Waldorf • MicroWave XTk
The MicrowaveXTk is a keyboard version of the powerful MicrowaveXT. It's a great big orange polyphonic performance synthesizer with 49 full sized velocity sensitive keys. There are 44 rotaries of knob-laden heaven and lots of control. All of the knobs transmit MIDI information as well! It's perfect for performance and studio work.
The MicrowaveXT synthesizer engine is relatively the same as the Microwave 2 and Wave synths that came before it. Digital wavetable synthesis and FM synthesis in which waves are mixed and combined into new sounds. The MicroWaveXTk can easily emulate the sounds of the PPG wavetable synths as well as create squelchy acid-303 lines or boomy Moog bass.
Other great functions include a programmable arpeggiator, 4 integrated digital effects and stereo audio inputs. A sinus shaper 12dB low pass filter, a wave shaper 12dB low pass filter, sample & hold with a 12dB low pass filter, dual parallel filters with 12dB low pass and 12dB band pass, a 12dB low pass filter with filter FM (cutoff modulation through oscillator 2). Top that off with 8 part multitimbrality, 256 sounds and 128 multi-patches for one mega-powerful performance synthesizer perfect in any live or studio application where fat analog sounds are needed!
+ lots of knobs
+ free Env & wave Env
+ best onboard Delay i ever heard
+ crazy modulaton abilities with mathematica functions
+ extra-juicy crazy filters
+ super warm sound
+ edit buffers, which contains current sound
+ soft switching between sounds
- no buttons for changing values. only knobs.
- no headphone output.
- no reverb fx
- i can't modulate/fast-control parametres in FX-block.
- one wavetable for both Osc
- i can't see stored patch name, when i want to store my current patch.
- price...
but it's my favourite synth.