Vintage Synth Explorer

Waldorf • Pulse

The Waldorf Pulse is a monophonic synthesizer equipped with three oscillators and an arpeggiator. Its 100 patch programs are divided into 59 presets, 40 user sounds and one random sound. In addition to some standard modulations, four freely routable modulation units with selectable source, amount and destination give almost unlimited possibilities for analog bass and lead synth sounds.

On the Pulse Plus model, there is a built-in MIDI to CV converter with CV/Gate input and output for communicating with your old analog gear. All parameter changes are sent and received as MIDI controller messages. There are up to 16 modulation sources, 4 routable modulation units with adjustable source, amount and destination parameters, 6 knobs and 4 buttons for convenient editing. This and a lot more puts the Waldorf Pulse a class of its own. It is used by Hardfloor, 808 State, Sneaker Pimps, Nine Inch Nails, Moby, Jimmy Edgar, and Bushflange.

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Vale

Posted 74 days ago

I've owned this synth for a year. It's really an amazing "little" monster, capable of many different tonal characters. I love the way the 3 oscillators blend together. Modulations are great and give the sound that nice "moving". Arpeggiator is ok, basic, but works well. Portamento is very effective and smooth. The filter is very good sounding, but the resonance steals too much volume. Anyway it sounds good and sits perfectly in the mix. Of course, you need a midi control surface of some kind to edit all the parameters.

Oli

Posted 193 days ago

This site probably should mention that several Pulses can be combines into a polyphonic stack, as described in page 52 of the manual. Of course one must have one Pulse per voice, so it is not the cheapest path to a poly analogue, though also not as expensive as some analogue polies.

boy eats drum machine

Posted 278 days ago

I use pulse for bass in pretty much every song I do. It's got unique presence and character. It also harmonizes, doubles and stacks very well with itself. I also love to run it through analog delay for cool retro sounding leads and synth textures. The pulse is tedious at times but remains a great value for nasty sounds.

a.13

Posted 286 days ago

i've used this to vibrate thousands of bodies. low pass subtractive 3 osc, so low and loud you see the speakers moving but can't hear it.

Synth God

Posted 346 days ago

Best little killer ever! Analog, loud & powerful + one GREAT routing matrix (almost everything can be a source for almost everything). Editing the knobs [beep] s, but there are lots of environments/mixermaps/device panels for Logic/Cubase out there, so no problem. Waldorf's best unit besides the PPG/Microwave.

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