Q-Rack

Small but dangerous!

The little rack-mounted brother of the Waldorf Q Keyboard features a user-interface still as easy to use as the surface of the Q Keyboard. It has 27 endless rotaries and needs 5 rack-units if mounted. Like the Keyboard version it is a 16 part multi timbral virtual analog synthesizer with 16 voices, expandable to a total of 32 voices. In multi mode, up to 4 parts keep their 2 high quality effects, giving a total of 8 effect processors. Each voice offers 3 LFOs, 3 oscillators with all classic shapes plus new algorithms, 2 filters with a sophisticated routing method and all filter types that you expect from a virtual analog synthesizer. Furthermore, the Q offers unique Comb filter types in two flavours. This enables the Q not only to create polyphonic Chorus or Flanger effects but previously unheard athmos or pluck sounds with great life. To top things off, the Waldorf Q has a very powerful arpeggiator and an even more powerful step sequencer - excellent sound and step-sequencing as desktop-machine! Get it!

Features:

• 16 part multi timbral
• 300 single programs
• 100 multi programs
• 100 step sequencer patterns
• card slot for additional storage
• 27 endless dials
• 45 buttons for editing
• 2 x 20 character display
• 6 analog outputs (3 stereo outs)
• 2 analog inputs (1 stereo in)
• 1 S/PDIF output (44.1kHz / 48kHz switchable)
• MIDI In/Out/Thru
• 2 Switch Inputs (e.g. Sustain Pedal, Gate In etc.)
• 2 CV Inputs (e.g. Foot Pedal, external controller etc.)
• built-in universal voltage power supply
• Dimensions: Width 483mm, Height 89mm, Depth 220mm
• color Yellow

Per voice:

• 16 voices, expandable to 32 voices
• 3 Oscillators per voice
  • Pulse with Pulse Width Modulation
  • Sawtooth
  • Triangle
  • Sine
  • new oscillator algorithms
  • waves
• Noise generator
• Ring Modulator
• Mixer with Balance, each signal source (oscillator, noise, ringmod, external audio material) can be balanced individually between filter 1 and filter 2
• 2 Filters, different types, all including FM and distortion
  • Low Pass (12dB/24dB)
  • Band Pass (12dB/24dB)
  • High Pass (12dB/24dB)
  • Notch (12dB/24dB)
  • Comb Filter (positive/negative feedback)
  • etc.
• Modulation Matrix with 16 slots, freely routable
• Pre-routed Modulation destinations, sources selectable
• modulation update frequency in audio range to allow the oscillators to be used as modulation sources
• 4 Modifiers
• Arpeggiator with user pattern, including accents, timing information, swing, glide, chords and more
• Step Sequencer with 32 steps, polyphonic, different controller values per step
• 3 LFOs up to audio range (> 1000 Hz)
• 4 envelopes, enhanced ADSR configuration with loop and one shot function, bipolar
• different trigger modes for each envelope, poly, mono, dual, unisono, manual trigger etc.
• 2 individual high-quality effects per sound, the first 4 sounds keep their effects in multi mode
• Effect Types:
  • Chorus
  • Flanger
  • Phaser
  • Distortion
  • Delay
  • etc.
• and lots lots more..

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