Waldorf Microwave 1

A Legend Returns

35 years ago Waldorf Music released its first instrument, the Microwave, which took the hearts of the leading musicians and producers of the nineties by storm.

Now is the time to bring back this magical instrument in software form to the digital workstations of producers and musicians worldwide.

The Waldorf Microwave 1 Plugin was painstakingly recreated from the original hardware with all its idiosyncrasies and wonderful singularities.

A multi-year effort and a labor of love which analyzed and modeled the original instruments down to the finest sonic details of every aspect of the hardware.

All the original factory single and multi-mode sounds are contained in the plug-in in combination with new and modern sound presets.

Digital Section (ASIC)

Internally running with 250 kHz sampling rate to match original ASIC sampling rate.
Modeling of digital-to-analog converters for each voice (DAC).


Unique digital noise generator based on ASIC technology.

Digital mixer of oscillators and noise based on original ASIC including overflow bug.

Wavetables

All original wavetables of Microwave 1 based on the original coding and bit-identical to original.

Including algorithmic and speech wavetables. Faithful recreation of 8-bit quantization and aliasing.

Full waveform catalogue of original instrument can be accessed. User waveform editor.

Filter

Faithful modeling of revision A and B analog filters.

Voice individual calibration of cutoff and resonance to model detuned hardware.

Frequency response graphic animated by live modulations

Amplifier

Modeling of voltage controlled analogue amplifiers and panning section.

Faithful recreation of control voltage DACs including stepping effects.

Modulators

Recreation of unique envelope and LFO timings based of original 68k code.

Modeling of beautiful micro variations in timings due to limitations of the original hardware.

Filter envelope with ADSR and additional delay parameter.

Unique 8 stage wave envelope with variable key-off point and looping.


Multi-Mode

Up to 8 instruments which can be layered and split or any combination of both.

Split by key zone and velocity range.

Multi instrument mixer with volume, panning, detuning, transpose and many more parameters.

Individual tuning per instrument possible, Huge catalogue of all original multi sounds.

Polyphony

8 voice polyphony like the original hardware.

Dynamic assignment of the voices to the multi instruments.

Presets

All factory single and multi presets included. 5 additional original sound sets.
2 new sound sets from contemporary sound designers.

Can import original .mid and .syx files with preset dumps including user tables and wavetables.

User presets store all additional data like user wavetables and tuning & velocity tables.

Extras

Plug-in can be used to control original hard in single mode via MIDI interface,

Control optionally in live mode where each control is transferred automatically.

Configurable spectrum analyzer.

Resizable graphical user interface.