Yet More of my Korg Wavestation Performances! ============================================= (10/01/96) BENS_WS5.SYX is a raw sysex format file containing some more of my Wavestation sounds to add to your collections. There are 25 performances in this library, and all should work on any WS (ie the WS, EX, A/D and SR). The SoundDiver format library version of this bank is called BENS_WS5.LIB, and the midifile format version is BENS_WS5.MID. They are addressed to RAM2, and should be transmitted to a WS on Midi channel 1. Hopefully I will put on the net most of the patches I make (not enough people do this, for mostly understandable reasons). If anyone has any nice WS patches they want to bung in my direction, please do! You are free to use these patches in any way you please, upload them anywhere etc etc. Please keep this text file with the bank. If you use these or any of my other patches on any commercial recordings, it'd be nice if you could drop me a line and tell me, or better still, send me a free copy... :) - Ben Hall ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RAM-02 00 'Angels Dreams *' This is a nice 'heavenly' pad that evolves into an angelic choir. Dreamy. RAM-02 01 'Susan 2 *' This is an edit of 'Susan' found in my previous bank. This one has a much softer envelope and hence is smoother and more laid back. Velocity gives semi-random waves that sound nice when playing repeated phrases on quavers and semiquavers (or eighths and sixteenths if you're American... :) RAM-02 02 'Razortouch *' This is another techno-ey kind of sound. Velocity modulates the filter/resonance. The joystick A-C gives some nice tonal changes. RAM-02 03 'Tek-scream *' Another one-note wave sequence, play and hold on note in the lower-middle of the keyboard. Velocity affects both volume and how much reverb is applied. Then while holding the wave sequence, play with the mod wheel, which adds distortion/resonance. Sync it to MIDI you techno freaks, just add a 909 and hot-water, and simmer for 7 minutes... :) RAM-02 04 'Mc.Solo WS *' Simple solo sound. Aftertouch and the mod-wheel adds vibrato, and the joystick gives tonal variation that can sound nice while playing (use subtley). RAM-02 05 'Techno-Mono *' There are numerous sounds in this one. Basically, it's a standard techo mono-bass sound. The mod wheel selects from a number of different basic waves, which each give a different sound, and the joystick Y-axis modulates the resonance (weee-ow-www...) RAM-02 06 'Arkusphere *' One for the atmosphere collection, this is quite a complicated performance using multiple wave sequences. Hold a note down, and loads of stuff happens. The mod wheel gives a nice flanger, and aftertouch affects one element (a resonant drone) by doing a two-octave slide down. Some elements change pitch up and down the keyboard, and others are at fixed pitch. RAM-02 07 'Fast Arpeg *' Play arpeggios with this one bouncing off the echoes. RAM-02 08 '404-Mono *' Another mono-techno bass. The mod wheel affects the filter (put it near the top of it's range, turn the volume up and you can get some lovely sub-bass basses!). RAM-02 09 '99 Red Basses *' Someone on the mailing list asked for a synth bass sound like the one on the old '99 Red Balloons' single, so I had a go. This is the result. It's basically a thick analog-style bass. RAM-02 10 'Plain Pad *' Just as the name implies. RAM-02 11 'Krafty Pad *' I like this, it's a sort of analog/digi pad, with a slight Kraftwerk kind of feel. Aftertouch swells things up a bit. RAM-02 12 'Moving Mallet *' I like this too. It's a kind of analog marimba sound, in fifths, with subtle timbre changes while you are playing. It's actually very similar to a sound on some John Carpenter horror-film soundtracks, notably 'Halloween 3', where it plays 16'ths at the bottom end of the keyboard. Couple this with my 'J.Carpenter' sound from BENS_WS3 and you have an instant soundtrack... :) RAM-02 13 'Jupiter Dreams*' A really nice analog pad, which has some kind of oscillator-drifting/phasing qualities. Velocity affects the filter (low velocities=bright, high velocities=warmer). Aftertouch and the mod wheel brings in a random sample-hold type filter modulation, which used subtley can sound almost wavesequence like. I programmed it last night, and used it to make a new track today... RAM-02 14 'Grebulons! *' At first this seems like another really useless FX noise, but it can actually be quite useful as a little bit of interest over the top of a pad or something in a regular track. Hold a note until it fades out. Aftertouch closes the filter down. RAM-02 15 'Invaders! *' This is another really useless FX noise! Think 'Death-by-being-zapped-by-aliens' and you won't be far wrong. RAM-02 16 'Distant Sun *' Another one I find really useful, the key to this is the playing style, which means you should hold the sustain pedal down, and play single notes up and down the keyboard (like on the black notes or other pentatonic scales). Don't release the pedal - the notes fade out naturally and the WS will reassign the oscillators - and it's 16-note polyphonic. It gives some lovely shimmering pads, and works really well over the top/behind a regular backing track to give a bit of depth. (It's actually very similar to the kind of sounds I used to get out of my CZ-101 in 'ambient' mode, only much better quality). If you don't hold the sustain pedal, the envelopes give a 'backwards' kind of feel, which again can be quite interesting - you'll need to hold each note for a short while otherwise you won't hear much. RAM-02 17 'Neptune *' This is an abint-ish pad, with a slightly belly attack, and when held it evolves into a string pad in fifths. RAM-02 18 'Folklore *' Yup, yet another pad (spotted my taste in patches yet?) It has a bit of subtle movement in it. You may want to move the joystick towards the 'A' element to acentuate the moving bit. RAM-02 19 'SickSyncSynth *' Analog monosynth. If you hold or trill a note, it kind of timbrally shifts, not unlike the 'Mini-Lead' preset. However, this one doesn't do it using wavesequences, but by syncing the oscillators together and ripping them apart using a deep, slow moving LFO routed to OSC-2's pitch. Nice for lead solos and basses. RAM-02 20 'Distant Sunset*' This is exactly the same as 'Distant Sun' earlier, but now, if you move the mod wheel up, a solo flute comes in over the top, wonderful for swirly flute solos with a big swirly pad background. Again, hold the sustain pedal down permantently (or send a sustain ON command from you sequencer if you don't have a pedal), and liberally solo right acros the whole keyboard range - the pads follow the solo - especially nice when you dive bomb from the top of the keyboard to the bottom, where the pads really swell up. Pitch bend affects only the flute part, and aftertouch gives the flute some vibrato. Nice on headphones. RAM-02 21 'Reflex 2 *' Echoey digital sound. Can be used for arpeggios or pads at a push. Joystick alters timbre. RAM-02 22 'Dr.Solo *' I started this one to play the 'Dr.Who' theme (Ok, sad, I admi it :) but it got sort of mutated in the process. This is a split, a big deep flangey bass sound at the bottom of the keyboard, and a lighter digi sound over the rest, for slow leads or pads. RAM-02 23 'Rotorblade *' My real gem of this collection. Play pads around the middle of the keyboard, and you'll hear a swirly digi-pad sound. The mod-wheel fades in some higher-frequency 'jangling', and the pad swirls between the left and right outputs. Now, while holding a chord, tap a key, staccatto, in the bottom octaves, and parts of the pad get accentuated. You can program in rythmic gates in like this using a sequencer, or, by holding the trigger not, you get a straight 16-th note trigger, that will sync-to-midi too. Tip: whilst playing, go to the EDIT FX2 page, and alternate between 'Gate Thresh' settings of 0 and 1, which affects how much of the sound is heard. When this is switched on the beat (using sysex from a sequencer), it adds a further level of interest. RAM-02 24 'Suck My Flange*' Bog standard sync-to-midi wave sequence, useable behind a dance track or something. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope you can find a use for 'em. Enjoy! Unashamed plug: EMAGIC's SoundDiver is by far the best generic sysex management software available (IMHO). Check out the EMAGIC stuff on the net: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/~emagic/emagic_page.html ftp.mcc.ac.uk pub/music/emagic Unashamed plug #2: If you are an Atari ST/TT/Falcon user of more modest means and need a sysex dumper program, get my own Dump It! program. It's free, and is rather nice (ahem). (It's also not quite released yet, 'cos I keep adding things.... :) --------------------------------------------------- |> | | WWW: http://web.city.ac.uk/~cb170 |> E |\| |-| /\ |_ |_ EMAIL: cb170@city.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------