I loosely wish I was 22 again and setting up my first Big Kahuna rig, after the usual toy-to-mid-range-synths period we all go through. I'm getting nostalgic synth-wood that echoes the madness I took up when I got a Korg 01Wfd and the Real Work could begin. It'd be nice if they'd made a small xd version, but as AquilaRift has pointed out, I guess that's not going to happen. (For folks who don't know: the original receives aftertouch and poly aftertouch so the new voices should work fine with external MIDI control. So: time to gird my loins and do my best to finish it up and do it properly, so other people can really enjoy working with this machine, which honestly sounds just incredible and deserves a lot of love for that. I've gotten a number of comments on my YouTube channel thanking me for going into the machine in so much detail, since the manual is nearly useless and all the other YT videos seem to be rapid gloss-overs. but now it's going to be more important than ever because they're actually shipping a model that the folks in KC (and a lot of others) are going to want to get their hands on. Well, I was worried that my GearLab thread and YouTube series about the Wavestate, which have been incredibly difficult for me because of the convoluted UI, would be made obsolete.

And they didn't do a damn thing to improve the user interface.

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