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[mjammer]

Are you the same Ben Hall who have written a few banks and patches the korg wavestation around 1996 or so?

If you are, can we use sounds and wavesequences that you have written korg wavestation in the creation of our music for commercial and non-commercial purposes? what would be the conditions?
could we have written permision?

Is there an email address?

[dave]

Oh boy, if the Ben Hall who posts here is the same Ben Hall who organised the Wavestation Patch Archive and Seriously Productions, then I may have to admit in front of this entire forum that I am a complete and utter f*ckwit. Because I have the Wavestation Ben Hall to thank for holding my hand with my Wavestation SR about 12 or so years ago and teaching me everything I know about sysex.

Surely not? I'm sure I remember that that Ben Hall got deeply involved in a happening band and setting up Seriously Productions and that their demands on his time meant he had to give up running the Patch Archive. I'm pretty sure I remember that correctly because it was around the time my youngest sister contracted a brain virus that almost killed her and I packed in the music game for a year.

I've even posted in the same threads here and it never even dawned on me that it could possibly be the PatchMeister. I still have all his sounds.

If it is (surely not), I'm gonna have to seriously consider the possiblity of early onset of OldTimers' Disease...

Kind regards.
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Dave Bourke
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[Ben Hall]

There can be only one..!!

[dave]

There can indeed be only one.

Ben, I don't know what to say. Despite your niceness, I am indeed a complete and utter f*ckwit for not realising that.

Well, since we corresponded back in the last century, I've gotten into softsynths in a pretty obsessive way. Obviously, I use the Legacy Analog Edition 2007 and the Digital Edition, but I've also got all the LinPlug instruments, Cameleon 2000, NI Komplete, EWQLSO, the FabFilter synths, impOSCar, Minimonsta, Oddity, Symptohm, iDrum, MicroTonic, Stylus RMX, Atmosphere, Trilogy – but no u-he stuff yet. I now have an excellent reason to get Zebra though. And I also like the look of that u-he FilterScape package.

Like you, I thought that the software interface for the Wavestation would inspire an explosion of new banks since it makes it far easier to program. Plus, we now have the new resonant filter to play with. But I've not come across a single one.

I do a lot of Final Cut Pro editing these days, so my free time is not what it used to be. And (as you've seen) the old grey matter is slowing down.

My apologies once more for the brain cobwebs. It's great to talk to you again after all these years.

P.S. I've still got the MIDI files and the Wavestation patches you sent me – just in case you might want them again.

Kindest regards.
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Dave Bourke
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[Ben Hall]

[mjammer]

Ben Hall you are a real genuis

I know we in this forum would all benefit from a few NEW banks and wave sequences for our virtual M1s and WAVESTATIONS (software that sound like hardware).
Can these patches be created on the Korg Legacy's wavestation?
Any tips on programming on the legacy's Wavestation? will be happy to learn.

DO you still have the same wavesation you used a century to create those banks, or do you have the Legacy collection?

Any body else wishes for new banks from Ben Hall just give a shout.
You can never tell

[Ben Hall]

[dave]

Ben:

Once again, I should have known from the ReadMes included with your impOscar banks. They're written almost exactly like the old Patch Archive bank ReadMes. And fantastic sounds, Ben, as always.

And as for the Minimonsta patches, well, I used to own either a Prodigy or a Rogue (can't remember which) and I've been thinking about trying to recreate some old pre-MIDI material I did with Cait O'Riordan (by ear since it's on cassette). So these will be extremely useful indeed.

Thank you for always being so generous with your hard work, Ben.

I'm counting down the days now to Omnisphere. That's a no-brainer upgrade. Two more synths I want are Zebra 2 and Virtual String Machine (and possibly FilterScape) and after that I'm gonna call a halt. I'm starting to find that too much choice can be creatively paralyzing.

And, finally, you sent me three pieces, all of which I found inspiring. Antiqua, Midnight, and Tension. Of course, since the only piece of kit common to both our rigs at that time was the Wavestation, voicing the other parts was always going to be approximate. But I still have those pieces on my main rig's drive, and I don't keep stuff that I don't respect, admire, and feel that I can learn from.

If you think those pieces are amateurish, then I may as well pack it in permanently.

Kind regards.
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Dave Bourke
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[Ben Hall]