that Lu Crow cat is willlllllllld. I came across him in the blofeld facebook group, he has a very strange vibe.
did anyone see the video he posted where the blofeld was covered with dried blood?
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Haha I saw one where it looked like heād slopped his dinner on there. Must be that one
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I also was following the Facebook group for some time and say many videos of him, and not just one had these traces on the unit. I wondered whether itās blood, or ketchup, of a prop to set the mood.
Quite wild yes, I like this world make of assorted flavors!
Regarding menus, the blofeld is equally - or possibly even less - complex compared to any of the elektron boxes. Itās not particularly menu divey once youāve learned where to look.
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I still find it a little more complex than my Digitakt, which has one page per button, with 8 parameters each, or even the Digitone with two pages for most buttons. On the blofeld thereās quite some encoder rotations needed to access all parameters.
Iām not complaining, it has a lot and itās all welcome, and I do fin the navigation very suitable.
Only improvement I could imagine is when it would remember better where I was last. For example if I was setting mod matrix slot 4, go to the filter, and back to mod matrix, Iād appreciate if it is still at slot 4 instead of jumping to slot 1.
I love the blofeld! Such a rich and surprising synth.
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I think it just really takes a minute to get a hang of it, but is logical when you do.
I keep finding I donāt know Whatās going to happen when I turn some of the knobs. The category filter thing alone will drive you mad if you donāt understand it
I sent him a friend request on Facebook. He is an interesting guy. Had a conversation with him on messenger. I think he has dove deeper into blofeld than anyone Iāve talked to. He sees everything through math in that machine.
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It does!
Caveat - I know sometimes it doesnāt and not sure what condition ensures it, but Iāve been using it a lot past few days and had noticed it being helpful like that.
I just turned mine on now to check and went back and forth from mod slot 4 to filter and back making adjustments - the first time it went back to slot 1, after that it āstuckā - even when I changed mod slot it would remember last used
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Ah interesting. I suspect I expereinced that as well. As I wrote that message, I had used the blofeld for a while that day and remember noticing it didnāt, bummer.
No idea whether thereās a reproducible behavior, intentional or not in that.
BTW, again, these two tips, unison voices modulating filter pan, and also modulating the wave table positon for each note pressed, are amazing!
Blofeld love indeed. I get very peculiar sounds out of it
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Though I do dream of putting a bunch of classic digital synth waves in. Just never get around to it. Somedayā¦
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Agreed. It took me a long, long time to start liking the Blofeld but now I love it. Worth giving it some time. Iāve said it before but Iāll mention it again. Wrap some rubber-bands around each knob to make them grippy. Big time change for me. Silly but it was.
Not sure if mine is super old? I had to desolder the power switch to get the board offā¦did your pots look like this? Cause mine aināt moving? I have pulled the clips back on this on but no goā¦they also donāt look too greasyā¦?
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O.k. brute force did itā¦i have had less trouble pulling teethā¦i was sure I was going to crack the board at timesā¦but this WORKSā¦there was grease anywhere but where it was supposed to beā¦
But wow, I have had this synth since 2008, I canāt believe i havnt done this sooner, its now working like the day I pulled it out of the boxā¦
Its not for the feint hearted and some soldering skills are needed if your switch is hard soldered with short exposed wiresā¦but if you are enduring jumping pot values
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Yeah I remember them needing a little force with a set of pliers, but nothing as dramatic as you describe 
now I do have a bit of diy experience, and a little bit of kit, but Iād be careful with using too much force on anything fixed on a pcb. Another solution is to sacrifice the encoder (or just desolder it if you have the gear) and snip its legs off with low profile cutting pliers and remove the last pieces of legs in the pcb holes with your soldering iron and some tweezers.
Its just so much harder to fix problems that could arise from tensile stress on the pcb, that could be pretty hard to problemshoot, and might require quite a bit of surgery if youāre unlucky!
Anyways, good thing you have a properly working 'Feld again. It really is a cool sounding wavetable synth, I donāt get the hate either. Well, after I got rid of that horrible encoder skipping, that is. Now to move on to the daunting task of fixing up a MEK. The mother of all horrible encodersā¦
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Arp made with one sine wave with unisono pan and unisono at 3. (Waldorf Blofeld)
backed up by Vermona 14 and Korg MS-20 Kit
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Can the midi out on Blofeld kbd be set to THRU?
Thanks a lot!
Nope
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:((( 
Well I just declared my love to a desktop unit (white) for 270ā¬.
Will add it to:
Deepmind 12
Novation MiniNova
Toraiz AS-1
Arturia MicroFreak
Digitakt
NDLR
Keystep
Will certainly get back here once received and for helpā¦ Just in case 
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