Waldorf MICROWAVE 2

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Added: 17-Feb-00  |  Author: admin

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Company Link:  Waldorf-Music AG

Waldorf MICROWAVE 2

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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