The modulation is incredibly comprehensive, and probably the reason why I've decided not to sell the machine. In fact, this is one of the problems with the machine - there are so many ways to sequence and modulate especially, but the ability to see what is going on is severely limited. Unless I'm missing something there is simply no way to view any of the sequence lanes in their entirety - you have to go into each step individually. A recognition of this would lead logically to a computer editor, which I think absolutely should be done by Korg. While to some degree some of this is determined by the many editable parameters, and sequence editing, i find the interface to be pretty terrible in spots. Almost all of them sound like people playing presets, and maybe applying the randomize function a bit (daniel fisher's). No demo that I have heard shows the capabilities of the machine. I've now spent a few evenings with mine, and have the following comments, subject to revision. but i'm wondering if I'm going to have to fight the sounds.ĮDIT: i've listened to demo after demo, several 'reviews', and i haven't heard the slightest hint that I wouldn't hate this thing. Has anyone who is into more experimental type far, NOT into making pretty sounds (I'm not criticizing people who are - i'm just trying to determine if this synth will work for me, maybe) had a go with this? It looks like there is tons of modulation, etc, and that one could potentially have great fun with it after or even during the learning curve. Of course, this was years ago and I've learned a lot since then, but I still trust that instinct. I really hated it - mostly in that it just seemed intended for people who were into new agey sounds and music, and it was really tough to get away from that. I usually have to extrapolate greatly from the demos - looking at the capabilities of the instrument, listening to maybe the core sound, if I can glean anything from that.īack when the wavestation came out, i read some rave reviews, and really liking the basic notion of wavesequencing, I bought one. It's tough (almost always) listening to demos, since the great majority of people who make them like different kinds of sounds than I do. I'm tempted by this as a 'one more synth' option to round out my current setup. For me, it’s been an acceptable price to pay because it sounds so great and can do such cool things. I’ve saved 20 or so presets so far, and occasionally will add another, but I’m not spending that much time editing, more like a tweak here and there.Īnyway.fear of too much menu diving is totally understandable. I’m almost completely Eurorack, this is the only synth I’m using on a regular basis these days. But depending on which type of function it is, there may be from 1 to several pages of parameters to adjust. To start editing any different thing (filter, amp envelope, reverb, pitch LFO, etc) is literally one click. It’s pretty intensive to edit, no doubt, but there are so many dedicated buttons on the panel that they have made it as painless as possible. And in all cases you can click through a whole page at a time (Shift ), so you don’t need to go through every parameter to get to deeper ones. Most of the other functions are also 3 pages deep. These are all 3 pages deep, and there are the 16 step buttons to go right to any step. ![]() So even though you have have all those sequencing lanes (timing, sample, pitch, etc), each one has its own button to jump right into editing it. Relatively shallow compared to how deep it is One thing about the Wavestate’s complexity is that the menus are relatively shallow. That could be a good feature request, to be able to assign a specific parameter onto any white knob to all patches. And I'm guessing that it's not possible that you set that for all patches at the same time. But I understand you're saying that setting the sequence length doesn't have a knob. I don't have a Wavestate, but isn't it possible to assign the white knobs to any parameter you want? I thought you could do this per patch. The fact that you have to menu dive to set the sequence length is insane to me. I feel like they could have made it much more fluid. ![]() I'm finding the user experience for the wave-sequencer laborious in general. Seems like it should be an obvious thing. Is there a way to re-trigger the envelopes for each sequencer step? I've been hunting around and can't find a way to do this. Am I missing something? Please don't tell me to just sync it via MIDI because, duh.Ģ. For a synth that's so good at rhythmic stuff you'd think you'd be able to set the BPM exactly (I realize you can tap tempo). Read the manual watched lots of tutorials. No BPM indication anywhere? I can't find the BPM in any of the menus. I think the Wavestate is awesome, no doubt, but a couple things are majorly bugging me about it:ġ.
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