I have fallen in love again

[Analogue Crazy]

With my good old Korg Wavestation EX. Iv had this Synth for 2 years now, and have used it on and off, but have now gotten into it more than ever and it has become one of my most used Synths. I use it in my Electro Rock band now too, and it adds so much emotion and atmosphere to our sound.

Im in love with my Wavestation again. Its one of the most impressive sounding Synths iv worked with an is a great creative board, where i can make some amazing unique sounds.

Have not heard much Wavestation love on here for a bit...
Praise to the wave monster!
Anyone else loving Wavestations at the moment?

[stikygum]

I think they're pretty cool. Vector is always fun to add some swirling motion. The WS is definitely good for atmospheres. I'm finding Camel Audio's Alchemy fantastic for this being that it has vector synthesis and can be extremely dynamic. I'm in love with that synth. So glad I got that.

[dinotread]

Grats on that man. It makes me happy when people fall in love with gear they own, instead of becoming a consumer w***e.

[Spadz]

I ear ya. I've had mine for about 5 years now. Even if I don't use it all the time, I just couldn't live without it.
You can make sounds that gives you shivers!

It's pretty much my main pad machine when none have what I want. I can always program one that sound juts right.

Happy to see the love for this amazing synth is still alive somewhere else than my home.

Spadz

[xpander]

to resurrect an old pic...

[Christopher Winkels]

I had a Wavestation EX as pretty much my only synth for the better part of three years, and it was my first new synth. I was in love with it at the time, but I think in retrospect it doesn't hold up as well. My gripes? A not insignificant amount of high-end aliasing, a rather muddy and flabby low end, no resonant filters, no portamento, no FM or cross mod, a crappy-sounding and glitchy hard sync implementation, and that annoying memory structure where you might end up ruining several good performances by editing one patch.

On the other hand, it had really good effects built in, The wave sequences were good for pads, and it had a really nice keyboard feel and generous polyphony. I'd check one out if Korg did a serious update, but I'm not as sanguine on the original.

[felis]

...My gripes? A not insignificant amount of high-end aliasing, a rather muddy and flabby low end, no resonant filters, no portamento, no FM or cross mod, a crappy-sounding and glitchy hard sync implementation, and that annoying memory structure where you might end up ruining several good performances by editing one patch.
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Anyone know if improvements were made in any of these areas on the software version?

[modulator_esp]

I'd check one out if Korg did a serious update

Me too, I wonder what the OASYS implentation of wave sequencing/vector synthesis is like

[MPrint]

I'd check one out if Korg did a serious update

Me too, I wonder what the OASYS implentation of wave sequencing/vector synthesis is like

Probably badass, that oasys could take over a small country with the right modifications.

[Spadz]

I had a Wavestation EX as pretty much my only synth for the better part of three years, and it was my first new synth. I was in love with it at the time, but I think in retrospect it doesn't hold up as well. My gripes? A not insignificant amount of high-end aliasing, a rather muddy and flabby low end, no resonant filters, no portamento, no FM or cross mod, a crappy-sounding and glitchy hard sync implementation, and that annoying memory structure where you might end up ruining several good performances by editing one patch.

On the other hand, it had really good effects built in, The wave sequences were good for pads, and it had a really nice keyboard feel and generous polyphony. I'd check one out if Korg did a serious update, but I'm not as sanguine on the original.

Nothing is prefect. I agree you can't do everything on it. You use it for what it does best. That's why most of us have several synths.
The thing that annoys me is the non-resonant filter. That is kinda dumb, like the M1s, O1, etc....


Spadz

[madtheory]

The plugin has resonance, better memory structure, and no aliasing (which makes it sound worse to some folk!).

[Spadz]

Really. Do you think that most people listening to your music is going to notice aliasing, and even less know what aliasing is?

When you are finished recording a bunch of tracks and mix them, I don't notice that at all. So to me, it's just part of the sound.
I tried the soft version, and even if it is technically better, I still find my WS EX to sound warmer. Maybe, it's the aliasing...

That's only my opinion.

Spadz

[krinkelfish]

Somebody buy mine!

[madtheory]

ALiasing definitely affects the mood of the music. Personally, I like it.

[Alex Hamilton]

Do you think that most people listening to your music is going to notice aliasing, and even less know what aliasing is?

In a sense, fair point. But on the other hand, I don't make music for anyone's benefit other than myself and couldn't really give a s**t what others think of it. So, if aliasing bothers you, then there's little getting around it. FWIW, I don't mind it, and sometimes agree with others in that it can add something to the sound - a roughness, grit...

I did try a Wavestation keyboard a few years ago, but the shopkeeper knew nothing about it, so I was a bit limited with what I could do, considering the manual looks like a bible. Interesting, certainly, but I decided not to pick it up at the time...I went back a couple of weeks later and it was gone.