Blofeld Pseudo GM Module - Acoustic and electro acoustic instruments

[hcv242]

Two years ago i started looking for a small desktop hardware rompler that had acoustic and electro acoustic instruments to use in my live performances. It should be something with the tweaking capabilities of a Korg Triton rack or an E-mu rack rompler, but that allowed me to load my own multisamples. I could not find such a device. And i didn't wanted to travel gigs with a huge rack like the ones i have mentioned. So i started looking for a sample player that i could customize to behave like one of those units. That was when the Waldorf Blofeld with the SL extension came to my mind. The Blofeld only has 60 MB of memory storage available, but coming from samplers that used floppy disks i knew that with the right loop points on each sampled note many things could be done. After two years of hard work, sampling gear and finding the perfect loop points i am able to present you the Bofeld Pseudo GM Module. I call it Pseudo because it is not a true General MIDI bank, though it can be used as one if you use the Blofeld in 16 midi channel multimode. You only have to press play in your midi player and the Blofeld will receive each midi track's program change and it will set the correct patches for each channel. My main goal with this project was to have a small orchestra inside a little box (the Blofeld is 13 cm by 30 cm) to use in my live performances. The Pseudo has strings with many articulations, acoustic pianos, electric pianos, vocal choirs, acoustic basses, guitars, saxophones, trumpets, clarinets, vibraphones, xylophones, lots of exotic chromatic percussion and acoustic and electronic drums.

Check the demos here:

https://rhythmelectronics.bandcamp.com/ ... sound-bank

[imrae]

I would expect that the Blofeld polyphony limits mean it can't really work as an orchestra in a box? Still, it sounds like a useful set of patches for some applications

[hcv242]

well, an orchestra does not have to have all the musicians playing at the same time