Blofeld love

MarkPigott · 2021-09-11T03:15:32.786Z

One of my moons of Jupiter patches
Waldorf Blofeld WT patch Wavetable 7 “Sawsweep”
fed into a Low Pass Filter.
Clocked LFO affects Cutoff of 24db LP filter and also is modified to
affect pitch in octave intervals.
Filter 2 is a Self oscillating 24db LP filter.
Unison is set to 3, and filter pan is set to unison.

Blue keybed is sounding plus it controls Vermona perFOURmer

Percussion: Korg Monotribe as Bass Drum, and Korg Monotribe as random sine generator.

Playing is fairly sloppy, so listen to the tones instead!

Purusha · 2021-09-16T07:18:56.304Z

Minor complaint though - and request for thoughts on ways around:

Voice stealing, especially when designing stacked pads. A 3 note chord, followed by another 3 note chord can steal those voices if you have too much going on for the poor thing.

Clancy · 2021-09-16T07:26:05.080Z

Purusha:

request for thoughts on ways around:

There has been some discussion / tips on this. Maybe in this thread even. Someone did a table for polyphony of another Waldorf (on another forum I think) and pinpointed some resource- heavy things. Can’t search for atm but do know that comb filter is really resource heavy

MarkPigott · 2021-09-16T12:25:02.742Z

Yes it can. Depends on what’s going on. Check for unisono. Lots of modulations. modifiers. types of filters. wavetables and samples. It all adds up.

LoomieDarko · 2021-09-16T17:54:20.988Z

I searched but couldn’t find this table, would love to get it again and save it, really helpful

Clancy · 2021-09-16T19:15:57.024Z

LoomieDarko:

this table,

Probabmy it was this I was thinking of

Sequencing a Waldorf Blofeld? Noob MIDI question Octatrack

Made this 4 years ago [waldorf-blofeld-1567388]

@sezare56 again!!

sezare56 · 2021-09-16T19:36:32.369Z

LoomieDarko:

this table

Not complete tests, not taking account of comb filters for instance…

LoomieDarko · 2021-09-16T19:47:06.685Z

maybe not complete but the best ressource we can find acually

glaciertree · 2021-09-16T22:31:17.146Z

I posted this above as well. It is for the Micro Q, but it gives an idea of some of the costs involved. Samples, unisono, Comb filters, and effects are probably the biggest resource drains.

https://www.sequencer.de/waldorf/waldorf_microq.html#Anchor-HIER-49575

MarkPigott · 2021-09-19T00:06:30.422Z

I’d say his table is way too generous! I have written patched with one wavetable, unisono=3 but with the 01WT/SMP operator and might end up with 3-4 note polyphony! I only ever use the Blofeld as a monotimbral device anyhow.

There are ways to polychain the Blofeld as long as you have the Blofeld Keys/and module with MIDI SOLUTIONS Event Processor and a MIDI Thru box.

MarkPigott · 2021-09-19T00:10:53.321Z

But the best and easiest way to polychain your Blofeld without the keys is to route your midi controller to a MIDI SOLUTIONS Router as low key/high key split and send everything below middle C to channel A lower Blomod and everything at or above middle C to Channel B to upper Blomod.

The Router is transparent to everything except the split so program change, cc, aftertouch etc, etc is passed through to both modules.

MarkPigott · 2021-09-19T00:51:40.602Z

An older patch .

Pink noise fed into two low pass self-oscillating filters with keytrack in serial.

Filter drive is set to sine shaper on both filters.

No oscillators are used, and all the modulation such as pitch wheel and modwheel affect a lagged envelope to adjust the pitched noise.

Backed up with the Vermona '14 controlling a Vermona perFOURmer in 4 VCO mono M1 mode.

Clancy · 2021-09-23T06:40:33.879Z

Clancy · 2021-09-23T06:41:29.457Z

Argh when he goes into multi mode without saving his patch you know he’s on shaky ground lol

obscurerobot · 2021-09-23T07:10:05.126Z

Clancy:

Argh when he goes into multi mode without saving his patch you know he’s on shaky ground lol

Seems likely that he hit that awkward moment while editing the video when you realize that your question is in fact answered by the material that you are presently editing away.

Adam9 · 2021-09-23T12:12:52.922Z

If you burped into a guitar pick up and let the signal pass through those plugins it would sound like heaven ascending…just sayin…

Leo_Len · 2021-11-12T10:59:58.181Z

I am currently sequencing my Blofeld through my Digitakt (big fun!). Now i’d like to use multimode while sequencing other synths, too. Is it possible to let multimode begin on Midi-Channel 4? So i could put Synth A on Ch.1, Synth B on Ch.2, Synth C on Ch.3 and the Blofeld on Ch.4-following?

PeterHanes · 2021-11-12T11:11:44.478Z

Leo_Len:

Is it possible to let multimode begin on Midi-Channel 4? So i could put Synth A on Ch.1, Synth B on Ch.2, Synth C on Ch.3 and the Blofeld on Ch.4-following?

Yes.

LoomieDarko · 2021-11-12T12:40:42.822Z

yes, in BF multimode you select midi in channel for each track

cecil · 2021-11-12T12:46:14.976Z

Yes, but…

…if you want to use Blofeld FX in Multimode: Effect 2 of Part 1 works as a ‘global effect’. Read this post for the complete story.

I don’t know if setting Part 1 to ch 4 still works. Keep us posted