Iwavestation Owner's Manual
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Contents MIXER ...................................................... 21 MIXER page ..............................................................................22 Introduction ................................................4 MIDI page .................................................................................23 Main Features ............................................4 EDIT ........................................................ 25 How the iWAVESTATION is structured ...........5 How a Patch is structured ........................................................25 Performances .............................................................................5 Oscillators ....................................................................................... 25 Patches ........................................................................................5 Vector synthesis ........................................................................... 25 Waveforms ..................................................................................6 Waves ............................................................................................... 26 Wave sequences .........................................................................6 Wave sequences ........................................................................... 26 Cards ...........................................................................................6 Filter .................................................................................................. 26 Pan .................................................................................................... 27 Part Names and Functions ............................7 Modulation .................................................................................... 27 Browser functions .................................... 14 A brief introduction to wave sequences ................................28 MORPH page ............................................................................31 Selecting a performance .........................................................14 MORPH ............................................................................................ 31 Selecting Wave sequences, Paches, and Waves .....................15 MODULATION ............................................................................... 32 Scale list ....................................................................................16 WAVE page ...............................................................................33 Parameters for each page........................... 17 Level ................................................................................................. 33 Semi .................................................................................................. 35 WAVESEQ ................................................. 17 Fine ................................................................................................... 36 WAVE page ...............................................................................18 Settings ........................................................................................... 36 LEVEL page ...............................................................................18 Write ................................................................................................. 38 LOOP page ................................................................................18 TONE page ................................................................................38 PITCH page ...............................................................................19 PITCH ................................................................................................ 38 PARAM page .............................................................................19 FILTER ............................................................................................... 40 2 OUTPUT page ...........................................................................41 Import .......................................................................................60 AMPLIFIER ....................................................................................... 41 iWAVESTATION .............................................................................. 60 FX-BUS ............................................................................................. 42 KORG Legacy Collection ............................................................ 60 A-B PAN............................................................................................ 42 Original WAVESTATION SysEx .................................................. 60 MOD page .................................................................................43 Export .......................................................................................60 ENV .................................................................................................... 43 LFO 1/2 ............................................................................................ 44 Specifications ............................................ 61 EFFECTS ................................................... 46 Support and service ................................... 62 Effect system ............................................................................46 Information to provide when contacting us...................... 62 Effect structure .........................................................................46 Before you contact us ................................................................ 62 EFFECT ROUTING ......................................................................... 47 Effect list ...................................................................................50 SETTINGS ................................................. 56 MIDI Settings ............................................................................56 MIDI Filtering ...........................................................................57 Tuning .......................................................................................57 Tempo Source ...........................................................................58 Writing, Importing and Exporting Data ....... 59 Writing data..............................................................................59 Performances ................................................................................ 59 Patches ............................................................................................ 59 Wave sequences ........................................................................... 60 3 Introduction Thank you for purchasing the KORG iWAVESTATION for iOS Wave sequence synthesizer. To help you get the most out of your new instrument, please read this manual carefully. Main Features The iWAVESTATION features a new graphical user inter- face that brings a revolutionary leap in user operations. It also provides all waves, effects, and sound programs found on the original WAVESTATION series, delivering a perfect reproduction of the original sound. All 550 of the factory preset programs (performances) from the WAVESTATION series are provided as presets. Perfor- mances, patches, and wave sequence data created on the original WAVESTATION series can also be loaded as system exclusive files. Also. seven types of cards (CARD 1–6, KLC 1) have been added as contents that can be purchased. These cards allow the performances, patches, wave sequences and waves of the iWAVESTATION to be expanded. 4 How the iWAVESTATION is structured broader range of expressive potential than when playing a Performances single patch. A “performance” is the highest level into which iWAVESTA- We suggest you use the WAVESEQ page to take a look at TION sounds are organized. A performance is not simply a one of the preset performances, and see how the patches are single sound; each performance is created using up to eight being used (e.g., how the key zones and velocity assignments individual parts. are set). (“WAVESEQ”, p. 17) A performance also includes keyboard mode settings (single, You can also apply two stereo effects to each performance, split, layer, velocity switch) and effect settings. and adjust their effect parameters. For more about the effects, Performances are organized into card, and each card lets refer to refer to “EFFECTS” (p. 46). you store 50 performances, giving you a total of 1,050 perfor- mances when all cards are totaled. The following diagram shows the structure of a performance. Patches PERFORMANCE A “patch” consists of an oscillator, filter, amp envelope, general-purpose envelope, and two LFOs. If we use the PART 1 PART PART PART PART PART PART PART NAME EFFECTS (typical 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 example of an acoustic instrument, the settings of a patch are of 8) what cause it to sound like that particular instrument. ROUTING FX1 FX2 PART KEY AND PATCH DETAIL VELOCTY ZONES Each part contains a patch (sound), parameters that adjust its sound (scale, pitch, filter and level), and a playing range (key and velocity zones). Since a performance contains eight of these parts, you have much greater tonal richness and a 5 between them while you play. OSCILLATOR FILTER AMP PAN You can make each step play for a specific duration, or con- trol it by gate time (the duration that you hold down a note). AMP ENV Since each card holds 32 wave sequences, the entire memory A ENV 1 LFO 1 LFO 2 of the iWAVESTATION can store