Product Overview
The Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard is housed in a sleek metal enclosure with a big graphic display, endless stainless steel rotaries and an internal power supply.
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.
Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard Features:
- 60 MB Sample memory
- Virtual analog, Wavetable and sample-based Oscillators
- High-quality semi-weighted keyboard with 49 keys, velocity and aftertouch
- Internal power supply (100-240V, 50-60Hz)
- Pitchbend wheel
- Modulation wheel
- Sustain pedal connector
- Octave Up / Down buttons
- Freely programmable button
- 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 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
General Features:
- Internal power supply (100-240V, 50-60Hz)
- Up to 25 voices
- 16 part multi timbral
- 8 buttons
- MIDI LED
- Volume control
- Power switch
- Stereo output
- Headphone output
- MIDI Input / Output
- USB interface 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
- Weight approx. 8 kg (17.65 lb)
- Per Voice:
- 3 Oscillators:
- Samples:
- 60 MB Sample memory
- Virtual Analog Models:
- Pulse withPulse Width Modulation and adjustable Brilliance
- Sawtooth with adjustable Brilliance
- Triangle
- Sine
- Wavetables:
- Q Alt1 and Alt 2 Wavetable with adjustable Brilliance
- AllWavetables from Microwave II/XT/XTk Series with adjustableBrilliance
- 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 / 12dB
- Band Pass 24 dB/ 12 dB
- High Pass24 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
- oetc.
- 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 soundparameters
- Various pre-routed Modulation Destinations with selectable Sources:
- Pitch Modulation
- Oscillator 1 / 2 / 3 Frequency Modulation
- Oscillator 1 / 2 / 3 Pulse Width Modulation
- Filter1 / 2 Cutoff Modulation
- Filter1 / 2 Frequency Modulation
- Pan 1 /2 Modulation
- Amp Modulation
- 4 Modifiers for transforming Modulation Sources with various Algorithms
- 3 fast LFOs:
- osyncable to MIDI Clock
- Note Retrigger with adjustable Start Phase
- monophonic LFO
- Keytrack
- 4 fast Envelopes with selectable types:
- SingleTrigger / Retrigger per Envelope
- ADSR
- ADS1DS2R (2 Decay/Sustain stages plus adjustable Attack Level)
- OneShot
- Loop S1S2 (Loop between Sustain 1 and 2)
- Loop All (Loop over all stages)
- Poly, Mono, Dual or Unisono Mode with selectable Voice Count
- Per Part:
- PowerfulArpeggiator
- 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 1-4
- Effect types:
- Chorus
- Flanger
- Phaser
- Overdrive
- TripleFX (S&H, Ring Modulation, Chorus)
- Delay (only available on global Effect slot)
- Clocked Delay (only available on global Effect slot)
- 1 Effect slot globally for all parts
