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 Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:17 am Post subject:
Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard
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Features:
60 Megabyte sample memory
Class compliant USB MIDI for PC,Mac and Linux
16 part multimode
maximum 25 voices polyphony
highest quality standard keybed with 49 weighted keys and aftertouch
Internal power supply
Pitchbend and modulation wheel
Virtual analog, wavetable, and sample based oscillators
MIDI in/out
Sturdy metal case
Stainless steel rotary encoders
Backlit 128x64 pixel LCD
Over 1000 sounds
3 oscillators, 2 filters per voice
Selectable drive curves
Frequency modulation for oscillators and filters
Three LFO, four envelopes per voice
Extensive modulation capabilities
Complex arpeggiator
Powerful effects section
weight: apprx 8,-- kgs
weight in carton: apprx 9,5 kgs
It seems it will be priced at approx. 600 Pounds.. which is approx 1200 US dollars?
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As in another thread, DolphinMusic writes this on 5 september, the same day Waldorf updates his own news page and not mentioning this?  
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:28 am Post subject:
Re: Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard
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| elektro80 wrote: | | It seems it will be priced at approx. 600 Pounds.. which is approx 1200 US dollars? |
600 British pounds = 1 056.96 U.S. dollars
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:47 am Post subject:
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| elektro80 wrote: | | 600 Pounds.. |
wow, it's very heavy (272.15542 Kilograms)
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:47 am Post subject:
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| seraph wrote: | | elektro80 wrote: | | 600 Pounds.. |
wow, it's very heavy |
Yeah... It's time they join the €, I think 
BTW isn't 2 pounds a kilo in Italy? 
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:53 am Post subject:
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| Wout Blommers wrote: |
isn't 2 pounds a kilo in Italy?
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| Wout Blommers wrote: | As in another thread, DolphinMusic writes this on 5 september, the same day Waldorf updates his own news page and not mentioning this?
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I haven´t claimed that Waldorf is less dysfunctional than the average synth manufacturing company out there.. say Clavia?
I haven´t checked Thomann yet. I reckon they have should have this one up already?
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| elektro80 wrote: |
I haven´t checked Thomann yet. I reckon they have should have this one up already? |
No.
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Right, I tried to look it up at Thomann myself. No Blofeld Keyboard thingie there yet.
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Anyways, I´m pretty sure Stefan or some of the other Waldorf dudes would have said so on one of the lists already of this really is a fake.
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Well, the thing which is annoying me the most is its color. The 'original' Blofeld is almost snow white where this one is dull grey, while the back ground is as white as can be. No itself respecting company would publish such a photograph, specially when white is easy to obtain using a photo edit program... Even the white keys are grey!
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I think it's a rendered image, not a photograph. Still, it could be enhanced, I agree.
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I think it looks pretty cool, would be nice if it had user samples, but I don't think we'll be that lucky somehow
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I reckon they will soon post a user manual for this one in their file archive. BTW, the german made user manuals are better these days. The first manual I got for my Waveterm read like a bit of H.P Lovecraft and Monty Python. BTW, might be I´m into more agreeable drugs these days.  Hard to say really...
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| modulator_esp wrote: | | I think it looks pretty cool, would be nice if it had user samples, but I don't think we'll be that lucky somehow |
According to the Keyboard Magazine Blurb, it will be User sample
http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/waldorf-blofeld-keyboard/sep-08/87075
60MB user sample RAM (load your own waves!)
and it appears that the Blofeld Desktop also has 64M of RAM... so the
60M of Sampling (4M is currently being used by the Wavetables)
should also make it onto that...
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| elektro80 wrote: | | I BTW, might be I´m into more agreeable drugs these days. Hard to say really... |
Wot? Have you dropped the Espresso?
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Wot? Have you dropped the Espresso? |
Espresso is at the base of Western Civilization
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| seraph wrote: | | Oskar wrote: |
Wot? Have you dropped the Espresso? |
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Along with wine. |
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| seraph wrote: | | Oskar wrote: |
Wot? Have you dropped the Espresso? |
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I know - hence the reference to "more agreeable drugs!"
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| renegadebliss wrote: | | modulator_esp wrote: | | I think it looks pretty cool, would be nice if it had user samples, but I don't think we'll be that lucky somehow |
According to the Keyboard Magazine Blurb, it will be User sample
http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/waldorf-blofeld-keyboard/sep-08/87075
60MB user sample RAM (load your own waves!)
and it appears that the Blofeld Desktop also has 64M of RAM... so the
60M of Sampling (4M is currently being used by the Wavetables)
should also make it onto that...
Cheers,
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That is nice news about the desktop. Sample memory along with saving multis would make my day. |
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