Over 230 million wavetable variations

The modwave comes loaded with over 200 characterful wavetables, each with up to 64 waveforms, which, when combined with modwave’s modifier and morph features, allows for a staggering 230 million wavetable variations! If that’s not enough to satisfy your desire for unique tones, modwave allows you to import wavetables from Xfer Record’s highly popular Serum advanced software wavetable synthesizer, as well as custom wavetables in WaveEdit format. But the fun doesn’t stop there! The modwave includes a multi-gigabyte PCM library, for adding realism to patches with Korg’s impeccably recorded samples.

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Shape your sounds with MS-20 and Polysix filters

While wavetable synthesis offers sonic possibilities far beyond typical subtractive synthesis, it’s hard to beat the creative potential of a good filter. The modwave synthesizer packs lowpass and highpass filters modeled after those found on the classic MS-20 synthesizer, as well as a lowpass filter model based on the Polysix synthesizer. You’ll also find an array of 2- and 4-pole lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and band-reject filters. And of course, you’re also supplied with Korg’s beloved multimode filter, which can morph and modulate between multiple filter modes.

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The Kaoss Pad is back!

When it first hit the market in 1999, Korg’s Kaoss Pad was a deliciously disruptive piece of technology, giving users unprecedented hands-on control to sample, mangle, and alter any sound source. Famously used by musical experimentalists such as Brian Eno, Radiohead, and Muse, the Kaoss Pad encouraged expressive interaction with its powerful set of audio manipulation tools. Not only does the modwave feature the renowned Kaoss XY touchpad, but it also introduces Kaoss Physics, which models the behavior of a bouncing ball for randomized parameter automation. Customize the environment to which the ball responds by defining the shape of its slopes, adjusting the surface friction, and choosing between padded or hard walls; or remove the walls entirely, so that surface wraps around to the opposite edges like a vintage arcade game. Go even further by manipulating the Kaoss Physics parameters with any of modwave’s modulation sources or even with the Kaoss Physics outputs themselves!

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Motion Sequencing 2.0 animates your playing experience

An evolution of the Korg wavestate’s Wave Sequencing 2.0, Motion Sequencing 2.0 brings incredible dynamism and animation to your patches and step sequences. Motion Sequencing 2.0 allows you to manipulate sample sequence, timing, and pitch independently to create complex, evolving patches with a non-linear vibe. Each of these parameters (and many more) is assigned its own “Lane,” and each Lane can have a different number of steps, with control over their start, end, and loop points. Lanes can even randomize their step order every time they are played, yielding a completely unpredictable and non-linear playing experience.

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Take your sound design to stratospheric heights with built-in effects

Your patches will ascend to stratospheric heights with the modwave’s massive collection of built-in effects. Starting with Pre FX — including the Decimator bitcrusher and sample reducer, studio-quality EQ and compression, along with ring modulation, tremolo, and a waveshaper — you can transform your raw sounds, before further manipulating them with any of modwave’s stunning Mod FX. Then, cap it off with one of five stereo delays, a master reverb, and a 4-band parametric master EQ. Dreamy and dramatic, gritty and glitchy, polished and clean: with the modwave’s high-quality effects, you have infinite atmospheric depths at your fingertips.

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Ready for stage or studio

A pair of balanced line-level outputs ensures the modwave sounds fantastic even over long cable runs, and a headphone output is available for personal monitoring as well — perfect for late-night sound design sessions. DIN MIDI ports are present for connecting with other MIDI-compatible hardware, and class-compliant USB MIDI is available for integrating with your computer. Speaking of which, we highly recommend downloading the free editor software from Korg — it’s the perfect way to manage your custom patches and much more.