via this auction
Here's something you don't see often. A Waldorf synth that sits in a PC drive bay.
The Waldorf microWavePC or micro WavePC. Curious what the EWS stands for. Electronic Wavetable Synthesizer? Excellent Waldorfian Supersynth?
P.S. I swear I've seen one before, but this just might be the first one to be featured on the site.
Update via Swissdoc:"It [EWS] stands for Eierlegende WollmilchSau. Terratec used the EWS name for a series of soundcards.
The term 'eierlegende Wollmilchsau' is often used to describe product, which can do everything and more. It describes an animal, which is a hybrid out of chicken (can lay eggs), sheep (produces wool), cow (gives milk) and pig (in German Sau or Schwein). Translated it would then be: egg-laying wool-milk-pig. This is not working out in English, since the English language is missing the option of composing new words out of existing. Like Donaudampfschif...
There is a German Wikipedia entry for EWS only. But here is a nice visualization, of how a EWS may look like.
Coming back to the Terratec microWave PC. This a special version of the Microwave II/XT, but it runs a different OS. The latest OS for Microwave II/XT was not ported over back in time, so the Terratec microWave PC lacks a few features. On Sequencer.de there was a recent thread about soundsets for the Terratec microWave PC, where forum member Summa posted some converted banks. I made it available for download."
