Now in 2016, the WAVESTATION has been reborn as “KORG iWAVESTATION,” an app for iPad/iPhone. To this day, it continues to be considered a legendary and still-unique instrument. This instrument featured an advanced vector synthesis system which created new sounds by combining and connecting multiple waveforms it provided a mix/morphing function that let you use a joystick to change the balance of four oscillators, and a distinctive wave sequence function that allowed you to place waveforms in a desired sequence to create sequence patterns. The WAVESTATION synthesizer went on sale in 1990. KORG iWAVESTATION – A wave sequence synthesizer for iOS. There’s also a global reverb and EQ.Creating sounds with time-varying timbre, on your mobile device. Effects include reverb, delay, EQ, modulation, tremolo, ring modulation and an amp modeller. But there are many more models inside to play with.Īt the end of the signal chain is a bit fat effects engine with 3 effects slots per layer. The filter on the Wavestation was not up to much so Korg has replaced it with multiple resonant filter models including emulations of the MS-20 and Polysix. There’s a lot more modulation available in terms of per-voice envelopes and LFOs to set the 64 stereo voices in motion.

You can then get to work with the joystick via the dedicated 5-stage looping vector envelope or via external MIDI. Modulation is run by the vector synthesis which can assign parameters to the 4 axis of the vector grid. Each layer has independent sample selection, timing, pitch and modulation resulting in competing rhythms and loops lengths. It uses up to 4 sounds layers which contain a wave sequence of multiple PCM samples that can be stacked or split across the keyboard. The photos of the Future Magazine review are all over the Gearslutz forum and what we can gather is that Korg considers this “Wave Sequencing 2.0”. Wavestate is looking to bring that back but with a modern approach and exciting price point. It appears to be the spiritual successor to the Wavestation that Korg released in 1990 that combined the Vector synthesis from synths like the Sequential Prophet VS with Wave Sequencing or an advanced form of Wavetable pioneered by synths like the Waldorf PPG but with the ability to jump between waveforms. We already knew there was something special coming and Korg doesn’t even know how to disappoint.

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