Which device will give me most control over the Blofeld, OT (mki) or DT?
I was listening to all these great videos of ambient, crystal clear stuff people are doing on the Blofeld and thought Iād have a go at making and using some wavetables. I plugged the volca kick in to the OT for some mangling, recorded a sample then turned that into a wavetable with Audio Term, and then played around with it in the Blofeld.
Needless to say the results are neither great, nor ambient, nor crystal clear, but I really enjoyed pushing this one source into some very ugly territory. I feel there is a resolution of sorts at the end but Iām prone to imagining that kind of thing.
I owned a blofeld. I had to sell it during hard times three years back. I am excited to say that I have a new desktop unit in the mail arriving tomorrow. I own a deepmind 12 and a bass station 2 now and canāt wait to pair them up with my digitakt along with my much missed blofeld.
technically, wavetable ā sample-based (blofeld actually does both).
wavetable technique is more advanced, so involves additional preparations.
nice work anyway.
Hmm, OK. Do you mean what I have done here more like a sliced sample rather than a wavetable of single cycle waveforms? Maybe I need to check what the Audio Term wavetable software actually does when it says it creates wavetable? I just assumed it turns what you feed it into a WT (when you use the appropriate save file format). The Blofeld seems to treat the file as a WT not a sample
Im confused now so if you can clarify that would be great. When I look- in Audio Term- at the file I created in Audio Term and loaded to a wavetable slot on the Blofeld, it certainly looks like a wavetable?
The Audio Term software allows a user to create a viable wavetable from any passage of music - it does not require the user to stack and morph individual waves creatively (though this is fun) - so you canāt presume from what has been discussed that the Blofeld is playing a sample only as opposed to a user generated and scannable wavetable
The wavetable creation process can be more advanced, but in this case, with this tool it can be simple
I find the misappropriation of the term wavetable frustrating too as itās often used in PC music circles to mean samples - and offers none of the joys of morphing/interpolation etc - but the Elektronauts community is probably on top of that
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Yep, heās one of the ones Iāve been watching. Along with the Pulse Emitter video, milolab, 100 things I do, and Seen From Space (who sounds exactly like the comedian Paul Foot )
Iāve also watched the Audio Term videos linked elsewhere about wavetable creation, which is why Iām still curious about @chaocrator 's assertion that what I described above is a sample not wavetable.
On the Blofeld did you access your material via a sample slot or a wavetable slot?
Asking out of interest - not too bothered about definitions
A wavetable slot
Sorry if you people already noticed that, but it appears that with the latest firmware update, itās no more needed to upload ALL samples at once if you just want to add another one. I may be late, but this is a huge game changer for me as it makes working with samples in the Blofeld great again
More than ever, blofeld pairs nicely with the DTakt
Whoa! Good news. What version is that?
Is it a new version of Spectre too.
there was a previous version which allowed that (iām still running iirc) but then it got pulled (though could be found) - so i need to investigate if this is a new os - cool, the fact that it got pulled bothered me a little
seems to be a midi file dated 19 feb 2018 !
v 1.25
need to look into this to see what i have
Blofeld firmware version 1.25
Spectreā¦ I donāt know the version since thereās not even an about boxā¦
This is huge really.
now Iām gonna stuff my blofeld with padsynth waves and use the 4 notes poly on DTakt midi tracks to make proper chord progressions
given the lack of clarity on whatās what - hereās a summary of observations from a gearslutz user
so i indeed have the earlier version (5+ years ago) which allowed a simpler interaction with spectre and not requiring the full sample set sent
so this seems to be a bug free version of that unifying the firmware across later board types too
thanks @acidhouseforall for the year on news but it was indeed news to me and a few others - good stuff - will move from 1.23 to 1.25 later
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GS quoted (March 2018) >>
Just so I understand this right:
- Earlier [Blofeld](https://www.gearslutz.com/board/gear.php?t=Blofeld) revisions used firmware 1.22.
- A while ago 1.23 was introduced which did some new SL uploading things, but then it was almost immediately rescinded because Waldorf had found bugs in it.
- Recent [Blofeld](https://www.gearslutz.com/board/gear.php?t=Blofeld) models have different controller ICs in them, requiring a revised version of the OS (1.24). But this turned out to introduce encoder bugs in the new machines. 1.25 is meant to fix that.
Correct so far? If so: (1) 1.22 is no longer available on the Waldorf website. Is 1.25 in fact a unified release for all [Blofeld](https://www.gearslutz.com/board/gear.php?t=Blofeld)models? (2) Is there any reason for an older model to be upgraded to 1.25 at all?
How can Waldorf make synths as incredible as the Blofeld or the Quantum and yet suck at source code management is beyond meā¦ but hey, Iām just gonna enjoy the moment and work this little beast
Be nice if someone did a video going over Blofeld firmware / software / sample transfer etc etc in 2019. Itās all a bit of a mystery isnāt it.
Itās esoteric af
Iāve avoided learning how to transfer samples to my Blofeld, even though itās capable, because I havenāt found the headspace for it yet. And Iām lead to believe that it requires a lot of headspace, because of caveats and old software and general esoterica.
That said, I feel closer and closer to this great little synthesiser every time I figure something out! Iāll do it soon.