Microwave II XT
Spectral Wavetable Synthesizer

Oversized?

Absolutely! Five units Microwave II, packed with exactly 44 (read: forty-four) dials for sound editing, one dial for page select and a potentiometer whose task is only to control the master volume. Equipped with the above, the Microwave XT features more controls than any other current synthesizer (except the Waldorf Wave, of course).

This beast is built as a 19"-rack-mountable desktop machine with optionally available wooden sides. When mounted into a rack, the cables still fit into the housing without the need for an extra unit of rack space.

We expanded the DSP RAM drastically to make room for more effects like flanger, overdrive, phaser, ring modulator and delay.

What's more, the Microwave XT will be shipped starting with OS V1.5 which includes new filter types, modulatable FM and other enhancements besides the previous Microwave II operating systems.

Features:

• Multi Mode with 8 individual instruments
• 10 voices
• 128 multis
• 256 sounds
• 64 ROM wavetables
• 32 RAM wavetables
• 64 waves per wavetable
• 500 waves
• arpeggiator, syncable to MIDI Clock
• programmable arpeggiator rhythm pattern per sound
• all parameters real time controllable through MIDI continous controller
• 1 dial for page access
• 44 dials for parameter changes
• 2 buttons for parameter changes
• 1 master volume potentiometer
• 1 Play / Shift button
• 5 buttons for mode selection (3 buttons for "Sound", 1 button for "Multi", 1 button for "Global")
• 1 Standby button with alert function to assure that all edited sounds are stored
• MIDI In / Out / Thru
• 2 stereo outputs
• 19"/5U, desktop unit and rack-mountable

Per voice:

• 2 oscillators
• 2 wave generators
• noise generator
• ring modulator
• mixer, all levels (Wave 1, Wave 2, Noise, Ring Modulation) modulatable with high resolution
• 2 multi mode filters, connected serially
• filter 1:
• low pass 12dB
• low pass 24dB
• band pass 12dB
• high pass 12dB
• high pass 24dB
• sinus shaper with low pass filter 12dB
• filter 2:
• low pass 6dB
• high pass 6dB
• stereo amplifier, fully modulatable
• 8-time/level wave envelope with loop function, "one shot" mode, times and levels modulatable
• ADSR filter envelope, each phase modulatable separately
• ADSR amplifier envelope, each phase modulatable separately
• 4-time/level free envelope, bipolar, one shot mode, times and levels modulatable
• all envelopes work with separate trigger- and voice-modes, either monophonic or polyphonic:
• single trigger with zero return
• single trigger with return to last level
• retrigger with zero return
• retrigger with return to last level
• dual mode (two voices per note)
• unisono (all free voices at once)
• two LFOs, each with different shapes, syncable to MIDI clock, LFO 2 can be synced to LFO 1
• modulation matrix with 16 slots, all sources and destinations of the MicroWave and the Pulse plus new connections
• freely usable modifiers

Dials, buttons and pots

Oscillator 1 Octave (with clicks) Semitone (with clicks) Detune FM Amount Oscillator 2 Octave (with clicks) Semitone (with clicks) Detune Sync (button) Waves 1 / 2 Wavetable (with clicks) Wave 1 Startwave Env. Amount Wave 2 Startwave Env. Amount Mix Wave 1 Ringmod Wave 2 Noise

Filter Cutoff Resonance Type (with clicks) Keytrack Env. Amount Env. Velocity Amplifier Volume Env. Velocity LFO 1 Speed Shape (with clicks) LFO 2 Speed Shape (with clicks) Mod Amount Mod 1 Mod 2 Glide Time Active (button)

 

• Envelopes (8 multi purpose dials)

Wave Env 1-4	Time 1	Level 1	Time 2	Level 2	Time 3	Level 3	Time 4	Level 4
Wave Env 5-8	Time 5	Level 5	Time 6	Level 6	Time 7	Level 7	Time 8	Level 8
Free Env	Time 1	Level 1	Time 2	Level 2	Time 3	Sustain	Release	Rel. Level
Filter / Amplifier	Attack	Decay	Sustain	Release	Attack	Decay	Sustain	Release

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