Puremagnetik has introduced Waveframe for Ableton Live 7 & Ableton Live 8.

Waveframe is designed to be a great tool for sound designers and programmers. The huge library of simple waveforms can be used to construct complex soundscapes and instruments.

Two and four-voice templates are included in the library as standalone Live Racks. Open the templates in a new track and drag your waveforms from the Waveframe Library into the voice chain. Then add effects and modulations to tailor your sound.

Waveframe Features:

• Over 1700 waveform samples
• Over 30 waveform rack devices
• A selection of preset pads, leads, basses & more
• Tightly integrated native Ableton effects & controls
• Easy hot-swapping between waveform devices

System Requirements:

• Requires Ableton Live 7 or 8
• 500 MB of physical RAM
• 300 Megabytes (MB) of free hard disk space

Description:

Utilizing the same “Transwave” concept, Waveframe contains a collection of pre-programmed patches, over 30 waveform devices and over 1700 “frame” samples. Waveform frames can be modulated via retriggering within a patch. This gives a natural sounding progression over time as each waveform spectrum evolves through its phases.

By employing features only available within the Ableton Live environment, Puremagnetik has reconstructed the Fizmo architecture from scratch. From over 30 unique waveform groups, a generous selection of presets have been programmed that employ many of the same features as the original Fizmo. And just like on the original, each voice group is highly individualized giving patches a complex, evolving and rich tone.

via Puremagnetik:

Waveframe is a an advanced wavetable synthesizer designed exclusively for the features of Ableton Live. Based on the Ensoniq Fizmo, Waveframe contains over 1700 wavetable samples, over 30 waveform Live Racks and a generous selection of performance patches.

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!

via retrosound72:

Waldorf Microwave Mk1 Revision A with curtis filter CEM3389 (Revision B CEM3387) from the year 1989, the direct successor of the PPG Wave

demo: analog and digital pads, wavetable sounds, bells, sweeps, fx sounds…
up to 8.12 bass and sequencer sounds, sequenced by the MFB Step64

The sound of the Microwave Mk1 (real hybrid synth) and Microwave Mk2 (DSP based synth) is absolute different.

Crimson Technology has introduced WaveSynth (App Store link) – a $1.99 wavetable synthesizer for the iPhone.

Specifications:

• 128 preset sounds and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification
• Pitch Bend Change Control
• Portamento ON/OFF
• Mono Mode ON/OFF
• Reverb / Chorus Effect

If you’ve used WaveSynth, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Description:

WaveSynth is a wave table synthesizer keyboard application for iPhone / iPod touch with 128 preset sound tones and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification.

It is possible to play various musical instruments sound tone such as piano, guitar, trumpet, strings, flute, drums, percussions and so on.

The keyboard can be selected by 1 octave keyboard or 2 octave keyboard on the display. In every sound tone, most suitable octave is assigned automatically or to be chosen by manual.

In addition to normal keyboard play, various expressions could be added by the Pitch Bend Controller, Portamento, Mono Mode.

Vibrato(Modulation) effect is available if you shake the body.

Waldorf has officially announced the Waldorf Blofeld keyboard synthesizer:

Not only on the outside did he gain weight, also his inner qualities have seen a remarkable step-up: besides the virtual-analog synthesis and the classic wavetables it now sports a whopping 60 megabytes of sample memory.

Just imagine to add a vocal-like noise spectrum to a typical Wavetable pad, spice-up a virtual-analog solo sound with a strong attack sample or just process any other sample with the countless oscillator and filter modulations.

Play your sound creations on the high-quality keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. Pitchbend and modulation wheel are at your disposal and, as a matter of course, you can connect a sustain pedal.

All this is packaged in a sleek metal enclosure with a big graphic display, endless stainless steel rotaries and an internal power supply.

And although it comes for an unbeatable price tag, we add something very special. It comes:

From Waldorf with Love!

The Blofeld is available for £599.

Here are some samples of the Blofeld in action:

Details on this beast…..

Most important features

• 60 MB Sample memory
• Virtual analog, Wavetable and sample-based Oscillators
• high-quality semi-weighted keyboard with 49 keys, velocity and aftertouch
• internal power supply (100-240V, 50-60Hz)
• pitchbend wheel
• modulation wheel
• sustain pedal connector
• Octave Up / Down buttons
• freely programmable button
• sturdy metal enclosure
• 7 endless stainless steel dials
• graphic display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
• more than 1000 Sounds
• 3 Oscillators per voice
• Frequency Modulation between Oscillators
• All Q Oscillator models
• All Microwave II/XT/XTk Wavetables
• 2 independent multi mode Filters per voice
• Filter FM
• 2 Drive stages per voice with selectable Drive Curves
• 3 fast LFOs per voice
• 4 fast Envelopes per voice
• powerful Arpeggiator
• freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound

General Features

• high-quality weighted keyboard with 49 keys, velocity and aftertouch
• internal power supply (100-240V, 50-60Hz)
• pitchbend wheel
• modulation wheel
• sustain pedal connector
• Octave Up / Down buttons
• freely programmable button
• up to 25 voices
• 16 part multi timbral
• more than 1000 Sounds
• sturdy metal enclosure
• 7 endless stainless steel dials
• 8 buttons
• Graphic Display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
• MIDI LED
• volume control
• power switch
• stereo output
• headphone output
• MIDI Input / Output
• USB interface for MIDI In / Out
  • uses standard USB MIDI Driver provided by host computer OS
  • Windows ME minimum, Windows XP or newer recommended
  • Mac OS X 10.2 minimum, Mac OS X 10.3 or newer recommended
• weight approx. 8 kg (17.65 lb)

This is a Waldorf Q factory sound patches demo.

Triggered by Logic 7, with t.c.electronic M-ONE XL reverb.

via kay396ss

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.

Homegrown Sounds has released Astralis C, the 3rd synth from the Astralis VSTi synth pack. It uses either 16 or 24 bit Mono/Stereo Samples as its sound source.

The Samples are stored in banks of around 50 in a custom samples folder which can be installed anywhere on your PC. Each folder in the main samples folder becomes a Bank of selectable samples from within Astralis.Astralis C also comes with 2 banks of High quality samples and a bank of 128 presets.

Features

• Two Stereo Samplers which can load 16/24 bit samples.
• Loop points selectable between embedded or user edited as well as a fine tuning screen.
• Gate Sequencer now has 2 new Destinations, sample 1 and 2 and can be used to shift the playhead position for beatslicing type effects.
• Wavetable Synthesis via Mod Matrix
• Start or end Loop Points can be modulated.
• Sample Start Position can be Modulated.
• Normalize Sample to 5 different Levels
• Progressive Lofi modes
• Forward or Reverse Modes
• Attack Section On Off
• One shot/ Loop with Release or Loop Only playback
• Loop Section Fwd or Alternate
• Random Sample selection from Banks
• Optimized CPU usage