This is my favorite M review because my fav producer created some very unique sounds... now i need to read tfm to understand what is happening....cheers bro from miami, fl
@christdolphin692 жыл бұрын
btw: lfos have ultra fast and ultra slow mode now, all the cool early mw waveshapers and digital vcfs are added, you can also speed p the looping wave envelope by setting it's "Time Mod" to max and setting the value to negative
@coolguy27833 жыл бұрын
the sounds starting around 15:05 are some of the most beautiful sounds ive ever heard come out of a synth
@verstaerker2 жыл бұрын
very beautiful indeed
@Maradnus10 ай бұрын
I have always loved the Waldorf synths, they have something magical about them
@Rez3112 жыл бұрын
Iridium is so much more capable with all its choices but the M sounds so good in its specialization… would love to see Stimming try the Iridium and give his thoughts on both… mainly because I’m getting one and am leaning toward the M.
@vladimirsalnikov58063 жыл бұрын
I will find a way to write 1000 times on the blackboard: "Next synth I will design - will be with a RAM backed up from a CR2032 battery" ;) Thanks for the review. Minor addon: Saw (and Ramp) waveforms of LFO could be easily achieved by using SYMM (aka Symmetry) Parameter of LFOs at Triangle Wave (also anything in between)
@RoastLambShanks3 жыл бұрын
dont forget a bigger screen this is of course for the M XT, that comes out next year?
@Thomachinex3 жыл бұрын
Dont feel bad. I dont think anybody else is doing it different. Both Hydrasynth and Peak works the same way. Isnt it a european regulation that kind of prohibits the use of a battery?
@rgcmusic3 жыл бұрын
I saw you have lfo speeds on your list of improvements. I will enjoy that a lot for ambient textures and very slowly evolving sounds.
@peaceful_13 жыл бұрын
@@Thomachinex My Arturia Microfreak, Modal Argon8 and Roland TR-8S all remember where I was across power cycles.
@Thomachinex3 жыл бұрын
@@peaceful_1 Yeah, some things still do that. But i think it saves to flash, and that can make the internal storage wear out sooner as they have a limit to how many times you can write to a flash memory. Older gear saved to ram, and was backed up by a battery.
@dektro3 жыл бұрын
Good review! 6:35 this is probably not due to a slow CPU, but to how the encoder is handled. There was a similar problem with the Blofeld which was fixed in a firmware update.
@john92913 жыл бұрын
24:42 is the territory I like, that deep woody digital sound
@PanuMSavolainen3 жыл бұрын
Very informative and entertaining review as always, thanks!
@marcusfreeweb3 жыл бұрын
Stimming is such a great witty, charming and unique guy, a real character type, he could also be an actor. Or anything. Love the guy.
@marcusfreeweb3 жыл бұрын
And relaxed and laid back. Inspired and enthusiastic. Honest.
@MonkeyMarc3 жыл бұрын
such a lovely synth. Thanks for your awesome review as always
@LaymensLament3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review. Consider adding chapters!
@mofateam12 жыл бұрын
I love your reviews and can´t wait to see you playing live in Odonien soon
@midinerd8 ай бұрын
0:30 I often just lift up a synth on the store floor (no joke) to get an idea of how digital or analog it is. it actually works lol
@supercompooper2 жыл бұрын
Mine is in the mail! This sounds so good.
@squarelanguage Жыл бұрын
I feel there’s something special about the original tried and true PPG wave sounds that I always find myself gravitating to. Not sure it’s just the bit rate or aliasing?
@aceboo75413 жыл бұрын
The review was great. Really cool musical moments in there too.
@seanluke30523 жыл бұрын
I imagine the reason there's no wavetable interpolation is not because of the sound it makes, but because there was no interpolation in the Microwave I. Part of the M's goal is to recreate the Microwave I fairly precisely.
@swst093 жыл бұрын
The Pigments stepping is partly due to the low resolution of the interface controls via touchscreen, when you modulate the parameters internally with LFOs and envelopes it sounds much smoother. According to the user manuals, pigments has more waves per wavetable anyway (256 Pigments vs 64 M).
@LaymensLament3 жыл бұрын
If you refer to he jumps in Wavetable scrolling ye it has to be a resolution issue either by navigation or how many waveshapes there are. I confused why you called it pigments tho? Like the arturia vst? Did you refer to the hydrasynth or am I missing something completely? Edit: oh no it was at the very end 😂 My greatest fear has become true.
@RustyTonesJr Жыл бұрын
I got an M. Ive been looking all over for a companion synth. I've realized the M covers most synth tones and more. I don't need another synth. i need a 88 weighted key Digital Piano thing. Having a nice piano layered with the M would be sick.
@RustyTonesJr Жыл бұрын
I bought a Kurzweil k2700 ol there is no need for another synthesize or anything with I'm selling my
@christdolphin692 жыл бұрын
the triangle lfo turns into a saw with the SYM param
@quinxx123 жыл бұрын
Man you know some sick chords! Love the sounds!
@michaelpierce32643 жыл бұрын
lowering the vca is a good thing especially for layering and multis that way you can lower the volumes in each sound also a lot of times the vcas have its own overdrive that can work for some sounds but not all sounds
@breslin443 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this review Martin
@peaceful_13 жыл бұрын
I feel the frustration with synths that reset to patch 1. For my Dreadbox Typhon I have a workaround where patch 1 is my 'working' patch, patch 2 is an 'init' patch, and when I'm wanting to do a new patch, I save patch 1 elsewhere, load init from patch 2, and save it back to patch 1. It is a real hamper to workflow!
@LukezyM3 жыл бұрын
Do you like the Typhon, how it sound and its controls?
@peaceful_13 жыл бұрын
@@LukezyM Yes I do. I mainly use it as a bass synth, the four dedicated filter knobs make it easy to tweak, and you can get lots of different sounds quickly with the main wave control. The oscillators sound good and have a certain presence, and the effects range from serviceable up to dreamy (thinking of the granular cloud reverb).
@johnnyraphaell3 жыл бұрын
Aliasing can be pleasing!
@bilonggrisimmeri2 жыл бұрын
On the original PPG Wave, single cycle waveforms that make up a wavetable have no actual pitch. A different clock frequency is used for each pitch. Every value is read from the waveform, and a different kind of DAC used to the kind used today in digital audio. Have Waldorf replicated this early digital technology on the M?
@suntzu61222 жыл бұрын
Pleassse do a erica synths perkons review!!!
@PLA.net-DANTE3 жыл бұрын
Would love to see how stimming reviews the Subharmonicon... Because I didn't hear many impressive sounds from it, but think the sequenceing capabilities are amazing. Anyways , love your reviews, keep it up
@nabooka3163 жыл бұрын
The M is essentially the PPG reborn ! - the SSI filters are more vanilla than the MW1. The sounds really comes alive when I run my M through echoboy and a little Lexicon reverb :)
@nabooka3163 жыл бұрын
-and you can make the lfo's do saw and ramp by changing the shape of the triangle ;)
@hansmuller19803 жыл бұрын
ppg reborn !? never !
@dxmat3 жыл бұрын
Different beasts.
@sK3LeTvM1 Жыл бұрын
@@hansmuller1980 Indeed. I've owned a 2.3 back in the 80's. The M is very far from a 2.3 But hell yeah, they (Waldorf) want to make believe M-buyers they buy a substitute for the PPG. NOT !
@LB-pp7pu3 жыл бұрын
It's always good to hear Waldorf instead of Uodof
@SourMoonBlues3 жыл бұрын
He's the Flula Borg of synth reviews.
@Lhenndyn3 жыл бұрын
Always the best reviews 👌
@sapbucry3 жыл бұрын
My GAS remedy is save synth image to photos, print it on photo paper and stick it on the wall. I also printed gear I have already … recommended book: “dopamine nation”
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
😬
@gammawu53833 жыл бұрын
Nice. Thanks to you I just spent three hours on Amazon and £800 on a colour printer.
@RadekPilich3 жыл бұрын
What does printing out what you already have help for?
@sudbenzer66033 жыл бұрын
okokokokok let's go! proposal for an upcoming modern classic episode: waldorf microwave XT.
@cnfuzz2 жыл бұрын
Ppg is known for stunning bass , it has the ability to cut were a moog can't so i do not agree , by the way can osc 1/2 use a different wavetable (in single mode)or do they have to share the same one but van have different waveadress (like ppg)
@flopasen3 жыл бұрын
4:58 'ye that's the crip side'
@bahutu8023 жыл бұрын
Oh how I love the Stimming review. Both with regards to the information conveyed as well as the Stimming-style of presentation
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
1010 Music Bluebox kzbin.info/www/bejne/Znq2aKBpe7yChJY
@fruchticaramelos90132 жыл бұрын
Hey, vielen Dank hierfür - sehr gut erklärt!
@GertBoers3 жыл бұрын
At 22:50 you talk about that the Hydrasynth smoothly transitions through the wavetable and that you like the jumps on the M more. But to me, that's not scrolling through a wavetable, but through individual waves. And that is easily accomplished on the Hydrasynth. (I believe in even more than one way.)
@christdolphin69 Жыл бұрын
you cant even compare the hydra to the m. the m knocks that thing out of the fuckin water. its not even close
@Dudderlyful Жыл бұрын
@@christdolphin69 Have to agree with this completely, the M is in another galaxy
@RustyTonesJr Жыл бұрын
It's kinda hard to compete with the company that released the first commercial wavetable synth. A lot of legacy in the M. Zero in Hydrasynth.
@verstaerker2 жыл бұрын
thanks Mr Stimming.. very entertaining and informative as usual 👍! Timbre 🤣
@MadelnMachines Жыл бұрын
i'm with you Martin - I hate that lack of recall too. Don't get me started on £3000 sequential instruments that use $1 calculator screens!
@tehnik3333 жыл бұрын
How would you compare it to the wavetable section in Waldorf Iridium?
@FaidedBTB3 жыл бұрын
Nothing alike in sound at all I have both
@tehnik3333 жыл бұрын
@@FaidedBTB thats interesting, thanks. I wonder why is that?
@Rareos3 жыл бұрын
VCA amount knob is useful for controller the AMP envelope amount and inverting it, no?
@FabioSiverino3 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why they didn't put FM like in the microwave? :(
@Genshi3 жыл бұрын
The original Microwave didn't have FM. That wasn't added until the Microwave II/XT. But still, since the M is trying to straddle both the original Microwave as well as the version 2, it would have been nice to add FM.
@FabioSiverino3 жыл бұрын
@@Genshi yeah sorry, the XT had it. As M want to be an XT as well, it's sad that it doesn't have it. Still it sounds good, but at this point, spending a bit more for the irridium would be the better deal
@GuitarsAndSynths2 жыл бұрын
Nice! Access Virus gets you there as well.
@johnruschulte25933 жыл бұрын
Have you ever tried the Sonicware EKZ_1 just wondered how you compare the two in terms of sound.
@MathHammer3 жыл бұрын
I have an ELZ_1, a Blofeld, a Q, and an Iridium. The ELZ_1 voices are 8 bit and the filter does not have any keyboard tracking. Its sound is very different than the Waldorf sound; it is a crunchy-sounding chip tune synth.
@erikfarquharson61193 жыл бұрын
Hey Thomas! Question for ya: Of those synths you mentioned, which one would be best for crafting almost orchestral stuff? I’ve been really into Hans Zimmer’s “Ripples in the Sand” from Dune, and in your opinion, which of those synths could do something like that well? Appreciate you man! :) -Erik
@LukezyM3 жыл бұрын
@@erikfarquharson6119 For orchestral/soundtrack your best bet is NI Komplete Ultimate library. Or if you have to go with the hardware, I’d say Korg Wavestate.
@christdolphin693 жыл бұрын
i think the Peak starts at your last preset. you may have to save global menu settings though
@Jim_KYB3 жыл бұрын
I have a Rev a MW and both the sounds and features of the M appear very similar. Has anyone done a side by side comparison?
@GeekGearSynths3 жыл бұрын
Like this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y33YpnaZbrFghck
@Claude_van3 жыл бұрын
I played my Rev A today. The MW sounds different. At least for the kind of sounds I like. I prefer more percussive, analogue sounds and heavily rely on the filters and envelopes. Not so much interested in digital ambient sounds and the wavetables as such. I use them but always in a hybrid way, analogue sounding in the end. Like a complex analogue synthesizer would sound. This analogue quality didn’t come through with the M, I guess.
@Jim_KYB3 жыл бұрын
@@GeekGearSynths that's an XT, so digital filters. Sounds very different to the original MW.
@Jim_KYB3 жыл бұрын
@@Claude_van Thanks. Do you know what filters the M is using. I think it's a CEM 3389 in the Rev a.
@christdolphin692 жыл бұрын
sold!
@drydessert41983 жыл бұрын
Den Microwave 1 kann man zB. hier hören: Bam Bam - Get Wild [1991] kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4nZeImLbJ6Zf5I
@No.0.o.02 жыл бұрын
Wish they would make a granular plugin or module
@musictalk-tech2 жыл бұрын
Waldorf?
@jonnybgoodsilver7413 жыл бұрын
the magic is sitting in the lower midrange, maybe the adacs, much better then other contemporary digitals
@mvsr9903 жыл бұрын
I'm addicted to wavetables tuned down (-2 octaves on this) and played low. I got hooked with a Fred's Lab Tooro (tiny USB powered wavetable synth with analog filters) and it made me go for the M when that came out.
@jonnybgoodsilver7413 жыл бұрын
im desperatly looking for one in germany , if someone wants to sell for current new price, give me a ping, ill pickup
@petert78072 жыл бұрын
@@mvsr990 I am actually debating between the töörö and the M. Any advice? I'm mostly looking for plucky harsh sounds.
@mvsr9902 жыл бұрын
@@petert7807 I'd say the M - aside from being easier to program (courtesy of the screen, more dedicated knobs, etc.), there's a wider variety of ways to make the M grungy and harsh with the CPU error setting (mimicking one of the early Waldorfs) and a huge amount of wavetables (the Tooro is understandably limited on wavetable selection).
@pontram2 жыл бұрын
About system boot - DM12 actually starts where it was, when switched off. Yamaha Modx not. Hydrasynth not. Wavestate does. All these synths are actually computers inside, and I really do not know why some can remember their last state and some can't. Except if I assume lazy coders here and not so lazy ones there. But at a certain price, here nearly 1800 €, there should be some "industry standard" and an agreement to support the customer.
@wade57443 жыл бұрын
yeah that's the crip side
@TeleporterM112 жыл бұрын
I love it , it’s like Serum in a box.
@crazygamingswede3 жыл бұрын
Custom frontpanel overlay please!! Stock colors are seriously uninspired. Sounds like a million bucks though. O)
@kgbinfo3 жыл бұрын
I wonder why, in basically every wavetable synth I know of, the wavetables can only ever be used as sound sources and never as modulation sources. Has no one ever thought of that? Or did someone try using a wavetable as an LFO once and it sounded awful? Am I just completely nuts?
@lindsaywebb19043 жыл бұрын
In eurorack this is quite common. I had a small system built around the synthtech e350 and e355. Didn’t sound awful. But mono of course. And they go way down low so lots of modulation possibilities.
@JesusGarciaNailed3 жыл бұрын
I might be wrong but isn’t that possible with Quantums/Iridiums Kernel mode?
@gourkernow56943 жыл бұрын
@@JesusGarciaNailed yes it is.
@hihat27233 жыл бұрын
'Yeah, that's the crips side!' When the audio is only on the left channel. This guy is hilarious.
@m.g.kroger3 жыл бұрын
I could go crazy with so much menu diving in a tiny display and no way to have a "mod matrix list" to interact with, but pages over pages to select all the times. It gets me "out of the game" being forced to menu dive so intensely... it's un-intuitive to me.
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
There isn’t much menu diving
@christdolphin692 жыл бұрын
definitely a grower. so much magic in this if you're patient
@midinerd8 ай бұрын
10:15 - immer von den Kartoffeln gerettet - close call. timbre like somber (meine Tante threw a temper tantrum wegen im leben zu wenig Tantra) like tambourine, u see
@ZetaCarinae3 жыл бұрын
Love the review, although my conclusion is that this isn't worth $2500.
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
If you see the prices for used Microwaves nowadays it’s a pretty good price.
@bitchling2653 жыл бұрын
Your right it isnt
@partirparlesarmoires3 жыл бұрын
$2500 ??? The price of this synth is 1700€ here in France...
@arhythmatek-16833 жыл бұрын
I don't think this device passes my Stimmig test. If Stimming can't make a track on it in minutes... I don't think it will work for me.
@vwvwvwvvw61433 жыл бұрын
He did
@worldofmuu3 жыл бұрын
How many people can name even a single Stimming track anyway?
@RapidFlow_Shop3 жыл бұрын
@@worldofmuu Ludwig
@gestalter25433 жыл бұрын
Here you go 27:28
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
@Muu If you can’t you missed something 😉
@H4NDCRAFTED4 ай бұрын
16 x 128 = a lot
@gadd11112 жыл бұрын
Do the Syntakt, do the Syntakt, do the Syntakt! (shouting like a child)
@carriermonkey48213 жыл бұрын
I thought timbre was pronounced "tamber" but the Slonimsky book says (Fr., tan'br) tanber ; so blame the french i guess .
@inkajoo3 жыл бұрын
You may appreciate the slightly too small screen when you realize that your hand would get in the way of a larger one more easily. Tradeoffs.
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
Depends on the size of your hands 😂
@suntzu61222 жыл бұрын
Someone could tape boxes closed and have stimming review one.. Sell the boxes and become a millionaire.
@musictalk-tech2 жыл бұрын
😂
@WARDISWARD3 жыл бұрын
The user inerface is not really good designed Look at the filter section , you have 4 knobs in a cross shape wasting space
@MathHammer3 жыл бұрын
Timbre is a French word that originated with a Greek word 🤣
@gourkernow56943 жыл бұрын
I much prefer a granular sampler these days to wavetable synthesis, same concept but so much more versatile.
@christdolphin693 жыл бұрын
heard of the waldorf iridium/quantum?
@gourkernow56943 жыл бұрын
@@christdolphin69 yep i own a quantum.
@fortheloveofnoise2 жыл бұрын
@@gourkernow5694 big baller!
@RustyTonesJr Жыл бұрын
Not the same at all.
@worldofmuu3 жыл бұрын
Stimming turns knobs and plays keys as if at any second a bear trap could snap closed on his hands
@microfx3 жыл бұрын
DJ disease
@themaykit3 жыл бұрын
Digitakt soon?
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
Digitakt? kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3nVZZ16r7-Xnqs
@pk9mmpara2 жыл бұрын
warum nicht auf deutsch
@orangenotviolet9 ай бұрын
Weil man mehr Leute erreicht?
@_P_M_3 жыл бұрын
$2500 for this is obscene. Hydasynth desktop is roughly 1/4 the price.
@ottokraut3 жыл бұрын
Stay with the Hydrasynth, then.
@jeremydbjbjbjb3 жыл бұрын
HS is all digital, so the costs associated with the filters and analog VCA aren't comparable. HS is also sold at way below its value to establish a new company. I agree that the price is high, but it's a luxurious instrument for a niche market.
@Heathcliff_hensel3 жыл бұрын
agreed, it should be like$1200.00
@Claidheambmor3 жыл бұрын
@@Heathcliff_hensel you should be $1200
@r2worksee3 жыл бұрын
the user interface definitely seems a bit dated
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
„Retro“ is popular
@marcelmaes52752 жыл бұрын
Schwätz Döitsch ... :-)
@jens1863 жыл бұрын
ooohhh.. soviel menu diving.. ich sterbe
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
Wer sagt das?
@jens1863 жыл бұрын
@@musictalk-tech icke
@sock_park3 жыл бұрын
The potatoes again :(
@bigboymike72043 жыл бұрын
1.
@Axiomstatic3 жыл бұрын
Pigments sounds terrible against this beast. Doesn’t surprise me really.
@nikbivation3 жыл бұрын
don't like the sound...
@egotape2 жыл бұрын
Too bad it will be the M reviewed. I would have been much more interested in the Iridium / quantum from Waldorf.
@isc49153 жыл бұрын
Annoying review. M is a beast
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
Exactly that’s what he is saying and why he keeps it 😉
@mykdubz1283 жыл бұрын
Wayyyyy too much useless talking in very poor English. Playing along while you explain a device makes a video much more interesting but also requires that you know what you do.
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
Why do you watch poor english videos with useless talking then? Wasted time to even leave a comment.
@Taeufer3 жыл бұрын
I hate these Stimming reviews. Boring, misleading and stiff as a Mitte Berlin Hipster with a Soy Latte in his hand. Doesn't do the Waldorf M justice in any sense.
@musictalk-tech3 жыл бұрын
Why are you watching then? Ps. Doesn’t look you really watched it as you then would know that he loves the M