Waldorf microwave 1 Version 2

[stimresp]

Only it's not neat ubiquitous, seems like you are the one who is projecting. The original PPG Wave which the Microwave replicates didn't have it. The Minimoog doesn't have it, the Prophet 5 didn't have it. The DX7 didn't have it.

Like most modern hardware and VST synthesizers, the Microwave 1 did have it. It was introduced in OS 2.0. The plug-in - a faithful representation of the hardware - implements it in the same way i.e. via selection of voices and glide settings in multimode.

I am pointing out to Waldorf that the feature not working as intended, in the hope that it will be fixed. I don't understand your objection to this.

...I would also want to include MPE...

MPE is a different issue. I personally don't need it but I certainly won't object should you request it.

[IvyBirds]

Only it's not neat ubiquitous, seems like you are the one who is projecting. The original PPG Wave which the Microwave replicates didn't have it. The Minimoog doesn't have it, the Prophet 5 didn't have it. The DX7 didn't have it.

Like most modern hardware and VST synthesizers, the Microwave 1 did have it. It was introduced in OS 2.0. The plug-in - a faithful representation of the hardware - implements it in the same way i.e. via selection of voices and glide settings in multimode.

I am pointing out to Waldorf that the feature not working as intended, in the hope that it will be fixed. I don't understand your objection to this.

...I would also want to include MPE...

MPE is a different issue. I personally don't need it but I certainly won't object should you request it.

I don't object to it, not in the least bit, that is you projecting something on me that I am not doing or saying for some reason. All I am saying is that it's a feature that most users won't ever use and as such most users won't notice the bug. Just pointing out that if you don't care about that as I don't the plugin works flawlessly as far as I can tell

But thanks from moving the goal posts from a feature that was apparently ubiquitous to now according to you is a feature that now **most** have

In the 1980s most Synths didn't have it. In fact I can't think of any that did, and as you acknowledge even the OG Microwave didn't have it. The OG Microwave came out in 1989, OS 2 came out 5 years later in 1994. In order to upgrade to version two you had to get a new eprom and install it in your system. There are thousands of people who didn't do that and even now you can easily buy them without the upgrade on the 2nd hand market

For many users and owners of the Microwave hardware including myself it was essentially a budget rack mounted PPG Wave, and the plugin is essentially the best PPG Wave plugin on the market. Since that feature wasn't on the OG PPG Wave many users couldn't care less about it

But Waldorf is aware of the bug and I am sure they are on it

I would hope this settles the matter for you. I know it does for me

[stimresp]

Good for you. I won't pollute the thread any further.

[EvilDragon]

DX7II had fingered portamento among other synths in the 80s. Pro-One and SH-101 had it. Matrix 6/12/1000, Alpha Junos, Ensoniq ESQ-1/SQ-80...

It is definitely a very important option to have IMO. And that it is shown as an option in the MWI plugin but that it never worked as it was supposed to is of course a bug, there's no discussion about that.

[c_voltage]

Damn, sale is ended ? Missed it. (Ok thanks for that, yet Perhaps next time)

[IvyBirds]

DX7II had fingered portamento among other synths in the 80s. Pro-One and SH-101 had it. Matrix 6/12/1000, Alpha Junos, Ensoniq ESQ-1/SQ-80...

It is definitely a very important option to have IMO. And that it is shown as an option in the MWI plugin but that it never worked as it was supposed to is of course a bug, there's no discussion about that.

And the OG DX7, the D50, and the M1, three of the best selling Synths of all time didn't. You mention the Alpha Juno but not the Juno 106, or 60 or 6 because they didn't, neither did the Jupiter 8, OB-X / OB-Xa, or Prophet 5 or Prophet VS. in fact the bulk of synths from the 80s didn't have it

As for the Ensoniq ESQ-1/SQ-80 guess again. One the MODES page of the Ensoniq ESQ-1 or SQ-80, you are given two parameters to control portamento. Glide which has a value you can set from 0-63. Zero is off 63 is very slow. And Mono Mode. If you play with mono mode turned off and play a note then play another note staccato the voice allocation system is likely to assign that new note to a different voice. That will give you unpredictable results because it will trigger portamento from the last note that particular voice played not the last key you pressed. If you have it in Mono Mode it will use portamento like any other monosynth and will just slide from the last note played

While this is fascinating synth nerd history, anyone with any objectivity can say with certainty it wasn't ubiquitous or even common when you look at total synth sales in the 1980s, which is why the OG Microwave didn't have it when it came out. As a feature it's just not very important to most users

[EvilDragon]

Well, I disagree on importance of it. Waldorf wouldn't have added it if it weren't requested back in the day, most likely. It is a true player's feature, really, as it gives more control over when you really want the glide to happen.

"Most users" don't even know what they really want.

[Rivertropic]

Hey, I just wanted to make sure I could install the latest stable version of the plugin once and for all, since the latest version posted here by Rolf seems to be a beta—it wasn't my intention to open Pandora's box.

[EvilDragon]

That beta became release candidate and then it became the official release.

[Rivertropic]

Ok, will have a look.

Ok, here is 2.0.2 release candidate 1 with the retrigger & single-trig fixes. Also, a new "Edit All" toggle button on top instead of the menu entries. But SHIFT and SHIFT+ALT always win.

https://downloads.waldorfmusic.com/clou ... 9mzYt7t8rt

Enjoy!

No, this one 2.0.2 is from 9 days ago, the official one on the site is 2.0.1 from 12 days ago.