Quantum Type Sounds ... On a Blofeld?
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2018
- Like many I can't wait to get my hands on a Waldorf Quantum. Its got a hefty price tag but from the latest demos that have been released it seems to have some amazing possibilities!
Between now and 2019 when I might be able to afford one if i'm lucky I will try and make my Blofeld work as hard as it can. So it occurred to me after watching the excellent example from Sonic State this week that I have never used the Sample side of the Blofeld ... can it make it a little granular sounding ? Here's what I came up with and how I did it.There is a Noodle at the end :D 
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The Blofeld is a gorgeous synth - in the right hands.. and the left hands..
hahah indeed! I keep hoping they will do a Blofeld II, everything can stay the same but a control surface added would be fantastic :D
A highly underrated synth. It’s fantastic, and a limited number of keyboard/Synth players are aware of how great it is. Excellent work.
Yep, the Blofeld is exceptional value for money! With the current craze around Wavetables its pretty much the perfect time for this synth :D
Basically a blofeld can do anything any reasonable person might want from a digital synth
It can also do some pretty unreasonable stuff :D Its amazing for the price!
that's good to know.
I listen again, Blofeld is a king of pad, big trip to fly out of body.
Yep, you can make some massive and evolving sounds from the Blofeld :D
Got mine today...its awesome
Hey guys,
When I hear that I have to absolutely agree with you.
Maybe it's just my imagination, but somehow the Blofeld has its own charm?
Okay, but now I need your help! Unfortunately, I'm more of a musician than an intuitive synth screwdriver.🤷♂️ Can someone tell me where I could find nice warm, floating pad sounds with light movements?
Thanks to you
Wow Sunday chill session (SCS) is awesome! Love how the longer you hold the note the more it develops and transitions
Thanks :D Put a bit more work into this one that most clips of late :D
Beautiful, I have a Blofeld as well and always learn something new from your videos and also have a peaceful time listening. Thank-you
Nothing better than some chill out :D Thanks for checking out the Videos, great to hear these clips inspire :D
My goodness, truly stunning sounds. Ive always overlooked the Blofeld, kicking myself. Its time to pick one up and start exploring ! Thanks for sharing your awesome work.
Indeed, you should.. its an amazing synth especially if you use audioterm to create your own wave tables :D
Oh, hope you'll be able to purchase Quantum, since I freakin' love your Blofeld ambient explorations and can't wait to hear what you' can make with upcoming synth!
This particular improvisation with patch you've made is something truly overwordly and ethereal. Inspires me to explore Largo vst from the same guys ; )
I Hope I can get one also, a few things might need to go to pay for it LOL :D
Thank you to share this sound And show us the way to do. Love your vidéos and love the blofeld. Thank you so much 😊
Thanks Benoit :D The Blofeld is amazing , the more time you put in .. the more you get out :D
THIS is the kind of sounds I wanted to make on my blo. Time to cook some custom samples and wt (then wait almost 40m to transfer them 🤣🤣🤣).
Epic demo/tutorial!
Nice demo I love the blofeld!
Thanks! Its an awesome and very flexible and inspiring synth. The more I use it the better it becomes :D
Just spectacular!! Truly amazing!!
Thanks my friend :D
Fantastic patch/pad, congrats!
Thanks CO5MA :D
I used to think the more the oscillators the more beautiful the sounds. But this shows LFOs and FM are powerful.
Modulation is always King :D
@@100ThingsIDo Yeah, that's something Cameron over on VenusTheory preaches hard: You've got to build movement into your patches to give them life and interest.
That was awesome! lovely patch
Thanks, really great what the Blofeld can do :D
I already own 7 Synths including Hydrasynth, Virus TI2, Prophet 08 and Prophet 12 but just bought a Blofeld because of the awesome sounds that this synth us capable of.
Hydrasynth must come very close, but for the price, yes the Blofeld is amazing and hard to better :D I love the Waldorf stuff so much. Took me most of my life so far to really get into digital synths :D
It's not about dig vs ana, but about using BOTH!!! But YOU already knew that eh?😎
Love it. The blofeld is a wonderful sounding instrument.
Indeed, the Blofeld is still outstanding value! Its just a shame they never have looped back on it so far and made it a little more 'knobby' :D
Wow, that was so lush. It takes me back to the mid-'80s when I was a kid and first discovered ambient on the local college radio.
Yep, even though I have the Quantum now I can't let the Blofeld go. Its really quick and easy to work with once you get your head around it and sounds a little more fizzy in a good way than the Quantum :D
Maybe you were listening to my radio show then! I did one for about 15 years. Good times. And yes, I always loved the ambient and space music.
Love this synth. Beautiful patch.
Its such a surprisingly complex synth that the price totally fools you into not understanding and giving focus to the amazing power within the small metal box :D I
Thanks Kim, make your you check out Mark Pigott 's Blofeld videos! He has explored this Synth like no one else :D
Wow! Awesome sounds!
Thanks Deadline :D
My pleasure!
Excellenter Sound Designer! Chapeau!
Thank you :D
I really love the sound... nice work!
Thanks :D
I have a quantum coming, and I hope I can get results like that! :)
I'm sure it can do a whole lot more!!!!! Congratulations :D
This is so beautiful. I've been wanting a Blofeld for some time, and the Corona Virus pandemic hit. Things are crazy and tight right now, but this a future dream.
I hope things really improve for you fast! Keep the dream alive. I have had some really hard financial times in the past and I know how it feels! Take care and stay safe! :D
Thank you, useful and inspiring video!
Thanks :D Glad you enjoyed!
Beautiful! great job
Thanks! That blofeld has heaps of untapped potential! I wonder if the Sledge would as good or better with its big control surface :D
Phenomenal pads!
Thanks, Lots of detuning and chorus always adds to big pads :D
Very nice sounds out of the Blofeld. I'm quite (un)surprised that Waldorf are doing such an excellent job at failing dismally to really show what the Quantum can do at such a late stage in development. I've been waiting for a real killer digital synth for years, and I really hope the Quantum lives up to the spec as I will almost certainly get one.
Hey BM, yeh.... Waldorf have always been right to the wire on these things. The Quantum looks the goods though there were a few patches on the Sonic State demo last week that started to show off some of its power. Hopefully some seed units get into peoples hands very soon and we can start to really see what can be done :D
there : ruclips.net/video/SyR69oFcO80/видео.html
you have some nice sounds showing the potential of the beast.
Bootiful mate. Makes me want to get one to fly with my Virus tI.
I used to have a TI, it was great but I seemed to surf presets way too much :D
Beautyful sound
Many thanks! :D
Beautiful stuff!!!
Thanks :D Its such a great synth!
It sure is. I have a Quantum. It is fantastic but I’m wondering if I could have gotten a Blofeld instead. :) The thing keeping me with the Quantum is that it has a great granular system/algorithm and they are gonna update it with even more features.
You should be able to get similar sounds if you use the Blofeld creatively but from ease of use and the possibility to create very lengthy evolving texture the Quantum will always win :D
fantastic 🙏
Really enjoyed that
Thanks Duncan! I still have not pulled the trigger on the Quantum yet ..... The Blofeld 11 years after release is still amazing value for money with sound that hits wave above what you pay! :D
Personally, I wouldn't bother! I just can't hear anything distinctive that the Quantum can offer that the Blofeld can't... for the money.
Really great sounds mate.
Natural sound designer.
Thanks.... Resonator oscillators and Granular synthesis + analog filters makes me interested :D
Excellent! Thanks.
Thanks for checking out the clip :D
Like the patch.
Yeah, I played around with the Quantum at Superbooth last year, and I have to say though it sounded great (in a digital kind of way), I didn't hear ANYthing that made me think it was worth the big price, and the first thing it sort of reminded me of was the Blofeld with a touch of Casio VZ-10. Both (Quantum and Blofeld) are great at some nicely evolving pads, no doubt. And you've amply demonstrated that for the Blofeld.
Thanks, where you able to make patches or play presets ?
Nope...no programming opportunity (just presets), which is where I'm sure the real flexibility lies. I've also never really been a big wavetable fan, though I appreciate it more now than I used to, I'd say. Was also surprised the Quantum's analog filters didn't warm it up a bit more. I've run my Casio CZ-1 through the Dreadbox Erebus, and it sounded creamy as hell.
Waldorf's filters are always a little colder than others! All Part of their unique charm I guess. I understand what you say about wavetables .. it took 15 years before I started to appreciate and deeply explore them :D
This seriously kickstarted my motivation to dig in more on the Blofeld. I have it but never really connected with it... but it’s so powerful. How long did it take u to get so proficient with it?
It didn't take a too long, I still have a lot of digging under the hood to do. Its well worth it if you can connect to the synth. I have the same problem with the JD-800. People love it , I like it when I hear it in a track placed back, but I have no connection to it and find it bland to play :D
Pero que fantastico sonido, ¡genial!
Gracias :D
awesome! would like to play these sounds.
I'll see if I saved it and let you know if I can share :D
This tax season I’m eyeing a blofeld keyboard just so I have the user wave table feature right off
Can you answer if it allows actual user wavetables? Or is it just sample playback? I hope to add my serum made FM tables to it
Also how is the FM, is it similar to the phase modulation style of FM as seen in FM8 or NI massive??
Some day when I have the funds and have a studio of sorts, I’ll get a quantum. It finally lets a hardware synth play in the same realm as powerful vsts. As for now I wanted a wavetable synth, with all the standard features, and with FM
So getting the blofeld is definitely my correct choice, I got the minilogue two years ago, not getting the blofeld first has been a deep regret. I hope to hear back on the question about user tables and FM
:) great video
Yes, actual user created Wavetables. Have never got around to exploring the FM on it ! :D I would love a Quantum but they are months on back order at this point! :D
Great patches.
Thanks Dreux :D As you can see its an amazing synth and still very modern sounding. If they released a more Knobby version I would upgrade tomorrow to it :D
Yes, I imagine it would be nice to map a BCR2000 to it.
I have thought of doing this or creating some kind of custom Arduino solution :D
superbe ! merci :)
Thanks :D
Very cool! Does anyone know if the build quality (particularly know stability) is better on the Blofeld Keys version versus the desktop version? I've had major knob issues on the two desktop versions I've had.
As far as I know the Keyboard just has the desktop module transplanted into it. I believe they have imroved the rotary encoders over the years but encoders are always eventually a problem unless if they are optical. Hope that helps :D
@@100ThingsIDo Thank you.
very nice
Thanks again :D
The sample should be 30 minutes of talking about Quantum, followed by a couple of bell sounds from the Blofeld - it'd NAIL the Quantum sound we've been exposed to so far :)
Its been a bit lean sound wise so far, from the last interviews it seems they have started any level of production so i'm guessing they just don't have enough units to ship to sound creators yet! It really does seem to have the goods :D
Only discovering you now... I'm seriously impressed! This is the most lush sound I've ever heard coming out of any Waldorf! Is there any chance you could make this patch available for download? I'd like to try uploading it to my Waldorf Q to see how it translates... Thanks for the blissful sounds.
I'll have to have a look if I still have the sound. Normally I delete them after I use the sound to try and keep everything fresh each time I write music :D
I have two Blofeld, i have same idea and the same think like you. I mean Blofeld is basic sound sytem and architecture for new Quantum Synth by Waldorf. Quantum is the same like Blofeld, but Quantum is Luxury flag ship, and maybe have more polyphony and super friendly user interface with touch display and more.
Quantum adds to blofeld engine : granular and resonators synthesis, analog filter, more LFO and enveloppe, etc... and a better global sound engine.
This is Blofeld squared.
Hey there, we are finally starting to see some impressive demo's of the Quantum showing more of what it can do! I'm starting to wonder what I can sell to get one :D
I enjoy my Blofeld, and it's my main workhorse which usually provides all sounds except drums. But for a more modern equivalent, what I'd really like isn't a Quantum... Instead, it'd be really nice to have a multi-timbral Novation Peak or Hydrasynth. Basically, a box which is just like either of those, but with 8 or more timbres so it can still play all parts of a song simultaneously.
The Hydrasynth in particular seems like it gets some inspiration from the Blofeld, with a very similar but greatly improved workflow.
waldorf blofeld jak dla mnie to Access Virus B/KB w nowym opakowaniu i nowym znaczkiem i minimalnymi różnicami. Przecież Kemper kiedyś pracował w firmie Waldorf... był kimś od dźwięku podobno ale wszyskiego nie wiem. Kupię go kiedyś z czystej ciekawości.
Przepraszam za słabe tłumaczenie. Tak, mogą wydawać się bliskie, ale z jakiegoś powodu produkty Virus nigdy nie były w stanie interpolować tabel falowych. To dla mnie cecha „must have” :D
I just listened to a demo of the Waldorf Kyra on another channel, and to be honest THIS synth (alhough lacking the FX and stacking power of the Kyra) has more character.
Yeh, quite a different synth indeed. I doubt I will even sell the Blofeld .. its fantastic :D
Wow, bravo! Sounds great. Have you had issues with the famously-breakable encoders, though?
Sorry to take so long to get back to you. I have had a little trouble but I took 2 of them apart and cleaned them and they have been good ever since :D
I like the pads, Im trying to decide whether I should get blofeld of roland system 1... Any suggestion?
I would suggest trying them yourself but the Blofeld does offer wave tables and deeper synthesis than the System 1 I believe :D
I can’t quite understand what’s going on with the sample on Osc2 as it’s seemingly playing slightly randomly. I’ve not got the licence SL yet so would love to see how you’re controlling it. Utter beautiful sound. Stunning!
Osc2 is a custom wavetable I created using an application called AudioTerm... I have a video on it. Its a little tricky to use but yes once its a wavetable you can move around in the sound any way you like :D Hope this helps!
100 Things I Do ah ok, not a sample. I’ll check the video, only recently got into custom WTs. I love the strange alien ambience this one provides.
Awesome, do you make any soundset for Blofeld? Thats would be great!
Hi Kresy, thanks. No I don't sell sound sets. Buy maybe in the future :D
Very fine sound! Is it possible that you devoloped that sound on base of a custom made wavetable? (Dogs (85)
Yep, DOGS is a custom wave table. Its from a sound I captured from TV. I would of used Audioterm to make it for the Blofeld! :D
Damn this hello intro look XDDD
LOL you should do them V :D
Soon 8)
Very interesting and great demonstrated, did you use the Microwave 1 or 2 as well?
Hey Tip Top, I have not been able to find a Microwave at a price i'm willing to pay. For many years I was not all that interested in Wavetables it was all about analog ... now I have more than my fair share of Analog goodies and always looking for interesting different sounds. Also my style of music composition changed back to more Ambient from more Tuneful beat driven tracks :D
Hopefully I can get one for a decent price at some point. Ive found in my years that some synths no matter how awesome and loved by many just don't work for you personally. The JD-800 and Jupiter 8 i have never been able to get sounds i loved from either :D
I've had a MW1 but sold it because of the lack of a decent interface. I didn't really get on with the Mostrum editor either, couldn't figure it out.
Did you find it sounded like the PPG Wave ? Prices for a PPG at the moment are a little crazy :D
Well I've never owned a PPG to compare it with :) but I did listen to a lot of presets as I didn't program it much. Didn't really hear any PPG type sounds, I guess it could do them if you wanted them. Although the PPG had the option of a waveterm.
My Blofeld have issues ... but never will sell . I love the sound of it.
I thought I would of sold mine after I got the Quantum but I just can't part with it :D
HI. Looking for a first Synth to keep. Do you think that Blofeld could be one?
It all depends what your going to do with it... but possibly :D
Have you experimented with the limited, but nice additive sine wave synthesis you can do with the Blofeld?
Its not ringing any bells with me (FM Bells that is).... do you have a demo on your channel ? It could be very interesting... nothing better than smashing sine waves together :D
@@100ThingsIDo Not yet, but I will work on it!
In the simplest form you would have 3 sinewaves, say set to root, 2nd and 3rd harmonic.
With a disabled filter you let the 1st harmonic be controlled by the Filter envelope for amplitude
The 2rd and 3th harmonics
are controlled by Env3 and Env 4.
By adding randomization to each envelope, you control the relative timbre
with the amplitude of each envelope..
Does sound interesting indeed (although also a bit limited possibly) I'll have to check it out :D
@@100ThingsIDo Check out my tune, the Squire of Gothos. This has no filter and only amplitude is adjusted with 3 different modifier controlled envelopes. LFO is added to pitch.
Thanks .. I will do :D
I always used to think the Blofeld is a bit too mellow and the reverb rather thin and metallic (sounds contradictive now). But! this pad just made me reevaluate this little synth. Just as capable as a JV-2080 in the pad domain. Is it a custom sample?
Yep, custom sample of a kid making "whoop' sounds if I remember correctly. Check out my video on the blofeld comb filter its amazing what you can do with this little beastie :D
The Quantum looks like it will have infinite possibilities. The only limitation I can see is that it only has 8 voices. Would have loved to have at least 16 or 32... I can foresee note stealing being a problem on huge pads with long release times.... maybe they will release a voice upgrade board? Anyway, it still seems very impressive, just wish there were more voices.
Indeed, you never know they may optimize the code and steal a few more voices for us.. or make it if your not using all 4 oscillators that you can get a little more get up and go. Yes, I am very excited by the possibilities of this synth. First synth in a few years REALLY to get me excited :D
Any synth that uses analogue VCAs and VCFs is going to have limited voices due to PCB space and component costs. It's not a lack of processing power that an upgrade can solve (although possibly there may be room for additional voice cards?).
It's already a risky product for Waldorf as the price bracket it is in severely limits sales, making development costs harder to recoup quickly. I'm sure they remember this when they planned the polyphony, going to 16 would have significantly increased costs, I don't think they want to go bankrupt again.
Very true, i forgot the filters were analog and not software! Thanks :D
Not sure if they are chips or using components. I'd imagine they took the Pulse 2 design and used that. If you've seen inside a pulse 2 you'll see how much space on a PCB a monosynth can take up. Of course there's no analogue oscillators but I don't imagine there's a lot of space inside the unit.
Yea I understand it takes up space/cost etc but since the Waldorf Q+ was 16 voices w/ analog filters, it would've been nice if they could do same again.
Dogy wavetable on Osc1 ok with low LFO modulation
Boommm sample on Osc2 ? .... can you confirm and detail please.
classic Saw on Osc 3
Filter 1 and 2 serial on parallel ?
For Blofeld FX, chorus and reverb , and external Delay (plugin VST).
Thanks for your inspiration.
Yep, very close indeed. Dogs is a custom wavetable I created using Audioterm (a free Waveterm emulation). :D
@@100ThingsIDo Thanks, I will discover Audioterm, it's very interesting.
I have a few videos on the channel about it. Very useful but a little tricky to use and learn :D
@@100ThingsIDo Yes I see them, very funny to make orginale wavetable.
Thanks
I have a Kyra, Iridium and a Blofeld (my only three hardware synths). The Blofeld is such a well designed synth, and so convenient to program. However, it still sounds quite 'digital' for my taste, I don't know what it is, perhaps I should avoid it's effects or perhaps it's the DA converter, I don't know. Do you have any knowledge about this?
The Digital sound of the blofeld is excatly why I still have it after getting the quantum. If you listen to the Microwave II all the way to the XT there were a lot more in yourface digital. You can use the chorus slightly to tame it back but I just embrace its crystaline sound :D
Ok, wait so, where do I purchase this patch from? Thank you!
Sorry, I don't sell patches but if you follow what I do you should be able to recreate it :D If you get really stuck let me know and I will see if I have it to share with you!
OK, excuse this totally insane comment. I don't play music. I'm building up gear over the coming year with a plan to start a personal journey so to speak. So, wait for it... Waldorf Quantum - a spellbinding synth that someone could limit themselves too and own as a way to be the only Synth they'd need???
OK, stop laughing, I'm being serious lol... great vids as always btw
Possibly, people have limited themselves to a lot less and made stunning compositions! the only thing I have a slight concern about is that the Quantum only has 8 voices (8 notes at any given time). While it might not be a problem at all its possible it could be a limiting factor with creativity :D
I completely understand your point there. Hopefully the complexity of how it can design sounds, and sound large, will help the lack of voices. Time will tell. As a non-player here, I think subjectively it's over-priced, though appreciate it's a deep instrument. Plus it has the "flagship" label. I think it would sell higher numbers if it was 20% cheaper. I appreciate musicians would never dream of owning one instrument, regardless of whether they could create a whole album worth of material using it. It'll be great to see it out in the youtube domain, instead of in the hands of the decidedly average/wrotten Korg staff who have recently not done it justice. I appreciate again that to true musicians, that won't matter. It appeals to me that it can do lots of different things in hardware, and is one unit. Thanks for your reply, keep up the great work.
I can see your point, maybe once Waldorf have recovered some of the development cost the price will come down. Your comment is correct, you can get plugin's and other cheeper instruments with similar syntheses types and layer the sound. I guess the all in one box just adds flexibility and portability :D
Have you got the wavetable "DOGS" and "Boooom" sample (waldorf sample or another ?).
Why do you use external VST delay, the blofeld delay is not enough ?
I have the studio apart at the moment for a rebuild (this weekends work) please remind me and I will dump the sysex back from the Blofeld and share. I use external delay due to many more options in sound. :D
@@100ThingsIDo Thanks
Anychance to share this amazing path pleeeez. Subscribed ..greatchannel sir.
Got mine today ☺ 🤗 🤪 😌
Nice :D Hope you love it.. Make some awesome sonics with it !
Great programming you've made me realise I'm probably in need of a Blofeld not interested in the expensive one frankly.
The Blofeld is still a very fine Synth, years of Waldorf's Waves and technology in it! I'm always tempted to pick up the module version also :D
Super
The Blofeld is still amazing Value :D
On my Blofeld wavetable 85 is a User Wavetable. You're showing 'Dogs' on yours. So where would I get this 'Dogs'
Its a custom wave-table I created, check out my Video on AudioTerm it allows you to take any sound and turn it into a custom wave table :D
@@100ThingsIDo So I can't get 'Dogs'? How am I supposed to make this sound? :) Seriously, thanks for the tips here. Sounds Great!
@@sepulchre10 the fun is in making your own, but if you REALLY want my Dogs wavetable drop me an email (contact details on youtube in About page) and I will try and fix you up! :D
Synth sounds killer here but we have to remember that a large part of the sound you created is the effects and much of that was external and not the Blofeld. I love the Blofeld but the effects are poor. Especially when I compare them to the effects section of the Deep mind 12. I guess the Deepmind is a newer product but still.... great synth though and sample licence is often said to be a waste of money but I think that is usually said by people that haven't really got to grips with it.
Indeed, its not a self contained box for everything and the sampling is very limited! .. but for its minute asking price its a totally killer machine! I don't use the reverb that much but the Chorus in the Blofeld does magic to the intneral sounds! Many people think the Juno 6/60/106 Chorus is the best sounding ever.. for some reason I don't really like that Chorus on anything besides the Juno's :P Enjoy making sound :D
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É incrível :D
not bad for the price
Indeed! Even though I now have a Quantum I'm very reluctant to let the Blofeld go! :D
@@100ThingsIDo how would digitakt go with blofeld
The sequencer on the Elektron stuff is the magic for sure! :D
Custom wavetable, custom samples, hard to reproduce at home...
But still amazing effort. Waiting for the download ;-)
Check out my Video's on Audioterm , its a software synth similar to the PPG Wave Term , its free and lets you make custom wave tables very easy, you just save them and import into the Blofeld and done! It supports quite a few synths! :D
it is very easy to do in software for the blofeld actually
On peut faire beaucoup plus avec cette machine. 👍
Merci :D
Great sounds. Will you share them or sell? I'd buy them...
Thanks ! Unfortunately I use and then erase most of my patches. I find I like creating new sounds for each project. :D
I understand, it's an admirable attitude. I have similar, but usually I keep the sounds. I mostly don't use the sounds created by the other people for their works, but it's interesting to analyze them and maybe learn something new. I also wouldn't give away my sounds to another person, I would have a strange feeling to hear them used by other musician :-) Thanks for your interesting videos!
Blofeld over the Quantum any day.
I'm lucky to have both, but yes! The Blofeld is still amazing almost 13 years after its release! :D
P R O G R A M M I N G S K I L L S. That's all you need to bring an instrument to life.
Sucha. great synth :D