Sound designer and synthesist Ian Dixon has shared a free sound library for the Korg Wavestate synthesizer.
The Korg Wavestate is a powerful and flexible synthesizer, but is best known for creating digital wave sequence sounds, which feature prominently in the synth’s preset sounds.
Dixon’s sound library demonstrates that the Wavestate can also do classic analog sounds. The free collection features patches based on the classic sounds of Solina, Mellotron, Elka, Roland, and ARP keyboards. It includes iconic sounds of Pink Floyd (“Shine On You Crazy Diamond”), Vangelis, and others.
It’s compatible with the Korg Wavestate, Wavestate mkII, Wavestate Rack, and Wavestate Native.
In the video, Dixon demos each of the sounds, and also shares some of the sound design secrets of his patches.
Topics covered:
00:00 Introduction
01:03 2600 Strings and CP80
01:56 Analog Perform
03:40 Res Strings
04:24 2600 Res Synth
04:49 2600 Strings
05:30 Dual Strings
06:22 Bass Section
06:40 Band Pass Strings
07:25 Chord Strings
08:02 CS80 Strings
08:51 Elka sounds
10:19 JP Sq Pad
10:36 JP Strings
11:00 JX Strings
11:50 Mellotron Strings
12:19 PWM Strings
12:57 Phased Solina Strings
13:42 Prog Tron
15:10 PWM Strings
15:29 Quadra String Ensemble
15:44 Seq Strings
16:20 Shine On Strings and Lead
16:57 Solina Strings
17:16 String Dance
17:26 TD Style
18:33 Trident Strings
18:52 Vangelis Strings
19:28 VP-330 Human Voice
19:40 VP-330 Strings
19:54 Warm Strings
Pricing and Availability:
Vintage Analog Strings is available now as a free download.
Great work, Ian! I’m looking forward to getting home and downloading this.
This is awesome, and they sound fantastic…but…What does everyone want to make wavestate and modwave sound like old analog synths? Arturo’s, Cherry Audio and KORG have us covered there. There are more patches for analog type sounds then there are ones with more creative and incentive ones which take full advantage of the unique qualities of both synths.
Oops. Auto correct…Arturia. Not Arturo. ??
I find Wavestate’s presets to be completely useless, because they are all built with a ‘gee whiz’ approach to the fact that you can have four layers, each with wave sequencing. It’s like Korg asked the sound designers to show off all the capabilities of Wave Sequencing 2 on every patch.
This sound library shows that the Wavestate can do a lot more than wave sequencing patches, and that wave sequencing can also be used in subtle ways. Dixon’s sound design is amazing to me – I wouldn’t have imagined that the Wavestate can do such impressive emulation of vintage analog string synths.