The bad news, which I was expecting, was that while the built-in sounds in ROM remained, all three RAM banks which held the sounds that I had lovingly created so very long ago were gone. The screen came to life, and pressing keys resulted in those rich Wavestation sounds: Tap to view at full size. With that in mind, I pulled the Wavestation out of its closet, where it had been sitting, plugged in my small MIDI keyboard controller ( the original version of the M-Audio Axiom 25), hooked it up to powered speakers, and turned it on: Those videos will include music, and I thought that while there’s nothing wrong with licensing some music, why not write my own? One of my plans for this year is to create a series of videos covering software development and other tech topics including security.

If you’d like to hear what it sounds like, check out this video by Espen “I am the 80s” Kraft:īringing the Wavestation back to active duty Simply put, the Wavestation is a beautiful-sounding synth, and even 30 years later, it still sounds great. I’ve held onto it ever since, having taken it from Kingston to Toronto, then San Francisco during the dot-com bubble and back, and it’s now at my current home in Tampa. …and I’ve even used it for some multimedia software projects: My first software deliverable after graduating from University: A multimedia promo for family album software. …and I’ve done other live gigs with it (that’s me in the pink wig)… Stephen Skratt, me, and Karl Mohr jamming on keyboards in 1999. I bought the Wavestation from my friend, Canadian TV/film composer Stephen Skratt, back in 1993, when I was playing keyboards in a band with my schoolmates at Crazy Go Nuts University… Me, circa 1992. The Wavestation series of synths set itself from the other synths of the era by using a technology called wave sequencing, which could be described as building sounds by pasting sequences of different waveforms together, in a way similar to George Martin’s cut-and-paste approach to the calliope sounds on the Beatles’ Being for the Benefit of Mr. The Korg’s Wavestation A/D is the rack-mount version of the Korg Wavestation EX keyboard synth, which in turn is a revised and expanded model of the original Korg Wavestation. Over the years, I’ve bought and then sold or given away a number of synths, but there’s one that I kept: A Korg Wavestation A/D. Long before I became an accordion player, I was a synth player. The Korg Wavestation A/D The best damned synth of 1991.

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