Pulse Monophonic Analog Synthesizer
Waldorf
From the heart of Germany, for your high-cal
synthesis stew. No more digital diets, the real deal
instead of virtual simulators. Goodbye Olestra and
Equal, the healthy lifestyle finally meets its
deserved doom. If you want a tasty mix, we have
the tool that runs on heavy fuel: the Waldorf Pulse.
As an entreé, we recommend three heavy-weight oscillators with creamy
pulse width modulation, sumo-style sync, and tasty cross modulation, topped
off with a healthy serving of oscillator overdrive. But an appetizer alone
doesn't make a meal.
For your main dish, consider a healthy serving of 24dB cascaded filtering,
with a side order of resonance that is so satisfying it will have you
self-oscillating. This will put the fat in your synthesizer attack.
And for dessert, we have a stereo
output, sweet as sin, to pamper both the
left and right sides of your palate. As for
a little liquid flavor saver, we can offer
vintage-year stereo modulation with a
full bouquet, courtesy of the PULSE
sommelier.
Your Waldorf synth salad features two
crispy, fresh envelopes that themselves feature separate trigger settings and
definitely rank among the fastest of their class; they will have your taste buds
doing the neutron dance. A side order of 3 beefy LFOs and, for the
health-food nuts, a batch of wholesome modulations, round out this aural
feast.
But that's not all! The Waldorf PULSE never leaves the kitchen without the
arpeggiator and the four-star MIDI feature. It sends and receives all sound
parameters as MIDI controllers. A classy meal demands a sophisticated
menu: the user interface.
Features:
- Three Oscillators with variable waveforms
- Oscillator 1, frequency range from 2Hz to 8.5kHz
- pulse with variable pulse width
- saw
- triangle
- Oscillator 2, frequency range from 2Hz to 8.5kHz
- pulse with variable pulse width
- saw
- triangle
- cross modulation (pulse waveform that is xor-ed with oscillator 3)
- sync to oscillator 3
- Oscillator 3, frequency range from 2Hz to 4.25kHz
- pulse
- saw
- triangle
- New Waldorf 24 dB lowpass filter with resonance up to
self-oscillation, frequency range 25Hz to 35kHz.
- 100 programs, divided into 59 ROM presets, 40 user programs
and one random sound
- Two envelopes each with selectable trigger modes
- Two LFOs
- LFO1
- tri
- sin
- saw
- pulse
- sample&hold
- LFO2
- tri
- delay parameter
- LFO frequency range from 0.008 Hz up to 261 Hz
- internal Arpeggiator
- tempo from 50bpm to 300bpm
- note values from 1/1 dotted, 1/1 tuplet, 1/1, 1/2 dotted, 1/2
tuplet ... to 1/32 note
- 16 predefined rhythm patterns
- four arpeggio modes, each with ascending note assignment
or manual note assignment depending on the incoming note
order
- up
- down
- alternating
- random (only one assignment mode)
- 10 octave maximum range (automatic repetition)
- hold function
- All parameter changes sent/received as MIDI controller
- Four routable modulation units with adjustable source, amount and destination
- 16 modulation sources:
- off
- LFO1
- LFO1 * Modwheel
- LFO1 * Aftertouch
- LFO2
- LFO2 * Envelope
- Envelope 1
- Envelope 2
- Velocity
- Keytrack
- Pitch follow
- Pitchbend
- Modwheel
- Aftertouch
- Breath Control
- Control X
- 16 modulation destinations:
- Pitch
- Osc1 Pitch
- Osc2 Pitch
- Osc2 Pitch
- Osc1 Pulsewidth
- Osc2 Pulsewidth
- Osc1 Level
- Osc2 Level
- Osc3 Level
- Noise Level
- Cutoff
- Resonance
- Volume
- Panning
- LFO1 Speed
- Mod1 Amount
- Large 3 x 7 segment LED display
- six knobs and four buttons for convenient editing
- 19" 2HE Rackmount
- Stereo Line out
- MIDI In/Out/Thru
- External 12V DC Power supply
