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:

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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)