Waldorf Blofeld

Most important features

• Unbeatable price tag
• 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 the 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
• A powerful Arpeggiator freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound

General Features

• up to 25 Voices
• 16 part multi timbral
• more than 1000 Sounds
• sturdy Metal Enclosure
• 7 endless stainless steel Dials
• 5 Buttons
• Graphic Display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
• MIDI LED
• Volume Control
• Power Switch
• Stereo Output
• Headphone Output
• MIDI In
• USB Connector 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
• External Power Supply Per Voice
• 3 Oscillators
• 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
• scillator 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
• various pre-routed Modulation Destinations with selectable Sources
• Pitch Modulation
  • Oscillator 1 / 2 / 3 Frequency Modulation
  • Oscillator 1 / 2 / 3 Pulse Width Modulation
  • Filter 1 / 2 Cutoff Modulation
  • Filter 1 / 2 Frequency Modulation
  • Pan 1 / 2 Modulation
  • Amp Modulation
• 4 Modifiers for transforming Modulation Sources with various Algorithms
• 3 fast LFOs o syncable to MIDI Clock
  • Note Retrigger with adjustable Start Phase
  • monophonic LFO o Keytrack
• 4 fast Envelopes with selectable types
  • Single Trigger / Retrigger per Envelope
  • ADSR
  • ADS1DS2R (2 Decay/Sustain stages plus adjustable Attack Level)
  • One Shot o 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 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)