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seamonkey · Post by **seamonkey** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:56 am

I was doing a bit of research on Waldorf products and I'm curious if anyone has used this and your thoughts regarding it.

thanks

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:17 am

I got it with the Waldorf bundle (Attack, PPG & D-pole), and although the synths are brilliant, the D-pole is in my honest opinion the worst sounding plug-in filter on my hard drive.

Sorry, but I just can't recommend that one. The interface & implementation are cool, but it just sounds very harsh & computerish to my ears.

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:44 am

i woudn't be so negative towards d-pole, but it's true that you can find better to way better, from low price : ( trasher II, zap filter ) to high-end ( Antares filter, quad frohmage )

Just make your choice...

pekadan · Post by **pekadan** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:48 am

I also have D-Pole. I have problems with it losing some settings (like delay time) whenever I reload the project file in Cubase (SL2). It's so damn annoying I've stopped using D-Pole altogether.

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:10 am

Krakatau wrote:i woudn't be so negative towards d-pole, but it's true that you can find better to way better, from low price : ( trasher II, zap filter ) to high-end ( Antares filter, quad frohmage )

Just make your choice...

Yep, I agree that this is a taste issue, someone could like it. I'm more into warm, resonating filter sound- Frohmage is quite close to what I mean.

Churchy · Post by **Churchy** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:11 am

hmm i use it a lot, i like it!

i just wish you could sync the LFO to the tempo

Buka · Post by **Buka** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:33 am

well i never used any hardware filters so i dont know how they sound but d-pole is the best if u ask me...i can do so many crazy shit with it its not normal..u have the delay, the bitcrusher, envelope follower and u can sync everything...if its to harsh for u u just have to lower the wet signal and u have a beautyful distortion.....
cheers

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:41 am

Buka wrote:well i never used any hardware filters so i dont know how they sound but d-pole is the best if u ask me...i can do so many crazy shit with it its not normal..u have the delay, the bitcrusher, envelope follower and u can sync everything...if its to harsh for u u just have to lower the wet signal and u have a beautyful distortion.....
cheers

- what have you tried as modulated filter actually?

- just have a glance at some demos of the ones mentioned before( quick effect link, you know ?), you might then be pleasently surprised !

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:43 am

Buka wrote:well i never used any hardware filters so i dont know how they sound but d-pole is the best if u ask me...

I have recently been enjoying the luxury of true analog 2/4 pole Curtis-based stereo philter, but maybe I should give the D-pole another chance anyway.

I think I might have had the bitcrusher on (don't tell anyone

) or something as stoopid...

pekadan · Post by **pekadan** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:11 am

Feck, am I the only one having problems losing the D-Pole settings every time I load the project file!?

xiphiuz · Post by **xiphiuz** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:26 am

the d-pole plugin is very very old. it was released at the time that a pII 400/450 was the best cpu on the consumer market. please keep that in mind.

there are better filters on the market now. check www.fabfilter.com for their upcoming filter plugin.

the asynth maker should also make a filter only plugin. but anyways, i´ve got analogue and digital synths, but at extreme resonance settings, most vst´s are useless if you compare them with there analogue competitors. (i´ve got a waldorf pulse/siel opera6 and ex80/borrowed juno60)

pekadan · Post by **pekadan** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:32 am

You would have thought they'd updated it before selling it together with Cubase SL in the BPM Force Bundle. After all, that wasn't very long ago.

xiphiuz · Post by **xiphiuz** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:35 am

waldorf is bankrupted, so i don´t think so. they were allready in big trouble for years..

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:52 pm

I still love the D-Pole, not so much as a conventional filter (almost never touch that bit) but as a bitcrusher/ringmodulator/distortion box it's one of the most hostile and destructive sounding things imaginable.

VanLichten · Post by **VanLichten** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:19 pm

I think its an amzing effect for glassy, distorted, utterly wierd electro-like sounds. For this, nothing comes close...load a loop, insert it, use the random function of your host for preset making and enjoy.
Other filterbanks are better as universal filters, though, but for aggresive sound destruction, this RULEZ

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Cheers, Richard

Waldorf D-pole filter plug-in