Wave 2 First Impressions

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Re: Wave 2 First Impressions

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taxman wrote:Oh thank you I thought I've read that there' s no flanger and phaser in it
In the early Version theres no phaser in the panel
Its listed on the panel I believe in the newest hardware revision. Not in the original, which I have-

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I'm not sure if this has been discussed / asked, the search function also didn't find a close-enough match...

Just curious...
The keybed is a Fatar TP/8o, without the yellow-ish color hue on the keys, from what I know, right?

@DJKeys
I see you have a Stage 3 Compact and the Wave 2 - do you notice any difference, the color of the white keys aside?
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I never noticed the darker color of the NS3 keys until you guys mentioned it.

The key travel on the Wave 2 is slightly less than my two year old NS3, and it has a little more damping. Maybe that will change over time, don't know.

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I have NS2EX next to the NW2, the NW2 keys are really white and the NS2EX have the yellow-ish color.
I have the same experience on the key travel as DJKeys.

@DJKeys, how's your KBS (keyboard sync)working within the MasterClock. It worked perfectly before (before the last OS update), but now it's not working anymore.
Whatever I use (arp, LFO) with the rate set to Mst Clk, and KBS set to Hard, I won't reset itself when playing.
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I will have to experiment with that, but so far, the arp seems to trigger properly. I use the KBS set to Hard as well. Will check it out and let you know-

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It's working. I read the manual again. It's only workin on the Arp and not on the LFO. So it works as designed.
I thought I had it working on LFO before. I'm getting old.
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