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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- This week on the podcast, we have a very special guest. Dan Phillips is the manager of product development at Korg R&D in the US and has worked on various products over his years at Korg, including the Wavestation and OASYS projects, as well as recent devices like the Wavestate and Modwave.
Dan talks about the products he has worked on at Korg and the process of bringing new products to life at the company. He discusses writing the manuals, working with sound developers, and provides a background on the Wavestate and Modwave projects.
Dan also shares insights about new software synths coming from Korg this summer in Korg Collection 5, including the brand new ARP2600 virtual synth. Dan is passionate about synthesizer design and music, and he is great to chat with.
So, get yourself a drink, sit back, and enjoy the brilliant Dan Phillips!
00:00 Introduction
01:20 Dan's role at Korg R&D
04:36 User manuals
06:48 Products Dan worked on
10:53 Sky Jan 2.0
12:20 Genesis of the Wavestate
18:34 User samples
20:28 Modwave
31:32 Editor programs
33:04 Modwave & Wavetate Native
42:06 Korg Collection 5
42:28 The new ARP 2600
56:23 Wrap up - Наука та технологія
KORG is definitely one of my absolute favorite brands. I love their instruments and this interview was super nice, interesting and entertaining. Thank you so much, Ian!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Wavestate is a masterpiece. It's unique like the Wavestation. The quality and versatility of this synth is mindblowing. You can use it as a classic VA, a rompler, a sampler, a wavesequencer... I hope Dan and the Korg R&D team will continue to improve it
I agree and I have now started working on some new sounds for it.
Thanks Ian, this is fantastic.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for interviewing Dan! I use Korg synths exclusively for serious music making. I'm hoping Korg includes the PS-3300 FS as a software synth!
Yes that would be great.
I haven't been able to see everything yet, but what I have seen of this exchange is very interesting! Thank you Ian and thank you Dan for coming to share all this with the users... This availability is rare and we really appreciate it!
It was great to get such create access to the main man!
Enjoyed this interview, thanks!
Big fan of the Modwave and Wavestate so it was great to get a "peek behind the curtain" and learn about the development and inspiration for these synths.
It was, it was great to chat with Dan.
This was time very well spent. So much wonderful knowledge from Dan and insight into how some of these instruments came to life. I have the Wavestate and Opsix and I'm waiting for this software 2600. Very interested indeed!
Thanks! I hope to get Dan back on in the future.
While Modwave looks like a "finished" idea, "finished" product I'd say Wavestate is more like "work in progress" and I really hope they come up with "wave sequencing 3.0". I wish they implemented changing and modulating start and loop points of each sample (maybe choosing to switch between zero crossing points or just linear change), allow to resample what the synth is playing and integrate some sort of (semi-) granular manipulation integrated into that system of lanes. I've recently discovered that super new botanica/petalcore genre and Wavestate seems to be the closest synth to do that kind of sound but with these improvements I mentioned it would be even better for that kind of genres, not only petalcore, it seems younger producers are very much into sample manipulation and granular and future Wavestate-like synths could become a perfect platform for that.
P.S. This talk is quite unique, Dan shares a lot of thought process behind the synths on tech, music and marketing level. Instant classic content for fans of those synths! Thanks Ian and congratulations for finding such an opportunity.
Thanks for the interesting comments!
@@IanDixonTDL Tell Dan that his long answers are very welcome, he shares a lot of info about how things are done at Korg and I could easily listen for a couple more hours to him speaking about all that stuff.
@@AntonMochalin I will and I hope to bring him back on the show in the future