Wavestate Sound Without the $600 Hardware: Evolving Ambient Instruments, Multi-Sampled from Real Hardware, Ready for Your DAW, MPC, or iPad, Instant Inspiration, Zero Menu Diving, All for Just $5. Authentic Character, Expressive Dynamics, No Plugin Frustration, Just Load and Play.

If you’ve ever explored the Korg Wavestate, you know how stunning it can sound. Wave Sequencing 2.0 opens the door to evolving pads, shifting textures, and deeply expressive ambient soundscapes.

You also know it’s not exactly instant.

The Wavestate was built around hands-on control lane timing, modulation depth, vector blending, performance gestures. On hardware, it’s powerful. Inside the plugin, without physical knobs, it can quickly turn into a maze of menus and mouse click fatigue. Crafting a truly polished patch often takes serious time or serious gear investment.

That’s where the SHLD Wavestate Sampled Synth Packs come in.

I’ve already done the deep programming work on the hardware unit and carefully multi-sampled the results. What you get are expressive, evolving instruments—ready to load into your DAW, MPC, or iPad. No Wavestate required. No modulation archaeology required.

Just the sound.

These packs capture the blended organic + synthetic character that makes the Wavestate special—lush pads, atmospheric layers, subtle grit, and evolving motion without forcing you to buy a $600+ synth or wrestle with the interface.

For $5, it’s not a replacement for the instrument. It’s the shortcut most producers actually need: inspiring sounds that load instantly and get you writing in minutes instead of hours.

The SHLD Wavestate presets and sampled instrument packs are:

• Multi-sampled in 16 or 24bits from hardware with 4 velocity layers (no Wavestate needed!)
• plus Presets files, with performance knobs mapped, if you're a lucky owner of the Wavestate or the Wavestate Native plugin
• compatible with your DAW and iPad thanks to SFZ sample presets
• compatible with Ableton Live 10, 11 or 12 Sampler and also Simpler
• 100% royalty free for use in your sound design projects or music productions, in any way you like.

Yes, you read correctly, unlike other preset packs, I multi-sampled the Wavestate, so you can use these sounds easily on your DAW or MPC!

And here’s the part that makes it slightly ridiculous: for that same $5, you don’t just get the Wavestate pack—you also unlock access to my full library of 120+ sampled analog instruments. Classic synth tones, textured layers, characterful hardware captures—all multi-sampled and ready to use. It’s not just one pack; it’s an expanding sound toolbox for less than the price of a cheap plugin preset.

Korg Wavestate Presets and Samples: 23 Ambient Soundscapes + 2.5GB of samples

With the Wavestate sound design capabilities, users can dive into intricate sound shaping, and what better way to showcase the depth of this synth than with pads?

I'm just starting to sample and craft new sounds with it, and I expect to use it more and more as I am an ambient music lover. The 'Ana' series of patches are based on a Virtual Analog layer, plus more atmospheric layers that can be organic textures and samples, and a few gritty or saturated tones.

The 8 Performance Knobs are mapped in the same way across the different presets for easier improvisation. For example, Knob 1/Master will make the sound more ambient, giving priority to textures rather than melodies. More details in the documentation.

Perfect for music genres like ambient, liminal, downtempo, soundtrack, drone, psybient, experimental, lo-fi, electronic, cinematic and soundtrack music.

• ⭐🕺 5 Free patches and samples
  • 4 Virtual analog + digital sonic landscapes
    • ana1a MistyMountain
    • ana1b MossyForest
    • ana1c ElectricRain
    • ana1d NebulaDrift
  • 1 Complex cinematic keys preset I used on my track called Endless
• 🥇 18 Patches available to supporting Patreons of the 2nd tier and above
  • 12 Immersive, meditative soundscapes combining virtual analog warmth with digital textures, layered with organic, random background sounds with serene or dark atmospheres.
    • ana2a BlissfulSpace, 32 samples
    • ana2b AncientRuins
    • ana2c EmeraldValley, sampled with 2 expression layers, see below. 64 samples in total for this instrument.
    • ana2d ElectricMeadow
    • ana2e OrganicWaves
    • ana2f AuroraTexture
    • ana2g HarmonicMist
    • ana2h SereneMachinery
    • ana2i DarkOasis
    • ana2j NebulaMist
    • ana2k AuralOxygen
    • ana2l TwilightOsc
  • 6 Lo-Fi Keys, with some cinematic and evolving ambient sound layers.
    • ana3a EchoFragment
    • ana3b AuralTides
    • ana3c NocturnRipple
    • (new) ana3d PhantomPulse
    • (new) ana3e ShadowEP
    • (new) ana3f WovenHiss

Tip: The EmeraldValley samples feature an additional expression layer. You can enable the layer with the Red 'Sample Selector' knob under Live, or by sending a CC1 Midi message with the SFZ version.

The downloads are available to my Patreons here:

Download Wavestate packs

I suggest you watch this video for a little sonic preview:

To allow for intuitive real-time manipulation and expressive performance, the Wavestate performance knobs, and joystick, on the presets are assigned this way, whenever possible:

• 1/Master: closes the filter and gives priority to ambient layers
• 2/Timing: faster movements between sounds in Sample Lane or Seq Lane modulations.
• 3/Sample: adds movement between samples and more samples
• 4/Pitch: adds detune and/or increases chorus/flanger effects
• 5/Shape: adds fast filter modulation
• 6/Gate: increase attack/release
• 7/StepSeq: increase filter resonance
• 8/Speed: increase LFO speeds
• Mod wheel: depends on the preset, can be anything ;)

If you prefer more classic sounds, check my packs based on the Minilogue XD and the Arturia Minifreak.