Waldorf Blofeld 49-Note Semi-Weighted Action Synthesizer, White

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.

• 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
• 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

Play your sound creations on the high-quality keyboard with velocity and after-touch. Pitch-bend 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, they add something very special. It comes: From Waldorf with Love!

Per Part

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

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

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

Various Pre-routed Modulation Destinations with Selectable Sources
• 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

4 Modifiers for Transforming Modulation Sources with Various Algorithms

3 Fast LFOs
• Syncable to MIDI Clock
• Note Retrigger with adjustable Start Phase
• Monophonic LFO
• Keytrack

4 Fast Envelopes with Selectable Types
• 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)
• Poly, Mono, Dual or Unisono Mode with selectable Voice Count
• Frequency Modulation between the Oscillators
• Oscillator Synchronization
• Ring Modulator for Osc 1 / 2
• Noise Generator with Noise Colour