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DanLong wrote:I got a Wave 2 a couple weeks ago. I also have a Stage 3C and a Lead A1. I don't have any real complaints so far. I've put a fair amount of time into programming the sounds I need and have done a couple rehearsals and a gig with the board. I love the keyboard feel. It's super easy to program. I play in a Floyd tribute, and I programmed from scratch all the sounds I used on my Lead A1 in a couple hours and that was getting used to the flow of the operating system as well. Now I can start from a blank patch and dial in what I want in minutes.
The detune thing was a little bit of a hurdle, but I just took the same sound and put it in 2 layers and detuned the layers, and it sounds fat.
I haven't used a stock patch for anything yet, and I'm basically overwriting them with my own programs as I create them.
This was exactly my experience when moving from the A1 to the NW2. The Wave 2 is super-easy to program and can make some great sounds with just a single layer.
-dj
I set up both my Stage 3 and the A1 and then dialed in the sounds on the Wave by doing an A/B compare. It was so easy. I have a huge minimoog sound for Any Colour You Like with 3 layers set up like a 3 osc Moog, it's so fat sounding.