Waldorf Wave (was Re: [sdiy] Cheapest, simplest but still reliable VCO & VCA for polyphonic project)

Tom Wiltshire tom at electricdruid.net
Sat Jan 10 00:24:48 CET 2009


On 9 Jan 2009, at 22:13, Rainer Buchty wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Paul Maddox wrote:
>
>> IIRC, the Waldorf Wave (yep the big sexy looking one) has an ADSR  
>> update rate is 50hz.
>
> Only?
>
> Sheesh, and people are complaining about the ~80Hz on the ESQ1/SQ80.
>
> (What did the Wave's 68k do all the time, then?)

Each slave board has a 68000 running at only 16MHz, but each slave  
board has 16 voices. I don't know how many envelopes and LFOs and  
whatever else the Wave has, but multiply by sixteen and that's not  
enough processor.

T.






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