Wavestation

Some of these user-made presets work with the vst:

http://www.danphillips.com/wavestation/ws_sysex.htm.

(Inside Wavestation click File>Import>RawData)

The Paul_WS folder contains a really deep patch called "Poseidon's Pad". It seems to be free, he just asks to be credited if you use it commercially.

Neat double info! Thank you both.

Does anyone know for certain where the factory patches are stored on disk? Is it here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\KORG\KORG Legacy\Presets\WAVESTATION.fxb

Want to make sure I have backup of those someplace handy (as opposed to my regular full machine backups).

No, it is.

C:\ProgramData\KORG\WAVESTATION\WAVESTATION.fxb.

and.

C:\ProgramData\KORG\WAVESTATION\WAVESTATION_Init.fxb.

All the factory banks of the Legacy collection are in the subdirectories of.

C:\ProgramData\KORG\.

Have fun.

And of course you'll put your own banks (those that you make yourself and those that you buy, download, etc.) in a personal directory. My advice: never place any personal file, even musical banks or patches, in subfolders of "C:\Program files" nor "C:\Program files (x86)". Because these trees may cause problems due to security restrictions of use for the owner.

ALL my VST's are put in subfolders of a totally independent tree, as long as it is allowed by the installation program (here at home my tree for music applications is "C:\!MAO" and for VSTs I have "C:\!MAO\32" and "C:\!MAO\64" but you can name all that as you want). And all their presets are in subfolders of each VST (except of course those automatically put in "C;\ProgramData" or in the "Documents" tree by the installation programs, but these special files are always found by the VST without any problem).

That's curious, the text editor of KVR systematically replaces the backslashes by slashes. That's really bothering...

And it has also a very bad management of the punctuation at the end of the paragraphs.

Anyway...

Just a note to add: They no longer use the "dongle" copy protection. They use the online form of copy protection. You can run it on only one computer at a time, but it is easy to go online from the new computer and update the protection keys so it now works on the new computer. (Have to be online, though!)

A truly great synth. They added another bank of "card" sounds as well.

Terry.

Yes, and it's been while that all the copy protection of the KLC is like that, without any dongle.

All the KLC collection is within my top 10 synths forever. MS-20, Mono/Poly, Polisyx, Wavestation, and M1. And they feature all the original banks and extra-banks which were made by Korg + plus many third party banks. Thousands and thousands of presets to enjoy.

Great plugins. The c/r copy protection for Korg is a right royal PITA. Twice yearly with the summer change it all has to be re-authorised, every single plugin on every single daw. When ever a new daw is installed and in some cases updated, again authorisation for every plugin. I much preferred the dongle. Keep thinking there's a better option however so far really resisted it.

Otherwise very sound plugins, although the GUIs could do with a resize with today's higher and larger res monitors. Still for the money they are excellent and you get exactly what you pay for imho.

I bought the Korg Taktile 25 controller to have keys to play my Volca hdwr. synth, and the KLC came free with the purchase. These plugins were my introduction to soft synths. I think they're very nice sounding, easy to use synth plugins.The controller and all 5 plugins... for $50 (I had a coupon). What a deal! Even for the full price, they seem very reasonably priced for what they are.

I was looking for a VST synth that sounds great. I didn't want a rave, arpeggio or rapper style gunk box. I just wanted nice sounds for nice songs. Then I remembered that as a younger man, I sold many of the Wavestations as hardware. Then along came the M1 etc. So, I looked at what sound I wanted. The Triton sounds great but costs a lot. The M1 isn't very unique and you can get similar/same sounds from the Wavestation. So, it was a no-brainer. I bought the Wavestation from the Korg website.

People who want usable sounds should look no further. Many software synths nowadays cost a load but apart from a few outrageous sounds and noises, they don't deliver. Payment, download, installation and activation worked like a charm. No crashes, no freezes. It works, baby. Minor thing is that the UI cannpt be adjusted like on the Triton. The VST looks rather small on my high resolution monitor. I had to get my glasses out.