via Till "Qwave" Kopper"this is great Waldorf WAVE user news:
after 10 years of waiting for bug fixes there is a new OS with many bug fixes and some all new features:
*** quoted from the readme PDF ***
• The Wave shows a splash screen at start up.
• LFO 1 & LFO 2 independently can be synched to MIDI in various options.
• The Wave now can analyze .WAV files, which makes it much simpler to analyze
samples now.
• LFO 1 has a phase parameter
• The bug in receiving and sending SysEx files of other is fixed.
• Pedal 1&2 now can be changed in their polarity after boot phase.
• In the Waves Edit mode, in Harmonics Edit, there is a “silence” function, which
sets all Harmonics to zero.
• The Wave now maps velocity tables to externals too. This feature is described in
the manual but was not implemented.
• The velocity table mapping is fixed.
• In Group Edit now instruments and externals can be switched on again after
switching them off.
• The sustain pedal only is sent to externals which are not muted.
• Pedal 1&2 also send only to externals when these are not muted.
• Sending and receiving of the pedals via MIDI now works.
• The Buttons work for external Instruments not only on MIDI channel 1.
• The voice allocation bug of OS 1.700 is fixed.
• MIDI Controller 64 – 117 assigned to the Faders now send values 00…127 (not
only on/off)
• Aftertouch, Volume, Detune, Pan assigned to the Faders now are correctly
displayed
• The MIDI controllers for free wheel up and free wheel down in performance
definition now also control free wheel bidirectional parameters
• Some bug fixes were done in the file access functions
*** quote end ***
It is not a release by Waldorf Music, but it is done with the help of Waldorf (for giving away the original source code) and their OK. It is done by the WAVE enthusiast Werner Schoenenberger (actually with an O-Umlaut: Schönenberger) from the Swiss.
There is a small fee of 75 Euro for it. This is way below the real cost, because programming in assembler is not fun. And he spent many, many hours on it in the last years (!!!).
The price he asked for is only a kind of help to pay the costs he had during the coding.
The ReadMe, the manual and the OS data is located on the http://unofficial.waldorf-wave.de pages I run.
So finally we, the about 300 WAVE users get some bug fixes and some new features for a synth that is more then ten years out off production.
Attached a screenshot of the WAVE LCD showing the new LFO edit page with the new parameters for phase shift and midi clock sync.
keep on turning these knobs
Till Kopper
A long time WAVE enthusiast and live WAVE player from Tübingen near Stuttgart/Germany"
That is awesome news for Wave owners!! I wonder if anyone would take up the cause for the XTk, XT and the Q? Of course, the Q doesn't have many bugs as the XT, XTk does. I think the Q rack needs some bug fixes too. But then again.... how many people can be trusted with the code etc?
ReplyDeleteNow if i only had a Wave....
ReplyDeleteIf it could be ported to OSX I would be really happy. If I had a Wave I'd be even happier.
ReplyDeleteWhy portet to OS X ???
ReplyDeleteThis is software for the WAVE. And the WAVE does run its own kind of Unix. The WAVE OS just need to be put on a 3.5" disk that is DOS formated. And DOS formated are nearly all of them when bought new.