Korg

Organic, inspirational, and mind-blowingly powerful

Wavestate SE is the powerful evolution of KORG's legendary WAVESTATION, taking Wave Sequencing to a new level. Designed in California and built in Japan, wavestate SE includes a premium 61-note keyboard with aftertouch, in an all-metal chassis built to handle the rigors of the road. Designed for a new era of musicians, composers, and producers, wavestate SE features hundreds of dynamic sounds, extensive hands-on control and 120 notes of polyphony to inspire new levels of creativity.

Features

• 61-note natural-feel keyboard with aftertouch
• Hundreds of updated sounds
• Elegant, road-worthy metal construction
• Exclusive hard case included
• Premium Japanese manufacturing
• Limited Platinum edition
• Wave Sequencing 2.0
• Extensive modulation with hands-on control
• Gigabytes of samples - and import up to 4GB of your own
• Modeled filters, including MS-20 and Polysix
• 120 stereo voices
• 4 Layers with Vector control
• 14 simultaneous effects
• Set Lists and Smooth Sound Transitions
• Randomization
• Free Editor/Librarian and Sample Builder software for Mac and Windows
• Designed by KORG R&D in California
• Special crossgrade to wavestate native software (purchased separately)

High-end 61-note keyboard with aftertouch
This is the wavestate for professional keyboard players. Featuring KORG's premium 61-note natural-touch keyboard, the wavestate SE delivers the same superb feel as KORG's high-end workstations. Aftertouch provides fingertip control of the wavestate's unique, evolving sounds. Naturally, we've updated the factory Performances for aftertouch, and added some new ones as well.

Exclusive hard case included
The wavestate SE ships in a dedicated hard case, including space for cables and a sustain pedal. Your instrument can travel protected, whether you're carrying it to a rehearsal downtown or packing it up for a world tour.

Limited Platinum Edition
Celebrating the release of the long awaited wavestate SE, a gorgeous Platinum model is available in limited numbers.
wavestate SE Platinum includes an exclusive set of stickers.

Wave Sequencing 2.0
The original WAVESTATION gave each step of a wave sequence a duration, a sample and a pitch. This created ear-catching repetitive patterns, giving rise to entirely new approaches to sound design. But what if the sounds could evolve in organic and unexpected ways, instead of just repeating?

Wave Sequencing 2.0 separates the timing, the sequence of samples, and the melody, so that each can be manipulated independently. It also adds new characteristics, including shapes, gate times, and step sequencer values. Each of these is a "Lane", and each Lane can have a different number of steps, and its own start, end and loop points.

Every time the sequence moves forward, the individual Lanes are combined to create the output. For instance, a sample may be matched with a different duration, pitch, shape, gate length, and step sequence value every time that it plays. You can modulate each Lane's start, end, and loop points separately for every note, using velocity, LFOs, envelopes, Mod Knobs, or other controllers. Each note in a chord can even be playing something different!

Lanes can also randomize the step order every time they play, with realtime control over the range of included steps. Finally, individual steps can be randomly skipped, with a modulatable probability from 0 to 100%. The result is organic, ever-changing sounds that respond to your control. The four onboard arpeggiators can interact with Wave Sequences for even more possibilities.

Easily expressive. Exceptionally deep
Bursting with knobs and controllers, the wavestate SE invites you to explore. All of the basics - filter, envelopes, LFOs, effects - are at your fingertips with dedicated front-panel controls. Eight programmable Mod Knobs are customized to bring out the most in every sound, often taking them in entirely new directions. Use the knobs in realtime performance, and also save the results as new sounds. Add in the Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels and the unique Vector Joystick, and you'll always have multiple dimensions of realtime expression.

Want to dig deeper? Almost all front-panel knobs, and most on-screen parameters, can be modulated. You can even modulate settings for individual Wave Sequence steps! Mod Processors let you transform modulation signals using quantization, smoothing, curvature, and more.

Randomization that inspires
Looking for even more inspiration? A dedicated front-panel button, marked by a "dice" icon, generates new sounds via intelligent randomization. Randomize the entire sound or just a part of it, such as the filter, the Sample Lane, or the effects. Use the results directly, or as a jumping-off point for your own creations.

An arsenal of effects
The wavestate SE's superb effects deliver production-ready sounds. Each layer has three dedicated effects; additionally, the Performance has a master reverb and parametric EQ. Along with standards such as compressors, EQs, choruses, flangers, phasers, and stereo delays, you'll find distinctive processors such as the Wave Shaper, Talking Modulator, Reverse Delay, Multiband Mod Delay, and Overb (from the OASYS), plus modeled effects including VOX guitar amps, VOX wah, multi-head tape echo, and a collection of classic guitar pedals.

Choose your filter
Add vintage character to your sounds with the aggressive MS-20 Lowpass or Highpass filters, or the strong, sweet Polysix Lowpass. Shape and refine with a full collection of resonant 2-pole and 4-pole Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, and Band Reject filters. Or, step outside the box with KORG's unique Multi Filter, which creates modulatable blends of multiple modes simultaneously.

Gigabytes of samples. 120 stereo voices
Totaling in the gigabytes, the wavestate SE's sample library is more than a thousand times larger than that of the original WAVESTATION. That's a lot of great-sounding raw material for Wave Sequences. There's a bank of samples from Plugin Guru, brand-new samples from KORG, and a selection from the NAUTILUS, KRONOS and KROME libraries. Of course, KORG also provides all of the WAVESTATION's samples (including all options), plus a huge library of WAVESTATION Wave Sequences. Play up to 120 stereo voices with pristine clarity, using KORG's proprietary anti-aliasing sample playback technology.

4GB of User Samples
Express yourself in your own unique voice. Import up to 4 GB of your own Multisamples into the wavestate SE via the free Sample Builder application for Mac and Windows. Many third-party libraries are available, too! Use your new samples in Wave Sequences or as single Multisamples, just like the factory Multisamples.

Multiply by four
With all of that synthesis power, you might think the wavestate SE would play only one sound at a time. Not a chance. For even more rich and complex results, layer up to four Programs together in a Performance - each with their own effects and arpeggiator. The Vector Envelope and Joystick mix the individual voices of the four Layers, and can also modulate any other parameters.

Set Lists and Smooth Sound Transitions
Set Lists offer effortless organization of your wavestate SE Performances, and deliver instant access at the gig or in rehearsal. Smooth Sound Transitions allow previously-played voices and effects to continue to ring out naturally, even once a new sound has been selected.

Plays well with others
Balanced stereo outputs connect to any recording or monitoring system, and a stereo headphone output is provided for private playing or onstage cueing. Din-style MIDI jacks ensure connection to other MIDI-equipped instruments and audio gear. The wavestate SE supports class-compliant USB MIDI connections to Windows and Mac computers, and the wavestate SE Editor/Librarian and Sample Builder programs are available as free downloads from KORG.

Editor/Librarian
The Editor/Librarian acts as a second front panel for the wavestate SE. Realtime display of modulated parameter values and Wave Sequences gives you instant feedback on your creations. Copy and paste sounds, envelopes, LFOs, filter settings, and more. Dive deep into Effects with access to all internal parameters and create your own Effects Presets.

Free bundle of music software
The wavestate SE comes with a diverse variety of music software from Izotope including "Ozone Elements" which lets you not only create songs but also master them using AI, "Skoove" which will help you improve your keyboard playing skills, as well as software synths from KORG and other brands.

In other words, the moment you get your hands on this synthesizer you'll have a variety of tools to help you take your music to the next level.

Specifications

Keyboard: 61 keys (Natural touch keyboard with velocity and release-velocity sensitive, aftertouch)

Sound generating system: Wave Sequencing 2.0

Maximum Polyphony: 120 stereo voices

Sounds: Ships with 261 Performances, 799 Programs, and 1,042 Wave Sequences
Storage for tens of thousands of user Performances

Structure
Performance: 4 Layers, Reverb, EQ;
all edits are stored in the Performance, DAW-style (saving as separate Programs, Wave Sequences etc. is supported but not required)

Layer: Program, Arpeggiator, Key and Velocity Zones

Program: Wave Sequence, Filter, Amp, Pre FX, Mod FX, Delay

Filters: 2-pole LPF, 2-pole HPF, 2-pole BPF, 2-pole Band Reject, 4-pole LPF, 4-pole HPF, 4-pole BPF, 4-pole Band Reject, Multi Filter, MS-20 LPF, MS-20 HPF, Polysix

Modulation
Controllers: Mod Wheel, Pitch Wheel, Vector Joystick X/Y, 8x Program/Performance Mod Knobs

Other Sources
3x Envelopes, Vector Envelope, 3x LFOs, 2x Mod Processors, 2x Key Track, Step Sequencer Lane, Step Pulse, Tempo, Program/Performance Note Count, Program/Performance Voice Count, Poly Legato, Velocity, Exponential Velocity, Release Velocity, Gate/Gate+Damper, Note-On Trigger/Note-On Trigger+Damper, Note Number, Aftertouch/Poly Aftertouch (external MIDI only), MIDI CCs +/-, MIDI CCs +

Destinations: Most parameters can be modulated, including parameters of individual Wave Sequence Steps. Depending on Wave Sequence length, there can be more than 1,000 potential modulation targets per Program.

Effects
Pre FX:
Decimator, Graphic EQ, Guitar Amp, Modern Compressor, Parametric EQ, Red Compressor, Ring Modulator, Tremolo, Wave Shaper

Mod FX: Black Chorus/Flanger, Black Phase, CX-3 Vibrato Chorus, EP Chorus, Harmonic Chorus, Modern Chorus, Modern Phaser, Orange Phase, Polysix Ensemble, Small Phase, Talking Modulator, Vintage Chorus, Vintage Flanger, Vintage/Custom Wah, Vox Wah

Delay: L/C/R Delay, Multiband Mod Delay, Reverse Delay, Stereo/Cross Delay, Tape Echo

Reverb: Early Reflections, Overb

Performance EQ: 4-band parametric EQ

Inputs/outputs:
- Headphone (6.3 mm stereo phone jack)
- OUTPUT L/MONO and R (impedance-balanced 6.3 mm TRS phone jacks)
- DAMPER (6.3 mm phone jack)
- MIDI IN and OUT connectors
- USB B port

Power supply: AC adapter (DC12V, 2500mA)

Power consumption: 5 W

Dimensions (W x D x H): 1,014 x 344 x 110 mm/39.92" x 13.54" x 4.33"
Weight: 8.6 kg/18.96 lb.

Included items: AC adapter, Hardcase