Wave Sequencing 2.0 (more parameters, lanes!).And you can play all this from the front panel with tons of real-time controls. There are just a hell of a lot of features in this thing, a totally new take on wave sequencing, in a more compact and friendly form factor, plus modeled filters and a bunch of effects. (Think more Bojack Horseman – 90s references, but self-aware.) So in other words, instead of bringing back a 1990s thing and pretending it’s relevant now – yes, Frasier reboot, I’m looking at you – the KORG wavestate is something new. It’s true.) Want a filter that sounds like an MS-20? Polysix? Both are in there. wavestate: independent timing, sample sequence, and melody, plus shapes, gate times, step sequencer values, independent lanes – all add together for something dynamic and organic.Īnd another thing – digital in 2020 can mean modeled sounds that are indistinguishable from analog. Wavestation: duration, sample, pitch are sequenced, but they’re repetitive. KORG also took the wave sequencing idea, and built on it.

So the Wavestation sounded like a 1990 ROMpler, and the 2020 wavestate doesn’t.) (That was 2 – two! – megabytes on the original.

They all worked on the 1990 synth, and they’re back on this one.īut now, all of that 1990 futurism is coupled with a body that looks like KORG’s recent ‘logue keyboards, new features, and samples measure in the gigabytes instead of megabytes. But it is getting the band back together again – John Bowen, John “Skippy” Lehmkuhl (Plugin Guru), and Peter “Ski” Schwartz. The KORG wavestate is not a Wavestation remake. (Hey, I’m still coming back from the holidays.) And the Wavestation added another idea – wave sequencing, so you could piece together multiple sounds in… uh… sequence. The Prophet VS’s joystick worked as well on the Korg.

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