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Waldorf Microwave XTk April 12, 1999 Advertisement Waldorf has announced a new keyboard version of their Microwave XT, dubbed the Microwave XTk. Packaged in a lovely orange housing, the Microwave XTk features a 4 octave keyboard complete with aftertouch, pitch bend, and mod wheel. You still have plenty of control with the 44 knobs and 12 buttons for sound creation and selection. Like the Microwave XT, the XTk also include stereo audio input so you can apply the keyboard's filters to external signals. Although the Microwave XTk comes standard with 10 voices, you can triple the DSP horsepower with the Microwave II/XT Voice Expansion Upgrade.   Features: 49 key keyboard, velocity and release velocity, monophonic aftertouch Pitch Bend wheel Modulation wheel 12 buttons for selecting multi and sound programs 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 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 4 integrated effect units (1 Chorus available for any instrument in multi mode, 1 separate effect for each of the first 3 instruments in multi mode) all parameters real time controllable through MIDI continous controller MIDI In / Out / Thru 1 stereo input 2 stereo outputs Per voice: 2 oscillators oscillator synchronization oscillator FM, fully modulatable 2 wave generators noise generator ring modulator adjustable quality levels for aliasing, interpolation and clipping mixer, all levels (Wave 1, Wave 2, Noise, Ring Modulation, External In) modulatable with high resolution 2 multi mode filters, connected serially filter 1: low pass 12dB low pass 24dB band pass 12dB high pass 12dB sinus shaper with low pass filter 12dB wave shaper with low pass filter 12dB (selected wavetable determines the available shaper waves) Sample & Hold with low pass filter 12dB (real time sample rate reduction down to 23Hz) dual parallel filter with 12dB low pass and 12dB band pass, cutoff offset parameter for band pass 12dB low pass filter with filter FM (cutoff modulation through oscillator 2) 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 4 freely usable modifiers with several operators and algorithms   For more information and to hear some audio examples, visit the Waldorf web site at www.waldorf-gmbh.de.

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