I remember I bought one Wavestation EX to Michel Huygen (Neuronium), it came with all the factory sounds, nothing had been modified! I had heard he only used presets but this was the evidence. When I played it I recognized a lot of sounds used in his records. With the exception of the D-50, the M-1 and the DX-7, it's probably the most used and "recognizable" digital synth.
Hard to program, vectorial synthesis plus no knobs, I found easier to program a SY-22 I also owned at that time, although being less powerful as a sound generator, so I kept the Yamaha and finally sold the Korg. Not a clever decison, I know.
I don't think it is hard to program. There's a certain logic, but once you found that out, you can make any sound you like. I share this experience with more Wavestation users. Some of them find the M1 more to difficult to program.
[...] I remember I bought one Wavestation EX to Michel Huygen (Neuronium), it came with all the factory sounds, nothing had been modified! I had heard he only used presets but this was the evidence. [...]
I never understood why people made such a fuss about Huygen... lousy synthesiser programmer. I remember that godawful track on the Dalì album which exclusively used one of the most terrible factory patches of the D50. Shoddy stuff.
I never liked the tinkly wave-sequencing stuff on the WS -- this got obnoxious rather quickly and made the WS sound so redundant and instantly recognisable. The textural sounds are so much nicer (although so full of 1990s TD connotations...).
Stephen
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