort of like a more tightly focused Oasys (which was also Linux based).
