Waldorf Pulse 2: officially released (OS updated to v1.18)

[SWAN808]

you started a new thread just to talk about your involvment in the synth?
wow

what's the surprise.
ingo always believes a product needs a new thread made by him whenever he needs to pimp himself as "sound designer".
gotta love how the list of "sound designers" has been put as the top most important info next to developers.
the features of the synth and demos are deemed of lower importance and posted below lol.
also he has his own post for his own demos reserved and one separate reserved below for others :/ (like other peoples demos are less important or less worthy ?).
maybe these "kvr sound designers" individuals really believe they have real importance but to my eyes (a musician who learnt to use his instrument [the synthesizer]) they just a fraud living off lazy wannabes .
not sure exactly what he's "proud" of. he's basically built a reputation copying simple patches from synth manuals and patchbooks .. lots of "reminding" (=nice term for begging) developers to let him beta test or include his presets....and lots of sneaky update bumps to keep his threads visible (although his record of 7 consecutive update bumps with no replys has been recently beaten by amused&co ).

what a horrible and unnecessary post. For anyone interested in the Pulse 2 this has been useful and the demos are great to hear.

Sometimes I cant understand the spiteful bile that is let around kvr.

[Ingonator]

Just added the two Youtube videos mentioned here to the free post below the OP (that one reserved for audio demos of other members and Pulse 2 users besides me).

Now each of the 3 "reserved" posts is filled with some content and updates should follow in the near future.

UPDATE:
Just added the demo hakey just posted (see post below this). Thanks for that one to hakey.


Ingo

[hakey]

Another demo for your collection, Ingo:

https://soundcloud.com/n2s1/messe13-wal ... impression

[faun2500]

Thanks for these Ingo! I look forward to more.

i'm planning to sell my Moog Slim Phatty soon,
Ingo

Well, I also have a slim phatty and from what I have heard so for the pulse doesn't replace its moog sound or filter. You don't only want one synth either do you?

I will be using the tetra, slim phatty and pulse 2 when I get one as well as the 2 new korgs (bass and keys). Good time to buy analogue!

[olikana]

what a horrible and unnecessary post. For anyone interested in the Pulse 2 this has been useful and the demos are great to hear.

true. the demos were not up yesterday. didn't expect the demos to be this useful. they really show all about the synth. its good poiints and bad points.
although i still believe he opened up a new thread just for self pimping....in this case it is defenitly worth it! so kudos ingo for the demos! (and this time he even surprised me in terms of sounds)

thanks to the demos I can already tell what I like about the synth and what not without even trying it :

postive : the tube drive and fuzz modes. great warm distortion. probably the best distortion circuit I heard...even better than the one in monark which is my current favourite one. definitly warmer than the ones i heard from minibrutes, subphatty and all the ones with drive and feedback/circuits.
negative : the basic sound is that of the pulse1 from what I hear. which means thin and sterile without the distortion. so for bread and butter it will sounds pretty weak and characterless.
all the sounds i like in the demos are the ones which use the distortion modes (and most of the sounds in those demos do).

in other words this synth is the best of the cheap ones out there for distorted tones.
btw is the tube drive analog? by how warm it is must be.

[Shy]

Thanks to the demo posters. I wasn't (still not) interested in getting this synth at all, but I was wondering how it sounds, what Waldorf has done and whether it lives up to their quality from the past. So now I know exactly what kind of sound it has and, mostly, what it can do. It's nice to see/hear that Waldorf has done a great job on a synth that deserves the name "Pulse" more than any other synth before it. Huge amount of modulation available with the unique pulse oscillator design, an excellent sounding filter, and a simple interface. Great stuff and a synth that you can't "replace" with another, unless you only need a much simpler alternative, or something that's mostly very different.

[Robmobius]

I'm not sure why, but for some reason I didn't think the Pulse 2 would sound all that good. Probably because I'd read quite a few threads where people were being quite negative about it.

However, I'm really impressed with the few demos that I've heard, and I think it sounds very cool indeed. It also has a lot of features for the low price tag.

So, I'll be ordering one, as well as a Sherman Filter bank II.

Speaking of Waldorf. I also really like Largo, and think it's one of the best soft synths around. It goes well with my Virus TI.

Again, I feel it's a tad underrated, but my only criticism is that the latest version has quite a few interface bugs in S1 which is a shame. Doesn't' mean I won't use it tho'.

[Ingonator]

postive : the tube drive and fuzz modes. great warm distortion. probably the best distortion circuit I heard...even better than the one in monark which is my current favourite one. definitly warmer than the ones i heard from minibrutes, subphatty and all the ones with drive and feedback/circuits.
negative : the basic sound is that of the pulse1 from what I hear. which means thin and sterile without the distortion. so for bread and butter it will sounds pretty weak and characterless.
all the sounds i like in the demos are the ones which use the distortion modes (and most of the sounds in those demos do).

in other words this synth is the best of the cheap ones out there for distorted tones.
btw is the tube drive analog? by how warm it is must be.

AFAIK the drive is analog too.

About Drive/distortion in my demos: In fact in most patches the used amount of Drive is quite small (sometimes a value of 18-20 from up to 127 which corresponds to around 16%) so what you might think as "great distortion" could be already close to the "basic" sound in some patches...
For example with a drive value of around 40 some sounds could already sound totally different than intended.

In a few patches also filter FM (1 patch) or filter LFO modulation was used.
In most examples aftertouch and/or the Modwheel was used to add additional modulations.

Concerning "bread & butter" sounds it seems to be perfect for that.

The fact that the Pulse 1 sounded "thin" seems to be new to me...
The Pulse 1 also did not have a drive feature, at least that would be new to me. This means that if the Pulse 1 sounded "distorted" it was from the "basic" sound.

As i mentioned a few times the big difference of the Pulse 2 is in the multimode filter (all modes resonant up to self-oscillation) and besides that there are lots of additional oscillator waveshapes including paraphonic and Unison ones.




Ingo

[olikana]

where on earth did I say that the pulse1 had drive? this is a comment about the pulse 2 is i not?

negative : the basic sound (OF THE PULSE2) is that of the pulse1 from what I hear. which means (THE PULSE 2) is thin and sterile without the distortion.

that is my point , that i supect without the drive the pulse 2 would sound thin and sterile like the pulse 1 , cos I hear in the cleanest sounds it as the same dry brittle oscillator and filter more or less....which unless u feed it with a rich signal(an audio rate sound or a rich detuned sound) or a bit of that warm tube drive, it (the filter) would not give nice warm nonlinearirties of its own.

16% is already enough to fatten the sound and give some nonlinearities. especially when you say 40% already drives it beyond recognition.
i know distorted big sounds start with audio rate modulation (whether FM or high lfo audio rate) ...but in many sounds i clearly hear the warm tube drive playing a relevant part and you even confirmed that you used it in most patches.

[EvilDragon]

Pulse 1 did have drive, sorta, in the Mixer section - you could overdrive the filter by pushing all 3 oscs above 90 or so (max is 127).

[olikana]

anyway was a smart move from waldorf. a tube drive is great for adding wamrth...which is exactly what the pulse1 lacked.
a good tube drive costs easily over 100 euro....so including it in a 450 synth must have not been easy. kudos to them on that.

[faun2500]

postive : the tube drive and fuzz modes. great warm distortion. probably the best distortion circuit I heard...even better than the one in monark which is my current favourite one. definitly warmer than the ones i heard from minibrutes, subphatty and all the ones with drive and feedback/circuits.
negative : the basic sound is that of the pulse1 from what I hear. which means thin and sterile without the distortion. so for bread and butter it will sounds pretty weak and characterless.
all the sounds i like in the demos are the ones which use the distortion modes (and most of the sounds in those demos do).

in other words this synth is the best of the cheap ones out there for distorted tones.
btw is the tube drive analog? by how warm it is must be.

The fact that the Pulse 1 sounded "thin" seems to be new to me...


Ingo

Yeah I didn't get that. The reason I was interested in ANY pulse because of how phatt the sounds I've heard have been.

[Aural Chaos]

anyway was a smart move from waldorf. a tube drive is great for adding wamrth...which is exactly what the pulse1 lacked.
a good tube drive costs easily over 100 euro....so including it in a 450 synth must have not been easy. kudos to them on that.

There is no tube in the Pulse 2....

[olikana]

anyway was a smart move from waldorf. a tube drive is great for adding wamrth...which is exactly what the pulse1 lacked.
a good tube drive costs easily over 100 euro....so including it in a 450 synth must have not been easy. kudos to them on that.

There is no tube in the Pulse 2....

so the "tube drive" is digital...? or an analog distortion/feedback circuit emulating a tube drive kinda sound...
i thought it was weird to have a real tube drive in there for such small price

[kmonkey]

Great demos. Thanks Ingo. And all others. I like sound..

To all Scherlock Holmes Self-Pimp my ass police dudes - go and piss yourself. He can self pimp if he want. What is wrong with that? Good morning reality. At least we have demos and he can actually self pimp with results. Unlike your useless contribution to the subject..

edit: i am reviewing older pages in this thread. Wow how cool demos and woow just how sad is to have all these haters. Mute on the work - again - Just wow to everything...