Waldorf Q Synth
Category: Products / synthesisers / sample synthesisers
Added: 16-Feb-00 | Author: admin
New price: US$ RRP 2,900 | S/H price: Not listed
Company Link: Waldorf-Music AG
Waldorf Q Synth
The 'Q' is a well rated 16-voice synthesizer with a 61-note velocity and aftertouch keyboard ... It has 58 controller knobs for lots of hands on programnming... and they all send midi...3 oscillators Per voice, with sync and FM... you get 2 ring modulators, 3 LFO's, a noise generator, multi-mode filters and a stereo mixer also. You also get two effects per sound....
If you want the 'Q' to play different parts with different sounds, then the 'Q' provides 4 part multi-mode plus a drum part with drum synth algorithms...
Each part/sound also has access to a programmable arpeggiator...
You can also expand the 'Q' with more parts & voices (poly)...
The 'WALDORF-Q-16 Q-Voice Expansion' costs an rrp of (US$) 500-ish and expands the unit by another 16 voices to create a 32-note poly, 96-oscillator, 64-filter mega-synth..!!! ...blimey !!... tell you, this synth is WELL rated for the wierd and wonderful... these things will give you harsh and lush, strange and evolving etc... very potent...
any owners?.. comments welcome.. maybe you think it's not so hot?.. mebbe the earth moved for you?... do tell !!... wish I had one tho..
here's some spec's, and i did see a luverlee looking Blue one somewhere on the web... in fact doesnt it come in deep-red too???... here's some spec's list
Features:
- 4 part multi timbral
- multi editing (all 4 sounds at once)
- 300 single programs
- 100 multi programs
- 100 step sequencer patterns
- 58 endless dials
- 39 buttons for editing
- 2 x 20 character display
- 5 octave keyboard
- 1 Pitch Bend Wheel
- 1 Modulation Wheel
- 2 Control Buttons
- 6 analog outputs (3 stereo outs)
- 2 analog inputs (1 stereo in)
- 1 S/PDIF output (44.1kHz / 48kHz switchable)
- MIDI In/Out/Thru
- 2 Switch Inputs (e.g. Sustain Pedal, Gate In etc.)
- 2 CV Inputs (e.g. Foot Pedal, external controller etc.)
- built-in universal voltage power supply
- color Sahara
Parameters Per Voice:
- minimum 16 voices, expandable to 32 voices
- 3 Oscillators per voice
- Pulse with Pulse Width Modulation
- Sawtooth
- Triangle
- Sine
- new oscillator algorithms
- waves
- Noise generator
- Ring Modulators
- Mixer with Balance, each signal source (oscillator, noise, ringmod, external audio material) can be balanced individually between filter 1 and filter 2
- 2 Filters, different types, all including FM and distortion
- Low Pass (12dB/24dB)
- Band Pass (12dB/24dB)
- High Pass (12dB/24dB)
- Notch (12dB/24dB)
- Comb Filter
- sin x Waveshaper
- etc.
- Modulation Matrix with 16 slots, freely routable
- Pre-routed Modulation destinations, sources selectable
- modulation update frequency in audio range to allow the oscillators to be used as modulation sources
- 4 Modifiers
- Arpeggiator with user pattern, including accents, timing information, swing, glide, chords and more
- Step Sequencer with 32 steps, polyphonic, different controller values per step
- 3 LFOs up to audio range (> 1000 Hz)
- 4 envelopes, enhanced ADSR configuration with loop and one shot function, bipolar
- different trigger modes for each envelope, poly, mono, dual, unisono, manual trigger etc.
- 2 individual high-quality effects per sound, each sound keeps its effects in multi mode
- Effect Types:
- Chorus
- Flanger
- Phaser
- Overdrive
- AM
- Delay
- Reverb
Product Manuals or Files
no user manual
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User Comments
Product: Waldorf - Q Synth
Name: Subtex
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 28-Mar-00Just received my Q rack yesterday in the mail..So far I can say it is a really nice synthesizer with tons of sound capibilities..Soundwise it sounds like a cross between the microwave and pulse..it seems like the possibilities are endless....
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Product: Waldorf - Q Synth
Name: Frederik Heringa
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Activity: Professional
Date: 26-Sep-02The Q is great !
It has it's own specific timbre that comes back in all the sounds you create.
Don't buy this synth as your only synth.
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