korg wavestate digital wave sequencing synthesizer

The UI is very logical, and there is a flash card for instant gratification that will get you started. I Tons of song and production ideas came to mind.I played for hours. Take 'bell' patches which for the most part I loath and always ridiculed them in other synths, but in the Wavestate they are excellent and totally useful all of them. Bets of all is how musical the patches are. There are very smooth sounding analog-style sounds, low-fidelity bit crushed sounds as well as resolute harmonically complex sounds thats shift and change over time. What struck me right away was how the patches were presented: very polished, brilliant combination of timbres, great stereo imaging, and above all inspiring. The screen is brighter, more polyphony, less menu driven, and internal FX expanded.

So it comes as no surprise that when Korg revisited this tech, they could employ more samples, longer samples, with higher resolution. Memory and polyphony, were at a premium in the 80's, so the fidelity, particularly sample resolution/time was lacking in the original Wavestation, as well as most PCM-based units AND samplers. This doesn't mean you cant make the Wavestate DO that, I simply mean it doesn't prioritize it. Yet, the Wavestate assumes you already have something for normal utility patches. Whereas the Wavestation, equally functioned as traditional rompler, (it also had a vocoder) say, you want a piano, or a sax you can play it that way. The Wavestate being an excellent example. Unlike Roland, Korg will revisit and expand upon older concepts. Some of the results were quite stunning as well as iconic. Simply put, that unit allowed the arranging of waveforms, samples, and sequence in them in user-defined number of steps. History: The Korg Wavestation, released in the 80's was a boutique style rompler with a flair: wave sequencing.

Korg wavestate digital wave sequencing synthesizer