Sorry if this was already posted somewhere. I searched and didn’t see it. Seems like they started to tease it within the past few days.
I always wanted the hardware but held off for various reasons. If this release is similar quality to their recent Microwave plug-in it’ll be a big hit. Intro price seems very reasonable and a generous offer for existing hardware owners.
I believe you have to create an account in order to access the demo. Not as seamless of a process as it could be.
Hardware Control
• Plug-In can be used to control the hardware Blofeld
• Editing all sound parameters on the hardware from the Plug-In
• Directly import presets from the hardware into the Plug-In
• Can send .midi preset, wavetable or sample files to the hardware
• Covers full Spectre functionality
I rarely use the hardware one because of the faff involved as against equivalent digital itb options, but I’ve always liked it. Been meaning to sell it for a while, but I guess if the price I can get goes through the floor it won’t even be worthwhile, especially if editing and sharing sounds works as advertised.
There is already GitHub - eclab/edisyn: Synthesizer Patch Editor that can create and manage presets for Blofeld (and many more synths). It has randomize features and combinations of patches!
About Edisyn
Edisyn is a synthesizer patch editor library written in pure Java. It runs on MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
Edisyn is particularly good at exploring the space of patches. It has to my knowledge the most sophisticated set of general-purpose patch-exploration tools of any patch editor available.
Edisyn presently supports:
Alesis D4 and DM5
ASM Hydrasynth Family (Single mode only)
Audiothingies Micromonsta
Casio CZ Series (CZ101, CZ1000, CZ3000, CZ5000, CZ-1, CZ-230S)
DSI Prophet '08, Tetra, Mopho, Mopho Keyboard, Mopho SE, and Mopho x4 (Single and (for Tetra) Combo modes)
DSI Prophet 12
E-Mu Morpheus and Ultraproteus (Single, Hyperpreset, and MidiMap modes)
E-Mu Planet Phatt, Orbit and Orbit v2, Carnaval, Vintage Keys, and Vintage Keys Plus
E-Mu Proteus 1, 1XR, 2, 2XR, 3, 3XR, and 1+Orchestral
Yamaha 4-Op FM Family (DX21, DX27, DX100, TX81Z, DX11, TQ5, YS100, YS200, B200, V50, etc.) (Single and (for TX81Z and DX11) Multi Modes)
Yamaha FB01 (Single and Multi Modes)
Yamaha FS1R (Voice, Performance, and Fseq Modes)
Yamaha TG33, SY22, and SY35 (Single and (for TG33) Multi Modes)
General CC, NRPN, and RPN editing
Microtuning editing
Edisyn has infinite levels of undo, CC and NRPN mapping and learning, offline modes, per-parameter customization, real-time parameter updates, test notes and chords, Pseudo-MPE support, and lots more. Edisyn also has many specialized tools designed to help you explore new patch possibilities without directly programming them. These include:
Randomization: Weighted patch mutation
Merging: Weighted recombination of two patches of your choice
Mixing: Bulk recombination of many patches into a single one
Blending: Random recombination of two randomly-chosen patches on your synth
Nudging: Pushing the patch to sound a bit more (or a bit less) like one of four other patches of your choice
Morphing: Real-time interpolation of four patches to form a new patch
Hill-Climbing and Constriction: Evolutionary techniques for guided randomized search through the space of parameters, where Edisyn iteratively offers patch possibilities for you to grade, then looks for new ones based on your assessments.
Deep-Learned Models: Improvements to Randomization and Hill-Climbing using a deep-learned Variational Autoencoder neural network (DX7 Family only)
on mac… the preset folder seems to be in a wrong location, I moved the whole waldorf folder from shared/library to user/library (the path shown in the installer, also displayed in the error message you get when you do factory reset to defaults). then factory presets appeared, but not the preset from other subfolders.
blofeld was my first hardware synth, sold it long, great to have it as plugin, always loved the pads
It struck me as kind of weird that the first tutorial that Waldorf publish is 15 minutes on how to use the patch browser, setup multi’s and such like without really getting into the sound.
Seems like a decent synth, and I did enjoy my Blofeld keys when I had it. But, it feels like quite a busy marketplace to differentiate itself from the many other wavetable synths… just off the top of my head I realised that I’ve got Imposcar 3, Pigments, Ableton Wavetable, Massive/Massive X. I suppose the one thing that the Microwave VST has going for it (in addition to the more legendary status of the original synth) is that it’s got some real quirks in how it works as a result of how old the original design is…
