2021/03 - Six Waldorf Pulse cascaded to build a Poly-Synth

Three demos for using six #Waldorf #Pulse in a cascade. The Pulse allows polychaining up to 12 units in total. I only can demo six Pulses here :-(
Selecting programs or making edits on the 1st Pulse in the cascase immediately updates all connected units. This works perfect as well in conjunction with the #SynthProgrammer.
Demo 1 is sonically bothersome, you might want to lower the volume as it demonstrates monophonic unison spread. Starting with all units in tune, they are individually detuned by Mastertune. Then pitch is modulated by LFO - in fact it's 6 individually running LFOs! Then DCO2's pulsewidth is modulated by second LFO (6 more LFOs). Finally both DCOs are detuned against each other and DCO 3 adds even more bottom. It ends in an interesting 6 voice/6 LFO sawtooth siren.
Demo 2 ( 2:02 ) is nicer, it sets the cascade in polymode resulting in a 6 voice polyphonic synth. Between 3:10 and 3:20 you might want to close your eyes because i had to turn my head multiple times to left and right - with attached cam.
Demo 3 ( 4:38 ) finally plays a relaxing arpeggio while the Pulses are altered individually in panning, cutoff and level making the arpggio more lifely.
Additonal gear used: #Cthulhu VST plugin for arpeggiation, TR-0815 DIY-Drumbox synched over midi clock and #Vermona DRM Drumbox triggered over midi. The Pulses are mixed with a #Roland #M-12E.

[@hermask815]

Well , if more customers would adapt this way of polyphony, I guess the manufacturers would be more than happy.

[@NachoMartyMeyer]

wow wow wow just like a dream, love the Pulse, beautiful music also ❤

[@mmrva]

Such a nice melody and a lovely tune.

[@stereoping]

Thank you very much :-)

[@Jim_KYB]

This is why I can't find cheap Pulses in Europe anymore 🙂

[@dfreeman120]

Love this one, super melodic

[@pathogenocide01]

Monstrous, what a rig! :O

[@nativeVS]

I really need to get more Pulses together.

[@umusic6]

Monster setup! Great Demo!

[@oldschoolebm666]

Amazing!

[@Slownoisedubs]

Awesome sound

[@benvg]

Great tunes :)

[@andrewlock5738]

Brilliant! Now you just need to have the Polivoks filter mod done on all of them 😊😂

[@nuipb]

Yes, a polyphonic polivoks : www.virtual-music.at/en/waldorf-zone/#1 Could that be called a Metavoks ?

[@lucienw9325]

Nah, his Pulscar filter is even better :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5a7iq2EfL6Xnqs

[@nuipb]

@@lucienw9325 yet it never made it to market right ?

[@stereoping]

No, i planned to offer this the Pulscar-VCF addon as a diy kit but in the end it was to much technical effort.

[@mickikaufman5360]

Oh my god. So amazing, Sweet n lovely tracks, I like the mood of demo 2 a lot.

[@stereoping]

Thank you :-)

[@masonkiller1]

massiv! holy sh...

[@Psychlist1972]

Nice!

[@paranoicb]

I see the roland M-12E is a very capable mixer. Do you consider it a great buy ? I found one for 150$

[@stereoping]

Here they currently are around 100 EUR. I sold it in the meantime, i mainly use stereo sources and fiddling the indiv. channels with dual pots was ennoying. I replaced it with a Kawai MX8SR. The best feature of the Roland is imho it's dual color signal/clip LED, almost all competitors only got clip, so you dont see if a signal is present.

[@teak6306]

[@stereoping]

thank you :-) ... more to come with it soon

[@burger659]

Is the Stereoping controller also working on the pulse 2 ?

[@stereoping]

partly, you can compare the manuals of Pulse 1&2 where both synths use the same CC. But many parameters of the pulse2 are not supported.

[@Conforce]

haha sick