From what I understand the designers were from Sequential and the team that designed the Wavestation was headed up by Dave Smith and were the same people that designed the Prophet VSI'd need to dig out the interviews with the people involved to give you more specific information, it's been a while since I read them, so I don't have links offhand... It's been a minute since the old Wavestation mailing list in the 90s and a lot of stuff has disappeared over the years... The one I'm remember was probably a John Bowen interview.Maybe they meant the chips Yamaha let them use?
Yes, the Trinity was a later generation of Korg's engine tech that started with the M1, by then (the mid 90s) digital filters were somewhat more common.
It wouldn't surprise me if they came to Yamaha and asked for more powerful and therefore more expensive chips that could do more advanced things like resonant filtering and were shot down so these chips were the ones they were stuck with and were the "Yamaha Chips" and they had to make compromises with the design
It must have been frustrating fir them, I have read I think your excellent site that they had to make compromises on the Prophet VS as well thanks to cost and Sequential's financial state at the time
The Prophet VS and the Wavestation are two of my all time favorite Synths, I can only imagine what could have been if they had the resources they wanted and unlimited budgets
Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Mon Sep 16, 2024 11:12 pm