But the 'timbral designer' thought, 'gee, people will get so confused if they can design their own sounds from scratch', and left it, inexplicably to my mind, as a preset sample only machine. On the one hand, with the incredible modulation routings, obviously was thought of by the 'modulation designer' as an experimental machine.

To me, there is a strong, inherent contradiction in the design. I was never that put off by the original WS interface (back in the day 2x16 character displays were still very much the norm and the WS display was a relative pleasure to use by comparison) so I can't say whether you'd find this new one obstructive. Because lanes for pitch, wave, duration, etc are all running parallel and with available elements of randomness you don't just add steps like beads on a string. The method of programming sequences is a very divergent and that's reflected in the way it's laid out. As I'm reading the negatives with programming this new synth, I'm trying to determine if it is clunky, or Wavestation style obstructive. Does anyone have this that had a Wavestation before? I loved the Wavestation sound and the Wavestate seems to sound even better, but I was so frustrated with the Wavestation programming in every sense that I sold it and promised myself never again.

Korg wavestate vst