VS waveforms on the WS and WS performance names
jal...@cc.helsinki.fi
You might know that the Wavestation will have the VS waveforms, too. In
fact, in the waveform chart there are waveforms named "VS 35" - "VS
125" (Hmm, where are the first 34?!). Well, do these waveforms have actual
names on the Prophet VS? If so, I would like to get a name list,
if possible... (Of course I can hear the waves when I get the WS, but it
would be nice to have SOME kind of reference...)
BTW, the WS preset programs (combinations of 8 patches, or sounds) have quite
interesting names, here some examples:
(The patches have strange names, too - but not AS strange.)
Metropolitan Mini Lead Guardians
DigitalResWave Sandman Time Traveler
Analog Punch Cosmic Zone Analog Brass
Modernesque Vektar Vulcan Harp
Quarks Vocalise Excalibur
Prophet Horn Mahogany Round Wound
Motion Mix Stereo Waves Screamer
Paradise Resonant Synth Rhythm of the Wave
Introspective Station Platform Entropy
Reswacker Softwaves Magic Guitar
Will I Dream? Analog Love Thang Fire Dance
Super Res Ballerina Bells Soft Analog
Harmonic Motion Artificial String The Pied Piper
Vox Concrete Refinery Kingdom Come
Spectra New Sparkle Alien Dreams
End of Voltaire Debussy on Wheels Pharoah's Jig
City of Tomorrow Spectrumize ZZ Lead
21st Century Nasty Harmonics Glider
Sonar Bell String Guitar Rez Antarctica
Organomics Trans Atlantic Skip's Boom Bass
Saturn Rings Star Bell Sweep Chronos
There are some "normal" names, too. Like "Rotary Organ" and "Folk
Guitar". I just hope these sound as interesting as their names
suggest...
BTW, the WS manual ("Player's Guide") Finnish translation is now ready.
I just finished it. Huh. :-)
Jouni
metlay
You mean all two of us? |-> (yes, there is ONE other VS owner on r.m.s,
but he's not a chatty fellow so I'll keep his name a secret.)
>You might know that the Wavestation will have the VS waveforms, too. In
>fact, in the waveform chart there are waveforms named "VS 35" - "VS
>125" (Hmm, where are the first 34?!). Well, do these waveforms have actual
>names on the Prophet VS? If so, I would like to get a name list,
>if possible... (Of course I can hear the waves when I get the WS, but it
>would be nice to have SOME kind of reference...)
The VS waves had no names, only descriptions of what they contained in
the owner's manuals. I find it a bit annoying that Korg didn't duplicate
these descriptions in the WS manual, as they included things like sine
waves and combinations of sine waves, harmonic series, specific sound
bites of well-known instruments, and "fundamental+harmonic" sums for
various waveforms. Waves 1-32 were user creatable, so there were no
ROM equivalents (nyah, nyah). Waves 33 and 34, alas, were my favorites
on the instrument, given my old-fogeyish tendencies: they were the
square and sawtooth waves, suitable for imitating analog timbres. I
certainly hope that the WS has a nice, basic sawtooth and triangle wave
somewhere (and a set of varied duty-cycle pulse waves in neatly arranged
order so one can use Wave Sequencing to do PWM with decent resolution).
I'm glad that Korg included almost all of the VS waves, but the inclusion
of the sine wave sets puzzles me. They were designed to allow "snapshot"
additive synthesis on the VS, but since the WS can't add and store new
waveforms from old ones, their utility seems limited except for adding
pure overtones to timbres here and there....
(Has it occurred to me yet that I'm probably going to buy one of these
stupid things, and make Korg Technical Support's collective life a Hell
On Earth (TM) while I rip it apart and make it do stuff it wasn't meant
to do? Nah, I'm still being stubborn.... |-> )