My first KORG keyboard was the Karma… I never owned the Kronos. However I recently bought the Grey Nautilus AT. I’m in love with this board. I’m excited to get this free sound library. Thanks KORG!!
Very nice addition. It would be tremendous if Korg continues this trend … they’ve got quite a stable of softsynths, all of which could be excellent “engine additions” to the Nautilus. 😊
Korg needs a new generation of Kronos. Not a watered down version. Revamped organ, top notch pianos, a reliable system void of bugs. How useful is the wave station other than for sound effects? Come on Korg.
Nice, it's funny though how synth connoisseurs don't refer to the Wavestation and JD-800 as "romplers", even if both the Wavestation and JD-800 are sample playback synthesizers.
Probably because the vast majority of the Wavestation pcm waves were actually single cycle waves or noise tones and not acoustic instrument samples. There are multiple tables of waves designed to be swept in sequence and/or vector mixed. The Wavestation EX added more rompler style samples such as piano/guitar/strings. The main synthesis limitation on the Wavestation was the non-resonant filters.
@wavesequencer There we go. We have one here. :) Single-cycle waveform stored in ROM is not considered sample playback, but a wave with several cycles is. It's better not to listen to those guys because one might miss out on some great technologies. I even heard people claiming vinyl record storage is better than 44.1KHz sampling. My advice is to run away from those people as far as one can.
Great question, and the answer depends on how many parts the Wavestation Performance was made from originally, as the architecture is quite different. A Nautilus can have 16 parts in a combi, so at most… 16 Wavestations! But it does depend on the sound and how it’s made up. A Wavestation performance could have up to 8 patches, although most didn’t use anywhere near that many.
