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Average rating:
4.7 out of 5
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i love this synth. i own over 50 synths (new, old, mw xt), yet the mw is the only synth that makes it into all my tracks. Not because I think to put it in, because it always talks it way into it. it can jingle, tear, burn, soften, yank and flick. Good synth, good synth, stay, staaay, Stay, STAY, STAAAAAYY! it won't listen, its alive.
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Blibss bliss & Sonic boom booms.. nothing can make a sub like my MW, have a nova & teebee and neather can match the subsonic level of the mw, whith the filter open the sound itself is rather thing but gruncy yet warm,.. the nova is much "wider/fatter" in it's tone while the teebee is thick/fat, I'll never sell my teebee or the Microwave.. but the nova.. well lets just say it doesn't sit in a mix like the other two ..the MW charagter is so authetic.. xtreamly hard to beat even with the best from our morden va's..
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Microwave is different than XT but not so much. I owned both in same time (big fan of Waldorf, I have Micro Q and Pulse too). There is CC's out there!! 4 assignable, so you can select cutoff for whatever cc#, really cool, no problem. 4 individual + stereo outputs are great option too. You can hear analogfilters driving. There is controller made by Access for it with knobs etc, quite expensive but worth.
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Well what can you say? - Different to an XT / MW2 that`s for sure and definately different enough to warrant having both.
The XT certainly doesn`t Klang, bang and grit like the MW1 (even in lo-quality mode) and it`s filters are of the "DSP-Perfick" slushy sweet multimode variety, yeah, it can sound nasty, but not in a MW1/Wave/PPG kinda way. Comparing it now to the PPG 2.3, the MW1 is definatley "warmed up" and can actually create analog style pads and strings (way out of the 2.3`s rep IMO) but it loses some of that harsh PPG bite (some may say "thankfully!!").
Powerful deep digital basses, wonderful glass-rim type sweeps and complex evolving pads and all manner of eerie noises just pour out of the thing once you`ve either got the hang of the editing or downloaded the PC editor (see links on this site). talking about editing, many would be put off by the arcane system involved but it`s actually quite intuitive when you get used to it (even under OS2.0).
Well to summarise, it`s a great sounding machine and the closest I`m ever gonna get to a PPG, it copies it`s older cousin mostly well and also offers you an affordable slice of the Expensive WAVE, they`re getting thinner and thinner on the ground thesedays, and a bit of price hike in the UK seems to be going on at the moment (around �450) as people realise that the XT is neither a replacement nor inferior for it`s digi filters either, just Different..
Some Info (V2.0 OS): - 8-note poly, 8-part multitimbral, dynamic voice allocation, no onboard FX, 2-osc per voice, 64 wave tables + 16 user (download the Prophet-VS ones from Waldorf`s site to fill the user ones), 64 single patches internal, 64 on RAM/ROM card, same for Multis, ONBOARD PSU WITH mains switch !!, all parameters by Sysex - NOT MIDI CCs :( , Curtis 24DB cascaded self-oscillating LP Filter / VCA / VC-Panner (same as WAVE!), stackable to increase Polyphony to 16-voice, great Mod Matrix, 2-LFOs, 3-EGs including very complex multi-stage Wave EG, no osc sync :( , LCD makes the Q`s look big, V2.0 as bugfree as Waldorf OSs get :), made from 1988-1996 AFAIK.
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What a unique synth! As a boy in the eighties, I lusted over the PPG Wave synths...doomed to never be able to afford one. Recently found a Wave 2.3 on eBay and bid furiously, only to lose :( Then I found an ad for this beast! I was curious but concerned that I wouldn't be able to achieve the sound of a PPG. Boy was I wrong! Within an hour I had already created sounds I had heard by artists such as Thomas Dolby, Tangerine Dream, Depeche Mode and Front 242! That lovely grainy 8 bit sound coupled with the mindbending wave-scanning and a true analog filter make sounds that only aliens hear in their dreams. So icy! So Martian! Yet, so warm...and alive! This sure isn't a synth you would overuse either. A little bit goes a long way. The eight note polyphony can be a touch hampering, but if you consider how dynamic and extreme the sounds can be, using chords almost results in overkill. My only real gripes about this box: 1) If you don't have a programmer or a software editor, you're gonna want one! lots-o-menus! 2) The volume envelope attack setting is too coarse. You either have a sharp "click" at 00 or you have a mushy attack at 01. No grey area. Why? Oh yeah! Make sure you use effects with this box. Detuning can be nice, but a touch of chorus and some light reverb really make it shine!
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