Waldorf MicroWave as a plugin?

[gentleclockdivider]

I think they should have done a job like Sonic Charge's on that old Yamaha sampler where you have to program the darn thing through a fake two-line LCD and a row of buttons. Lets see how purist people are about that.

You can assign your qwerty/azerty keyboard to the buttons and assign a midi cc nr to adjust values ,
I fly around on this thing .
It's effin incredible and sounds gorgeous

[mothra]

All I know is that VST's with fake wood end cheeks sound better.

I know there's already a ton of VAs out there, but man, I hope they do a Q so we can argue about which one is heavier sounding between the yellow and blue like we used to!

[anoise]

Nice, I can now heat up my Bratwurst in the DAW.

[mothra]

Was the Microwave particularly crashy? That's more the experience you want for a true Ensoniq emulation.

I honestly cant recall my XT ever crashing in 24-25 years (a bit fuzzy when I bought it either 99 or 2000).. It DOES have bugs, but those are very well known and easy to work around..

Now the MicroQ.. I could make that thing crash just by using it with Sound Diver. Even the Blofeld is more stable than the MicroQ (which was left somewhat unfinished to begin with).

[chk071]

Nice, I can now heat up my Bratwurst in the DAW.

Watch out, or it may explode.

[chk071]

This seems to be new?



GUI looks like the GUI in the video they deleted from Facebook again. Same track as well, I think.

[Uncle E]

Great video. AI being put to good use.

[DrGonzo]

Nice promo. Really looking forward to this.

[chk071]

Now they just gotta release.

[AutoMotto]

Almost all waldorf synth designs are from Axel Hartmann , the guy is a legend
https://axelhartmanndesign.com/about/

Interesting reading, thanks for sharing the link

[El°HYM]

Waldorf Microwave 1 Plug-In
Specification


Faithful recreation of Waldorf’s first generation Microwave Synthesizer based on the famous Waldorf ASIC chip (Application Specific Integrated Circuit).


Digital Section (ASIC)

• Internally running with 250 kHz sampling rate to match original ASIC sampling rate.

• Modeling of digital-to-analog converters for each voice (DAC).

• Two oscillators based on same wavetable per multi instrument.

• Unique digital noise generator based on ASIC technology.

• Digital mixer of oscillators and noise based on original ASIC including overflow bug.

• Faithful recreation of non-interpolated pitch generation.

Wavetables

• All original wavetables of Microwave 1 based on the original coding and bit-identical to original.

• Including algorithmic and speech wavetables.

• Faithful recreation of 8-bit quantization and aliasing.

• Easy to use wavetable editor based on internal control tables.

• Full waveform catalogue of original instrument can be accessed.

• User waveform editor.

Filter

• Faithful modeling of revision A and B analogue filters.

• Voice individual calibration of cutoff and resonance to model detuned hardware.

• Cutoff and resonance modulations.

• Frequency response graphic animated by live modulations.

Amplifier

• Modeling of voltage controlled analogue amplifiers and panning section.

• Faithful recreation of control voltage DACs including stepping effects.

Modulators

• Recreation of unique envelope and LFO timings based of original 68k code.

• Modeling of beautiful micro variations in timings due to limitations of the original hardware.

• Filter envelope with ADSR and additional delay parameter.

• Volume envelope with ADSR.

• All filter and volume envelope timings and levels can be modulated.

• Unique 8 stage wave envelope with variable key-o point and looping.

• Wave envelope levels and timings can be modulated.

• Attack-Decay envelope for LFO1 with additional delay.

• 2 LFOs with various waveforms, symmetry and humanize parameters.

• LFOs can be phase shifted to each other.

• LFO1 with global option, rate & level modulation.

Non-Standard Tunings

• 4 user tunings can be individually edited.

• Will be stored into user presets.

Multi-Mode

• Up to 8 instruments which can be layered and split or any combination of both.

• Split by key zone and velocity range.

• Multi instrument mixer with volume, panning, detuning, transpose and many more parameters.

• Individual tuning per instrument possible.

• Huge catalogue of all original multi sounds.

Polyphony

• 8 voice polyphony like the original hardware.

• Dynamic assignment of the voices to the multi instruments.

Presets

• All factory single and multi presets included.

• 5 additional original sound sets.

• 2 new sound sets from contemporary sound designers.

• Can import original .mid and .syx files with preset dumps including user tables and wavetables.

• User presets store all additional data like user wavetables and tuning & velocity tables.

Hardware Control

• Plug-in can be used to control original hardware in single mode via MIDI interface.

• Control optionally in live mode where each control is transferred automatically.

Extras

• Configurable spectrum analyzer.

• Resizable graphical user interface.

Formats

• macOS: VST, VST3, AudioUnit and

• Windows: VST, VST and AAX

[chk071]

Where information from?

[El°HYM]

...from Waldorf.

[chk071]

Where?

[vurt]

Nice, I can now heat up my Bratwurst in the DAW.

Watch out, or it may explode.

fork it.
before you put it in.