KORG WAVESTATION | The Most Fascinating Soundscapes | HD DEMO

(c) 2016 by AnalogAudio1

Demo of the KORG WAVESTATION digital synthesizer from 1990 - The Most Fascinating Soundscapes.

All sounds (including the drums) come from 1 original hardware Korg Wavestation played live, without multitrack recording, without additional effects - right from the stereo outputs of one Wavestation. I played a selection of sounds from the following sources:

0:00 - 3:26 "Film & Textures" (Korg ROM CARD)
3:26 - 4:50 "Synth & Time Slice" (Korg CARD SET)
4:50 - 5:59 "Vector Athmospheres" (Sound Source ROM CARD)
5:59 - 7:00 "Hybrid Synthesis Vol.1" (Sound Source ROM CARD)
7:00 - end: Factory Sounds from Korg Wavestation SR

Soundwise, it is a very interesting, inspiring (preset) synth. The sounds can be very complex. Sometimes, there is too much going on in one single sound. Sometimes, you just need to press and hold one key - it already sounds great. You can almost say - the sound programmers are the actual artists, not the synth player...

Strangely, it seems to have things in common with the Roland D-70: a similar appereance, a similar basic sound (except the wave sequences and the filters), a similar sound architecture - if you change a part of a sound (Wavestation: called patch, D-70: called tone), this can affect other sounds. This is the silliest thing I ever heard, and I don't understand what is this good for. On top of this, in one bank, you can store just 35 "patches" (sound parts) to create 50 "performances" (the actual sounds) out of these. What the heck did the developers thought? Bowen & Smith please tell me. That makes it complicated to be creative with sound design despite the big graphic display. But if you see the Wavestation as a preset machine (like most people do), you will never have troubles with that.

It's the perfect sound source for you, if you want to make a complete horror movie soundtrack in one day :-) It also sounds very ninetees...

It was used by Jan Hammer in the movie soundtrack from "Knight Rider 2000" - a movie from 1991.