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BTW - which OS version are you using on your 2.3 and are your wavetables complete (#13, especially)?

<t>Hi Gerald - former PPG owner and current Microwave-1 hoarder here. I myself had a go at trying to represent these unique machines and their special sound on the V-Synth (seemed like a wonderful way of extending the Wave sound into another dimension), but had a very hard time in getting the sound ...

<t>Hi fellow V-Synth owners - hope everyone is having a nice weekend.<br/> <br/> I seem to be noticing a bit of a frightening development happening to my V-Synth. Upon powering it up every day, I've noticed that the touch screen has been starting up somewhat dimmer lately; eventually growing brighte...

And they could be sample-based.

"Waldorf never made a synth that let you put in your own samples as waveforms either..."

Just a correction - the Microwaves allowed for user waveform/wavetable creation via third party apps... similar to what the PPG Wavterm offered.

<t>Perhaps you're right - I've been so conditioned to expect more "flashy" sounds from newer machines that I've overlooked subtlety and it's own beauty.<br/> <br/> I'm still reeling from the fact that Richard Barbieri created a large number of these and that I get to use them - he's one of my idols,...

<t>Hmm - I've only really begun to scratch the surface of this amazing machine, and (not to sound smug) my creations are light years ahead of what these guys have accomplished.<br/> <br/> Not a lot of useable sounds - true. Although the Richard Barbieri patches are what I might expect. However, they...

<r>Hey - I got the key verision from the Music Loft in Greensboro - 1700 for a slightly-used floor model. I got to spend at least a couple hours with it before making the purchase. Believe it or not, they also had an Andromeda-6 and several other nice synths- not too shabby for North Carolina <E>;)<...

<t>Ahh - I feel like an idiot now. I see now that adjusting the pulse width, then changing the keytracking really does work - takes a little twiddling to get it to change from a hollow square at C1 to narrow pulse at C6. For some reason, it didn't seem obvious. Now to try something similar with osc ...

<t>Hi Nathan - I'm using 2.0 on the V-Synth keyboard.<br/> <br/> Here's a good way of trying out this bug:<br/> <br/> + Activate only one analog oscillator - nothing else<br/> + Set it to any waveform<br/> + Set the pulse width to 0, and zero any PWM functions<br/> + Set the key follow to 100<br/> +...

<t>Hey - anyone read this post? Help - I'd love to be able to say that I'm doing something wrong, but I can't seem to find any other workaround. <br/> <br/> Again - is anyone else having problems trying to get the analog oscillators' pulse width to track the keyboard properly? The same applies to os...

<t>Having a problem getting any analog osc wave's pulse width to track the keyboard properly. It seems as though the waves are divided into octaves and that the tracking only works per octave (or within that octave). This is really annoying. I've had the same problem when using osc sync - seems to r...

<t>Thanks for the input. Yes - I'm finding it easier to just use the Microwave and setting the wavetable wavemode to smooth, instead of stepped. Still, I'm coming to the realization that some of the wavetables just don't work well at all. The 2.3 is especially bad, probably due to the stronger sound...

<t>Hi there - long time lurker and sometime poster here. Question for users of this marvelous synth - has anyone had strange pitch problems when encoding sounds with severe harmonic shifts?<br/> <br/> I've been trying to meticulously sample and encode my beloved PPG Wave 2.3 and Microwave-1 wavetabl...

I agree - an interpolating wavetable synth should be easy for the V-Synth to emulate. User defined wavetables and wave creation should be implemented too - maybe with an eight-track step sequencer. Kind of like a cross between a Wave and a Poly-Evolver.