Released Waldorf Blofeld for iPad

dendy

@thesoundtestroom said:
@dendy I used to have a hardware Blofeld, the keyboard version, and yes, this is way better, the hardware was a pain to program, very dodgy controls, the keyboard was amazing though.

This .. those damn low-cost encoders were dying too quickly .. and there were even bugs (i got few freezes, not often, but it is a> @DblU said:

The Blofeld could be considered as a classic synth, almost like a Juno or any other Hardware synth from the last 40 years.

This App is an exact copy of the hardware device. And, maybe, more for synth-enthusiasts like me.
Most of the IOS synths are not modeled after a specific synth. Many are inspired by classic synths, others are unique in its own.
The Blofeld can be thought of a digital modular wavetable VA synthesizer with lots of modulation and routing options. It has a unique sound and character, which is why it’s quite popular but still underrated.

It can sound like almost any other IOS synth, but it can sound much more.

Great to have it on my iPad aswell in my th

Important to mention - there is not much iOS non-modular synths with audio rate LFOs and oscillator/filter FM modulation .. Definitely none with such amount od modulation posibilities, so in some way Blofeld is absolute unicorn on iOS

royor

Last night I imported HGF-Blofeld-Waveset-A-128.wpc through the samples tab.. import went fine.. could see all the samples.. tried to scan through them and pick something lower down the list and it wouldn’t pick that sample.. it would always bounce back to the top of the list and pick one from that view.. there was no way to pick a sample lower down the list and have it stick.. sounds like it’s related to @Gavinski ’s issue.. settings don’t stick..

Woke up this morning, updated Blofeld + now that same list of samples has a red coloured font instead of white.. can’t even read it without the screen being as bright as possible.. 🤷‍♂️ and still can’t pick a sample lower down the list..

Will send an email to them after my morning coffee..

Slam_Cut

Looks good. Bought it and checking it out now. Sounds good. Having some fun.
AppStore thinks I might also like Microwave so I’ll maybe buy that. Oops! Already have it. 😳
Waldorf: many of us (me included) will pay again full price for AUv3 version of Nave. I just have to mention that.

Fear2Stop

@Poppadocrock said:

@Fear2Stop said:

@pseudophysics said:

@Stuntman_mike said:

@pseudophysics said:
hmmm, sound is glitchy and interface very unresponsive. totally not like microwave

What iPad are you using?

iPad Pro 4th gen, iOS 17.7.2

That’s been the hold up for me (same reason I haven’t gotten Mariana) on getting this …I have 6th gen iPad and concerned about performance issues

Same here. I would have bought this immediately if I had a newer device. The 6th Gen is being phased out since you can’t go to iOS 18. Have a newer phone but that doesn’t help in this particular case.

Yeah I might have to pass on this until I either get a new device or I get confirmation it’ll work okay on it.

Pxlhg

You all seen an update is out right? (apologies if someone else already posted on that)

Fear2Stop

@Pxlhg said:
You all seen an update is out right? (apologies if someone else already posted on that)

What does it cover?

Pxlhg

@Fear2Stop said:

@Pxlhg said:
You all seen an update is out right? (apologies if someone else already posted on that)

What does it cover?

• UI adjustments to better suit iPad
• Bug Fixing

(cut and pasted from store)

Gavinski

.> @Pxlhg said:

@Fear2Stop said:

@Pxlhg said:
You all seen an update is out right? (apologies if someone else already posted on that)

What does it cover?

• UI adjustments to better suit iPad
• Bug Fixing

(cut and pasted from store)

Thnx pxlhg - just checked, the problem I mentioned earlier is still not fixed in this update

Gavinski

Nice sound tho!

Gavinski

@danbun said:

@Gavinski said:
Do others get the same?

Yes. Funny enough, it seems to work if you press cancel instead of confirm...

This works for me if I use the arrows first to adjust, but not if i use text entry lol. Either didn’t have a big/long enough beta, or some things got broken in the release version

Gavinski

@Gavinski said:

@danbun said:

@Gavinski said:
Do others get the same?

Yes. Funny enough, it seems to work if you press cancel instead of confirm...

This works for me if I use the arrows first to adjust, but not if i use text entry lol. Either didn’t have a big/long enough beta, or some things got broken in the release version

I have to keep smashing at the Brilliance drop down to get it to work. This synth is definitely let down by poor UI/UX currently

Gavinski

Also getting crashes, it sometimes doesn't load at all when you reopen a session. Sometimes freezes. Super dodgy release, I hope they fix this, it's in a similarly sloppy ballpark to those disco DSP releases from last year. Must do better

Fear2Stop

@Gavinski said:
Also getting crashes, it sometimes doesn't load at all when you reopen a session. Sometimes freezes. Super dodgy release, I hope they fix this, it's in a similarly sloppy ballpark to those disco DSP releases from last year. Must do better

I’m glad you posted that…that helps my decision to wait much easier

dendy

@Slam_Cut said:
Waldorf: many of us (me included) will pay again full price for AUv3 version of Nave. I just have to mention that.

Absolutely !!!

dendy

Just noticed one thing i completely forgot about Blofeld. All it's audio-rate capable LFOs have key tracking.

Not sure if all of you guys can appreciate how amazing is to have 3 socillators and 3 audio rate keytracked LFOs (so basically another 3 oscillstors) capable of FM modulating each other in any thinkable combination.

Monstrosity.

Samu

@Gavinski said:

I have to keep smashing at the Brilliance drop down to get it to work. This synth is definitely let down by poor UI/UX currently

I swipe up/down on the numerical field (like Brilliance) to adjust the values, single tap brings up the value entry which I seldom use as the swipe resolution is enough for most of the 0-127 value ranges.

Oddly enough I've not had a single crash with Blofeld yet and I've been messing with it a LOT.

I would happily ditch the on-screen keyboard/play-surface to make the rest of the UI a bit bigger especially since the on-screen keyboard doesn't even transmit midi...

NeuM

@Fear2Stop said:

@Gavinski said:
Also getting crashes, it sometimes doesn't load at all when you reopen a session. Sometimes freezes. Super dodgy release, I hope they fix this, it's in a similarly sloppy ballpark to those disco DSP releases from last year. Must do better

I’m glad you posted that…that helps my decision to wait much easier

Or you buy now at the discounted price and hope for the best in terms of eventual fixes.

craftycurate

@NeuM said:

@Fear2Stop said:

@Gavinski said:
Also getting crashes, it sometimes doesn't load at all when you reopen a session. Sometimes freezes. Super dodgy release, I hope they fix this, it's in a similarly sloppy ballpark to those disco DSP releases from last year. Must do better

I’m glad you posted that…that helps my decision to wait much easier

Or you buy now at the discounted price and hope for the best in terms of eventual fixes.

That’s exactly my dilemma.

NeuM

@craftycurate said:

@NeuM said:

@Fear2Stop said:

@Gavinski said:
Also getting crashes, it sometimes doesn't load at all when you reopen a session. Sometimes freezes. Super dodgy release, I hope they fix this, it's in a similarly sloppy ballpark to those disco DSP releases from last year. Must do better

I’m glad you posted that…that helps my decision to wait much easier

Or you buy now at the discounted price and hope for the best in terms of eventual fixes.

That’s exactly my dilemma.

Although I must admit I'm now a bit unnerved with IK Multimedia's decision to drop MixBox CS. One never knows when their favorite app/software might suddenly become obsolete. Hopefully no one bought it very recently and then was surprised with this news.

DblU

With all the bugs, crashes and issues it seems that they really did a good job in making an exact copy of it

I really hope these will be fixed so we can (finally) have a fully functional Blofeld.

Fear2Stop

@NeuM said:

@Fear2Stop said:

@Gavinski said:
Also getting crashes, it sometimes doesn't load at all when you reopen a session. Sometimes freezes. Super dodgy release, I hope they fix this, it's in a similarly sloppy ballpark to those disco DSP releases from last year. Must do better

I’m glad you posted that…that helps my decision to wait much easier

Or you buy now at the discounted price and hope for the best in terms of eventual fixes.

Thinking about that too but tbh I’d rather buy at full price and have peace of mind, especially if I’m already having doubts if my iPad could even run it well enough

peanut_gallery

Running this on a 2020 iPad Air without an issue (so far). I have three instances running in NanoStudio2 (yes, I'm a holdout) without any performance issues. I do see CPU usage is high, but not in the red, and everything is still working fine.

Granted, I'm just dialing in presets, playing and recording. I have tried messing with anything else in the app yet. The presets have gotten all my undivided attention.

Fear2Stop

@peanut_gallery said:
Running this on a 2020 iPad Air without an issue (so far). I have three instances running in NanoStudio2 (yes, I'm a holdout) without any performance issues. I do see CPU usage is high, but not in the red, and everything is still working fine.

Granted, I'm just dialing in presets, playing and recording. I have tried messing with anything else in the app yet. The presets have gotten all my undivided attention.

That’s good to know… I’d only be using one instance , and I generally convert each track to an audio file in GarageBand after I record it to save space and save memory too

dendy

@Samu said:

@Gavinski said:

I have to keep smashing at the Brilliance drop down to get it to work. This synth is definitely let down by poor UI/UX currently

I swipe up/down on the numerical field (like Brilliance) to adjust the values, single tap brings up the value entry which I seldom use as the swipe resolution is enough for most of the 0-127 value ranges.

Oddly enough I've not had a single crash with Blofeld yet and I've been messing with it a LOT.

same experience here 3 hours of tweaking, 5 instances, no single one issue, rock solid stable, everything works like a breeze… latest iPad Mini

I would happily ditch the on-screen keyboard/play-surface to make the rest of the UI a bit bigger especially since the on-screen keyboard doesn't even transmit midi...

Yeah exactly !

dendy

@DblU said:
With all the bugs, crashes and issues it seems that they really did a good job in making an exact copy of it

🤣🤣🤣

_ki

@nuno_agogo said:
did anybody try preset Ricochet2008 SCD?

The preset starts arp‘ing when pressing a single key and after a 2seconds glitches/crackles and the audio stops, even though the output volume meter still moves around.
When the key is released, the sound returns.

This happens with the the initial version and the update used standalone on my iPad 10.5 Pro. Maybe my iPad is a bit too old ;-)

BTW: One can fix the problem by lowering the release time of the Amp Envelop by a small amount.

Ailerom

@Coloobar said:

@Ailerom said:

@Michael_R_Grant said:
OK, guys. What does this offer over the 8 billion other iPad synth apps that I own? Sell it to me!

I don't think you understand the impact it can have on your life when you tell someone you own a Blofeld!!! Not knowing your situation, let's focus on me. I can't wait to tell my wife when she gets home. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say I'm pretty sure this guy is getting lucky tonight. And for accuracy, it's not luck, it's the Blofeld. Try it, you'll be amazed. And if maybe something goes wrong, (probably your delivery as the Blofeld can't be the issue) at least you will have a BLOFELD!

I get pretty excited when my wife asks me if I want a Blofeld.

Hi Feld.

Phillix

Working without problems in Ipad Air M2.
I would ditch the virtual keyboard too. I rather have a bigger control screen.

rs2000

@Krupa said:
This one can load user wave tables I hope?

Yep, and sample banks made with Spectre 😊

dalton34gr

@dendy said:

@Slam_Cut said:
Waldorf: many of us (me included) will pay again full price for AUv3 version of Nave. I just have to mention that.

Absolutely !!!

Count me in!!!!