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Waldorf Microwave 1 Hybrid Synthesizer Plug-in (VST/AU/AAX)

Original price was: $192.00.Current price is: $159.00.

The Microwave defined hybrid synthesis at its best with its unique interpretation of wavetable synthesis combined with analogue filters. Now Waldorf Music brings this magical instrument back to digital workstations worldwide with the release of the Microwave 1 Plug-in.

Description

Hailing Waldorf's first synthesizer release, the Microwave 1 plug-in holds true to the synth's most notable, decades-old features, propelling software synthesis into historical new heights. Both instrument wavetable oscillators are accounted for and meticulously designed at the bit level for parallel performance with real Microwave hardware. Likewise, A and B analog filters, dual LFOs, and original sound sets are included to retain entirely similar courses of tonal action, from rich, low-end bass thumps to expansive sonic atmospheres.

To boot, Microwave 1's preloaded, adjustable spectrum analyzer has given complete visual awareness of sound for more detailed sound manufacturing — not to mention an onboard digital noise engine, analog amplifier, and panning tools to dial down movements within your sound to a T. It's all thanks to a carefully-designed software version of the original unit's ASIC circuit, boiled down and reconstructed for digital use while retaining the characteristics and output of a true piece of hardware history. Rest assured, the Microwave 1 will fit right into your existing plug-in arsenal; a resizable UI and heavily modifiable design make it an excellent inclusion into projects of any genre.

FEATURES

Digital Section (ASIC)

• Internally running with 250kHz to match original ASIC.
• Modeling of digital-to-analog converters for each voice (DAC).
• Two oscillators based on same wavetable per multi instrument.
• Unique digital noise generator based on ASIC technology.
• Digital mixer of oscillators and noise based on original ASIC.
• Faithful recreation of non-interpolated pitch generation.

Wavetables

• All wavetables based on the original coding and bit-identical.
• Including algorithmic and speech wavetables.
• Faithful recreation of 8-bit quantization and aliasing.
• Easy to use wavetable editor based on internal control tables.
• Full waveform catalogue of original instrument can be accessed.
• User waveform editor.

Filter

• Faithful modeling of revision A and B analogue filters.
• Voice individual calibration of cutoff and resonance to model detuned hardware.
• Cutoff and resonance modulations.
• Frequency response graphic animated by live modulations

Amplifier

• Modeling of voltage controlled analogue amplifiers and panning section.
• Faithful recreation of control voltage DACs including stepping effects.

Modulators

• Recreation of unique envelope and LFO timings based of original 68k code.
• Modeling of beautiful micro variations in timings due to limitations of the original.
• Filter envelope with ADSR and additional delay parameter.
• Volume envelope with ADSR.
• All filter and volume envelope timings and levels can be modulated.
• Unique 8 stage wave envelope with variable key-off point and looping.
• Wave envelope levels and timings can be modulated.
• Attack-Decay envelope for LFO1 with additional delay.
• 2 LFOs with various waveforms, symmetry and humanize parameters.

• LFOs can be phase shifted to each other.
• LFO1 with global option, rate & level modulation.

Non-Standard Tunings

• 4 user tunings can be individually edited.
• Will be stored into user presets.

Multi-Mode

• Up to 8 instruments which can be layered and split or any combination of both.
• Split by key zone and velocity range.
• Multi instrument mixer with volume, panning, detuning, transpose and more.
• Individual tuning per instrument possible,
• Huge catalogue of all original multi sounds.

Polyphony

• 8 voice polyphony like the original hardware.
• Dynamic assignment of the voices to the multi instruments.

Presets

• All factory single and multi presets included.
• 5 additional original sound sets.
• 2 new sound sets from contemporary sound designers.
• Can import original .mid and .syx files with preset dumps including user tables and wavetables.
• User presets store all additional data like user wavetables and tuning & velocity tables.

Hardware Control

Extras

• Configurable spectrum analyzer.
• Resizable graphical user interface.