High-end 61-note keyboard with aftertouch
You asked, we listened: this is the wavestate for professional keyboard players. Featuring KORG’s premium 61-note natural-touch keyboard, the wavestate SE delivers the same superb feel as KORG’s high-end workstations. Aftertouch provides fingertip control of the wavestate’s unique, evolving sounds. Naturally, we’ve updated the factory Performances for aftertouch, and added some new ones as well.
Premium aluminum and metal enclosure
Beauty, meet brawn. The wavestate SE’s elegant all-metal enclosure isn’t only gorgeous; it’s built to handle the rigors of the road. The matte-black aluminum panel contrasts perfectly with gloss-black metal side panels. Metal-plated knobs add a premium touch.
Exclusive hard case included
The wavestate SE ships in a dedicated hard case, including space for cables and a sustain pedal. Your instrument can travel protected, whether you’re carrying it to a rehearsal downtown or packing it up for a world tour.
Limited Platinum Edition
Celebrating the release of the long awaited wavestate SE, a gorgeous Platinum model (*) will be available in limited numbers. * Differences are only cosmetic, specifications are exactly the same as the standard model. wavestate SE Platinum includes an exclusive set of stickers.
Easily expressive. Exceptionally deep.
Bursting with knobs and controllers, the wavestate SE invites you to explore. All of the basics–filter, envelopes, LFOs, effects–are at your fingertips with dedicated front-panel controls. Eight programmable Mod Knobs are customized to bring out the most in every sound, often taking them in entirely new directions. Use the knobs in realtime performance, and also save the results as new sounds. Add in the Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels and the unique Vector Joystick, and you’ll always have multiple dimensions of realtime expression. Want to dig deeper? Almost all front-panel knobs, and most on-screen parameters, can be modulated. You can even modulate settings for individual Wave Sequence steps! Mod Processors let you transform modulation signals using quantization, smoothing, curvature, and more.
Randomization that inspires.
Looking for even more inspiration? A dedicated front-panel button, marked by a “dice” icon, generates new sounds via intelligent randomization. Randomize the entire sound or just a part of it, such as the filter, the Sample Lane, or the effects. Use the results directly, or as a jumping-off point for your own creations.
An arsenal of effects.
The wavestate SE’s superb effects deliver production-ready sounds. Each layer has three dedicated effects; additionally, the Performance has a master reverb and parametric EQ. Along with standards such as compressors, EQs, choruses, flangers, phasers, and stereo delays, you’ll find distinctive processors such as the Wave Shaper, Talking Modulator, Reverse Delay, Multiband Mod Delay, and Overb (from the OASYS), plus modeled effects including VOX guitar amps, VOX wah, multi-head tape echo, and a collection of classic guitar pedals.
Choose your filter.
Add vintage character to your sounds with the aggressive MS-20 Lowpass or Highpass filters, or the strong, sweet Polysix Lowpass. Shape and refine with a full collection of resonant 2-pole and 4-pole Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, and Band Reject filters. Or, step outside the box with KORG’s unique Multi Filter, which creates modulatable blends of multiple modes simultaneously.
Gigabytes of samples. 120 stereo voices.
Totaling in the gigabytes, the wavestate SE’s sample library is more than a thousand times larger than that of the original WAVESTATION. That’s a lot of great-sounding raw material for Wave Sequences. There’s a bank of samples from Plugin Guru, brand-new samples from KORG, and a selection from the NAUTILUS, KRONOS and KROME libraries. Of course, KORG also provides all of the WAVESTATION’s samples (including all options), plus a huge library of WAVESTATION Wave Sequences. Play up to 120 stereo voices with pristine clarity, using KORG’s proprietary anti-aliasing sample playback technology.
