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Korg’s DW-8000 returns in the form of the Modwave hybrid wavetable synthesizer
Korg has revived yet another classic from its illustrious history and given it the hybrid treatment, with the new Modwave wavetable synthesizer that promises to take the DW legacy and create a “monster synth” with a little help from Motion Sequencing 2.0 and the brand new Kaoss pad modulation.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that this looks like the third instalment of forward-thinking ‘modernized’ synths from Korg that tap into models of yesteryear with fresh features, all wrapped up in a now-familiar 37-key chassis.
The Modwave seems to also take on the same ethos as the Wavestate and opsix with plenty of hands-on control and an engine combining deep synthesis with multiple filter options and a whole heap of modulation tools. It also adds the ability to assign four modulation signals to its Kaoss pad, utilising the new Kaoss physics function.
Modwave’s synthesis engine seems to be rather deep with 200 wavetables, each containing up to 64 waveforms. The structure allows you to utilize 30+ Modifiers to change the character and 13 Morph Types for realtime wavetable processing.
Combined with the A/B Blend function, all of this adds up to a dizzying number of wavetable variations – over 230 million to
