But waking up to the smell of an ashtray every day was worth it the Korg Wavestation was the first synth to which I became addicted. The synth reeked of cigarettes for the first few months of my ownership. If I spent every last penny of the money I’d saved, and mortgaged my next few birthdays and Christmases, that is.Īll I know about the original owner of the Korg Wavestation is that he’d clearly spent his time getting to know this sleek minimal early 1990s behemoth by chain-smoking his way through the manual.

So suddenly here was a nearly new synthesizer whose full retail price was beyond my reach but whose secondhand value might – just might – be attainable.

Someone had returned this instrument, baffled by its capabilities after just two unsuccessful weeks of trying to form a meaningful musical relationship with it. But this wasn’t quite the start you might expect. I walked into my local hi-tech music emporium in Southampton, aged 16, and there it was. I have an incredibly clear memory of the first time I encountered the Korg Wavestation. +++ĭual (serial|parallel) multieffects processors (47 effects: reverb, delay, phase, tremelo, 2 band EQ, distortion, exciter, rotary, delay+reverb. The 105 user editable presets can be saved via MIDI SysEx or memory card (280 presets are not editable). Each oscillator channel features a low pass filter, dual 4-stage envelopes, dual LFOs, and flexible modulation routing. The Korg Wavestation SR is a pressure and velocity sensitive 1U rack (32 voice, 16 channel multitimbral) four oscillator synthesizer, featuring 484 waveforms (16 bit, 4MB, more via card), a 4-stage mix envelope (vector synthesis), dual stereo effects processors (55 effects), stereo and dual individual outputs, wave sequencer (255 steps, 32 preset sequences, 96 editable sequences), effects input, and MIDI. Rack Wavestation EX, substituting vector synthesis joystick for extended patch memory.Īrchitecture Class: Rompler. Korg Wavestation SR Wavestation SR (image courtesy of Korg)

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