organic, inspirational, and mind-blowingly powerful. Upon this revelation, I changed my opinion with regards to how I viewed PC’s with respect to ‘making sounds’ and dived into Ableton / VST environment and haven’t look back since.Legendary synthesis, radically re-imagined. That was a turning point for me – essentially the excellent Kronos was a VST (on steroids, obviously). Reminds me of the time when I used to shun VSTs and regard them as not professional something for the kids and their Macs! I was definitely a hardware snob and believed that computers in a studio environment should only be there to take care of sequencing duties (unless you have a Fairlight!) Leave the ‘sounds’ to real synths, samplers and drum machines!īut then when Korg released the original Kronos, it apparently had one of those micro pc’s at its heart, using an Atom CPU and an actual PC motherboard complete with redundant USB ports and VGA ports ! I didn’t know the Opsix and Wavestate were built around Raspberry Pi architecture. While Korg has obviously redesigned the GUI to take advantage of the possibilities in software, they’ve retained the opsix’s characteristic operator mixer. The opsix is Korg’s vision of a modern FM synth and combines classic 6-operator FM, subtractive, semi-modular, analog modeling, wave shaping, and additive synthesis techniques.

Korg has also turned the opsix into a plug-in. The Korg wavestate native plug-in comes with a huge sample library (Korg says that it’s “more than a thousand times larger than that of the original Wavestation”), and you can load your own samples using Korg’s Sample Builder application. The synth also offers extensive randomization features. Just like the hardware, the wavestate native lets you choose from MS-20 lowpass or highness filters, a Polysix lowpass and a bunch of other filters.Ī massive modulation engine with up to 4000 destinations per performance keeps things in motion. You can manipulate the timing, wave sequence and pitch on separate lanes, creating complex and evolving soundscapes in the process. It offers the same Wave Sequencing 2.0 sound engine with a maximum polyphony of 64 stereo voices. The wavestate native plug-in is fully compatible with the hardware synthesize.

Wavestate 2.0 update