Birthday Waldorf!

Jyoti

It was my birthday yesterday! My mrs. baked me this lovely cake:

hooblydoobly

And she also bought me this fantastic little synth:

Click the pic to have a look at a lascivious unboxing of the wee beastie! Smile

Sadly, my new baby is a bit poorly, generating grotty chirruping sounds, background distortion and spontaneous glitchtronic odysseys. So, I'm waiting to for it to be exchanged. Even so, through the burps, it's a great synth and I can't wait for a working machine! Very Happy

Blue Hell

Jyoti · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject:

Fank yeewwww! albino

In the twiddle I've had, I'm very impressed with the LCD interface, makes it super-tweakable. The bizarre thing is that its built like a bloody tank, really heavy and all the encoders are very smooth and expensive feeling. So, I'm a bit sad to get a dodgy one. Ah well! Crying or Very sad

Ignoring the malfunctions, the sound of it is tremendous. Very involving and I'd say it's easily on a par with my Virus Polar. Maybe even better! Cool

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

What an excellent gift! Very Happy

The Blofeld is amazing. The interface kinda actually works just fine Shocked

The sound is brilliant! Imagine the Blofeld piped into your Doepfer filters. Cool

Jyoti · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject:

I'm very, very impressed with the raw oscillator sounds. And the display of the waveforms is lovely, makes selection so intuitive. I can feel it using all the music-y parts of my brain and leaving the computery/mousey bits alone.

It's killing me that it's sitting, all packed-up, waiting for collection. *sigh*

cappy2112

Jyoti · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the birthday wishes!

rh2y · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject:

Happy Birthday!

Sorry to hear you've got a bum Blofeld; hope you get a proper one quickly!

Russ

Jyoti · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject:

Cheers, Russ! Although now I've got my new modular, the pain of the Blofeld is less pressing! Razz

dorremifasol · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

Happy Birthday Jyoti!

I gave me a Blofeld as a birthday gift too, it arrived yesterday. Unfortunately it seems that my unit isn't working well either Sad

As you say, it makes a lot of distortion in many presets, specially the ones that use the phaser effect. So, I will have to return it, aghhh!

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

dorremifasol · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

Too many defective units I would say. This is not good for Waldorf.

Jyoti · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject:

Oh bollocks! I love Waldorf gear and I had hoped my unit was just a rare flakey one. Sad

I hope my new one works when it arrives! Shocked

kvnvk · Joined: Aug 27, 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Texas

good luck with the exchange. I bought a used Bloefeld a few months ago and I haven't noticed any problems with it at all. maybe I've just been lucky.

rh2y · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:30 am Post subject:

My Blofeld works fine except that sometimes the fourth knob sends updates even though it hasn't been twisted. It hasn't gotten bad enough yet for me to decide to return it under warranty, but I may if it gets worse. It seems to go away as the unit warms up.

corazon · Joined: Jul 22, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: London

Hi
Seems that some bugs I found (system volume knob not working etc), and some other bugs people reported on the waldorf mailing list, only occur if you use midi over USB. So if you're using it over USB you may want to try using a standard midi cable and seeing if the problem disappears.

Ed

dorremifasol · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:09 am Post subject:

I tried, but the distortion occurs also when using the MIDI port only (no USB cable attached).

T7 · Joined: Jun 19, 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Cali

There seems to be a pandemic of Blofeld bugs going around. I hope Waldorf can stay afloat. Crying or Very sad

Jyoti · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

Absolute got in touch today and my replacement should be arriving some time tomorrow. (Along with a Bose PA but that's a different thread! Razz

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If it's dodgy as well, I might ask for a refund or choose another synth but it'll make me very sad as it's the best birthday pressie ever. Crying or Very sad

T7 · Joined: Jun 19, 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Cali

dorremifasol · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject:

elektro, I hope you can read this post before returning your Blofeld tomorrow.

I just read a post in the waldorf user forum, where I have been posting about my faulty unit. I think it's interesting.

http://waldorf-forum.com/pipermail/user-forum/2008-August/015059.html

Perhaps we will not have to return our Blofelds after all... I hope so. I wonder what kind of... bug, or whatever can make our units work differently. Maybe a bug in the DPS? A faulty instruction?

dorremifasol · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

wow, is that named cross-posting or posting-crossing or something like that? Very Happy

T7 · Joined: Jun 19, 2006 Posts: 105 Location: Cali

elektro80 · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject:

Jyoti · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info, dorremifasol and T7!
Very Happy