Year/Release Date : 01.09.24
Developer : Waldorf Music.
Developer’s website : Waldorf Music
Format : VSTi, VST3i, AAX.
Bit depth : 64bit
Tablet : Cured
System requirements : WIN 7+
Description :
n.Microwave defined hybrid synthesis at its best with its unique interpretation of wave synthesis combined with analog filters.
Now Waldorf Music brings this magical tool back to digital workstations around the world with the release of Microwave 1 Plug-in.Peculiarities
Digital Section (ASIC)
– Internally runs at 250 kHz sampling rate to match the original ASIC sampling rate.
– Modeling of digital-to-analog converters (DAC) for each voice.
– Two oscillators based on a single wavetable for each multi-instrument.
– Unique digital noise generator based on ASIC technology.
– Digital mixer of oscillators and noise based on the original ASIC, including overflow error.
– Accurate recreation of non-interpolated pitch generation.
Wave tables
– All original wavetables from Microwave 1, based on the original coding and identical to the original.
– Including algorithmic and speech tables.
– Accurate recreation of 8-bit quantization and aliasing.
– Easy-to-use wavetable editor based on internal control tables.
– Access to the complete waveform catalog of the original instrument.
– Custom waveform editor.
Filter
– Accurate modeling of the A and B revision analog filters.
– Voice-activated individual calibration of cutoff and resonance for modeling of hardware flutter.
– Modulation of cutoff and resonance.
– Frequency response graph animated with live modulations.
Amplifier
– Modeling of analog amplifiers with voltage control and panning section.
– Accurate recreation of DACs with voltage control, including step effects.
Modulators
– Recreation of unique envelope and LFO timings based on the original 68k code.
– Modeling beautiful micro-variations in timings due to limitations of the original hardware.
– Filter envelope with ADSR and additional delay parameter.
– Volume envelope with ADSR.
– All timings and levels of the filter envelope and volume envelope can be modulated.
– Unique 8-stage wave envelope with variable key off point and looping.
– Wave envelope levels and timings can be modulated.
– Attack-Decay envelope for LFO1 with additional delay.
– 2 LFOs with different waveforms, symmetry and humanization parameters.
– LFOs can be phase-shifted relative to each other.
– LFO1 with global option, tempo and level modulation.
Non-standard tuning
– 4 user settings can be edited individually.
– They will be saved in user presets.
Multi-mode
– Up to 8 instruments that can be layered and split, or any combination of both.
– Split by key zones and velocity range.
– Multi-instrument mixer with volume, pan, detune, transpose and many other parameters.
– Each instrument can be individually customized.
– Huge catalog of original multi-sounds.
Polyphony
– 8-voice polyphony, as in the original equipment.
– Dynamic assignment of voices to multi-instruments.
Presets
– All factory single and multi presets included.
– 5 additional original sound sets.
– 2 new sound sets from modern sound designers.
– Possibility to import original .mid and .syx files with preset dumps, including user tables and wave tables.
– User presets store all additional data, such as user wave tables and tuning and velocity tables.
Equipment management
– The plugin can be used to control the original hardware in single mode via MIDI interface,
– Optionally can be controlled in live mode, where each control element is transmitted automatically.
Additional features
– Customizable spectrum analyzer.
– Customizable graphical user interface.
Changelog v1.1.0 :
LFOs :
– Can be synced to DAW tempo using different ratios.
Filter :
– Filter response time has been reduced for faster and sharper filter modulation.
Mono Modes :
– “Distribution Mode” in Multi-Instrument Settings (used for mono mode).
Midi CC Mapping :
– Explore MIDI CCs in the context menu.
– CC Mapping table in Global with ability to load/save to file.
– “Fwd Input” option in “Hardware Control” to send MIDI tracks like notes etc. from DAW to
hardware. Useful on Windows where there are almost no multi-client Midi interface drivers.
Global :
– “Controller WXYZ” modulation source mappings can be set to MIDI CCs.
Import .mid/.syx files.
– Now also works with cartridge dumps.
– Fixed to use Windows compatible file names.
Presets :
– New preset bank by Benjamin Wilde.
– Link to sound store on the website.
Performance :
– Reduced UI opening time.
Usability :
– You can now click on value names to show a pop-up menu.
– Pop-up menus with two choices have been replaced with toggle buttons, e.g. for the Rev A/B filter types.
– The last zoom level is now saved globally, e.g. when creating new instances of the plugin.
BUGFIXES :
– FS#2209 – Multimode: Cannot select new factory presets
– FS#2198 – Clicking with the mouse in the context menu sets the parameter to the minimum value.
– FS#2192 – Some menus with two items may be single-click buttons
– FS#2196 – Zoom level not saved globally
– FS#2197 – Shortcuts for long menu items in UI
– FS#2178 – W, X, Y, and Z controllers
– FS#2200 – Wavetable Smooth/Stepped option
– FS#2207 – Spelling error
– FS#2209 – Multimode: Cannot select new factory presets
– Various spelling errors have been improved.
– Custom banks with factory sounds are no longer created when importing fails.
