The little villain grows up. 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!
In Depth
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)
Per Voice 3 Oscillators
Samples: - 60 MB Sample memory
Virtual Analog Models: - Pulse with Pulse Width Modulation and adjustable Brilliance - Sawtooth with adjustable Brilliance - Triangle - Sine
Wavetables: - Q Alt 1 and Alt 2 Wavetable with adjustable Brilliance - All Wavetables from Microwave II/XT/XTk Series with adjustable Brilliance - Separate Wavetable selectable for Oscillator 1 and 2
- Frequency Modulation between the Oscillators - Oscillator Synchronization - Ring Modulator for Osc 1 / 2 - Noise Generator with Noise Colour
2 independent Multi Mode Filters - Filter FM - Resonance up to Self-Oscillation - Low Pass 24 dB / 12 dB - Band Pass 24 dB / 12 dB - High Pass 24 dB / 12 dB - Notch 24 dB / 12 dB - Comb Filter with positive / negative Feedback - PPG Low Pass Filter
2 Drive stages per voice with adjustable Drive Gain and selectable Curves - Clip - Hard - Medium - Soft - Sine Shaper - etc.
Modulation Matrix with 16 Slots, freely programmable - Modulation Speed far into Audio Range - Modulation Sources include all internal Modulation Sources plus various MIDI messages - Modulation Destinations for almost all continuous sound parameters
- 4 Modifiers for transforming Modulation Sources with various Algorithms
3 fast LFOs - syncable to MIDI Clock - Note Retrigger with adjustable Start Phase - monophonic LFO - Keytrack
4 fast Envelopes with selectable types - Single Trigger / Retrigger per Envelope - ADSR - ADS1DS2R (2 Decay/Sustain stages plus adjustable Attack Level) - One Shot - Loop S1S2 (Loop between Sustain 1 and 2) - Loop All (Loop over all stages)
- Poly, Mono, Dual or Unisono Mode with selectable Voice Count
Per Part
- powerful Arpeggiator - Hold and One Shot modes - syncable to MIDI Clock - Direction Up, Down, Alternate - Range up to 10 Octaves - various methods to modify Note Sort Order - freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound.
programmable per Step: - Accent - Timing - Length - Glide on/off - Pause - Chord - Previous note - Random not from Note List - first and/or last note from Note List
- 1 Effect slot per part 1-4 - 1 Effect slot globally for all parts
Effect types: - Chorus - Flanger - Phaser - Overdrive - Triple FX (S&H, Ring Modulation, Chorus) - Delay (only available on global Effect slot) - Clocked Delay (only available on global Effect slot) - Reverb (only available on global Effect slot)