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This is the best investment I made in my life. a major game changer for customizing my tracks out of a computer box. I use it programmed, also for finger drumming, my machine is expanded with a maximum of 32mb, 8 analog audio outputs, 12 audio Fx routable to the internal mixer buses. Creamy sound, great quality of 16-bit audio recording, good dynamic range in the audio output. It's old, but very intuitive, not as complicated as the new mpc. Its greatest power is its sequencer, actually a 64-track machine for sequencing midi or audio samples.

Yes, this was my first groovebox, a kind of module with workstation functions in a box. I use this machine to make rhythms, also to play 7 sounds at the same time for a multilayer result to play the same notes, I save these sounds as songs because it doesn't have the option to save multi-presets. It has a drum section with 8 sounds and then it has 7 more tracks for bass keyboards and effects or percussion, 348 sounds in rom. The machine has good FX quality, the filter is a bit thin, but it does its job well, it's not bad, but it could be improved. Probably the rompler with roland's most famous sounds.

It's the drum machine I can never have, but I do! this is weird right? Yes, I'm happy to have this drum machine, it's not an original TR-909 but it does everything exactly like the original. The sound is actually very good, just as good as the novation drumstation II, but this one is much cleaner, I don't need to equalize any of it. This machine, if the volumes are well controlled, can give better mixing results than the original 909. (the original accumulates background noise through the analog channels) The sequencer is identical, there is nothing different, it has some extras, but everything that the original 909 has is maintained. This machine is small, but its knobs are really firm, they don't wobble, I bought this box in 2017 and I use it every day, there is no problem with the buttons or the knobs. It is a 24 bit / 48000 hz sound card and midi interface, it also has an audio bridge on the audio input to use another machine on the same channel as the TR-09. It's a MIDI controller! With this machine the buttons on its control panel become a controller for any other machine, for example I usually use this as a Waldorf blofeld controller. Really cool, it's not made anymore, but there's still the TR-08 that's still the same thing to emulate TR 808. It uses a usb cable for power, it can be used with a cell phone adapter, it is low consumption and it is also powered from a computer. It has 10 individual channels through the USB cable that allows audio to be output, ideal for use in ableton live or logic pro.

First I want to make it clear that I give it 5 stars, because it is a great analog machine After purchasing it in 2014, I was amazed at how well it still works with no glitches or faulty controls or circuitry. It is a 100% classic analog synthesizer, you have to turn it on 5 minutes before starting so that the circuits warm up and count in their normal tone. The machine is a mix between an SH-101 and an MS-10. Microbrute basses appear in all the songs I make, really great for sounds of italo disco, house, hip-hop, reggae dancehall, electronic dub, big beat, break beat, jungle, techno, IDM, house, electro funk, acid-jazz , electronic cumbia, trip-hop. This machine really makes very cool percussion sounds, with great character and capacity, thanks to its modulation patch and its external audio input to the steiner parker multimode analog filter. The filter is resonant and generates a sine, which can give very rich harmonics and the feeling of using 2 oscillators. The keyboard tricks are great, the sequencer goes hand in hand with the mini keys (don't remove the keys, you will lose more). The mini keys are bad like those on a microkorg, but it's nice to have them close at hand so you can play on the spot. The keys are also a midi and CV controller, it is ideal for modular small sites or a clone of arp 2600. It has no effects, the sound is clean and thick, metalizer is a very powerful FM addition to the triangle, the sub oscillator is a square shape and has a fifth. The build quality is very good, it has a thick plastic and well fixed to a metal plate, the synthesizer can weigh more than expected, a lot for its size. The LFO in free mode is ultra fast, it has midi in7out via usb, it has 3 octaves down and 2 up, the lowest octave is used for very cool sub basses. It's the feeling of having an old school Russian synth, but with a lot of quality and some very creative features.

My experience is really very positive. This little sampler is an effects processor that allows me to process other equipment, it has audio routing for microphone and stereo line inputs. The sampler records with good audio quality, you can also degrade the sound with the effects. The effects are simple and great, they allow you to do various tricks for human voices and drum samples or music with very marked pieces of compass. timestreetch is similar to S950 The silicone pads are of quality, in all these years the numbers have not been erased. I recommend this sampler to those who want to do fast things with their hands, such as finger drumming, also for the same with single-note basses, interesting sounds can be played, the filter is not very good, but it works well for subwoofer. It is polyphonic with 8 voices, it can also offer me pads of one-shot samples of synthesizers. I'm using it on my last album and I used it before on my previous jobs.

The Novation x-station synth is a very versatile and flexible synthesizer for its money. The whole package includes a virtual analog synth, a midi controller, a 2 in / 2 out audio interface and an effect processor. It comes in both 25, 49 and 61 semi-weighted keys. This makes it sort of an all in one unit. The only things missing to really make it an all in one unit (e.g workstation) is a sampler, sequencer, and multitimbrality. The synth section is monotimbral, but hey must every synthesizer out where have multitimbrality? No, I would say. In this case, it’s one of the synths charms not to be able to do multitimbrality. The synth engine includes 3 oscillators with 17 waves each and an independent noise source, a ring modulator, oscillator 1-2 sync and FM (2 operator FM synthesis). In the oscillator section, you find the standard analog waves like sinus, square/pulse, saw and triangle. Plus some noise sources and some really interesting digital waves that are sort of like wavetables or preset sounds. Making just the oscillator section alone very massive and huge when it comes to possibilities and making some interesting sound palettes. The filter onboard is a 12 dB / 24 dB multimode filter including low, band and highpass filtering. The section also includes a very interesting drive circuit. There is also two very interesting LFO’s with 32 waves each, two ADSR envelopes and an AD envelope for the FM synthesis with velocity. Other things found in this synth include a portamento section (glide in some synths), unison, a very groovy and somewhat funky arpeggiator. An effect processor that’s makes anything sound big and large, a very addictive X/Y pad that in its default setting controls an filter of some sort (not sure what it is but it sounds awesome!).

I don't know where to start, but I'll try to be brief (difficult with such a deep super synth). I don't know where to start, but I'll try to be brief (difficult with such a deep super synth). To begin with it is a real waldorf synthesizer, digital but with a very well calibrated character, warm similar to the nord lead and with 16 bit 48k hz sound quality. The machine is endless, you can always create something new. It has the ability to make most of the waldorf wave and PPG wave sounds, thanks to its 2 legacy wavetable oscillators from the Q series (waldorf Q, xt,xtk, microQ). It is the best emullator of the classic PPG/Waldorf synthesizers Waldorf blofeld is a super synth that has 3 VA oscillators(first 2 are va+sampleplayer+wavetable) the third oscillator is just a VA. 1024 sounds, 128 multi programs, Graphic display, editable arpeggiator with 16 sequence steps, Compatible with Micro Q sounds, 60MB sample memory, It has 3 ultra-fast LFOS, and they can be used as subtractive oscillators. 4 envelopes where the first two are typical of any normal synthesizer but with different behaviors, the last 2 are more special and are inherited from the waldorf wave. It has 2 routable filters in series and parallel as in waldorf wave waldorf Q, a distortion in each of the 2 filters and the two effects slots. This is ideal for me, to make sounds of drum and bass, trap, grime, uk garage, furute garage, hard sounds of dub-step, 2-step, hard techno, detroit electro-techno, trance, hard house. (just an idea). It has FM in every section of the synth, and the entire synth is modulatable to all parts and sections to create the sound. FM is subtractive, but can be used with wavetable sweeps and their comb filters, which are a very powerful way of making weird, bototic sounds. Traditional arpeggiator, but also editable as a 16-step step sequencer, this can generate sequences with samples or subtractive sounds, ideal for use as a precussion module or drum machine. The much loved polyphonic aftertouch that not everyone has, for 25 voice polyphony, for a synth that is also 16 part multi-timbral (16 blofeld synths inside). It also has 16 modulation slots + 4 modifiers for a total of 20 modulations. It also offers stereo L and R output, which can be used for routing or destinations from its internal mixer for 2 parts that have different sounds and recording live in a DAW. This german synthesizer was made by waldorf when the company was bankrupt, they still had the great accumulated debt of waldorf wave and they managed to make the blofeld with the lowest budget of their history with a bank loan, hence their DSP problems and poor development of firmware. It is a 100% made in Germany synthesizer, it has no Chinese stuff. The keyboard version is the cheapest keyboard synthesizer of the brand, and it is the synthesizer with the most polyphony of the brand, even iridium only has 16 polyphony voices and blofeld 9 more voices, it is one of the reasons why it is still in use. the market, with a wide community of users. It has been used in electronic music for a long time, it came out a year later than the desktop version, in 2024 it will be 15 years old and it will still be the only wadorf synthesizer with 16 multitimbral parts. Many avant-garde music tracks and pop content like trap and dubstep contain a waldorf blofeld among their tracks, it is highly recognizable for its more trance-like sound and glitch-like bass. . It defends itself well against an access virus, nord lead, Modal... Where this keyboard shines the most is inside, its minimalist appearance does not do it justice, even so, inside it hides an entire ecosystem of incredible possibilities for waveform-based and samples PCM sound files design. After almost 15 years, this synthesizer does not age and continues on the market, being of interest to many musicians. Waldorf's most modern and most expensive digital and hybrid synthesizers in 2023 offer polyphony of 8 and 16 notes, other brands such as Modal, ASM, Arturia, Clavia at most 8 to 16 voices. But in these times where the voices, the keys and multiplicity are so expensive, the blofeld is the one that offers the most below 800 and 500 euros in its 2 versions.