New Waldorf Blofeld OS 1.15b

[Tobi]

After updating to OS 1.15B11 the Blofeld crashes all the time.
When you turn the Soundknob the sounds freeze when you turn the Bank and Cat.Filter Knob before.

Is it possible to downgrade to 1.13?

[Goseba]

I think you can just reinstall 1.13 over the top.

Have you tried reloading it though? I have only played with it a little but have had no problems.

[Tobi]

At the end of the midifile, the Blofeld displays the message "press play to reload" or something like that, which I did. Everything seems ok. I also updated the keyboard-file and the eastersoundset. No problems. Nice new sounds by the way.

Yesterday i repeat the update, again w/o problems. But still have the issue.

If reloading means turn off and turn on the unit, I do this all the time unfortunatly.

[mbncp]

After updating to OS 1.15B11 the Blofeld crashes all the time.
When you turn the Soundknob the sounds freeze when you turn the Bank and Cat.Filter Knob before.

I had the same problems and reinstalled the latest os (2nd april I think) and this time I used USB and things looks good now.

[Goseba]

I used USB with mine too which I think is recommended.

[Tobi]

I only use USB. OK, good to hear another units may have the same issue.

I'm waiting to the answer of Waldorf. So I hope with a downgrade everything runs like before. I do not really need the possibility to load user-wavetables.

[Tobi]

"On Sunday 04 April 2010, Tony Scharf wrote:
> Quite often, when I press particularly hard, the unit sends a
> velocity level of 1 regardless of how hard I hit the key. this
> makes it sound like the filter is completely closing on these
> notes. This makes the unit completely unplayable from its own
> keyboard.

Confirmed, unfortunately.
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Same here

[Tobi]

1 year for a update and then a disapointing beta version but a german company...

[EvilDragon]

That's why it's BETA... bugs will be ironed out till the full release, I'm certain.

I have faith in Waldorf

[Ingonator]

No problems here but i use the desktop version. BTW i used "MIDIBar" from MIDI-Ox for transferring the OS and other midi files. Normally after the transfer the message proposes three things "please switch of the program, disconnect the USB cable and press the Play buttton for restart".



A problem with the update for the keyboard chip was already reported in this thread including a solution from the Waldorf forum:

I just found an update of the Blofeld OS 1.15 from 2nd of April on the waldorf site: http://www.waldorfmusic.de/de/downloads ... eld/system

Could be a version without the "stolen unit" message.

I haven't tried that so far since i already have the first version of OS 1.15 installed. Any experiences here ?



UPDATE:
Some news for the Blofeld keyboard users and the KBC update:

"On Sunday 04 April 2010, Tony Scharf wrote:
> Quite often, when I press particularly hard, the unit sends a
> velocity level of 1 regardless of how hard I hit the key. this
> makes it sound like the filter is completely closing on these
> notes. This makes the unit completely unplayable from its own
> keyboard.

Confirmed, unfortunately.

To get the old KBC firmware back you need to downgrade to V1.13 first,
get the Blofeld_KBC_1.01 firmware in (it's in Blo_Key_V1.01.zip in the
Tools folder of the Blofeld Downloads section) and then upgrade again
to V1.15. The hanging notes are back of course, but the velocity
behaves correctly.

> I also noted that my keyboard is now sending out random modulation
> events, even though I have not touched the wheel.

If you really pound on the keyboard this would be normal, IMHO.
Sometimes it can also happen if the Modwheel is in a position just
between to values. At least on my unit there's no difference in this
regard between the two KBC versions."

[EvilDragon]

I dunno, but if you really pound on the keyboard, it should be just sending 127, not 1. :/

[JediMind]

- Sample/WT select modulation
- User Wavetables

Oh my...

I haven't updated since 1.12. Do I have to go through all subsequent updates as well?

[Goseba]

I think you can go straight to 1.15b.

[Ingonator]

I think you can go straight to 1.15b.

Agreed. I got my Blofeld with 1.04 installed and went directly to 1.13. From that i installed 1.15b.
It should be even possible to go from 1.04 to 1.15b without bigger problems.

[Ingonator]

Today on the Waldorf forum a beta version of a wavetable editor was published:

"Hi Blofeld users!

Check my wavetable creator (only for PC)
- freehand wavetable drawing
- sin, triangle, square, saw, random harmonics
- morphing

Blofeld wavetable creator screenshot:
http://lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/i/blofeld/b ... reator.jpg

Program download link:
http://lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/soft/blofel ... reator.zip

and some simple wavetables (for any users)
http://lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/soft/blofeld_wavetables.zip

Kotró László Lehel"


You will need OS 1.15b for this.