Korg releases System Updater v1.0.8
January 29, 2025 · 1 sources
Korg released Korg System Updater v1.0.8 on January 29, 2025, according to an entry in the news list on the modwave specifications page on Korg's US site. The entry reads "2025.01.29 [Updates - Korg System Updater v1.0.8 is now available!]"1.
The page gives no description of what the updater changes, which products it applies to, or how it is installed. The same news list carries later entries for modwave Editor/Librarian versions and for a later System Updater release, but nothing on the page states what v1.0.8 contains1.
The modwave is a wavetable synthesizer with a 37-key velocity- and release-velocity-sensitive keyboard and 32 stereo voices of maximum polyphony, built on what Korg calls the modwave synthesis engine1. Its controls include a mod wheel, pitch wheel, Kaoss Physics and four mod knobs. Korg lists modulation sources including four envelopes, five LFOs, two mod processors, two key tracks and sequencer lanes A through D, and states that depending on Motion Sequence length there can be more than 1,000 potential modulation targets per program1.
Effects are grouped as Pre FX, Mod FX, Delay, Master Reverb and a 4-band parametric Master EQ. Pre FX include Decimator, Graphic EQ, Guitar Amp, Modern Compressor, Parametric EQ, Red Compressor, Ring Modulator, Tremolo and Wave Shaper; Mod FX include Black Chorus/Flanger, Polysix Ensemble, Small Phase, Talking Modulator, Vox Wah and others; Delay types include Tape Echo, Reverse Delay and Stereo/Cross Delay; reverb types are Early Reflections and Overb1.
Connections are a 6.3 mm stereo headphone jack, impedance-balanced 6.3 mm TRS OUTPUT L/MONO and R jacks, a DAMPER jack (half-damper not supported), MIDI IN and OUT connectors and a USB B port. Power comes from an AC adapter (DC12V, 2500mA) at 5 W consumption. Dimensions are 565 × 338 × 92 mm (22.24" × 13.31" × 3.62") and weight is 2.9 kg (6.93 lbs.)1. The page lists the DS-1H damper pedal and PS-1 and PS-3 pedal switches as sold-separately accessories1. No price is given for the updater or the instrument on the page1.