Waldorf has introduced PPG Wave 3.V 2.0, a major update to their software synth that they say “honors the famous Waldorf Microwave synthesizer, bringing back its best features.”
PPG Wave 3.V 2.0 features new factory wavetables, wavetable editing, the Mutator patch randomizer and a fully-resizable user interface.
Here’s what’s new:
Pricing and Availability:
PPG Wave 3.V version 2.0 is available now, with an intro price of 99 EUR through 9/14/2025 (normally 149 EUR). Upgrade pricing is also available.
See the Waldorf site for details.
bring it to iPad too please 🙂
And to linux too ?
And android
if I can’t scan a wavetable in my car, I don’t want it!
Probably my all time favorite software synthesizer. And this is a great update.
However, don’t expect to get the upgrade price if your previous version is part of the Waldorf Edition package. You will have to pay full price
If you’ve previously upgraded to Version 3 (the new version is 3.0 V2) then you’ll get the upgrade price. The Waldorf Edition is at Version 2.2 , if I’m not mistaken. The 3.0 version was released a few years back as a more comprehensive and separate product.
Too late to go that route unfortunately..
They should have an upgrade price for owners of Waldorf Edition too.
Give me my waveterm emulator dammit
I’m covered up in usable wavetables, so this is a push & pull between nostalgia and one’s tolerance for a very 80s GUI. I’ve dealt with worse. I think they improved this one pretty well, within the limits of the general look. It’ll be a win for Depeche Mode cover bands. Above all, its Waldorf’s PPG, so the sound is on the mark. I like the Chem-Tone green displays, too. 😛
I bought the earlier version of the plug-in (by itself, not part of Waldorf Edition) on sale quite some time ago. Got logged in to my Waldorf account this evening, the upgrade price is very attractive. Insta-buy.
Let’s be honest here… How many people would consider buying this if it didn’t have “Waldorf PPG” stamped on it and was released by some unknown software developer for 149 EUR…? 😉
Pedigree has its merits. Waldorf does their own thing, for better or worse. I own Serum, Massive X, etc, but I still find myself drawn to Waldorf synths for often intangible reasons. Probably a lot of that is nostalgia, having come of age in the 80’s, but whatever works, right? At one point in my “big midi rig” days I had four orange XT32s in a rack. I still retain one, hoping they’ll reproduce it as a bit-for-bit plug-in at some point, so my XT sound library can be of more use. I know there’s a third-party emulation, but it’s not fully cooked as yet.
With a Waldorf M, Iridium and Blofeld, I think I can say I have to pass this one (also because I have gone completely dawless)