News from Waldorf for NAMM 2002 in Los Angeles:
...and the beat goes on!
Waldorf RackAttack - the percussion tool for any style of music.
The well-known VST software instrument is now available in a real hardware box! RackAttack integrates classic analog sounds of the 80's with the ambitious electronic club drums of the 90´s, for music of the 21st century.
The Attack´s virtual modeled circuitry synthesis is optimized for drums and percussion. Beyond those, leads, basses and effect sounds are possible too.
The RackAttack has the same easy-editing user interface found in the microQ series, perfect for live acts - perfect for the studio!
"Hit me with those drumsticks...!"
Features:
- virtual modeled circuitry synthesis
- up to 25 voices
- 50 programs
- 24 sounds per program (1200 sounds)
- 7 rotary encoders
- 14 buttons for editing
- Pattern Play Mode
- Attack VST compatibility mode
- 2x20 character display
- 6 analog outputs (configurable as 3 stereo outs)
- 2 analog inputs (1 stereo in)
- 1 headphone output
- MIDI In/Out/Thru
- 19"/2u, rack mountable
- classic blue color
Per voice:
- 2 oscillators, optimized for drum sound synthesis
- waves: triangle, sine, square, saw, s&h, noise, 3 samples + external audio signal
- FM
- ring modulator
- crack generator for handclaps
- 1 multimode filter per sound with different types and overdrive
- 4 effects including Mod Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, 5FX etc.
- 2 LFO's per sound
- 2 very fast envelopes with different slopes
Features are subject to change without notice.
Estimated Price: under $1000
Estimated Release Date: March 2002
printable picture download:
ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/photos/rack_attack_large.tif
ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/photos/rack_attack_small.tif
ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/photos/rackattack_logo_300dpi.tif
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microQ Omega (?)
This machine is the high point in the series of Waldorf´s well-known microQ synthesizers. Up to 75 voices give you the best performance ever achieved in a virtual analog synthesizer, without the inherent latency or high CPU usage problems of software plug-ins.
The microQ Omega is technically similar to the microQ except for the 75-voice expansion. Finish your studio - the microQ Omega.
microQ/microQ Keyboard and microQ lite are upgradable to microQ Omega.
Price to be announced.
Available in March 2002
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Dance & Construction Soundset for Waldorf Q and microQ series.
Have you overlooked the Q synthesizer series as perfect tools for techno and dance music? The new "Dance & Techno Construction Soundset" from German dancefloor specialist Steve Kay brings you all those sounds: a wide range of fat leads, powerful basses, and analog drums and percussion -- everything you need for up-to-date music production.
300 single sounds
20 Multis
2 Drum Maps
...plus free software: the microQ bankloader, the latest OS version for your Waldorf synthesizer, and loads of exciting free soundsets!
Available on CD-ROM for PC/MAC (floppy disk version on request)
Estimate Price: US $ 55
Available now!
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Zeitlos II - the new chill-out-compilation
Waldorf Records announces the release of the Zeitlos II compilation.
The Waldorf Records "Zeitlos II" compilation brings together a multiplicity of well-known Ambient and Trance artists, and contains only previously unreleased material. Among other artists, the CD contains tracks from Gabriel Le Mar & Pascal F.E.O.S., Sequential (aka Pete Namlook), and Da Damn phreak Noize Phunk (aka Hardfloor member Ramon Zenker and Oliver Bondzio), along with Soehngenetic and üNN from the famous german label electrolux and many more.
The perfect CD for silent "chillout" moments comes with an
outstanding digipack and a booklet with loads of information.
Available at March 2002 in record stores worldwide Distribution: intergroove/germany
teaser mp3: ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/demos/audio/zeitlos2_teaser.mp3
Olaf
...and the beat goes on!
Waldorf RackAttack - the percussion tool for any style of music.
The well-known VST software instrument is now available in a real hardware box! RackAttack integrates classic analog sounds of the 80's with the ambitious electronic club drums of the 90´s, for music of the 21st century.
The Attack´s virtual modeled circuitry synthesis is optimized for drums and percussion. Beyond those, leads, basses and effect sounds are possible too.
The RackAttack has the same easy-editing user interface found in the microQ series, perfect for live acts - perfect for the studio!
"Hit me with those drumsticks...!"
Features:
- virtual modeled circuitry synthesis
- up to 25 voices
- 50 programs
- 24 sounds per program (1200 sounds)
- 7 rotary encoders
- 14 buttons for editing
- Pattern Play Mode
- Attack VST compatibility mode
- 2x20 character display
- 6 analog outputs (configurable as 3 stereo outs)
- 2 analog inputs (1 stereo in)
- 1 headphone output
- MIDI In/Out/Thru
- 19"/2u, rack mountable
- classic blue color
Per voice:
- 2 oscillators, optimized for drum sound synthesis
- waves: triangle, sine, square, saw, s&h, noise, 3 samples + external audio signal
- FM
- ring modulator
- crack generator for handclaps
- 1 multimode filter per sound with different types and overdrive
- 4 effects including Mod Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Flanger, 5FX etc.
- 2 LFO's per sound
- 2 very fast envelopes with different slopes
Features are subject to change without notice.
Estimated Price: under $1000
Estimated Release Date: March 2002
printable picture download:
ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/photos/rack_attack_large.tif
ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/photos/rack_attack_small.tif
ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/photos/rackattack_logo_300dpi.tif
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microQ Omega (?)
This machine is the high point in the series of Waldorf´s well-known microQ synthesizers. Up to 75 voices give you the best performance ever achieved in a virtual analog synthesizer, without the inherent latency or high CPU usage problems of software plug-ins.
The microQ Omega is technically similar to the microQ except for the 75-voice expansion. Finish your studio - the microQ Omega.
microQ/microQ Keyboard and microQ lite are upgradable to microQ Omega.
Price to be announced.
Available in March 2002
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Dance & Construction Soundset for Waldorf Q and microQ series.
Have you overlooked the Q synthesizer series as perfect tools for techno and dance music? The new "Dance & Techno Construction Soundset" from German dancefloor specialist Steve Kay brings you all those sounds: a wide range of fat leads, powerful basses, and analog drums and percussion -- everything you need for up-to-date music production.
300 single sounds
20 Multis
2 Drum Maps
...plus free software: the microQ bankloader, the latest OS version for your Waldorf synthesizer, and loads of exciting free soundsets!
Available on CD-ROM for PC/MAC (floppy disk version on request)
Estimate Price: US $ 55
Available now!
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Zeitlos II - the new chill-out-compilation
Waldorf Records announces the release of the Zeitlos II compilation.
The Waldorf Records "Zeitlos II" compilation brings together a multiplicity of well-known Ambient and Trance artists, and contains only previously unreleased material. Among other artists, the CD contains tracks from Gabriel Le Mar & Pascal F.E.O.S., Sequential (aka Pete Namlook), and Da Damn phreak Noize Phunk (aka Hardfloor member Ramon Zenker and Oliver Bondzio), along with Soehngenetic and üNN from the famous german label electrolux and many more.
The perfect CD for silent "chillout" moments comes with an
outstanding digipack and a booklet with loads of information.
Available at March 2002 in record stores worldwide Distribution: intergroove/germany
teaser mp3: ftp://ftp.waldorf-gmbh.de/demos/audio/zeitlos2_teaser.mp3
Olaf
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