Waldorf Wave Emulation – NO TALKING Sound Demo

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See the announcement post here.

"A quick NO TALKING sound demo of Wave Emulation by mo0kid, a new software emulation of the legendary Waldorf Wave.

This project recreates the Wave using the original Waldorf firmware, with the current release available for macOS as standalone, AU, VST3 and AAX.

In this video I’m simply browsing through a selection of sounds and presets — no talking, just the Waldorf Wave in action.

Wave Emulation:
https://github.com/mo0kid/wave/releas...

The emulator requires the original Waldorf Wave OS 1.700 firmware, which is not included with the software. The firmware can be obtained separately from Waldorf.

🎧 Headphones recommended."

Waldorf Wave - FREE WIN/MAC vst emulation !

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"this great vst emulation is now also avaiable for windows."

Waldorf Wave (48 voice) Emulation in Software

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"This video showcases my software recreation of the legendary Waldorf Wave—a hybrid wavetable synthesizer known for its huge digital oscillators, analogue filters and unusually complex hardware architecture.

The project is built in C++ using JUCE and is available as a standalone instrument and plug-in. Rather than simply making a modern synth that sounds similar, I’ve tried to reproduce the structure and behaviour of the original machine.

The emulation models:

• The Wave’s 250 kHz, 8-bit time-multiplexed wavetable oscillator system
• Signed mixer overflow—including the characteristic Waldorf “ASIC Mix Bug”
• Digital 12 dB high-pass filtering
• CEM3387-style reconstruction filtering, resonant four-pole low-pass filtering, VCAs and panning
• 12-bit stepped control voltages, sample-and-hold behaviour, saturation, noise and output coupling
• Three independent 16-voice WDV boards, matching a fully expanded 48-voice Wave
• The original 480 × 64 monochrome LCD and front-panel workflow

The instrument can also run authenticated Waldorf Wave OS 1.700 firmware. An emulated 68000 CPU executes the original main operating system, while a second runtime executes the genuine WDV voice-board program. Their shared-memory communication, voice-update masks, semaphores and hardware-register writes are reproduced and traced inside the model.

The oscillator ASIC itself remains undocumented, so its internal operation is represented by a behavioural model based on the Wave’s published architecture, firmware activity and known hardware characteristics. This is therefore an ongoing reverse-engineering and preservation project—not a claim of perfect, bit-exact emulation.

Waldorf and Wave are trademarks of their respective owner. This independent project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Waldorf Music.

#WaldorfWave #WavetableSynth #Synthesizer #AudioPlugin #MusicTechnology #ReverseEngineering #JUCE #VintageSynth"

Explore the project and source code on GitHub: https://github.com/mo0kid/wave