Waldorf today introduced Microwave 1 for iPad, an emulation of the original hardware Microwave synthesizer.
The original Microwave “defined hybrid synthesis at its best”, with its combination of wavetable synthesis with analogue filters. Now Waldorf Music brings this instrument back as a standalone iOS app, as well as in the iPadOS AUv3 plug-in format.
Waldorf says that the Waldorf Microwave 1 Plugin was “painstakingly recreated from the original hardware, with all its idiosyncrasies and wonderful singularities.”
Waldorf says that this was a multi-year effort, and that they analyzed and modeled the original instruments down to the finest sonic details of every aspect of the hardware.
Microwave 1 for iPad Intro Video:
Only the first generation of the Microwave and also the Waldorf Wave were based on a custom developed integrated circuit called the Waldorf ASIC. In combination with the legendary Curtis filter chips and a very unique 68k CPU based controller software, the ASIC defined a …