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... due to being able to navigate and filter down to find patches/combos. I dislike having to tediously page through 18 banks of 50 patches on the Wavestation when I'm looking for a specific bell sound. You can't navigate with the arrow keys on the keyboard either.

The Polysix and MS-20 are even worse because you have to tediously load each tiny bank individually? Where's a good bass sound? Nope... not in this pack, file..open bank... etc. Nope, none in there. Ugh. Awful interface. I never use either one. Plus the Polysix sounds so thin (except in a combo in the Legacy Cell instrument).

The Mono/Poly and M1 on the other hand... brilliant. M/P sounds so thick, so easy to search for patches and narrow things down. Ditto for the M1. All the patches in one bank, no loading and unloading banks to find stuff.

Almost like the M1 and Mono/Poly were built by a different team than the others. Shame because I love the Wavestation sound. And Legacy Cell sounds AWESOME, but again... tedious to find a patch. If I want a bell patch, why do I have to scroll through strings and basses.

I love how Zebra 2 is like the M1 and Mono/Poly, easy to find patches and audition them each in a flash with one hand on the piano keys and one had arrowing down on the keyboard.

Anyone else think the Legacy collection is uneven? I don't care if the original Wavestation was set up that way, this is 2013, patch organization is critical to a time-pressed composer!

Agree that the lack of a browser for the Wavestation is a serious setback, particularly with the number of cards and presets the Legacy Collection comes with. If you have Logic Pro, you can re-index the Wavestation sounds based on your own preferences. It's something I recently did -- but only works for someone using Logic Pro. Anyway - hopefully, Korg can throw some resources behind developing a preset browser.

I hate that becuase the Wavestation sounds so good! And it takes me back to the year 1990 when I played one in the music store for the first time. Awesome crispness and movement. I always hated how Korg's default banks just scattered sounds randomly... one of each: guitar, piano, pad, string, lead in a row as you scroll through patches.

Korg always did that on the hardware synths... just randomly scattered the patch categories in a bank. Almost like they were mixing it up to showcase the variety of sounds when people were test driving before buying. At least that's what my old 01/W was like.

But... the Wavestation has too many banks, too many patches, and fruity little names for most patches that don't tell you what it is.

The Legacy Cell combo synth could use the same type of patch categorization in the future.

To heck with the MS-20 and Polysix. They don't even sound good enough to play over the Mono/Poly as pure sound VSTi instruments. Polysix might've sounded like that in real life, I never played a real one, but is sure is thin, cheap and wimpy. And the MS-20 sounds so lifeless and blah. No movement or fatness like a CS-80 would have. Anyhoo...

adlion944 wrote:I hate that becuase the Wavestation sounds so good! And it takes me back to the year 1990 when I played one in the music store for the first time. Awesome crispness and movement. I always hated how Korg's default banks just scattered sounds randomly... one of each: guitar, piano, pad, string, lead in a row as you scroll through patches.

Korg always did that on the hardware synths... just randomly scattered the patch categories in a bank. Almost like they were mixing it up to showcase the variety of sounds when people were test driving before buying. At least that's what my old 01/W was like.

That's why they had 10s/Hold button - where each up/down would go in increments of 10 instead of 1. So you could check out all pianos in a row, all guitars in a row, etc.

EvilDragon wrote:

adlion944 wrote:I hate that becuase the Wavestation sounds so good! And it takes me back to the year 1990 when I played one in the music store for the first time. Awesome crispness and movement. I always hated how Korg's default banks just scattered sounds randomly... one of each: guitar, piano, pad, string, lead in a row as you scroll through patches.

Korg always did that on the hardware synths... just randomly scattered the patch categories in a bank. Almost like they were mixing it up to showcase the variety of sounds when people were test driving before buying. At least that's what my old 01/W was like.

That's why they had 10s/Hold button - where each up/down would go in increments of 10 instead of 1. So you could check out all pianos in a row, all guitars in a row, etc.

Good Lord... I had an 01/W for 10 years and never knew that button did that. Wish there was such a thing as the Internet back then! Ha!