For sale one of the Rarest Synths in the world: PPG Wave 3.2! this is a V.6 (the last updated version by Wolfgang Palm in the earlier 80's..then the ppg house closed forever)!!! It is very very difficult to find someone selling a PPG wave 2.3 in the world(as there are only 700 PPG wave's 2.3 owners in the whole globe!!!), and now i have for sale my father's PPG WAVE 2.3( the best PPG WAVE version ever made!!) in MINT conditions, Not a single mark, scratch, spot, sign on it!!! Also With the 2 ORIGINAL MANUALS (as you can see from the pics). The PPG SHOULD work perfectly but it's been kept unused in a room for some years as my father doesn't live in Italy anymore. Even if i'm aware of the VALUE of this machine (it's almost PRICELESS), i don't have the time and the knowledge (above all) to test it in all its functions, so it is sold as it is. I won't take any further responsability, as you are buying exaclty what you see!! The PPG looks PERFECT, both esteticaly and tecnicaly, but i cannot say much more than the fact that it's turning on regularly and all knobs and keys seem to work as they should! Keys are allined and in an excellent shape, nothing is broken, nothing is missing. By the way the knob cap missing is not missing, it fell under a key of the synth but can be found in a while, since you have the machine. so the synth looks PERFECT and is COMPLETE in every single part and comes with the very rare Original PPG Wave 3.2 Manual (2 books)!!I will also try to make you see through the pics how beautiful this machine is, the rest is up to you!!!!

please let this auction reach a VERY VERY VERY VERY reasonable Price as i ppg wave 2.3 is worth it!!Bid on it as i have many offers!! The synth is pretty heavy, i don't know exaclty what would be the shipping costs to the Uk, but at the end of the auction i'll try to find the cheapest and safest way to ship, so the price indicated bellow can change and become something lower.

You're a buying a piece of story here. Remember that PPG Wave 2.3 is priceless and almost impossible to find for sale! Well, i'm selling it for real synth/vintage lovers.

You can reach me in Italy whenever you want +39 348 7962387 and you can trust me as my feedback talks loud. I speak english, i Will ship to the UK and almost all EU countries, shipping price will be agreed with the buyer, according to the item's weight, protection, insurance.. and all other parameters. If u have a trusted courier i will use it! Be aware you cannot buy a PPG WAVE spending a few money. If you LOVE it, you buy it.

The PPG will be shipped insured and endlessly protected in a "NASA" pack. Yes, i have an "ideal" price for this PPG, and yes you can ask me what it is! The advantage for you in England is that, being italian and selling in euros,i'll certainly ask less than an english seller who sells in pounds! (but you WON'T even find an english seller selling a PPG WAVE 2.3 in mint conditions with original manuals). I'm a very serious person, so bid with confidence.

The auction will start with a very low price of 299 pounds, please don't forgeto to bid on it as soon as you realize you want it, there are many people dying for it! 86watchers in 3 hrs means something! 

please be "aggressive" in this auction: i saw a lot of you want this machine so much!!!!

Wave 2.2 & 2.3 synthesizer

The PPG Wave synthesizer was the heart of the PPG system. It was probably the most popular and recognizable product in the PPG line. The Wave family tree began around 1981 with the Wave 2 and progressed with the Wave 2.2 in 1982 and 2.3 in 1984. Approximately three-hundred of the 2.2 and seven-hundred of the 2.3 keyboards were manufactured.

One of the Wave's most interesting features was it's ability to sweep through 64 waveforms in what PPG called a wavetable. Almost 2000 waveforms were available within the Wave's 32 internal wavetables. The result of this wavetable technology was that PPG instruments had a much broader pallete, and more animated sound than typical analog synths of the early 80's. The PPG sound was very unique and identifiable in constrast to a standard analog synth having only a few static waveforms such as sawtooth, pulse, or triangle. See our Wavetable Description page for a breakdown of each wavetable.

The complex digital oscillators of the Wave were processed through analog filtering. This hybrid combination was able to produce pure digital sounds as well as familier analog patches and everything in between. The Wave's front panel featured a standard complement of analog control knobs for tweakabilitiy. This section of the Wave was known as the "Analog Control Panel". If you would like to see all of the knobs in more detail have a look at the Editor page. Most of the deeper functions were controlled through the "Digital Control Panel" which was the right side of the machine with the keypads and LCD display.

The Wave also incorporated an onboard 8-track sequencer accessable through one of the LCD pages. This sequencer was fairly advanced for the period, and featured automation of several functions including pitch, loudness, filter cutoff, waveform, and filter envelope attenuation.

As part of the PPG system the Wave could be controlled by other components, or could in turn control components such as the EVU. Both the Waveterm and the PRK could download new wavetables into a Wave keyboard. In addition to sweepable synth waveforms sampled sounds could also be downloaded.

Wave 2.2 - $8,800.00
Wave 2.3 - $9,000.00 - $10,000 (Later discounted to about $6,500.)

 

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The PPG Wave 2.3 The legendary PPG Wave 2.3 The 2.3 took the wave series into the realms of a true workstation. Building on the features of the 2.2, the 2.3 added 8 part multi-timbral voices with individual outputs, sample playback in 12 bit resolution (loaded via a Waveterm etc) and of course MIDI. PPG had its work cut out installing MIDI into the 2.3 as it already had its own parallel bus for interconnecting the system components. Palm was frustrated by the added complications of adding such a limited serial interface as MIDI when his bus allowed far greater speed for sample transfer. In my experience, the MIDI implementation of the Wave 2.3 is not the most stable and seems very susceptible to ground loops and lock-ups! The features of the Wave 2.3 are very much a 'logical progression' from the 2.2 and the end result is a very musical and extremely versatile machine. From thick strings, choirs and analogue filter sweeps to the dirty digital hard-edge industrial grunge, the the 2.3 excels. Add a Waveterm to your set-up and you open up a whole new world of wave-mangling possibilities! The combination of beautiful SSM filters and the merging of samples with Palms quirky synthesis make the Wave.2.3 one of  history's landmark instruments