KORG MODWAVE: WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS OF THE FUTURE

[@blush_response]

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[@BattleAngelSound]

This is the best and the only demo that could sell Modwave to me. Seriously. Every other demo or even preset libraries are showing Modwave as 'look at me, I sound like a generic wavetable synth'. Also with one patch you created something very similar to one of my finished tracks made out of several channels. Awesome :D

[@Skanoh]

Damn, you made this thing roar!

[@oblitafier]

I love mine. It can cover a lot of bases (wavetable, virtual analog, rompler) and sounds great. It seems to have been a bit overlooked by many. This and a Syntakt are my go to machines right now

[@unkyherb6505]

You are the entire reason I bought this btw. I always love how you just go straight in to it

[@Garethduffy707]

Loved this. Waiting on my module version to be delivered. I’m more excited about this than I was for the Hydrasynth after watching this.

[@asynchronicity]

I like how you get it to sound like an air raid siren having lunch with a failed space station falling to Earth.

[@xisotopex]

the best modwave video I have found yet...

[@hayatosimpson9448]

Fkn a. That last patch getting right in there and flange tickling my pineal glands. Love your work!

[@wjoojoo]

I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear a demo by someone who pushes sound design to its limit. Thank you!

[@clonn]

This is one I was waiting for.

[@onpatrolforthejuice]

this vid sold me on it. Can't wait till it arrives. Been looking for an affordable poly synth and this thing seems insanely deep.

[@andersschroder2483]

Agree totally mental! I was soo surprised of how nuts it really was!

[@__3028]

totally right about the timbre thing on these, was not the biggest fan myself but the features cant be ignored

[@franckrobert282]

Merci pour cette belle démonstration ! ❤️Pour rien au monde je vendrais mon Modwave !

[@AviPFine]

One of my fave things to do on this synth is upload real life audio samples of my other instruments into wavetables then apply morphs to them or blend a pad in. The fm is sin based but I've made nice juicy fm sounds you can even apply it to a sample from osc a. One thing I really also like is the step sequence pulse presets and the way to add your own

[@ggeessttaalltt]

Hope they eventually put this out as a VST. Don’t really feel I need the hardware but it sounds great.

[@THARTHURs.THOUNDS]

Hmm, they actually… have it? As well as their fm-synth

[@THARTHURs.THOUNDS]

Ah, no, that’s wavestate!

[@biggrime]

Hardware is life

[@ErraticFaith]

All of them are released as VST for a long time now. And hardware is useless junk. Go full ITB with controller, not cheap plastic and toy keybeds.

[@lsjanca]

I have modwave and wavestate. like them both but wavestate is my favorite. much deeper sounds

[@liouxliouxisgod]

This should be titled SWANS discography.

[@kcat80]

would love to hear what you could do with the wavestate, really interested in both of these synths. great video and sounds as always.

[@e8root]

I recently got Modwave Native for hundreds bucks and imho the value on this product is insane. Less so the physical synth but having physical Opsix I understand the appeal. Modwave can actually play very nicely with Opsix controls - they have to baked in to patches (except mod knobs which are system-wide -also map perfectly to four knobs set as "output" - red :)) but for real DAW usage + real time adjustements it is more than enough.

[@kenb7540]

Switch to Layer B and you’ve got your melodic line on top right there….or the drum track. Awesome demo ! 👏👏👏👍

[@arriandela]

I want one now!

[@martinb3483]

damn! I'd love to see such a thing as a desktop version without the keyboard

[@Farold_Haltermeyer]

Your wish is granted

[@mook3312]

Dude that was fucking mental

[@downtowncowboy6554]

I neeeed this!!!

[@matthewwilson3673]

well damn this was a great video

[@mybiggrin]

Siiiick synth. Man, that ring is hindering you from your RH voicing possibilities.

[@biggrime]

Been gassing for this synth. This might push me over. I have the blofeld. So I've been on the fence

[@arriandela]

Best Modwave demo on the internet. I like your drum tones. What drum machine are you using???

[@joserancel6255]

I think Elektron Drummachine

[@SilverAlienMachine]

Madness!!

[@SouthShoreSonics]

Great stuff! You had me at "I do not use presets"! I am the same way, my Modwave is programmed from the ground up with custom patches. I go against the grain and most of my patches are filters disabled, so the wavetable timbrality comes out from the wavetable texture alone.

[@digitakt8086]

THX for the vid and for sharing you impressions around that korgie. So, what´s your recommendation for an hardware elelctroguy, when it comes to the question of purchase? Quadrasynth Desktop or the Korg Modwave?

[@Phantom_Communique]

Hey Joey - if you had to pick one, would you choose Modwave or Neuzeit warp?

[@LogicBomb34]

Hi. Can you work on it from a computer like on Virus, or only on the synthesizer itself?

[@DirtleTilbury]

That synth has so many cool sounds… can you segregate patches across the board like patch per key similar to the aphxstation and create drum kits of crazy sounds and glitched noises? That would be nuts but it would have to have quite a bit of power under the hood to do it.

[@AviPFine]

You can save layer programs and put them on respective layers where you want in different patches. it's bi Timbral and i can use amp keytrack to apply split between two osc just in one layer alone too. Using the sum mod processor applied to amp keytrack then mod+ osc level You can sequence drums it's a bit of work you just need drum samples that have good sustain built in. I've made lots of those. If you get a good software that can resample drum loops that will work too with some nice tweaks. I love my modwave had it a while but this is actually the best demo I've seen so far actually.

[@DirtleTilbury]

@@AviPFine i need to download the manual and read about the limitations of the layer programs featre. I wonder if it would let you make one for each key type of thing. The amp keytrack thing, I will need to read up on that as well. I have an alesis ion that is quad-timbral...if that is what you are talking about with bi-timbral. It lets you have four voices stacked....which is wildly overkill but fun. Two sounds enough! I think you can segregate the four voices across the keyboard in different sections....maybe overlap them. Maybe these features are similar to the modwave?

[@AviPFine]

@@DirtleTilbury ive been able to split bitimbrally on two layers with some work, so yes, I have achieved some 'pesudo'-quadratimbrality on some of my patches. Its for sure possible. If you mean polyphony im not sure. It is 32 voices, the way they spread across when Im doing that 4 voice sorta-split thing, I dont know how it does it/ allocates the stereo voices. Ive only tried the sum mod process, theres other ones too I havent even toyed with those yet. I never had the chance to try an Ion but sounds like a pretty cool synth. Modwave is bitimbral so one split set up between layers already. What i do is split layers between oscillators on each layer themselves to get 4 if i want. Haven't noticed any drop outs but I haven't really done a thorough check on that yet

[@milk_bath]

Love your creative style. Could you compare/contract Modwave VS Hydrasynth? Is one closer to the Piston Honda/Microwave XT vibe?

[@blush_response]

thanks! modwave is closer to a piston and microwave xt. hydrasynth feels more like a new ensoniq VFX or something for some reason.

[@claudiongleur]

@@blush_response which one do you prefer and why?

[@schaltschrank]

12:25 🖤🖤🖤 That’s what I like.

[@schaltschrank]

24:00 something… I am really surprised what this thing can do. 🖤

[@visby2548]

Nearly perfect synth, core sound generators, filters, fx, modulation, etc. Wish it was 4 octaves, that is all.

[@markchristopher2signal2]

Geeeeeee. Wow

[@Screenshot1015]

At 4:35 you just sold me a modwave 😮

[@xisotopex]

how does this compare to the Argon8? or the hydrasynth?

[@aki_gong6271]

Is wavestate next? Can wait for you to crack on with it! Do you think this keyboard on its own could deliver a live act without the need of a drum machine? Amazing stuff as usual ;) keep it up! By the way, seeing and listening to those new korg's seems to me that maybe a new era where live performers will be again taking keyboards to the stage is coming?

[@johnbeckett8367]

Does it have patch randomisation?

[@andreas.7114]

Yes

[@johnbeckett8367]

@@andreas.7114 ok thank you

[@unkyherb6505]

(17:35) bring the noise!!!!

[@michmond2015]

I don't even have soft soft I just have the demo

[@jlou1030]

my only problem with this synth is you need more hands :)

[@HornieCow]

those Korgs are Pie's, no?

[@milk_bath]

As in Raspberry Pi?

[@HornieCow]

@@milk_bath yes

[@OpenMindNL]

Raspberry Pi Compute Module

[@happymonday2591]

yap,they say it is more powerful than dsp and alows more polyphony but I had one and it was freezing a lot during the summer, sent it to repair and they changed raspberry, but it was freezing with new one also.

[@OpenMindNL]

@@happymonday2591 My first modwave had a faulty display, but that was neatly solved by exchanging the whole device for a new one. Other than that, no problem. When a synth freezes, especially with multiple copies, the cause is usually with the user. MIDI loops, for example, are a notorious cause of freezing. These arise because the MIDI signal from the output is sent directly back to the input, and to the output, and back to the input... hundreds of times per second... after which the synth gets stuck in processing. This is often caused by routing errors in DAW software or MIDI mapping software. Advice: When using a synth in a DAW for both the engine and keyboard, toggle Local Control = Off (synth system settings). This essentially turns the synth into two independent devices, without internal connection... keyboard and sound engine.

[@joserancel6255]

Min 11:04 🤤🤤🤤

[@ditchgames]

serum but hardware

[@sCealt]

can the kaos physics pad send midi??? asking for a friend 😅

[@SouthShoreSonics]

nope, only the x position and y position.

[@sCealt]

@@SouthShoreSonics ok fair enough x

[@SouthShoreSonics]

@@sCealt I'd love it wasn't the case. As it would be so cool to real time control other ccs with the ball. I was able to route the Modwave's cc for x to the MS-20Kits Low Pass filter CV, and the cc for y to the High Pass via CVOCD conversion of ccs to CVs. This was just an experiment and I packed it up afterwards. The Modwave transmits a ball roll sysex, but I would have no idea how to parse to get into MIDI SOLUTIONS Event Processor Plus, though. That is an experiment for this winter!

[@AviPFine]

X and y yeah. I tried sending that to my neuron vs resynator spheres alas to no avail. Using the synth as controller worked fine though But I have a midi solutions pedal controller I can use expression to add more mods there if you know I just wanna bring one mod in then back out while kaoss does the other ones

[@SouthShoreSonics]

@@AviPFine cc18 and 19 work fine from the x,y pads. I convert to CV via CV OCD.

[@JaroAtry]

It sounds cool, but not very musical. I can see I could have a lot of fun with it, but would I actually use it in my music? Probably no.