WALDORF Ideas & things to remember Part 3 Soundprogramming

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Soundprogramming… how many voices can the microQ do and what about the DSP-power??.. go HERE! > > yesterday I tried to create a bunch of sounds (drones) that share the characteristics of being ‚airy‘. The german word ‚hauchend‘ might describe it quite well, though the similarly named preset is not really what I mean. I tried to use some noise as well as the wavetables with lots of higher harmonics – but it sounded to buzzy and to harsh to my ears. After some…

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WALDORF Ideas & things to remember Part 2 Ideas & Tricks

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Ideas & Tricks… how many voices can the microQ do and what about the DSP-power??.. go HERE! UPAW wavetables.. how to make some..? 1) Use the UPAW assembler which is available as open source on the FTP-server. 2) Use the Polyframe (atari ST, was what is now sounddiver) Adaption georg müller created back in time for the Atari. 3) Use a Hex-Editor to code the SysEx directly. but normally you can use the ones,that are already in: FM, and some more using sounddiver. upaw…

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Waldorf Info – Things to remember Part 1 Basics

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Basics… how many DSPs are in the XT? One!!!!! IIRC they are the same type used in Kyma, correct? Nearly, the Kyma uses Motorola DSP56309 and we use DSP56303, the only difference is that the 56309 has more on-chip RAM than the 56303.Waldorf V2.0 Beta team in 1994 and coding was done by Andreas Busse and Stefan Stenzel. Stefan focussed much on the Wavetable loader then. The machine use to code V2.0 was named RESI ;-) it was done on a SAM68K system, and…

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Waldorf Microwave Editor @ OS X

just to let you know, there is a Microwave I and II editor via Matrixsynth: 12/19/2007 03:33:00 PM Looks like a multiwindow hack and good too have after the slow death of sounddiver. http://splashbeats.de/mwedit/mwedit.html#screenshots Thanks to the author it is free for both synths. there are OS9 Versions, too. Looks like it has Wave/Table edit, not sure if there is UPAW support (yet.)? I asume not yet.. whats the Waldorf?  MicrowaveXTk, MicrowaveXT  Microwave2, MW2 Microwave, Microwave1, mw1

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Waldorf Blofeld with XT Wavetables..

Blofeld will have all Waldorf MicrowaveXTk, MicrowaveXT Wavetables on board plus those of the Waldorf microQ / Waldorf Q. The first batch of blofelds are ready to sell and will be available very s.o.o.n (in about 1 week). It will come for 399€ over here in europe. Der Blofeld kommt in die Läden in gut 1 Woche und wird alle XT Wavetables in sich tragen, da soll es noch eine weitere Funktion geben, was man damit anstellen kann, und jetzt nicht gleich den XT wegwerfen, denn die WaveENV und die…

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Waldorf Patches by Boele Gerkes Waldorf Microwave XT Series

Here is what Boele sent to me: (use the back button on your browser to return) Hi everybody! Here are the details on the boele_gerkes.mid-file fpr Microwave XT Series: I created 32 userwavetables. I experimentated a lot with the sample-convertion possibility in SoundDiver. You can create pretty sounding wavetables using short soundfiles into about 12 waves. After done that you have to spread those waves over the wavetable. Lot of good listening is needed for that… J But you can get amazing results! The upaw-thing can give nice waves too!…

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