![]() The whole unit bolts onto a very sturdy‑looking camera tripod‑type expandable stand. The nuts and bolts of the Wavedrum are these: for your money, you'll take delivery of a unit the size, shape, and - Godammit, what else can one say - look, of a wooden toilet seat, equipped with a standard drum head. It is more of an electronic drum, whose internal sounds are based on a multi‑synthesis physical modelling technology, and whose physical attributes aim to offer the professional percussionist a range of dynamics and expression that is not currently on offer from any MIDI‑based instrument. The US team of Dave Smith and John Bowen in California (ex of Sequential), are largely responsible for the Synth Kit development software that lurks within the bowels of Korg's Wavedrum, and in spite of all you might have heard, read, or thought about the Wavedrum, it cannot accurately be described as a MIDI conga. Though most people don't think of drummers as particularly technical people, there's a new breed of drummers and percussionists out there who don't want to take second place to the keyboard player where technology is concerned. Unlike traditional electronic drums or sampled drum sounds, the Wavedrum creates its sounds using physical modelling, a technology first brought to our attention in the form of Yamaha's VL1. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody who has heard the Korg Wavedrum played by a skilful percussionist can fail to have been impressed by the way this instrument responds. SOS brings you the exclusive first look at the latest incarnation of physical modelling technology, Korg's adventurous new Wavedrum. Amongst the black rackmount boxes and sleekly anonymous keyboards, one new hi‑tech instrument stands out, as much for what's inside it as for its appearance. ![]()
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