The highly rated Waldorf Microwave II is a 'Spectral wavetable synthesizer' using digital waveforms in Rom & Ram... Waldorf make some of the cream of digital synths, and this model is no exception...
Spec's
- Multi Mode with 8 individual instruments
- 10 voices
- 128 multis
- 256 sounds
- 64 ROM wavetables
- 32 RAM wavetables
- 64 waves per wavetable
- 500 waves
- arpeggiator, syncable to MIDI Clock
- programmable arpeggiator rhythm pattern per sound
- 4 integrated effect units (1 Chorus available for any instrument in multi mode, 1 separate effect for each of the first 3 instruments in multi mode)
- all parameters real time controllable through MIDI continous controller
- 1 dial for page access
- 4 dials for parameter changes
- 1 Play / Shift button
- 5 buttons for mode selection (3 buttons for "Sound", 1 button for "Multi", 1 button for "Global")
- 1 Standby button with alert function to assure that all edited sounds are stored
- MIDI In / Out / Thru
- 2 stereo outputs
- 19"/2U
Parameters Per voice
- 2 oscillators
- oscillator synchronization
- oscillator FM, fully modulatable
- 2 wave generators
- noise generator
- ring modulator
- adjustable quality levels for aliasing, interpolation and clipping
- mixer, all levels (Wave 1, Wave 2, Noise, Ring Modulation, External In) modulatable with high resolution
- 2 multi mode filters, connected serially
- filter 1:
- low pass 12dB
- low pass 24dB
- band pass 12dB
- high pass 12dB
- sinus shaper with low pass filter 12dB
- wave shaper with low pass filter 12dB (selected wavetable determines the available shaper waves)
- Sample & Hold with low pass filter 12dB (real time sample rate reduction down to 23Hz)
- dual parallel filter with 12dB low pass and 12dB band pass, cutoff offset parameter for band pass
- 12dB low pass filter with filter FM (cutoff modulation through oscillator 2)
- filter 2:
- low pass 6dB
- high pass 6dB
- stereo amplifier, fully modulatable
- 8-time/level wave envelope with loop function, "one shot" mode, times and levels modulatable
- ADSR filter envelope, each phase modulatable separately
- ADSR amplifier envelope, each phase modulatable separately
- 4-time/level free envelope, bipolar, one shot mode, times and levels modulatable
- all envelopes work with separate trigger- and voice-modes, either monophonic or polyphonic:
- single trigger with zero return
- single trigger with return to last level
- retrigger with zero return
- retrigger with return to last level
- dual mode (two voices per note)
- unisono (all free voices at once)
- two LFOs, each with different shapes, syncable to MIDI clock, LFO 2 can be synced to LFO 1
- modulation matrix with 16 slots, all sources and destinations of the MicroWave and the Pulse plus new connections
- 4 freely usable modifiers with several operators and algorithms
Other Microwave II/XT OS features:
- Adjustable Aliasing: "listen to aliasing distortion just like in the dawn of the first digital musical instruments like the PPG Wave or the first Microwave."
- Adjustable Time Quantization: "sometimes one might wish to add additional harshness to the lower end, just like the first microwave did, and this is what Time Quantization is for: The wave interpolation is overridden in five steps to get this extra fizziness."
- 2 Clipping Modes:
- Saturate - "This is the kind of distortion classic analog circuits will generate."
- Overflow - "The polarity of the signal's part above the maximum level will be negated."
- Random Patch Generator added (OS 1.303)
- Oscillator FM added (OS 1.307) - Osc1 is Carrier and Osc2 Modulator
- Arpeggiator Notes can be sent to MIDI out. (OS 1.500) - Adjustable globally in Sound Mode or by Instrument in Multi Mode.
Well... all I can say is... I wish I had one... Comments please...
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