Test: WALDORF MICRO Q / MicroQ KB – SYNTHESIZER

WALDORF MICRO Q – SYNTHESIZER (dashier ist das microQ KB, generell dasselbe.. mit tasten..) DSP / stimmen – verbrauch der micro Q HIER — .. DSP power / voice – list.. HERE (below) –> basic info / generelle info zum microQ / Daten.. sorry.. this review in german only atm. find more about waldorf Q+ / Q in english! COMPARE the Q+ / Q vs. Alesis Andromeda A6? some words about it (english).. demosounds from the microQ, demosound vom micro_q2.mp3 und HIER micro_q.mp3 neu: es gibt eine software, die den…

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TRICKS WALDORF Q, Q+, microQ,microQ lite,XTk,XT, Microwave 2

TRICKS IM WALD… Q, Q+, microQ ,microQ lite ,XTk ,XT , Microwave 2 , etc.. einige nützliche Tips in English.. findest du hier… diverses FM und wavetables etc.. synthese? wie funktionierts? FM generell zu wavetables gibt es unter basiswissen (synth?) eine volle diplomarbeit und eine einfache erklärung in kurzform. wie WAVETABLES aus WAV dateien gebastelt werden können hier trance sounds wie macht man diesen typischen trance lead sound? und womit? hier micro Q komplett reset „Instr3″+“Global“ gedrückt halten. Danach sind allerdings auch alle Multis und Drummaps initialisiert. löscht alle sounds.…

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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 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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