My Wave recently arrived here in Nashville, two days after it was shipped from Andertons in London. (DHL rocks!) I pre-ordered it on December 10th and have been eagerly awaiting its arrival.
Many years ago I owned a complete PPG system with Wave 2.2 & 2.3, EVU, PRK and Waveterm A. I’m very familiar with the PPG sound and it is my favorite synth of all time. This is a quick demo made after I ran through the presets to find the most iconic PPG sounds. Bank 1 contains several authentic PPG presets, which I used in this demo. For each sound I played three variations, first a few notes totally dry, and I then added the Specular Tempus effects pedal set to the Spacious preset and then the Angels preset. No EQ or compression was used, and the signal was recorded directly to an iPhone using an audio to USB converter. Fortunately I logged all of my original favorite PPG programs before selling my system in 2003. I will be loading those programs into the Behringer Wave in a forthcoming video for comparison. But for now I’m extremely impressed with this new Wave – it does sound like a PPG!