| The little villain grows up
Not
only on the outside did he gain weight, also his inner qualities have
seen a remarkable step-up: besides the virtual-analog synthesis and the
classic wavetables it now sports a whopping 60 megabytes of sample
memory.
Just imagine to add a vocal-like noise
spectrum to a typical Wavetable pad, spice-up a virtual-analog solo
sound with a strong attack sample or just process any other sample with
the countless oscillator and filter modulations.
Play your sound creations on the
high-quality keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. Pitchbend and
modulation wheel are at your disposal and, as a matter of course, you
can connect a sustain pedal.
All this is packaged in a sleek metal
enclosure with a big graphic display, endless stainless steel rotaries
and an internal power supply. And although it comes for an unbeatable
price tag, we add something very special. It comes: From Waldorf with
Love! Sound generation:
Oscilators Each of
the three oscillators offers authentic circuit-models of analog
waveforms: Pulse with variable pulse-width, sawtooth, triangle and, as
found in relatively few analog synthesizers these days, sine
wave.Furthermore, oscillators 1 and 2 feature the two wavetables that
were introduced by the Waldorf Q and appeared shortly thereafter in the
Micro Q series.
Not only that, the Blofeld includes all ROM
Wavetables from the mighty flagship Waldorf Wave as well as Microwave
II/XT. Plus, lo and behold, the desperately requested "Upper Wavetable"
from the good old PPG Wave! But, for the first time in the history of
Waldorf and PPG, each of these two oscillators can have its own
wavetable.
What's more, you have control over the brilliance of
these wavetables, which is especially important for waves with lots of
harmonics in the bass end. You decide if you prefer pure and perfect
harmonics or the same edgy timbre you know and love from the earlier
Waldorf and PPG synthesizers.
Brilliance also affects the sawtooth
and pulse oscillator models. From warm and soft (for those typical L.A.
string pads) to the hard shapes you need for punchy and biting bass
sounds. But note, Brilliance is not a simple filter applied after the
oscillators, the model itself is modified. Each of the three
oscillators can be frequency-modulated by any of the other oscillators,
the noise generator or one of the LFOs. With low FM amounts, you can add
a little dirt to the oscillator sound, with higher amounts you get
typical FM effects.
On top of all that, oscillator 2 can be hard-synced to oscillator 3.
Ring Modulation Oscillators
1 and 2 can be ring-modulated to create bell-like or metallic sounds,
eerie sound effects as well as pumping basses and leads. The noise generator delivers white noise that can be filtered low or high pass, depending on the Noise Colour setting. The
three oscillators, the ring modulator and the noise generator can be
freely mixed into filter 1 and filter 2. This allows fine control over
the harmonic content of each of the tone generators. Spectre:
Spectre is a tool for creating and transferring Sample Content for Waldorf Blofeld with License SL and Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard. Both are synthesizers with the additional ability to play back Samples. If you have none of the above, you are still welcome to explore Spectre and fantasize what it would be like to own one of the above instruments.
Spectre is a free application available here for Windows PC and Mac. Specifications: • Unbeatable price tag
• sturdy Metal Enclosure
• 7 endless stainless steel Dials
• Graphic Display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
• more than 1000 Sounds
• 3 Oscillators per voice
• Frequency Modulation between the Oscillators
• All Q Oscillator Models
• All Microwave II/XT/XTk Wavetables
• 2 independent Multi Mode Filters per voice
• Filter FM
• 2 Drive stages per voice with selectable Drive Curves
• 3 fast LFOs per voice
• 4 fast Envelopes per voice
• powerful Arpeggiator
• freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound |
