Anybody have anything to do with a Waldorf Micro Q?

[Vectorman]

I find the Micro Q to be best for gritty pads and odd wavetable-scanning sound effects. I haven't been able to achieve this in the software domain with Waldorf's own Largo, which I'd hoped would be the same, only with better sound quality. It seems the Micro Q's aliasing and poor sound quality is part of its character.

Just wish there was a decent editor available for it. The Java mQEdit is best, but that's not saying a great deal.

I had a mQ and Blofeld at the same time a few years ago and demoed Largo when it came out. While I found the VA part of the Blofeld to sound a lot like the mQ (and in fact, many of the Blofeld's factory presets are actually mQ patches ported over), Largo was noticeably different from the hardware. The sound of Largo's wavetable oscillators was cleaner and smoother, to the point that its wavetables seemed to lose some of the bite we remember from the PPG and Microwaves, especially in the lower register where they sounded very muffled. Largo couldn't do the gritty, biting wavetable bass sounds at all. I don't know if the subsequent addition of a brilliance parameter to Largo's oscillators remedied that or not, since I used up my demo on the first release and can't try it again.