Lanthan's Soundset for the Waldorf Blofeld 

Wow, that is incredibly nice to hear! A huge thank you for the kind words! I'm happy to hear you like your Blofeld, and I hope you'll have a lot of fun playing with these patches! :D

Well thank you very much! Yes, you just found out my real name! May I ask you to edit your comment a little? I'm not really comfortable with my name being that open on the internet, that's all. (I get enough spam e-mails as it is XD)

Done. :-)

Thank you very much! Yeah, it gets really close to those FM sounds, doesn't it?

I'm very happy you like 'em! Thanks for the kind words, and I hope you'll have lots of fun with the patches! :)

You're welcome, I'm happy to hear that! :D

Thanks, glad you enjoy them! :D

You're welcome, thanks a lot for the kind words!

You're welcome, happy you enjoy them. :D (Nah, sorry, I don't know that track, so I must have meant another one.)

Was it a Soft Cell track though ?

No, sorry! ...but it's possible that they've made one with a similar melody, it's just not the one I thought of. ;)

Happy to hear you like them! :D

You're welcome, I'm happy to hear you like it! :D

You're welcome! :D Well, since I had made them anyways, I didn't see a reason why others shouldn't have fun with them, too. ;-)

That would be very kind, a big thank you in advance! Let me know if I can help you with any trouble getting the patches on your Blofeld.

There's a tool called "Blofeld Sound Organizer" which you can find here: lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/index.php?m=soft#blofeld But that's just the one I like to use, you can use any Blofeld sound manager you like.

Thanks, I'm happy you like them! :D

Apologies Lanthan - I found the answer in the comments below. All the best to you.

Perfect, happy to hear you got it to work. Have fun with the patches!

Happy to hear that! Have fun!

You're welcome! I'm happy you like them! :D

Thanks! The link is in the video description if I'm not mistaken. ;)

@@LanthanOIde Thanks a lot Lanthan!

Yes, I agree, it's a pretty fine synth. As to the visual controller: I haven't yet, actually. ...so far I've simply used LFOs and EGs when I wanted multiple parameters to change over time. XD

@@LanthanOIde Yes - By putting LFOS and EGs in action one can get many interesting modulations going simultaneously - I can send you the Editor if you wish to try it out ...

Hm, I don't usually use midi-ox, sorry. I put a link to the sound organizer I use on my website. You could try it with that. Either it works or at least I'll be able to help you with the program.

yes great, if it works i'll be happy to use the sound organizer.

As I said, the link is also on my website, but in case you didn't find it: lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/index.php?m=soft#blofeld There are many editors for download on that site, the one you're looking for is called "Waldorf Blofeld editor 1.16C". Let me know if that works or if I can help you somehow.

thanks for the link...this one is also free and good looking too! softknobs.com/docs/blofeld/ I found out that i had to change the ID settings in the global menu, supose to be 0....so now Iám able to send the file and the blofeld confirms that it is receiving. Is there a easy way to find the patches?...or are they in every category? greetings

Wow, fancy. Last time I looked at softknobs they didn't have the library feature. Might be worth looking into. Now, I'm not shure what you mean by "find the patches". You can choose freely where you would like to store them on your Blofeld. Then you'd find them wherever you put them earlier. And of course you can use the category filter if you just want to browse through one type of sounds. ;)

You're welcome, I'm happy to hear that! Hm, depends on what exactly you'd like to sequence. The BSP is good for bass-lines, arpeggios, berlin school sequences and drums. But it's not really suited for sequencing pads and atmospheres and such. (It sounds to me like that's what you'd like to do) For those, you'll probably like to use a polyphonic sequencer, i.e. a sequencer that can play more than one note at a time. (Think of chords, for which you'll need to play three or more notes at once) Personally, I like the QY100 and QY70. They are very powerfull sequencers, you can actually use them to sequence full songs with multiple tracks. And you can get them relatively cheap on ebay. (Around the price of a volca, much cheaper than a BSP) But... they can be tricky to program. With lots of features come lots of menus.

Lanthan O'Ide Wow, thanks a lot for your detailed response and advise! You’re absolutely right, my intend is to sequence polyphonic sounds. I saw some people use Ableton live but I would like to do it without a computer (I am a SW engineer, the last thing I need in my free time is a computer :-)). I will check out the Yamaha devices you recommended, thanks. Have a good time and be inspired (so I can go and check out your new videos ;-))

No, the SL license is not needed. But SysEx librarian is not the right tool for the job, you'll need a patch manager instead. This is one I like to use: bigglesworth.it/

​@@LanthanOIde Thanks for the suggestion. Sadly that doesn't work on recent MacOS :-(

You're welcome! I hope you'll find something on there you like!

You're very welcome, I'm happy to hear you enjoy the sounds! Sure, here's the list: (Pardon the formatting, I've just copied it out of the Sound Organizer) 1 Dawn Atmo 2 Skyward Seq 3 Ballad EP Keys 4 Tesla Coil Atmo 5 Lost Island Atmo 6 Unit Arp 7 Operators Keys 8 Specular Keys Keys 9 Silver Bell Keys 10 Clean Contact Arp 11 Space Patrol Bass 12 Miguel Drive Arp 13 Icy Bay Atmo 14 Star Freighter Arp 15 Arcade Lead 16 Altair Seq 17 4:00 AM Atmo 18 Digital Keys 19 Slow Pad Pad 20 Ping FX 21 Radio Waves Seq 22 Funkstation Keys 23 Glowstone Arp 24 Terminal Pad 25 Nanomagnets Keys 26 Rock Organ Poly 27 Martial Arts Poly 28 Lake Hylia Seq 29 From The Tower Seq 30 Glowing Trails Atmo 31 Neptune Arp 32 Powerchord Bass 33 Vinyl Mono 34 Prismarine Keys 35 Regression Arp 36 Kyanite Keys 37 Hexagon Ray Seq 38 Greaseless Bass 39 Eletrith Keys 40 Electron Source Seq 41 Solar Sailor Atmo 42 Nordwind Atmo 43 Arctic Sunburst Pad 44 Stereo/Poly Poly 45 Old Console Poly 46 Bessel Bass 47 Neon City Keys 48 Skyscraper Mono 49 Bright Lead Mono 50 Dex Seq 51 The Inevitable Arp 52 Trigonometric Poly 53 Clean Bell Keys 54 Sub Bass Bass 55 Emerald Flute Lead 56 Shard Seq 57 Plucked BPF Seq 58 Observatory Atmo 59 Portal Room Pad 60 Gameboy Poly 61 Son of Flynn Arp 62 Eliza's Flute Mono 63 Golden Fog Pad 64 Wave Explorer Seq 65 Wilde 13 Arp 66 Space Probe Pad 67 Rivendell Keys 68 Brutalanda Mono 69 Square Keys Keys 70 Joe's Lead Mono 71 Phase 1 Pad 72 PWM Drive Poly 73 Classic Pad Pad 74 Third Wave Arp 75 Holz-Spieluhr Arp 76 Cathedral Poly 77 Resonant Chords Seq 78 eF-eM Seq 79 Glas Keys 80 Snowy Rail Pad 81 Green City Arp 82 Warp Mono 83 FM Keys Keys 84 River's Dance Lead 85 Cave, Day 04 Keys 86 One Saw Pad Pad 87 Gameboy Mk. II Poly 88 Misty Forest Keys 89 Minor Sequence Arp 90 Indigo Arp 91 No Strings Keys 92 Click Organ Poly 93 Frozen Antenna Seq 94 Behind Jupiter Arp 95 Heavy Poly Poly 96 Analog Strings Pad 97 3/4 Pulse Seq 98 Bedrock Bass 99 Orange Poly 100 Messing Lead 101 Square 101 Lead 102 Let's Try PWM Pad 103 Another Wave Arp 104 Hourglass Arp 105 Bluestone Keys 106 Blue Shimmer Keys 107 Short Bass Bass 108 Algoda Pad 109 Red Legend Bass 110 Beneath Crystals Keys 111 Platform 8 Arp 112 The Wreck Atmo 113 Orbiter Seq 114 Moon Rock Bass 115 Chorus Strings Pad 116 Lightstorm Seq 117 Caterpillar Keys 118 Dark Fields Pad 119 Lichtleiter Atmo 120 Lissajous FX 121 DS10 Kick Drum 122 DS10 Snare Drum 123 DS10 Hi-Hat Drum 124 Almost Kick Drum 125 Almost Snare Drum 126 Analog Kick Drum 127 Analog Snare Drum 128 Shaker Drum

@@LanthanOIde Brilliant!

Thanks!

Thank you very much, glad you like them!

Thanks!

You might be interested in getting an audio interface, then. Those basically add high-quality audio inputs and outputs to your computer. Much better than the standard mic input computers have.

It should be in the descriction, if I'm not mistaken. Cheers!

Glad you like them!

When clicking the zip.dmg file I'm getting an Adobe Flash installer... Am I doing something wrong?

I think the .dmg means that the file is damaged. Simply retry downloading it.

On second thought, the dmg might also stand for "download manager", which ties together with that "installer" thing you mentioned... In any case, this is not the file you are looking for. The soundset is just a .syx inside a .zip. Let me know if re-downloading did the trick or if I can help you with something. ;)

Lanthan O'Ide OH, okay... Weird. On Mac dmg is disk image. Apps and some other stuff is distributed as dmg-files. I'll try downloading a fresh copy.

Thank you very much! I didn't use external effects: What you hear is what you get. ;)

Hi Tom, thank you very much! Yes, the Keystep can be connected to a lot of different things: It has a midi port for hardware synths, a USB socket for computers / tablets / smartphones and even a CV out for modular systems. So you might even call it a "triple purpose controller". And sequencer. ;-)

Cool, have fun with it! :D

I'm glad you enjoy it!

Since I have no iOS devices I can't try it, but this one looks fine: 12decode.de/GOFTER/index.html From what I can tell, it seems to be free and have similar features, but again... I can't promise anything. ;-)

@@LanthanOIde Thanks Lanthan, I'll certainly give a try.

Hm, I might do some tutorials in the future. But with the little time I have available right now, that will not happen very soon. Sorry. Instead I'll tell you where I learned everything I know about the Blofeld: Call me old-fashioned, but I can highly recommend the user manual. Not only does it tell you how to use the Blofeld, there are also some great sound design tips in there and it's written with a lot of homour. Oh, and when I say "user manual" I mean the actual user manual, not that puny "quick start guide" that comes with the Blofeld. You can get it here: waldorfmusic.com/downloads/Blofeld%20Downloads/Documentation/Manual.pdf The instructions on saving your own patches are on pages 22 and 23. As to how to make a soundset of 128: Repeat that process 128 times. :D

Lanthan O'Ide ty sooooo much

Thanks for the compliments, that's very kind!

Yup! Nice to see someone recognizing it every now and then! :D

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much for the kind words! I hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless.

Thanks! :D

...and thanks a lot for commenting! I'm happy you like it!

You're welcome! That's very nice to hear!

Maybe you intrested in: users.atw.hu/lipi/blofelddownloads.html :)

That's awesome, thanks! Very cool, Jarre-esque sounds! I had way more fun than I should have with #09, VCS3. Pew pew... XD

@@LanthanOIde :-D your welcome! Have you tried the SLADGE bank too? There is some nice oldschool patches....

Whoops, I didn't. Just downloaded the SLEDGE bank and looked at it in the sound manager, and WOW! That's a lot of sounds! It may take me some time to try them all. By the way, did you have any trouble getting my soundset on your Blofeld? I got some complaints from people who had difficulties there, and so far no one wrote that he succesfully got the soundbank on his Blofeld. Makes me a bit nervous.

I'm guessing Bank A? I haven't tried, and wouldn't recommend it. I strongly encourage you to use a sound manager to upload the patches. That way you can choose which patches exactly you'd like to overwrite, and which you want to keep.

No, that doesn't seem right. The zip file should contain only two files, the sounds and a readme file. Is it possible you clicked on some advertisement by mistake?

Yes, sadly that's true. I really wish the patches were compatible.

@@LanthanOIde I have tried manually mapping by comparing your settings using your SYX(SoftknobsForBlofeld) to Largo. Alot of the settings and features are the same but there are still some variables.

Oh. Ooohhhh... That's bad! I really hope the site is just down for maintenance or something. I'm afraid I don't know of any good alternative, sorry! :( However, I've just checked the license agreement and it says one may "copy and redistribute" the software. So I could send you the zip-archive via e-mail if you'd like.

Thanks, that would be great! My address is: monsieurlevisqueux@gmail.com

lady.rdsor.ro/~kotro/soft/WaldorfBlofeldEditor116C.zip is the right link ;) It's still available...

Well, on the other hand: Some generous folks have actually paid me for the soundset, so all in all, I can't complain about how I'm treated. ;-) But to satisfy your curiosity, from what I've heard, there are two things some people complain about: The first is that some folks can't help but click on ads and blame me if they download crap. The second is that not everyone knows how to upload a soundset, but some fail to search for tutorials / instructions and blame me once things go wrong.

@@LanthanOIde thats good to hear. means people really appreciate what your work.

Yeah, it has quite similar vibes, I think. :D

You're very welcome, thanks! Unfortunately, the stock presets cover all the memory of the Blofeld, so you'll have to overwrite some. I highly recommend the sound librarian I mentioned in the video description, because it lets you choose which specific patches you'd like to replace, and which you'd like to keep. And you can pick individual patches from my soundset, so you don't have to waste memory on patches you don't like. ;-)

That's strange. I just tried downloading and extracting it, and everything worked fine. Did you get the file "LanthansSoundset.zip"? If so, what did the error message you saw when you tried unpacking it say?

YES, I have file "lanthanssoundsetzip". OK, I unpackig but why do you need to install it?

Install what? There is no installation required. Do not install anything you may have downloaded by mistake. Inside the .zip you'll find a file called "LanthansSoundset.syx". That's the soundset. You can use whichever Blofeld sound manager you like to upload the soundset to your synth.

Of course, it should be syx file. Try to download the file - you can not ... www.file-upload.net/en/download-13298464/LanthansSoundset.zip.html

Yes, worked again. I uploaded the files to google drive now, maybe that will solve this. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_KRdoleX4XN4QzoWkhRIxAUfm95rSmZo Let me know if it works.

Thanks! No, you won't need the SL license, and while we're at it, you don't need any custom wavetables either. Everything should work on any Blofeld.

That's very good, thanks.