So... Korg Wavestate is out of the bag... reactions?

[ItsMeOnly]

Honestly, I'm a bit underwhelmed - I still see myself buying it, but doesn't it all seems like it's more of a repackaged KARMA than a Wavesequence 2.0? Of course, I reserve myself a final opinion once I get my hands on it.

[Atronixx]

I listened to many demos...and I find it intuitive, it's one of the new synths that impresses me, enough of the analog stuff, hehe.
I checked Wikipedia, the original came out in 1990, cost: 2000 USD!

It's crazy that they crammed in 6 Gb of waveforms, that's a lot of material to work with. I also like the form factor, it won't take much place and it's only 3 kg, because of that they could press the price to affordable 8oo USD...for endless tweaking and sound textures. It could have been great if they would have reserved 1 Gb for own samples, but it's still very nice, sounds great. I already have the Radias and softsynth and could skip almost all the new synths...except this, sometimes it sounds like an additive synth, the Kawai K5000.

The Hydra is too expensive and the Argon is less intuitive...so it looks like Korg have another a winner, especially if you're into ambient stuff, which I am, lol.

[Dano]

I was surprised when I saw the Wavestate had 2 GB of sample ROM and I hope it leads to new entry-level ROMpler synths having more ROM as well. Suddenly my Yamaha MX 49 and Korg Kross II seem very under-spec'd.

[ronsmith]

Honestly, I'm a bit underwhelmed - I still see myself buying it, but doesn't it all seems like it's more of a repackaged KARMA than a Wavesequence 2.0? Of course, I reserve myself a final opinion once I get my hands on it.

Sorry for bumping this old thread. But I wonder if Korg Wavestate is worth buying. Any recommendations?

[Ashe37]

I haven't gotten to a store to try it.

[meatballfulton]

So ronsmith, what would make it worth buying for you? Better yet what would make it not worth buying?