Certainly not.knowix wrote: Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:01 am So maybe it is just Xenia and all the talk of accuracy is there to handwave over the resource usage.
Certainly the only other Dev out there known for that kind of painstaking digital chip emulation is Plogue and they seem too busy to me, to be assisting other companies.
The Microwave 1 predates any Motorola-driven synth by a nearly a decade. The digital part was a custom ASIC that Wolfgang Palm developed after his PPG company folded. It was proposed by Michael Boddicker, who had approached PPG with a demand for a PPG in 19" rack format. Waldorf choosed this idea for their first project.
Xenia is a Microwave II/XT which is a completely different beast. Not only is it completely digital (no analog filters like the MW1), it's digital part is in fact DSP. This generation of Waldorf synths was developed mainly by Stefan Stenzel.
Both Microwave generations have technically nothing to do with each other!
As far as "painstaking emulation" goes, the original developers are still alive and can be asked for the original code. There is no need to reverse-engineer that stuff like Plogue does. The digital part of a MW II/XT is also different from what the ASIC in the MW 1 does, so there is no point in using the code from Xenia.
Waldorf also has the code for M, which actually is a port of the ASIC of the MW 1 to an ARM-processor. Reusing that makes much more sense. The only thing they really have to put a lot of work in, is the emulation of the analog stuff, especially the filter chips. It will be very interesting to see if they nailed it, as they have NOT with their PPG-plugin. But these days we have an increasing number of developers who know how to code filters and have experience with ZDF-algorithms.
To me it is not unlikely they nailed it with this plugin.
....now finally bring out that darned thing
