From cord@lance.colostate.edu Tue Feb 13 11:46:52 1996 13 Feb 96 14:46:44 +0500 12 Feb 96 17:14:03 +0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 13:21:20 PST From: "Cord Mueller" Subject: Re: wave computer "Tim Goldman" Cc: analogue@hyperreal.com >>last night i was listening to a Thomas Dolby cd (yes I do like him..) >>and I noticed a thing called a WAVE COMPUTER. IT was used on Airwaves >>and she blinded me with science...any idea what this is? Or what >>sounds it made in the songs. > >The simplest answer to this is, "You've heard of the Wave 2.2 and 2.3? >Well, this was the closest thing to a Wave 1." :) The Wave Computer >was the first PPG wavetable synth; it was a bit unweildy by the >standards of later models, but Dolby loved his and still uses it. I'm >sure some of the German fellas can give a lot more information on it. the simplest way to discribe the Wave Computer is to take a Wave 2 or 2.2 (8 bit) and surf the wavetables of one oscillator without using the filter options! I don't know what modrouting you have on a Wavecomputer but I guess it's an envelope and lfo. Actually the Wave 2.2 is a wave 2 with two oscillators and the possibility to connect to a Waveterm. The wave 2.3 has 12 bit and can handle the RAM in different ways. Also it is multitimbral now. Cord