Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard Synthesizer - Black

The little villain grows up!

Not only on the outside did he gain weight, also his inner qualities have seen a remarkable step-up: besides the virtual-analog synthesis and the classic wavetables it now sports a whopping 60 megabytes of sample memory.

Just imagine to add a vocal-like noise spectrum to a typical Wavetable pad, spice-up a virtual-analog solo sound with a strong attack sample or just process any other sample with the countless oscillator and filter modulations.

Play your sound creations on the high-quality keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. Pitchbend and modulation wheel are at your disposal and, as a matter of course, you can connect a sustain pedal.

All this is packaged in a sleek metal enclosure with a big graphic display, endless stainless steel rotaries and an internal power supply. And although it comes for an unbeatable price tag, we add something very special. It comes: From Waldorf with Love!

Blofeld 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
• powerful Arpeggiator
• freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound

- 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)

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
Oscillator 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

• 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

• syncable to MIDI Clock
• Note Retrigger with adjustable Start Phase
• monophonic LFO
• Keytrack

• Single Trigger / Retrigger per Envelope
• ADSR
• ADS1DS2R (2 Decay/Sustain stages plus adjustable Attack Level)
• One Shot
• Loop S1S2 (Loop between Sustain 1 and 2)
• Loop All (Loop over all stages)

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