Für den Q war ursprünglich auch so was geplant.. Sollte eben Modular wechselbar sein, wurde dann aber nur der Q+..
Was Du so alles weisst. Vermutlich verwechselst Du es mit dieser Presseinfo:
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 15:37:28 +0000
From: Nick Rothwell <nick@DCS.EDINBURGH.AC.UK>
Subject: Waldorf Wave kbd: Valve-driven Filter upgrade
Interesting flyer I got from TSI/Waldorf this morning, talking about
the new Waldorf Wave keyboard. The beast is apparently
hardware-upgradable, and one of the upgrades is a valve filter
section. The flyer starts out by explaining how valve-driven amps
(both consumer and professional) are generally considered to have
better tonal characteristics and general sound than solid-state ones,
and how the big appeal of the MicroWave rack and Wave keyboard is the
high-quality analogue filters. So, the logical progression for a truly
classic analogue sound is a replacement of the solid-state analogue
filter components with a valve-based upgrade.
There's a daughterboard, measuring some 20cm x 6cm, that fits into the
Wave keyboard (nothing mentioned about the MicroWave, alas) which is a
16-channel filter replacement, featuring a set of subminiature audio
valves (1.5cm high) and driving circuitry. When installed, it
selectively disables the transistorised filter circuits (which are
still in place). What is mondo cool about this is that (i) transistor
or valve filtering is selectable per patch (I don't know how dynamic
voice allocation works here) and (ii) there's a global parameter (and
corresponding SysEx) to switch all voices back to transistor filtering
in case of any damaged valves - good move, Waldorf, and (iii) part of
the long edge of the board (where the valves are mounted, for proper
heatsink characteristics) is visible through the lower part of the
display window on the Wave keyboard, just under the panel of sliders,
so you can see the valves glowing as voices get gated through the
filters.
This is giving me severe techno-lust...
Nick.
der ist äußerlich so nüchtern.
