![]() Plus part of the reason Waldorf teased a giant red disc leading up to their announcement this week is – the original Waldorf basically only had that giant red knob, out of the box. It’s just that the used market prices for the original are now stupidly expensive for 1989 technology. But rather than just go back to 1981’s original PPG Wave, the original Microwave is a perfect starting point for a reboot. ![]() Brought into today’s context, that means just as the market is flooded with lots of great inexpensive analog options, wavetable repeats history and gives you lots of cutting, futuristic sound design choices. I like to imagine that as a table (2D matrix) with 64 lines (waves) and 128 columns (samples). Each wavetable consists of 64 waves, each with 128 21-bit signed samples. Waldorf Blofelds blessed with recent firmware have the capability to load user wavetables (with sysex MIDI messages). ![]() The basic idea is elemental and powerful – use single-cycle digital waveforms to get different harmonic content, beyond what an analog circuit can do. Waldorf Blofeld adventures Wavetables in the Waldorf Blofeld. ![]() KORG is even competing with itself with wavetable options. Various synth makers have been navigating into wavetable synthesis again. Waldorf aren’t kidding when they say they’re “back to their roots.” Their new synth ‘M’ promises to bring back everything that made the original Microwave wavetable synth special – in a modern package.
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