

The funniest argument I saw against getting one is "if you're going to use it only for pads, you're wasting money".

Nothing scary at all, no menu-diving of significance. I actually stayed on and watched what it takes to adjust filter and envelope settings, which are really the main things I care about on a synth. Filters are selected via a four-way toggle. They are mostly digital models but there are a few brilliant facsimiles of such synths as the six-voice Korg Polysix and both the low-pass and high-pass from the Korg MS-20 too. Well, people bought the original just for the pads - you think they bought it just to play the Ski Jam preset? The Wavestate’s vector control Filters and envelopes The Wavestate boasts a startling selection of filters 12 on release.

Touch one of those knobs and the value shows up on the display - easy peasy. knobs - maybe record whatever nonsense comes out and edit for later use - maybe even recontextualize in my Octatrack. What I'm more likely to do with wave sequences is hit that Randomizer button and go to town with the weirdness, working the hell out of the filter, envelope, LFO, etc. My Korg M3 has wave sequencing capability but I haven't felt compelled to get into it. How often am I going to personally assemble my own wave sequence out of scratch like that? Honest answer for me is maybe once in a blue moon. So those people screamed "Oh no MENU DIVING!!!" and left. You have to scroll through samples to assign as sample to each step of the wave sequence. Just about everyone who has pulled the menu-diving card stopped watching after seeing how a wave sequence is put together.
