Waldorf Blofeld

Single Patch Editor

This editor will work with the Waldorf Blofeld, the Waldorf Blofeld with SL Option, and the Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard (which automatically comes with the SL option).

Communicating with Edisyn

Set your Blofeld to send Sysex only, not Ctl nor Ctl+Sysex. Also make sure that Ctrl Receive is on. Set Edisyn's send and receive channels to the Blofeld's MIDI Channel, and set the Synth ID to the Blofeld's Device ID.

SL Option

The SL option gives you the option of specifying a sound sample instead of a wave on Oscillators 1 and 2. This is turned on by choosing a Sample Bank in the editor: then the wave menu turns into a sample menu. You turn it off by choosing None in the Sample Bank. BTW, if you're wondering why Edisyn's SL Sample Banks end at Bank L, that's the furthest a contributor could get his to go before crashing his Blofeld. So there you go.

Uploading Wavetables

Under the Blofeld menu you'll find an option to upload a wavetable. You can upload wavetables in three different formats: Important note: You probaby want to turn Limit WT off when using user wavetables. Otherwise the Blofeld will not work properly with any PWM values greater than 120.

Why? Limit WT stands for "Limit Wavetable". Early Waldorf and PPG wavetables reserved the top few waves for sawtooth, square, and triangle waves regardless of the rest of the wavetable; this would make for weird modulation results. The Blofeld has those wavetables internally, but LimitWT prevents modulation from reaching those waves. But your own wavetable probably doesn't have that weirdness, so you want to turn Limit WT off.

Uploading Pseudo-MPE

The Blofeld doesn't support MPE. But we can fake it by setting up one of its multimode patches in a special way, and this can be taken advantage of by instruments such as the Linnstrument.

You can prepare a multimode patch slot with Write Patch as Psuedo-MPE. This writes a multimode patch which points to your current single patch, including the current name, bank, and (single patch) number. Each slot in the multimode patch will refer to this patch but have a unique MIDI channel. You get to choose what multimode patch number to write to. Note that your single-patch must already be written to the synth.

Gotchas

By    Sean Luke
Date    June 2017 (Last revision October 2019)