Hey Korg...WOW!...and...WTF?

[jimlore54]

I just took delivery of a lightly used wavestate, and going through the sounds on day 1, was nothing short of awesome! Having previously owned a WS-EX, WS-A/D and the many Legacy versions, I was more than ready for the new and improved model. Day 2 is where I hit the wall. I downloaded the latest W10 driver, firmware update, librarian and manual. I noticed that the firmware update stated that is was incompatible with W10 2004, so I knew that I was immediately in trouble, since that's what I was running. Needless to say, like many of you, finding and manually installing a compatible RNDIS driver, took hours off of my life. I later discovered the actual installation instructions in the 1.04 firmware documentation. This really should have been uploaded by Korg as a separate document, not buried in the firmware doc. It was all moot, since none of it worked on my laptop. Luckily, I had another laptop with W10 1909, and everything installed according to plan on that one. Since the wavestate has been on the street now over 6 months, it's way past unacceptable that Korg doesn't have a working USB driver for W10 2004. One final observation is, who the hell thought putting a 37-note keyboard on it was the way to go? Either make it a module with no keyboard or offer it with 49 or 61 full-size keys. Sorry for the rant. Peace and music! [/b]

[RobustAmerican]

I lucked out as I'm still running Windows 7 and it all just works perfectly so far. I am planning on updating though so I hope Korg gets this sorted very soon. This is more than half the reason I haven't jumped to Win 10 yet.

At least the keys are full size, even if there's only 37 of them. I haven't used the keys much at all though as I need to audition sounds with aftertouch and ooops...Korg did it again.

[jezar-01]

> who the hell thought putting a 37-note keyboard on it was the way to go? Either make it a module with no keyboard or offer it with 49 or 61 full-size keys

Maybe it was someone who knew the market better than you?

The Wavestate form factor is perfect for me. If you want a bigger keyboard, then plug one in.

[jimlore54]

Since my original post from 8 months ago, Microsoft resolved the RNDIS driver issue with the latest version of Windows 10, and wouldn’t you know it, Korg is releasing a 61 key version of the Wavestate.
It appears the “market” spoke, and Korg listened.
Thank you, Korg. Looking forward to it.

[jezar-01]

But it's not a replacement for the standard Wavestate is it? Nor is it an admission that somehow Korg "got it wrong" first time around.

[danatkorg]

Needless to say, like many of you, finding and manually installing a compatible RNDIS driver, took hours off of my life. I later discovered the actual installation instructions in the 1.04 firmware documentation. This really should have been uploaded by Korg as a separate document, not buried in the firmware doc.[/b]

Actually, the documentation is on the root of the zip file that you downloaded. There are three files: the installer, an instruction PDF in English, and an instruction PDF in Japanese.

Since the wavestate has been on the street now over 6 months, it's way past unacceptable that Korg doesn't have a working USB driver for W10 2004.

Actually, it was Microsoft's bug, and Microsoft has now fixed it.

Peace.