All user reviews for the Waldorf Pulse

This synth rack is part of a generation of hybrid analog to digital control. Allowing it to have this great personality in his remaining analog. And power controller midi all modulation parameters and synthesis, as well as save presets (99 presets in all, including 40 user presets which you can store the edition).
It has 3 VCO, the first two are syncronisable and the pulse width of the pulse waveform is modulable.LE VCO2 waveform has the CRS (crossmodulation) which is a combination of the pulse waveform of Oscillators 2 and 3 (this is more clearly explained in the manual with a diagram and all), this is a great feature that allows a given modulation frequency in both VCO and performs great.
The VCO3 has waveforms triangle, pulse and saw (but without the pulsewidth).
Two ADSR envelopes used independently as a modulation source.
Two LFO with a syncronisable the clock noon.
A arpégiatteur, a portamento (legato or not), 4 trigger mode, a modulation of the pitch which the source can be chosen as well known for the frequency filter, the intensity of the envelope filter, the output volume . And of course a modulation matrix with 4 assignment from any source to any destination. Sources and destination are clearly listed next to the screen of the synth.
Pulse of the buttons are quite fragile, it is better not to touch live, and preferably the controller via an external interface. But they are still the road, I edit my sounds with 3 years and I have not had a problem, and at worst it can be repaired ...
This synth is monophonic and monotimbral.

UTILIZATION

The setup is rather simple, we made it very quickly. You must travel in the matrix editing and set all the parameters with the same 6 buttons, but the whole array appears in frontage, there is not to worry about sub menus, the screen is only used to display the value that is selected and it is more than enough to do so. These restrictions and allow small to have an excellent synth for a small price.

SOUNDS

The sound is great whatever you're looking to do, the possibility of being extended are making an effort of imagination (as for many other synths for that matter). Right now I use it to make percussive sounds kind of line snares, I control with a midi step sequencer and I can make really elaborate rhythmic phrases, etc. contrasting slamming. The sound of a huge pulse peiche, both in acute and in his deep bass very serious and powerful. The filter is very beautiful and very effective, envelopes very sharp and very peichues. He may be accused of losing some volume when mounting the resonance, becuase you can not do scream in acid sounds way TB, but that said we can still make sounds acids, I done and they have proven very effective, very fat and organic, and the fact that loss of volume when mounting the resonance can be also be an advantage if you want to temper some strident harmonics that could be painful to the ears when is a little too loose on the filter resonance.
The sound of this synth really great personality, he is unlike any other I've tried, and it is replaceable by any emulation. This is a true analog sound with a lot of unpredictability (despite the numerical control), burrs, etc., and that's what's good! Which does not work with a style also very clean, we can make beautiful leads very clear, very powerful and subtle. In short it is a great synth, it may be appropriate to an infinite number of taste and styles. There is absolutely no obligation to restrict itself to one of the 80 typed sounds, it's a real synth, you can do whatever you want, as I said above, provided they make an effort of imagination, this synth offers immense freedom and satisfaction! I love it!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 3 years, I am with very different sounds, I tested a lot of things, and whatever I do I always filled. It sounds good everywhere, a presence and an outstanding personality. I do not have a lot of basis for comparison because before him I had mostly digital machines, and workstations, the groovebox etc., and it's really not comparable. on the other hand I've been after him for another add to my set, and I always enjoy his personality, his timbre and irreplaceable. It has a place in my instruments forever !
The value for money is unbeatable, of course we can not find it new but I got it for 300 euros which is more than reasonable.
The biggest downside is the fragility of the buttons, but we made it very well, you just have to be careful, and to live it is better to use a controller that's all. Obviously this choice I would do, but anyway I think never separate myself from what I have, and if it came to be broken, I need urgently the same!

This synth is a killer! ! ! : D

2u rack synth classic.
Side connections: it is not Peru, but that is a synth monophonique.une output stereo jack and the classic trio midi.il pulse is also a "+" with cv-gate control and access to the filter jack also .
there are six rotary controllers front, a button for this shift in the matrix edition, and two buttons to move through the memory and do the cut / copy / compare.
The screen is a bit dated but as it passes edition is simple.
no effect ... dommage.une LED witness noon.
Finally, as often in waldorf, there is no power button! which is quite irritating ... to have to rummage through the racks in the nodes and identify the correct power supply when not in use
more!
Inside, three oscilloscope and a filter (lp only), 2 envelopes and 2 lfos.largement enough.
there is a dedicated software via midi edition of "pulse editor", but the configuration is sufficiently clear
I never use it.
access to a series on the filter would have been welcome.

UTILIZATION

Edition of the matrix in waldorf is simple but requires all the same, a little time to adapt. But once we understood the trick, it goes very fast.
there are 5 "patch" or modulation is selected the source, destination, and the "amount".
there are two specific for the pitch and the filter.
for the rest of the edition, it's nya turns knobs and supported at times of shift to access other functions. it's a little "Synth School"
at MIDI it is very simple, being monophonic, it is assigned a channel or it is left on omni. can send sysex messages via an external controller or a sequencer to make the edition even more user friendly.
managing the memory: memoirs -40 99 users
-58 Fixed
-1 Memories "random" that generates new sounds that are going on.
to save, it's easy you press "store" and they selected a site between 1 and 40 and here.
the manual is clear but it's so simple that I do not use it.

SOUNDS

The sounds are very kind and grain of the machine recognizable.
the pulse generates large or very heavy bass leads, one can also make fx not too bad and sounds of drums not bad but its field is especially large bassline.
sounds can still be a good idea of ​​the capabilities of the machine: it sounds really fat, analog with a grain thick, it's enough to take off your speakers! yeahhh!
for use, It can be any style of electronic music.
if you want the sound of fisherspooner, vitalic ... is a pulse for you!
the filter is really good with many parameters, but loses much of its momentum when you push the resonance.
Since it is monophonic, it will be ironing tablecloths for!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months, I immediately catches the sound of that I branch.
It is extremely easy to use, everything sounds and it's hard to stop on a config.
sound, huge, really its strong point. construction is correct and there will still many years, I hope! I use another synthe waldorf, the "rackattack" which also sounds very hard but that does not heat the analog pulse.
I bought 300 euros in hand, I find the quality / price unbeatable for an analog
memory and connection complete twelve o'clock. if he fails, I buy a without thinking.
I do not put that 9 / 10 overall score in this story because of the power button gets on my nerves ...

- 2U Rack is no keyboard
- A pair Stereo jack for audio, trio noon.
- The 99 available, 40 in memory users, the rest is preset to a fixed (but not ditables crasables) + a random memory that cre sound Manir random image when the selects.
- Sounddivers can edit the device.
- Analog Mono.

UTILIZATION

- Matrix edition of the waldorf, everything is printed in faade of the device, simply select the correct line in the matrix and turn the knob of the column to edit a value.
- According to the mastery of this matrix, the edition is simple.
- Manuel trs clear.

SOUNDS

- Sounds ideal to me, I was looking for a low gnrateur.
- No effect on the machine.

I find the bass pchues well, that's what I wanted. Once again, I was not the Waldorf.

OVERALL OPINION

- I reu 3 days ago.
- I had the bass, I have used. Little knob on it, but I have a bcr 2000, I will be a pulse XT.
- This is the only analog I tried.
- Report qualitprix nikel (analog for less than 300 euros ...)
- Yes, I again needed.

The Pulse is a MODEL rack, with 3 oscillators, monophonic, but it is enough to spell it.

Excellence for large minimalist sounds good you will find the pure sound of minimal techno artists such as Marco Carola, Umek, Robert Hood, The Advent, Brother's Yard, Terence Fixmer (possde they all like this, is look no further!) ... the synth preferred master steve stoll it is really huge and the synth as derisory price for what comes out! is the analog synth of choice for the worshipers of techno-electro
also used in electro by the greatest: Console, aphex twin, ...

It has enormous potential modulation thanks its modulation matrix: it has four buses each modulation which can connect a modulation source (LFO, envelope, oscilloscope etc ...) a destination (filter, r resonance, oscilloscope, pan, volume, etc ...). LFO very simple to use.
The possibilities of sounds become standards because the synth adj stationary sources of modulation!
It has 2 envelopes, 2 LFO (+ delay on 2) and a bunch of other sources for sculptured sound. the arpeggiator is just monstrous!

UTILIZATION

The edition is more than simple, and competitive advantage that is the combination of analog circuitry, the memory used (40 of 99 editable presets monster). the old analog sound big, memorable!
Manual in English or German, but has not used much.
not need to effect behind, should be left as is ringing it look better. although a little lightweight indeed be cool as you like music ...

SOUNDS

The sound is totally analog (only in the brand) with a filter in his inimitable Waldorf. big bass sounds, leads, ..., it sounds alone and out the pulse of these sounds crazy!
a marvel to work

OVERALL OPINION

Used for more than four years, it is my synth prfr and most used in my compositions.
the pulse is really big sound electro and techno by far the best current analog.
and its relationship qualitprix is ​​incredible (it is not normal for such a good synth but hey, good for us!), even at Euro 1000 I will have bought!
Purchased without hsit

Analog Expander low (see some strange noises ???), the usual three MIDI, stereo output jacks in 6.35, cv gate ... Pack and minimum required connections for my taste.
99 sounds of factories all published and even without the edit, it sends large, take the R92 machine without the hack and you have a piece of Vitalic in appuaynt a key on your keyboard master
no effect
For my part, I have a 49-key keyboard and each respects the halftone ca gun down without musicality.
nice accessory, the arpeggiator, even more than friendly, I find it devastating, I sequence the MC50 via waldorf roland, I program a note (white), and a third of eighth later, another white half tone lower , and is the explosion sound ...
If you want big sound, whether minimal electro, psychedelic rock and other wild music of our time, this synth is that you need
only negative, no on / off button, how many other racks, but must say though, y 'tired of plugging and unplugging of power supplies, we spend enough time on other types of cables!

UTILIZATION

An expander as we should develop more often, as I pulled out some hair on it than 've almost encouraged to burn the manual around a bonfire ... still keep the manual, it is still sometimes useful to push a little in the use of the machine, but the first try, you leave something nice already

SOUNDS

If the sounds are realistic? of course not, that the analog and I do not know the history of the creation of this machine, but it should still be a story of the TB303 below (do not compare the two machines, they have nothing to do ...) but for me as in the fairly dark electro (the hacker, my model) and also in a rock band or I'm "man machine" and rhythm guitar, this synth is great , plug in your scratch on a converter for MIDI and the latter on the waldorf and scares your neighbors Long ago that no one expander m had not done as much effect.

OVERALL OPINION

It'll be a month since I have and I spend all my evenings, I 'almost forget my other machines, I already have a rack BassStation netting and waldorf is intoxicating, the sound is super friendly etc, etc.
Paid 320 euros for sale in Germany, I would do this choice, it's still very affordable given the possibilities of the machine.
Really, if you still hesitate, stop wasting time and buy it, for the story, I dump the sounds of waldorf to put them in the BassStation (you can imagine the result when the two play together)

Any lover of subtractive "analog" knows it's a safe bet
When you love the analos, we find ourselves, often with single-purchasing power requires
The Virtual analog signal more suitable for polyphonic, but its lower fat and less powerful grain
A couple analog mono + poly VA is a consistent pair, and the pulse is a good choice analomono

Caution is a synth to control "matrix" ie it is not "one-button function"
and as his potential modulations are pushed, its programming is not the most ergonomically
It is doing it anyway, as long as we know what we did, and we are not a tweaker that makes her mad by grinding all the buttons and until it happens. ...
A good controller twelve o'clock will not solve the problem completely because the pulse does not show the CC external (the 0 to 127 as indicated by my choice of bcr waveform, it is not very meaningful)
(Maybe you can edit the display of your midi-controller
unlike bcr)
So take the knobs in their grade (3fonctions-button, on average), and they are not great quality ...
Everything is configurable by noon, and there is a very good freeware for this (Dutch pulse editor)

Given its price, these limitations are well chosen, since the sound makes no concessions! Very dynamic, very low down, bold but also late;
plays the farewell of the aliasing!

ps: it was electronically designed by Alex Hartmann, head
the Wave, the Andromeda and Neuron ...
This is surely the most synth "classic", but not the least successful.

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