Instruments • Re: Waldorf MicroWave as a plugin?

Are you sure about that? For the 3389 I know only one, from Cherry.
Advertised with "CEM3389 FILTER is a low-pass filter with 24dB/octave slope module based on CEM filter chip CEM3389 very similar to the classic Oberheim filter sound."
And that's the biggest bullshit in the world. None of the classic Oberheims had a filter like the 3389. They had an early CEM chip that sounds pretty different.

The chip is a fairly standard in-wafer integration of the SEM filters and a casual glance at the schematics in various datasheets confirms that.

A sampler like TAL is not using wavetables, it won't give the same results.

Wavetables are nothing but sample playback. Waldorf style WT is looped sample playback with the pitch dictating the clock speed of shifting through the address space of the wave table ROM chip. That type of special sauce is present in TALs emulation of Emulator II which used equivalent approach.

And Arturia also emulated it in their Emu emu.

As an engineering problem - both have been successfully tackled by many.

To you, I'm sure, they'll sound "nothing like", read my reply above to see what I think about that tho.

Statistics: Posted by gearwatcher — Thu Aug 01, 2024 6:52 pm

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