Product Description
Korg Wavestation EX
Complete with power cord
About This Keyboard
This is the first Wavestation I've ever had and it sounds AMAZING!!!. I haven't found anything on it that doesn't work just as it should but I don't know how to use all of the functions. There are no broken keys and they all play well. The display screen is nice and clear. Cosmetically it is very good with only normal wear and tear of a used keyboard. We are including the power cord. I have included a lot of pictures and I think you can just let them speak for themselves.
When Sequential Circuits finally went belly-up, their research and development into vector synthesis was picked up at Korg. This led to the hugely successful Wavestation Synthesizer which was based on Sequential's ProphetVS. The Wavestation incorporated the 2-dimensional vector joystick of the ProphetVS which allowed the user to alter and animate sounds. Korg added to this a second break-through form of synthesis: wave sequencing, by which short segments of sampled audio waveforms could be played one after the other and cross-faded into each other for some complex and unusual tones, pads, textures and rhythms. The Wavestation had 2MB of ROM based samples at your disposal. Programming is not exactly easy but this great digital synth is capable of lush ambient sounds and strange effects. It has the obligatory lowpass filter, though it is non-resonant and digital sounding. Also on-board are some multi-effects which are pretty nice. This synth is easily upgraded and expandable with PCM cards too.
In 1991 the Wavestation EX, also called EXK-WS, was released. The EX added 150 more waveforms (4MB) including acoustic instruments and drums. The EX also adds 8 multi-effects including: Mod Pitch Shift-Delay, Stereo Compressor-Limiter/Gate, Vocoder, Overdrive and Distortion effects, transposable keyboard and added MIDI implementation and control. Wavestations are used by Orbital, The Future Sound of London, Genesis, Jan Hammer, Depeche Mode, Toto, Vangelis, Legendary Pink Dots, Biosphere and Sin.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - Up to 32 Voices
- Oscillators - Digital synth with 2MB ROM samples, Vector Synthesis, Wave Sequencing
- Multitimbral - 16 parts
- Filter - 1 LowPass filter per voice
- Memory - 150 patches
- Keyboard - 61 keys (velocity / aftertouch)
- Effects - 2 onboard effects
- Control - MIDI (up to 8 channels at a time)
- Date Produced - 1990-94
It is important to remember that when buying a used keyboard it may not operate or look exactly like a new one. Used keyboards develop wear over time that can cause such items as function buttons, knobs, sliders etc. to fail to operate as smoothly or easily as when they were new. Our technician does check these items and if they are deemed unusable they are replaced but some function buttons may require more pressure or manipulation to make the appropriate changes. Cosmetically your used keyboard may have scuffs, scratches, cracks to plastic pieces, discolored keys or other visual impairments that might not show up in the photos. We try to mention any obvious visual imperfections but may not consider them serious enough to post in the listing.