Member contributed files. Go directly to,. Sound PatchesSound patches contributed by Korg01w-List members.Please do not send copyrighted materials. General MIDI bank by Jose Maria Andreu. Organ sounds in diskimage format.

• Wavestation Vst

Uploaded by Likasz Gierucki (lukgier at friko.onet.pl). – JC’s sound collection. 30 or so banks of patches for the Korg 01W. In SYX format (Cakewalk). Uploaded by Jose Casanova (jcasanova at interaxs.net),. – Text files containing program names for the sounds in jc1banks.zip. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,.

– Cakewalk Instrument Definition files for the banks in jc1banks.zip. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – A bank of movie sounds in SYS format. Uploaded by Chinh Do,. – Pop dance sounds in SYX format From. Uploaded by Chinh Do,. – Sound bank for Korg01w in SYS format.

Uploaded by Chinh Do,. – JC’s sound collection 2. Eight banks: Wind, x3, x3 organs, strings, plucked, percussions, keyboards, & bass. In SYX format.

Uploaded by Jose Casanova.– Text files containing program names for the sounds in jc2banks.zip. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – Cakewalk Instrument Definition files for the banks in jc2banks.zip. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – Two banks in SYX format. Mostly effects. Program names and INS file included in Zip.

Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – Sound bank containing industrial sounds. Program names and INS file included in Zip. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – The Future One’s 01/Wsound collection. 21 SYX files in all. Uploaded by The Future One (futureman at comnet.ca),.

– Two banks of sounds.Bank one contains mainly synth and guitar sounds. Bank two has “very different” sounds. Uploaded by,. – Lukasz’s found-on-the-net collection. In DiskImage format.

Uploaded by Lukasz Gieruki (lukgier friko.onet.pl), 11/1/1998. – Two banks in SYX format. INS file included.

Uploaded by Angel Massa (amassa at redestb.es). – Two banks in SYX format containing ethnic sounds. INS files included. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,.– Logic Audio Multi’s for many keyboards (01w, M1, Prophecy, etc.).From: Justin Polk mailto:korgo1w at hotmail.comSent: Friday, March 26, 1999 2:57 PMTo: korg01w-list-files@vienxu.comSubject: New file(s) for Korg01w-List Home PageLogic Audio Multi’s for many keyboards Roland, Ensoniq, Korg (O1wFD, M1, Prophecy etc)Sending this for hopeful exchange on education about this crazy (confusing?) Korg O1Wfd keyboard that I recently purchased with no manual(?) Love the sounds but having problems. Hope to hear from somone soon with basic advice. Thanks, -BMP.Justin Polk (korg01w at hotmail.com),.

– Cakewalk Instrument Definition file for factory sounds. Uploaded by pianoluv at pacbell.net,. – hex-dump files of the korg 01w/fd rom #62. By Erik Hecht, 3/14/2002. – M&T and more.—–Original Message—–From: duby2 at juno.comSent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 10:57 AMTo: korg01w-list@vienxu.comCc: korg01w-list@vienxu.comSubject: Re: 01w Best of M&T patcheshere is a zip file of M&T and more duby2 at juno.com,. – Best of M&T patches.From: duby2 at juno.comSent: Friday, November 17, 2000 9:26 PMRe: 01w Best of M&T patchesHere is a new list of my o1w/fd stuff. There might be a repeat in the files.

An there are of the dance card and orch card, so some of the patch have no sound because there no PCM card. But the songs that came with them are thereand some demo stuff.there was a performance series with tom coster. Keith emerson edgar fores.

Eddie jobson. Perer oxendale. Greg phillingance.

Dave stewart goto yashiki i have them all i hope here. If you unzip them all and make one big file with the other stuff i sent you then post it.

I don’t how to post this stuff to the o1w sit so if you can do this for the o1w1 fan when i find more i will send it out. Thankduby2duby2 at juno.com,.From: duby2 at juno.comSent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 12:02 PMThe Keyboardmagizines was form march 1994. An i have a lot of them.

I love this one at the time because of the drums tips for makeing hip hop styles??kind of.Here is one zipfile and inside is three type of files.I just scan them is and save them as text.word doc and tif. So you should be ables to read one of them.if knot let me kno.please share this with other on the net if you can i don’t know how to do thatduby2 at juno.com,.From: edwardsed at prodigy.netSent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 8:34 PMRe: Files with an extension ‘.pcg’ PS – Chinh-do, please find attached the file mentioned above. I didn’t want to mail it directly to the list because it’s large like all.01w files are. It is, however zipped down to 100k. It has one bank of progs and one bank of combis. A few organs are nice, some spacey stuff and new-age pads.

Enjoy, and thanks again for maintaining an excellent list and web page.edwardsed at prodigy.net,. – Two piano patches.From Ed Edwards (edward.edwards at verizon.net).

Two single patches (pianoed.01p &!JoyStkSqr.01p) in 01WEditPro format. “Pianoed – a bright, dynamicacoustic piano that shows what the 01/W can do. JoyStkSqr – a distorted lead whose filter is controlled by the joystick and/or the sliderEd Edwards, 2/21/2001. – Killer Organ Disk from Korg—–Original Message—–From: Ed EdwardsSent: Monday, May 21, 2001 5:46 PMSubject: Re: 01w FW: Korg 01/W patchesHi Chinh, Here’s the usable Diskimage copy of the Killer Organ disk from Korg.

Ed EdwardsEd Edwards, 5/23/2001.From: “Marcelo Xavier Silva” Sent: Fri Feb 24, 1984 1:03 amSubject: Files available for downloadI have uploaded a VERY BIG zip file (13 MB) containing all the sounds that i found on the web for the 01w. This is the result of 1 year of searches. It has any kind of strings, brasses, pianos, drums, general midi finally, everything! Chin, please download this file and make it avaiable for all the users at the group site. When you do that, please let me know, because i will delete the file to open more space to upload more files about the 01w. One more time, i’m sorry about bad english.Marcelo Xavier (Brazil) porcaum at ieg.com.brMarcelo. (link to external site) – A program to manage 01w patches.

Wavestation Vst

Is a 32-bit Windows app. Documentation is available on. – Convert sounds for X-series synths to 0-series format. By gil at newton.ctsn.dga.fr Emmanuel Gil.

– Disk Image.—–Original Message—–From: M WSent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 6:29 PMTo: ChinhSubject: New version of diskimageChinh, I made a new version of diskimage that is fault tolerant. This version is 2.3FT. I was noticing that some people have bad sectors on their disks. This is normal.

Its completely valid that there can be bad sectors on any disk. The older version of diskimage would stop upon encountering these bad sectors. Version 2.3 is fault tolerant in that it reads a sector at a time and upon encountering a bad sector, it prints out a message saying that a bad sector has been found and trys to continue on.

If you encounter a bad sector upon writing to floppy, the best thing to do is to stop and re-execute the program with the ‘s’ option. This will select single sector write mode. It takes quite a bit more time to do, but is more reliable. Most people were complaining about the program crashing in track 79. I took a look at what is stored here, and found nothing.

So, if it finds bad sectors up there, chances are there is no important data there anyway. I also included a diskimage of the 01W/fd floppy that ships with a new unit. This has all the original demo sequences. Freeware (no support). 3/28/2000.

– Disk Image Version 2.2. Read/write 01w formatted disksfrom DOS-based PCs. Freeware (no support). 12/9/1998. – Generate listing of program names from MIDI sysex dumps. Freeware by dbfrost at bigpond.com.au David Frost.

Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – Makes Cakewalk INS (Instrument Definition) files from a SYS dump.

Freeware by dbfrost at bigpond.com.au David Frost. Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. – Uploaded by Jose Casanova,. (link to another site) – Editor for 01w and 01w/r. – Sequence by Lukasz Gierucki.

Lukasz Gierucki (lukgier at friko.onet.pl), 1/27/1999.—–Original Message—–From: MikeSent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 6:19 PMTo:Subject: Best of 01wChin, I was browsing my old files the other day and came across “The Best of the 01W” data. Theseare the original sequences that went into making the CD. I think its alright to post since the music stores were giving these out to people back when it was released. They are all zipped and in diskimage format. Feel Free to post.Mike Werning, 1/16/2000. – 3 songs that uses GM sounds included in the file. Guillermo (cybergui at hotmail.com), 4/17/2001.

– Actual Korg dealer support document showing jumpersettings for the TEAC model FD235HF7529 floppy disk drive. Anthony Dennis (aad at cathedralife.org). Hello guysI have a 01/WFd which I transmitted patches fromthis site; lots of FaBuLOuS sounds!But I´m facing a problem when I want to go using the original Progs/Combis the 01/WFd had stored previous ly dumped data inside and the manual doesn´t include anything about restoring the unit´s original patches.Now, this site used to have the original Progs&Combis zip file but can´t find them anymore:/I would appreciate Much if some-one with the01W original soundset zip file could send themfor me =)Thank you. Hi folks!Here’s a quick trick to revert all sounds and combis of your 01/W(fd) to the factory sounds.Beware that anything you have entered or changed in the 01/W will be lost!1. Press both the COMPARE and RESET buttons, keep them depressed and power on the 01/W2. After a few seconds, the display will show the ROM version and date.

All sounds are initialized to one setting.3. Press the GLOBAL button, and go with the PAGE+ button to page 7.4. Press the LOAD soft-key and answer with YES.5. Now your 01/W contains the factory sounds and presets.

By Martin WalkerHands-on advice for getting the best from Korg's Wavestation series of synths.When Korg first introduced their ground-breaking Wavestation keyboard in 1990, it was greeted with huge enthusiasm by most reviewers, but wasn't a great commercial success, largely due to its lack of built-in piano and drum sounds. Although Korg bowed to consumer pressure and added these to the Wavestation EX about eighteen months later, and included them in the subsequent A/D and SR rack modules in 1992 and 1993 respectively, the range never sold in huge numbers.Korg Wavestation.Although long out of production, and with secondhand models still changing hands for fairly modest sums, the Wavestation has nevertheless gathered a dedicated cult following over the years, due to its unique architecture and sound possibilities. When I first tried one out, I was amazed at what it could do, and just had to track one down for myself. If you have the Wavestation keyboard or A/D, you immediately have the huge advantage of having built-in joystick control over your sounds. Unfortunately, the Wavestation SR has no joystick, which might seem to limit its attraction. Thankfully, however, this model still responds to the same MIDI controllers: Continuous Controllers 16 and 17 for the X-axis and Y-axis movements respectively.One of the easiest ways to take advantage of this is by using one of the Yamaha products which feature Dynamic Vector Synthesis, such as the SY22/SY35 keyboards or the TG33 sound module — their integral joysticks generate exactly the right MIDI data.

If the bad news is that the Wavestation isn't an easy beast to understand, the good news is that it's possible to get some completely new and unique sounds with a few simple tweaks — expert programming knowledge isn't required. So here are some easy programming tips for any Wavestation users who are venturing beyond the presets for the first time.If you want to create new sounds from scratch, a dedicated computer-based editor like this one available from Soundtower can make your life a lot easier.The best place to start is to call up one of the evolving pad sounds. Pick your favourite, then press Edit, Patch, and Waves, in that order.

You'll now see one of two things. If the pad is based on wavetable synthesis, you should see a list of four named wave sounds, with mix percentages, fine and coarse tunings, and, of course, the names of the waves themselves. In this mode there will be a 'Mixev' button at the bottom right.

You can get a very long way here by simply dialling in some new wave sounds to replace the old ones. Random experimentation can produce true wonders, and it's really easy to create the subtly appealing digital pads which are the hallmark of the Wavestation sound. If you want to add some digital bite to sounds, find the original series of waves copied from the Prophet VS by designer Dave Smith — these all take the form 'VSxxx' where xxx is a three digit number. You can also mute any of the waves. For a slightly more structured approach try combining the various attack transient waves with sustained pad waves.For more detailed fiddling, select 'Mixev' and you'll see a vector diagram which displays how the balance of the waves changes over time.

Each 'point' here sets four percentage levels for each of the waves. There's also a time value which sets the time offset (in arbitrary units, unfortunately) between one point and the next. You can set up the points so that they loop in various patterns. Again, the key here is experimentation.The other possibility is wave sequencing, which chains wave sounds together in order to create sequence-like effects. In this mode you'll see a 'Wavseq' button appear instead of 'Mixev'. Press it and you'll see the wave sequence.

This plays each sample in turn to create that sequencing effect, with control over the pitch, duration and crossfade time for each step. You can go a long way here by changing waves at random.

One thing to watch for is that you can't edit the ROM sequences directly — you'll get an error message if you try that. So change the sequence type to RAM before you try to change anything. Again, durations are in arbitrary rather than absolute units and you can't, unfortunately, synchronise them in any useful way to a MIDI clock. As a guide, a value of nine is very roughly equivalent to a quaver at 120bpm, but the timing resolution isn't fine enough for that to be anything other than a very rough approximation. Just a few changes can create completely new sequences and effects.

Richard LeonAchieving reliable SysEx dumps with the Wavestation relies on having suitable parameter settings, such as those shown here for the PC MIDIOX utility.If you have any control over SysEx download parameters in your music utility, you can tweak the download speed to guarantee reliable results, which will avoid the possible sound corruption mentioned earlier. I use the excellent MIDIOX  utility on my PC for general-purpose SysEx transfers, and this can have various of its SysEx parameters tweaked.

It makes sense to configure its low-level input and output buffers to cope with a total file size of more than 207K, so I set them to 64 buffers of 512 bytes.However, after spending several hours experimenting, I discovered that the most important parameter to change is Delay After F7, which determines the length of pause between each main block of data — Patch, Performance, and Wavesequence — in a bank send. In my system, raising this to 400ms resulted in a reliable send every time, and far less frustration. However, if you don't have such a parameter in your utility, you may be able to slow down the overall transfer rate in some way, while sending banks one at a time rather than in one large composite file may also make problematic downloads more reliable.When auditioning new Performances after a successful download, make sure you try out the various controller options, including aftertouch, mod wheel, and joystick (vector sequencing), since these are often mapped to different aspects of the sound.

Also, explore the whole keyboard range, as quite a few Performances use keyboard splits to introduce different sounds in different octaves. Some authors provide detailed text files that explain how to get the best out of each sound, and these are well worth studying. All Wavestations have two front-panel slots for PCM Data (extra samples) and Prog Data (an additional bank of 50 user Performances). RAM cards to plug into the Prog Data slot are comparatively easy to get, since they are identical to those used by the extremely popular Korg M1 among others (part number MCR03 or equivalent).Although dedicated Wavestation PCM cards occasionally appear secondhand to add extra samples to your palette, there are far more owners searching for them than there are cards available. Korg never officially recommended using their M1- and T1-series PCM cards with the Wavestation or 01/W series, since the sample loop format of these is shifted by two samples. However, many samples still sound fine, so it's well worth trying M1-series PCM cards, as far more of these turn up secondhand.It's even possible to store your own sample data on a PCM card to use with either the Wavestation SR or Korg 01/W models, using a 2MB PCMCIA SRAM card as used by many laptops, along with a suitable utility program such as the PCM Card Workshop for PC.Sadly, although choosing Wavestation Performances from the front panel is easy enough, from a sequencer things aren't quite so easy.

All Wavestations have their Performances grouped into banks of fifty. The original Wavestation contained two RAM banks (RAM1 and RAM2), along with a single factory ROM bank, but this was increased to three RAM banks (RAM1, RAM2, and RAM3) in both the A/D and SR models, and all models can in addition have a plug-in ROM or RAM Card inserted into their front-panel Prog Data slot, containing a further fifty Performances. The Wavestation SR contains a huge 550 Performances (600 if you add a card) and these are organised into eleven banks of fifty — the same three RAM banks, along with a further eight ROM banks numbered from ROM3 to ROM11.RAM1 Performances can be accessed using MIDI Program Change messages from zero to 49 in MIDI bank zero, while RAM2 sounds are in the same bank, but from 50 to 99. From this point, things get more confusing. To maintain as much compatibility between family members as possible, Korg opted to place the ROM11 and card Performances into MIDI bank one. ROM11 in the SR model is therefore accessed like the single ROM bank of the other models. RAM3 of the A/D and SR models then appears in MIDI Bank two using program changes zero to 49, while ROM4 of the SR occupies 50 to 99 in the same bank.

The remaining six ROM banks of the SR from ROM5 to ROM10 are mapped in a similar way into MIDI banks three to five. All fairly confusing, though most software sequencers now have sophisticated patch-selection functions which are aware of the Wavestation's idiosyncrasies.Although it can be a slog to get your Wavestation running smoothly, I think it's well worth the trouble. I know of at least one owner who downloaded his favourite set of three banks into the RAM of his SR just once, and left them there in perpetuity, using it as a preset-only synth containing 550 inspiring sounds. However, there are so many excellent sound banks now available for free download that this does seem rather a waste, and it's quite easy to create new Performances from existing Patches once you're clear on the instrument's internal architecture. Unless, like me, you're lucky enough to find one of the last remaining new boxed models in a sale, you'll have to buy secondhand, and here all the usual caveats apply. However, there are various specific points to watch out for in the case of the Wavestation — one is correct operation of the joystick in the case of the Wavestation keyboard and A/D models.

One of the easiest ways to check this is to play note C4 of the 'Mr Terminator' performance (the first ROM sound), to see if you can smoothly crossfade between the various waves.A perennial Wavestation problem is that the internal battery may have died, so that RAM sounds are not retained after you switch the unit off. Here's a quick way to check this before buying. Once the battery is dead, the ROM banks get automatically copied to the RAM banks, so compare the name of the first sound in each bank. In the case of the SR model, for instance, RAM1 will hold a copy of ROM8, RAM2 of ROM9, and RAM3 of ROM10. If you find such duplicates, the chances are that the battery is dead, and you may be able to negotiate a lower price. However, replacing the battery isn't difficult — you need to buy a CR2032 or DL2032 lithium battery, as used in various calculators and available from various stockists.More serious is a dimly lit or blank display — like all such products, the backlights used in the Wavestations fade over the years, and while it's still possible to replace this part with a similar one, it's a far more fiddly procedure involving soldering. There are a lot of useful Wavestation resources on the web.

A good place to start is Ben Hall's site at. This is a gateway to loads of Wavestation links, as well as an archive of user Patches. One recent highlight posted here are the two Trancewaves volumes (containing harder dance and trance sounds), and the two Dreamwaves volumes (evolving pads for those of a more sensitive disposition), all created by Paul Osborn. These were originally released as ROM cards (and reviewed in SOS January 1998), and have now been generously donated by the author for free download.Three files in Ben Hall's archive were created by sound designer Brian Cowell, but his more recent Gothica bank is another gem.

Originally intended as a commercial package, lack of time resulted in it finally being released as freeware. These are seriously dark and gothic sounds, and prove yet again that the Wavestation can still surprise you even after owning one for years.One of the original Wavestation engineers was Dan Phillips. His site also provides an extensive FAQ section, as well as details of suitable computer editor/librarians and SysEx file utilities. One of my favourite Wavestation editors is the shareware WSEditor (for Windows 95, 98, ME and 2000), available from.The Korg Wavestation Trading Post is a good source of new sound banks, and there are five great banks created by Aquila Rift, containing a nice slice of sci-fi weirdness.The Wavestation discussion list is still very active, and much more so than the Wavestation mailing list at. However, the latter's archives are an excellent resource. All contents copyright © SOS Publications Group and/or its licensors, 1985-2020. All rights reserved.The contents of this article are subject to worldwide copyright protection and reproduction in whole or part, whether mechanical or electronic, is expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the Publishers.

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