From wolfram@waldorf-gmbh.de Sat Apr 9 23:12:59 1994 Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 13:37:39 +0300 From: Wolfram Franke To: map@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: please send me information about the microwave Hello Mike, here it is: Microwave The Microwave evolved from the legendary family of Wave synthesizers developed by Wolfgang Palm of PPG starting 1980. These synthesizers were used by professionals worldwide because of their truly individual sound. The unique characteristic of this family of synthesizers comes from the elegantly structured wavetables yielding a plethora of musical personalities and sounds. The close to 2000 waveforms in combination with a precise analogue analogue four pole filter produce sounds from crisp sparkling bell tones to warm complex harmonic sounds unobtainable on any other synthesizer. The ability to cascade waveforms, thus changing the characteristic of the sound (smoothly or drastically) by various modulation schemes and to assign specific tuning to each of the eight voices are key features of the Wave family all available today in the Microwave. Furthermore it has one of the most powerful MIDI implementation including Realtime Sysex parameter changes and freely assignable controllers to change modulation amounts of any modules of the Microwave. For the first time in a synthesizer we implemented the HMT Realtime Just Intonation to get chords pure and without the problems of well-tempered tuning methods. Any note you play will be analyzed and tuned to held notes. Features: - Two oscillators per voice with three modulation inputs each drive a wavetable memory with four modulation inputs per oscillator. - 32 factory wavetables make up a wave memory of close to 2000 different waveforms. - 24 RAM wavetables, editable via computer - 64 Single Programs (additional 64 on RAM card) - 64 Multi Programs (additional 64 on RAM card) - 2 programmable Tuning Tables (additional 2 on RAM card) - 2 programmableVelocity Tables (additional 2 on RAM card) - Program Change map - True analogue filters with four modulation inputs and resonance modulation capability. - Three assignable envelopes of different characteristics: One ADSR, one ADSR plus delay and one loopable modular envelope with eight time and level parameters. All envelope parameters can be completely modulated individually. - Two LFO's each with four waveforms, symmetry and humanize. LFO1 also has an additional delay, ADR envelope, assignable rate modulation and sync. - Panning with modulation, different temperaments and different glide modes. - 8-part multi mode with dynamic allocation. - Control over MIDI channel, key windows, velocity windows, velocity curves, transposition, detuning, MIDI filters, volume and panning for each multi mode instrument. - Stereo output plus 4 individual monophonic outputs For further information about shipping and paying write a mail to our international sales manager Mr. Mike Carroll . He will give you further details. Bye, Waldorf Support Wolfram Franke * Questions * Archive (Type "HELP" in the body) * Mailing List * Mailing List Requester ("HELP" in subject) * Ordinary Adress TSI GmbH, Neustr. 9-12, 54398 Waldorf, Germany, Tel. +49-2636-7001 Fax -7935