Unpacking

Published on Nov 7, 2017 Cornel Hecht

No synth demo in this one. Just the anticipation of what it might be. If it were only me... :(

Dubstep mit PPG WaveMapper & Cubasis (on iPad & Inter-App Audio)

Published on Feb 10, 2014 Cornel Hecht·24 videos

https://www.facebook.com/PPGWavegener...
http://www.wolfgangpalm.com

iTunes: WaveMapper - Wolfgang Palm

PPG Wavegenerator for iPad - First Pics

via PPG Wavegenerator on Facebook

"PPG Wavegenerator is a next generation iOS based synth from Wolfgang Palm, the inventor of the classic PPG Wave; from one of history's great synths comes a future classic. PPG Wavegenerator is a new generation synth building on the heritage of the PPG Wave synths. The same great sounds, but now with even more creative possibilities."

via Cornel Hecht on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

I can't wait for this one.

iPads on eBay

Not to be confused with Waldorf and TempoRubato's upcoming synth for the iPad. See:

New iPad Synth from Waldorf and TempoRubato In the Works?

Additional Details on New Waldorf/Tempo-Rubatu iPad Synth.

For those not familiar with the PPG, Waldorf connection, Waldorf was formed by Wolfgang Düren, the German distributor of PPG, after PPG folded. The continued the PPG tradition by producing wavetable based synthesizers.

PPG Wave 2.2

Published on Jul 9, 2016 Cornel Hecht

Hell Modular Synthesizer - 24dB Lowpass-Filter

video upload by Cornel Hecht

"Hell Modular Synthesizer - 24dB Lowpass-Filter"

Happy Birthday Wolfgang Palm!

Today is the birthday of PPG founder Wolfgang Palm!

Pictured is a great image via Cornel Hecht on Facebook

"Lieber Wolfgang, alles Gute zum Geburtstag. Ich wünsche dir viel Schaffenskraft und kreative Einfälle, um die Musikerwelt auch weiterhin mit großartigen Ideen zu versorgen

Dear Wolfgang, happy birthday. I wish you much creativity and creative ideas to the world of musicians continue with great ideas to provide :-) (Translated by Bing)"

Below is one from PPG Apps on Facebook


Happy Birthday Herr Palm! Thank you for your wonderful creations!

Hell Modular - Dual VCF Test (Prototype)

video upload by Cornel Hecht

New Synth Coming from PPG

Something new is developing at PPG Published on Jul 29, 2017 WPalmWT

"A short teaser of my new synth
Thanks to Jean-Luc Nest for the beautiful sounds"

PPG of course is Wolfgang Palm, maker of the original line of PPG hardware synths, and the more recent iOS and software synthesizers based on the classic PPG wavetable synthesis and more. My guess is this will be a new software or iOS synthesizer, but you never know of course...

Current iOS synths by Wolfgang Palm:
WaveGenerator - Wolfgang Palm
WaveMapper - Wolfgang Palm
Phonem - Wolfgang Palm
MiniMapper - Wolfgang Palm

Current VSTs by Wolfgang Palm:
PPG WaveGenerator
PPG WaveMapper 2
PPG Phonem

Update: and here it is:

Infinite DemoSong

Published on Jul 30, 2017 WPalmWT

"Infinite demo song from Cornel Hecht"

Cool pin style modulation matrix. Interesting that Pitch appears to be a modulation source.

In the beginning

Published on Jul 31, 2017 WPalmWT

"A story about noise and sound
Thanks to #nachtsmeer# for the lyrics"

Transcript:

In the beginning there was noise

Pink noise

Structured noise

In time, from noise came individual sine waves.

Some of these sine waves were louder, others quite.

Some had low frequencies others frequencies were high.

The sine waves grouped together in various amplitudes and frequencies.

Together they created fundamentals, then formed partials, overtones and harmonics.

and in conclusion we journey on to the

PPG Infinite

PPG WaveGenerator Price Announced

via Cornel Hecht on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"We left the best news until last - there's been a lot of questions about the pricing of an app created and crafted by the Father of the PPG Wave.

We were clear that this was never going to be a toy, but a serious product, as close to a synth that used to cost thousands of dollars, but now on the iPad. However Wolfgang wanted to share his baby with as many people as possible.

So we're not going to do any silly 'buy it for X for 7 days' kind of promos ever, it's simply going to be $19.99! Outstanding value for an amazing pro synth on the iPad."

A full blown synth from the creator of PPG for just $19.99. Truly amazing. I can't help but think of the PPG Realizer (don't miss this post) and how much it would have cost at the time due to the hardware. No, PPG WaveGenerator is not the re-incarnation of the PPG realizer, but it was a hardware device hosting various synthesis engines. With the iPad, the cost of hardware development is gone. The same could be said for soft synths on the PC, but the iPad is hardware synthesis, no different than the PPG Realizer. It really is a new age for digital hardware synthesis as I went into in this post and others, actually starting back in my New World of Synthesis post just before the iPad was announced. If anyone out there still doubts the iPad as a serious piece of musical equipment, I'd love to hear why. Also see my post on Thoughts on the iPad as a Synth and Controller. Note, the device doesn't have to be the iPad of course. It can be any tablet including Android and the upcoming Windows 8 tablets. The key of course is the usability/interface for the app and the apps available for the device. The iPad just currently has the lead. It also supports MIDI. If you pick up a Windows 8 tablet and want MIDI, be sure to pick up one with the Pro version of the OS (see this post).

$19.99 for the next PPG!!! Thank you Wolfgang Palm!

Now here's a crazy thought for hardware manufacturers out there. Imagine a Waldorf AFB16 iPad cradle to add analog filters with full IO like the Alesis iO dock. OK, the price would probably be insane, but.. :) Update: I should note my intent is not to imply analog filters sound any better, the point is the obvious next step for devices like the iPad - integration with external forms of synthesis. I'm thinking along the lines of mixing something like the MiniBrute with the iPad. What sort of things can hardware synthesizer manufacturers create to fully integrate with the iPad as a synthesis engine within their hardware engine. Yes, probably a bit far fetched, but Waldorf did attempt it with the AFB16.

iPads on eBay

Moog Polymoog Synthesizer Demo

Published on Sep 21, 2014 Cornel Hecht

PPG Wavemapper (App for iPad) Sounddemo

Published on Sep 3, 2013 Cornel Hecht·22 videos

iTunes:
WaveMapper - Wolfgang Palm

PPG Infinite Pro VST/AU Details

Published on Dec 5, 2017 Cornel Hecht

Key Features

New system which can synthesize harmonic and inharmonic sounds
Morpher - X/Y controller which morphs 5 user selectable sine resources
Noiser - X/Y controller morphing 3 noise resources and performing modulations on the tonal part
Molder - acts as a digital filter with any imaginable filter sweeps
Two detail editor pages for the Sine resources featuring a 3D display *
Analyser with 6 modes for directly converting your own sounds
Noise separation lets you create own resources for the Noiser
Import WTS and TCS files from WaveGenerator and WaveMapper
Import Phonem utterances and use them in the Infinite PRO Molder
Versatile matrix system - allowing 16 sources to control 40 parameters
10 Envelopes, for control of filter sweeps, waveform, noise and many modulations
4 LFOs which can be freely routed via the matrix
Delay/Reverb effect
Overdrive/Distortion effect
Preset browser with new listing filters
Directly accessible context help for each module
Freely configurable schematic keypads, with extremely expressive modulation options
4 MIDI modes: Omni, Poly, Mono, and Voice-Per-Channel (MPE).

"This has always been my dream. A system which can reproduce all kinds of sounds and transform them into a universal set of parameters. Thus all these sounds are completely morphable." - Wolfgang Palm

"At the end of the 70s Wolfgang Palm developed wavetable synthesis. This was very successful and used by many synthesizer companies in the 80s and 90s. But this technology has its limitations. The main reason is that all sounds are harmonic. In nature this does not happen very often. Many sounds like a piano string have small offsets from the harmonic frequencies. This is even stronger in sounds like bells or percussion.

Infinite PRO overcomes this limitation.

The frequencies of the overtones created by Infinite PRO can be totally freely defined. So the sounds it produces are totally free in the frequencies of their overtones. This means that each partial wave can have an arbitrary frequency.

Moreover it is possible to move these overtones independently during the duration of a note.


Another important part of most natural sounds is noise. Be it a flute or when a drumstick hits the drumhead - and this all can be reproduced in Infinite PRO.

Furthermore the noise source can be used to modulate the tonal part which results in very powerful effects.
Besides these new digital features, we still have the typical 24db Lowpass filter, 2 VCA with stereo out and effects. All this is controlled by 10 envelopes, 4 LFOs and a modulation matrix.

Maybe the greatest innovation in Infinite PRO is the Morpher. It is so easy to create new timbres and real-time effects by morphing the gains and frequencies of sounds with the X/Y controller. To get an impression of the morphing possibilities watch this short video.

Infinite PRO comes with more that 300 tonal resources, which can be loaded into the 5 fields inside the Morpher. But it does not stop there. You can edit these in detail on two extra pages and even analyse your own sounds in a sophisticated analyzer.

On the Sine Parameter panel, you edit the sine tracks with a set of parameters for each track. A track is the time sequence of one sine component over the full length of the sound. A 3D display gives a good impression of the whole resource.

Example of a 3D view showing a vocal resource which features strong pitch moves.

On the Sine Structure panel, you edit the fine structure of a track in a bar graph. A FREQ mode lets you do this for the frequency.

The Main Parameter page edits the program parameters like Oscillator Pitch, the VCF (a 24dB lowpass filter), gain envelopes and LFOs. PPG Infinite PRO is equipped with 10 envelopes. Some are fixed to a certain function, others can be freely connected with the matrix.

A sophisticated analyzer offers six modes to capture all kinds of sounds in the best possible way.

* The 3D display does not run on 32bit Mac hosts and not on all Windows PCs. But there is also a 2D mode which features all the functionality of the 3D mode and even more. If you think the 3D is very important for you, please wait for the DEMO version, and test it there before buying."

Photos of Wolfgang Palm

via Cornel Hecht on Facebook

Something New Coming from PPG

via PPG Apps on Facebook, via Cornel Hecht on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Looks like a bit like PPG WaveGenerator ported to a plug-in.  Below is a pic of WaveGenerator on iPad.



Update: And it's confirmed via PPG Apps on Facebook:

PPG Wavegenerator iPad App From Wolfgang Palm - Sneak Peak.

YouTube Published on Aug 17, 2012 by PPGWavegenerator

"PPG Wavegenerator is a next generation iOS based synth from Wolfgang Palm, the inventor of the classic PPG Wave; from one of history's great synths comes a future classic.

For more info visit our page https://www.facebook.com/PPGWavegenerator"

Also see: PPG Wavegenerator for iPad - First Pics

via Cornel Hecht on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

iPads on eBay

Steinberg Cubasis Latency Control

Steinberg Cubasis Latency Control & KORG DW8000
Published on Aug 28, 2013 Cornel Hecht·21 videos

MIDI Master: Steinberg Cubasis (send MIDI Clock)
MIDI Slave: KORG DW8000 (Arpeggiator Mode)

Steinberg Cubasis Latency Control & PPG Wavemapper
Published on Aug 28, 2013
MIDI Master: Steinberg Cubasis (send MIDI Clock)
MIDI Slave: PPG Wavemapper (Arpeggiator Mode)

iTunes:
Cubasis - Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
WaveMapper - Wolfgang Palm