Waldorf MicroWave as a plugin?

[trusampler]

Sonic Freaks Updated his Beautiful Collection to work in the plugin, this is easily the best soundbank for the Microwave available

[martiu]

this thing will make me love wavetable synths again

[Uncle E]

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[svart]

Question: Nave is supposed to be a sort of emulation of the Wave (except for multi-timbrality and added functions maybe?). The Microwave is said to be a minimalist Wave. So (assuming the aforementioned statements are true): what is the essential difference between the Microwave and Nave plugins (apart from bi-timbrality, new gui, up-to-date programming and Microwave "authenticity")?

[Garrincha]

Question: Nave is supposed to be a sort of emulation of the Wave (except for bi-timbrality and added functions maybe?). The Microwave is said to be a minimalist Wave.

Who said that?

That is wrong on so many levels I don't even know how to begin with.

what is the essential difference between the Microwave and Nave plugins

Pretty much everything related to the sound, the GUI, the performance and the possibilities.

[IvyBirds]

Yes, sloppy digital envelopes which are emulated. See around 9:09 in the deep device video for details.

You mean sloppy because they are digital, or sloppy because they are not good?

IOW, all digital envelopes are sloppy for you - yes/no?

The original hardware had sloppy digital envelopes that were not 100% precise, meaning every keypress was slightly different, it was 1989 they were pushing the bleeding edge of what was possible at a reasonable cost

This gives the envelopes which are not just basic ADSR a beautiful sound that is slightly different on every keypress, making the the instrument very much feel alive

This behavior is recreated perfectly in the plugin, only the envelopes are much much easier to use in the plugin than they were in the hardware thanks to nature of interacting with a GUI on a screen over a tiny LCD screen

[donato]

Sonic Freaks Updated his Beautiful Collection to work in the plugin, this is easily the best soundbank for the Microwave available

Bought and bought. These indeed are fantastic!

[svart]

Question: Nave is supposed to be a sort of emulation of the Wave (except for bi-timbrality and added functions maybe?). The Microwave is said to be a minimalist Wave.

Who said that?

That is wrong on so many levels I don't even know how to begin with.

what is the essential difference between the Microwave and Nave plugins

Pretty much everything related to the sound, the GUI, the performance and the possibilities.

Ok, probably just my imagination based on the opening image on the ipad version (showing the Wave in the background as well as some other Waldorf rack synths). Anyway, having the Nave plugin with basically the same wavetables where I can get sounds in the ballpark, as well as a other wavetable plugins and an Argon 8, I will pass on this. It surely does sound fat though.

[zerocrossing]

The M sounds pretty great, and is a lot more synth than this, but less synth than the 3rd Wave. I'm happy I ditched the M for the 3rd Wave, especially now that there's this, but if money was more of a consideration the M is definitely worth it.

Unfortunately or possibly fortunately, I just don't have the physical space for any full-sized synths. I have a Pro-3 and that's it aside from a Minilogue XD and a bunch of desktop modules. If I could do it, the 3rd Wave would be on a short list for sure.

I didn’t either, which is why I bought the M, even though I really wanted the 3rd Wave. Then they released the desktop, which was a bit of a burn, considering they said they weren’t interested in doing one. When they did, I made the swap, even though I lost money in the process. I figured, I can always make more money, but not more time having the exact thing that I wanted.

[trusampler]

Sonic Freaks Updated his Beautiful Collection to work in the plugin, this is easily the best soundbank for the Microwave available

Bought and bought. These indeed are fantastic!

Congrats, yeah I love these it's really easy to get lost in these patches n travel to some interesting new sonic territory !

[martiu]

Waldorf Music Microwave 1 sound demo, effects used - GRM Tools SpaceGrain, Eventide Blackhole

[Effectsworks]

This synth sounds spectacular! Waldorf are back (hopefully).

[felis]

Tried the demo, and think it sounds good.
I probably would have bought it if they would have fixed Largo.

[trusampler]

I'd love to see them update the browser to allow for tagging sounds, I can see a bunch of new soundbanks being released for this now. Other than that, it's a great release.

[trusampler]

Kind of surprised they didn't learn anything from the DSP563 project , as they're browsers are so much better than Waldorf's with this plugin. They need a better browser.