Waldorf MICROWAVE XTK

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Added: 17-Feb-00  |  Author: admin

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Company Link:  Waldorf-Music AG

Waldorf MICROWAVE XTK

The Microwave XTK Version extends the Microwave family to include a keyboard version. This unit is basically a Microwave XT spec, with added keys... Same amount of controller knobs & dials, same spec's, poly & multi-parts etc...

Spec's

• 49 key keyboard, velocity and release velocity, monophonic aftertouch
• Pitch Bend wheel
• Modulation wheel
• 12 buttons for selecting multi and sound programs
• 1 dial for page access
• 44 dials for parameter changes
• 2 buttons for parameter changes
• 1 master volume potentiometer
• 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
• 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
• MIDI In / Out / Thru
• 1 stereo input
• 2 stereo outputs

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

Physical Controller knobs & dials

Oscillator 1

• Octave (with clicks)
• Semitone (with clicks)
• Detune
• FM Amount

Oscillator 2

• Octave (with clicks)
• Semitone (with clicks)
• Detune
• Sync (button)

Waves 1 / 2

• Wavetable (with clicks)

Wave 1

• Startwave
• Env. Amount

Wave 2

• Startwave
• Env. Amount

Mix

• Wave 1
• Ringmod
• Wave 2
• Noise

Filter

• Cutoff
• Resonance
• Type (with clicks)
• Keytrack
• Env. Amount
• Env. Velocity

Amplifier

• Volume
• Env. Velocity

LFO 1

• Speed
• Shape (with clicks)

LFO 2

• Speed
• Shape (with clicks)

Mod Amount

• Mod 1
• Mod 2

Glide

• Time
• Active (button)

Envelopes - (8 multi purpose dials)

• Wave Env 1-4
• Time 1
• Level 1
• Time 2
• Level 2
• Time 3
• Level 3
• Time 4
• Level 4
  
  

• Wave Env 5-8
• Time 5
• Level 5
• Time 6
• Level 6
• Time 7
• Level 7
• Time 8
• Level 8
  
  
• Free Env
• Time 1
• Level 1
• Time 2
• Level 2
• Time 3
• Sustain
• Release
• Rel. Level
  
  
• Filter / Amplifier
• Attack
• Decay
• Sustain
• Release
• Attack
• Decay
• Sustain
• Release

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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