The other good news is that the SR retains the stereo and two individual audio outs of its more expensive brethren -though, perhaps not surprisingly, it doesn't implement the audio inputs of the A/D. However, if you have a keyboard instrument which allows assignable MIDI controllers to be transmitted, you can get round the latter shortcoming (see 'Vector Synthesis' box). Gone also is the 'soft key' approach of the more expensive instruments which allows you to zip around their software pages, and the joystick which allows the sound balance within multioscillator Patches to be altered so readily. Being a 1U-high instrument, its user interface is necessarily constricted, with, for instance, a 2 x 16-character backlit LCD replacing the much larger and more informative screen of the EX and A/D. The most notable economies come with the dimensions of the SR. The good news is that, while it's significantly cheaper than the EX and A/D, the Wavestation SR forgoes relatively little in the way of features - and in some respects actually offers more than its more expensive companions.
At £997 the SR may not be everyone's idea of a budget instrument, but on past form it's the nearest Korg are going to get to producing one. Korg have been a little slow in providing a budget version of the Wavestation for those musicians who can't afford the asking price of an EX or A/D, but at last here it is: the 111 19" Wavestation SR. For one thing, imitative samples can be turned into more abstract sound material by assigning them to wave sequences (see 'Wave Sequencing' box) and using the 'obscuring' capabilities of sequence step durations and crossfades. By placing the emphasis on abstract waveforms and wave sequences as opposed to imitative samples, it has opened up a different sound world for adventurous musicians to explore.Įven the addition of sampled sounds to the waveforms -which occurred with the introduction of the Wavestation A/D module and the EX expansion for the keyboard Wavestation - only served to enhance the instrument's sonic versatility. In a synth world dominated by sample-based instruments, the Wavestation has been the proverbial breath of fresh air.
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