Waldorf Microwave

This is an audio demo of the Waldorf Microwave Wavetable Synthesizer, a rackmount synth based on Waldorf’s Wave synthesizer.

This classic rackmount synth features 8-voice polyphony, and an interesting mix of analog and digital style synthesis.

If you’ve used the Microwave, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

The MicroWave II is a rackmount synthesizer that offers the tone generation of the original MicroWave, but enhanced through new interesting features.

The 10-voice tone generation features two oscillators per voice, two wave generators, a mixer, two serially-connected filters, a stereo amplifier, four envelopes, two LFOs, a modulation matrix with 16 slots and several “modifiers”.

Per sound, the MicroWave II offers a neat arpeggiator and powerful envelope and voice-trigger modes.SP.

Outside, its most conspicious feature is its simplicity through the use of just 5 dials and a 2 x 40 character LCD. On the back the MicroWave II sports two fully modulatable stereo outputs to ensure that its sound is properly sent to the real world.

The MicroWave II also has an integrated chorus effector that is even capable of producing the classic and beloved “Ensemble” effect.

The above audio demo of the Waldorf Microwave 2, by retrosound, features custom “retro” patches, including several patches inspired by Vangelis.

If you’ve used the Waldorf Microwave 2, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

Stretta, Matthew Davidson, has released a massive sample library download – Total Harmonic Distortion.

Here’s what he has to say about the library:

Fragments of the Total Harmonic Distortion sample library have popped up in various places, like the recent OLPC Sample Library Set. The complete library weighs in at nearly 3GB uncompressed. It is comprised of loops at various tempos created and processed with my modular synthesizer. Other pieces of hardware made guest appearances like the DSI Evolver, Roland R8 and Waldorf Microwave IIxt, but the bulk of it is the modular.

This stuff isn’t doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive. I’d like to make it available to the public. I intended to release this via a creative commons license for some time, but the problem is distribution. It seemed rather excessive to dump on archive.org. Torrenting is ideal, but who is going to seed it? Recently, the final piece of the puzzle slipped into place: legaltorrents.com – a community created to distribute Creative Commons licensed media. Download the torrent here. Much thanks to legaltorrents.com and Jonathan Dugan, Ph.D.

Total Harmonic Distortion is released using a Creative Commons Attribution license – meaning the samples are free to use in your work, but you should give Stretta a credit if you use them.

This is a nice audio demo of the Waldorf Microwave 2 Wavetable Synthesizer.

via retrosound72:

Some typical Microwave II sounds my Microwave 2 inserted the XT-board with extended functions

No external effects used, some patches uses the built-in delay and chorus effects.