Korg Wavestate and Opsix for Win/Mac

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dumbledog wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:42 am The opsix’s party piece is the carriers are not necessarily having their frequency modulated by an operator, but they can work in other ways. They can be ring modulators, filters (with audio-rate cutoff modulation for vowel-like tones), wave folders, bitcrusher and other weird crap. Check Oscillator Sink’s playlist and you’ll see him use it to build a subtractive Juno-60-like, a filter bank, some Physical modeling stuff or all at once due to the additive structure behind the FM archetype.

Basically traditional DX-style phase modulation synthesis is just one of maybe a dozen ways operators can act on carriers.
How would Reason’s Algoritm compare to OPSIX? It seems to share some of these capabilities in common, with the interchangeable operators and versatile routing matrix.
I’m still pretty new to FM in general.

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tactile_coast wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:09 am
EvilDragon wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:41 pm Arturia has nothing at all similar to Wavestate.
Apart from the Prophet VS.

Which was Wavestate V1.
You probably meant Wavestation V1 :wink:
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tactile_coast wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:09 am
EvilDragon wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:41 pm Arturia has nothing at all similar to Wavestate.
Apart from the Prophet VS.

Which was Wavestate V1.
That's like comparing a tractor to a jetplane.

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Opsix looks awesome. A lot of FM power without abundance of ditractors. Clean interface too, looks much better than hardware.

Too bad I already bought F'em and... didn't use it at all yet :hihi:
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Wow, this is a surprise!

I have not tried either of the hardware, but I just got done demoing both of these new Korg synths for about 20 minutes each.

Before I mention the sound, I will mention the visual and I found it curious that the Opsix could only be resized to max 130%, while the Wavestate could be resized to max 150%. As far as looks go, I think they both look fine, though I wouldn't mind seeing an even larger size in the future. Korg, give me 200% please, my monitor can handle it. It wont break.

As far as the sound goes, the Wavestate was much more up my alley and I will be buying that one. I had fun just playing it for 20 minutes going through various sounds. I can pass on the Opsix for the time being. Maybe it'll be in a future Korg Collection upgrade. But I liked the Wavestate enough that I'll be grabbing that one right away.

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wow, wavestate is really deep.
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Tried opsix, at first I was like not another fm emulation with an endless variations of EP's all over, but then I've started to program it, and I can see a lots of potential. Great UI, easy to program and dial in various sounds, some unexplored territory there for sure. And since I was in hunt for an FM synth... Might be a winner in the end. Where's that Sumu to compare it to?
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greententacle wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:23 am wow, wavestate is really deep.
Is there a pdf manual available also for Wavestate native? I cannot find that...

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Zoopy wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 8:19 pm Ok I stand corrected, it installed 2gigs of samples to my C: drive without asking, like i thought. Pretty annoying, located at C:\Users\Public\Documents\KORG\wavestate native\System\Internal\Collections
This is so wrong. When you have a dedicated folder to store your music software plugins and their data folders they think they put these into documents without asking!
You know what? Create a Symbolic Link (in windows language: a shortcut) to this folder then you can place the files into your dedicated folder!

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Anotrher question: these two new instruments will be part of Korg collection or not? (for example arturia / pigments is not part of their v collection). If they'll be, then I will wait for my upgrade coupons. Anywaay I will wait 'til black friday : )

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Teksonik wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:51 pmYou can point it to a User Sample folder but it wants a " *.korgcompiledbank" so I'll have to figure out how to convert .wav files into that format so I suppose a dive into the manual will be inevitable.
Wavestate native/Sample Builder :
https://www.korg.com/us/support/downloa ... /#software
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Cochrane wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:04 pm Is there a pdf manual available also for Wavestate native? I cannot find that...
Yes, it comes in the installer download.

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I kinda feel like if you bought the hardware, there has to be some buyers remorse now. Thats the tough part with buying digital synths nowadays, you never know if a plugin is around the corner now that Korg did this. I think its awesome. FM8 is my jam for lots of DnB bass sounds, but Opsix looks interesting. I have to see how well I can pull off heavy bass sounds with it. Wavestate sounds really nice, but the UI takes some time getting used to. I am not familiar with this type of synth, but it does sound pretty nice.

It would be ideal to have an Minilogue XD plugin. That one I would buy.

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EvilDragon wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:14 am
tactile_coast wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:09 am
EvilDragon wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:41 pm Arturia has nothing at all similar to Wavestate.
Apart from the Prophet VS.

Which was Wavestate V1.
That's like comparing a tractor to a jetplane.
:clap: :hihi:

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I have the Wavestate hardware, and the plugin for 49.99$ is just no brainer for me atleast.
So no buyers remorse here and on the plus side the hardware can be a controller for the plugin.
I have wanted a good waveseq plugin for years.
Wusikstation had it time, same with Xpraze.

Only thing I can complain about it would have been nice to get discount for Opisix also :D :party:
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