Waldorf Blofeld | demo by Jexus / WC Olo Garb (part 1 of 2) 

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this video changed my life as an artist - I still watch it every now and then like an album I like to revisit often

Great sounds. You really show how versatile and bold this synth sounds. It can get very edgy without sounding harsh. It can sound crystalline and sparkly. It can sound round an full. It's been on my list for a long time. This demo may be what pushes me to have my own buy + transport + play Waldorf adventure! Well done.

This guy knows how to make any synth sound awesome. After that, you try it at home... and it´s not the same.

I wanna go on a journey through Jexus's mind. I bet it's bloody weird and wonderful.

If Waldorf were smart they would hire you to do their videos.

This vid is into its 7th year of being up!! I didn't realise the Blofeld keyboard version was this old already!! Time flies!

somebody hire this guy!!! this is the best synth demo i''ve heard/seen since i started in this game..('87)

Have watched this a few times: sheer, brilliant fun. This is what one does with synthesizers. And the video is a work of art, as well, bravo!

So much energy in this. Thanks for putting this into the world.

cosmic, weird, difficult and experimental sounds. Masterpiece ! Respect

Still looking/sounding on it in 2024

Holy shit. Best demonstration I've seen. Love the presentation as well.

NIN in a box! Such a great video!

4.30 is so SkinnyPuppy like. Such a cool synth. I have one too and like it. But all the time I just screw my plugins. Such a shame LOL Great that you're back and your videos up again. Have joy and be sound. Update 2023: I nearly trashed all of the synth plugins. I can't stand their sound anymore. Only a view where left, like the Plasmonic, some Madrona Labs stuff and Derailer from Physical Audio. 😂

Jexus sold on the Blofeld years ago. Finally bought it this year and man it's great.

love your demos and the crazy edits

The bass line at 4:17 is absolutely gorgeous. It made me pull out the credit card.

Bassline at 3:34 could be used in fire remix of "Sleeper in Metropolis" by Anne Clark.

Keep coming back to this- so awesome.

This is art

Wow somebody who knows how o use this at last! Excellent demo, many thanks :)

Great work Jexus! The Blofeld is a very capable synthesizer - but it needs a man like Jexus to make this absolutely clear. I am sure that a part III of the Blofeld demo could sound like an old smooth and fat analogue synthesizer - if Jexus want to do this. (i would appreciate this very much!)

Dude ... every synth you demo sounds amazing. You've made me rediscover my nearly discarded MS2000, =) I've been considering buying a blofeld, it sounds ... adventurous somehow.

This reminds me of the demo he did for the Korg Polysix. Similar styles and great fun with the arpeggiator. Nice pads too. Great demo.

The SID also has square waves with PMW , and a weird "pseudorandom" noise wave, as well as triangle and saw. And the thing that seperates it from all other chips, is that it has a multimode filter, and envelopes.

This video is awesome.

this is so awesome man, keep doing what youre doing

I love your vids so much!!! They helped me now twice pick the right synth!!! Thank you again!!!

This Synth is Sick!!! Unlimited potential...Nice Demo!!!

luv 6:00, the rest is wicked as usual. you'are wild man, wild!

@brandontripz if you've still got the problem and haven't contacted a midi pro yet: synths have to be set up to run with a sequencer. most should work automatically but sometimes you have to set it up. you decide whether you want the synth to accept input from 1 channel or all 16 (usually all 16 if you're using midi to multitrack), also you decide what the synth does when it receives midi info (play sound or pass thru) to prevent some synths from trying to play double notes.

Another great demo.

Mój sampler ma ciarki na obwodach na samą myśl o tym co tu się narobiło. Jak zwykle, w kilkanaście minut więcej pomysłów i wyobraźni niż nie jeden przez całe życie.

Fantastic demo

cool metal sound at 9:25. Any thoughts about what is the main "ingridient" of this type sound? - Fast lfo? Delay? Preloaded waveform that already sounds like this?

@thejonlord yeah! i personally owned a microwave for some time and i'm kind of sad cos there were so many possibilities with it and really clean sound! i can only notice some aliasing by the blofeld in the very high notes as in many digital synthesizers, but the versatitlity of the waldorfs' really seems strikig to me and they really have a (kind of harsh sometimes, but in a good way) sound of their own.... .-)

Moc! Mają klimat te brzmienia.

crazy stuff from 3.00 really like Ever thinking of releasing your soundsets commercialy , they are really good

I would like to know if he uses on-board-effects or external equipment like analog compressor/effect unit or recorded to tape? The blofeld sounds coloured here, not like in most other vids on youtube.

amazing sounds you created with the Blofeld :-)

At first I thought I hade heard it all before. It sounded like you were playing they same old stuff you ahve used on other machines. But the 8bit part about 7 minutes in changed my mind. This is your best demo yet. By the way how many of all the bugs in the Blofeld have you found?

I have 2 KB vers on the way. If they are like what they seem from demos, to me they are well kept secret in USA. I listened to a lot of new other and new syths and in final analysis this just stood out for me. I think these may be as rich as DSI , and more versatile. So much mod leaves you hearing...is it waves or analog? Even DS says it's more about everthing downstream of occil more that it is the occ itself. The construction is ironically unimpressive with a simple board and plastic encoders. But sound comes first. THIS IS A FUN VID AND SOUND NICE JOB. Was the sound all live out of the synth?, sounds like it had some stuff maybe added later, or maybe you brought in some custom sound effect samples idk.

Beautiful Performance!

Shit, the entire video is gorgeous - Jexus has made me buy a Blofeld, AN1x, MS2000, and my cherry-poppin synth the CS2x!

awesome demo

like that synth, nice demo

seems like a few sounds coreletad to his weird hand movements, does this thingactually have aftertouch?

Jexus! i have a question but no idea how to ask you since i cant send a personal message somehow.. help? nord 2x vs blofeld vs virus ti?

I'm getting the desktop, do I have to get the SL License for sounds like these?

9:24 made using the sampling feature or is that purely synthesised? Really nice sound, great demo!

how can anyone dislike this this kicks so much fuckin ass

This is insane! Which external midi device do you use for triggering?

I like the retro type of sounds going down right now... a lot.

The arp and the pad/strings at 04:17 sounds very analog + awesome, definitely my next synth buy after I get a hardware sampler! This is way to cool for school... Keep up the good work, Olo! A suggestion for your next video, program a Roland D-50 with is PG1000 that would be awesome... Daniel Fletcher of D a z z - S y n t h A swedish synthrock band

@AlexisNembrode yes it does but there is memory for samples which the keyboard has as default (im not sure if new desktop ones have this now) but there is an upgrade option available if not.

THE TOXIC AVENGER!

@brandontripz Have you tried using the Blofeld's usb connection in Logic's midi preferences? I use it in Ableton.

Very twin peaks around1:20

@felmoe "All sounds & arpeggio lines programmed by WC Olo Garb."

Amazing synth! Not very common here in the states! Well at least not by me on Florida! Anybody else notice some distinct similarities to the ESQ-1 and this? Filter wise I should say? Stellar Demo and Programming! As usual!! :)

even today i cant believe its posibilities... im so happy with it -

Awesome! That´s what I call inspired playing. Say - you don´t issue some of your patches used here, do you? ;)

SID soundchip came from Commodore computers actually, Atari one's called, well, POKEY :>. Distincly different sounding chips - POKEY is all square waves, while SID uses sawtooth and triangle ones (I think). Nice info about midibox, though, demos on project's page sound great.

This is an amazing keyboard i have an access virus waldorf q nord rack 2 oberheim 12 juno 106 tx81z korg monopoly this is by far my favouret at the moment big fat warm sounds love it

I can just listen to 5:03 on loop. All day.

having trouble loading these for some reason, not seeing a .mid in the download and spectre not allowing me to open .syx helpppppp

Funnily enough, ive just happened upon the original, the game is called Lasermania, for the Atari 800XL, which is a polish game! Excellent stuff!

Any chance of getting a Roland Jupiter 8 demo on here Jexus? I imagine you would blow us away with that one.

That untuned harpy piano 😫🔥😫🔥😫🔥

do you sell a blofeld sound pack?

The last thing I have to say is the Blofeld is housed in aluminum (or some metal) while the Venom is housed in plastic, and the venom has terrible keys, and by terrible I mean cheap plastic, resistance is to high making it difficult to play, and they don;t have aftertouch which is strange because the routing matrix allows for aftertouch to affect parameters. (this won't be a problem if you have a midi-controller). Happy synthing :)

what is the name of the pad at 02:30 ? and how can i make this in sylenth1

this thing is beastly

7:18 bit is title music from Atari XL/XE game Lasermania, pretty awesome recreation of Pokey soundchip sound. There's so many great sounds here I wish Jexus posted more of his songs (complete with usual bizarre videos if possible :>).

Brother, you are sooooo right!

@matthewme23 Exactly what I would have said, superb compositions and demos, and a cool swing to go with it ;]

I would be ALL OVER the Blofeld if it had at least 1 more stereo output, preferably 2. Sequencing 2-3 parts in the least, means once you're ready to commit to audio, that you'd have to make 2-3 passes for the duration of the track. More outputs=less passes. Why make such a synth with bare minimum audio outputs?

Does the keyboard have after touch?

@w3colond I had an R3 for a brief period and I recall it had a rather different sound... I now have a Waldorf mQ wich is very similar to blofeld, I think it sounds beefier than the R3 and also can sound über metallic if that's what you want, you can even play just pure wavetables and make it sound as metallic as you desire.

can you explain the S and M a little more. I'm considering the Blofeld KB, interested in how its working with an external midi device...I have a tetra?! the other KB im considering is an Ultranova.

You are the man.

Jex, have you done a movie yet? btw this inspired me to get a blofeld years ago haha.

3:44 the hotness!

Damn wish the keyboard versions of these weren’t so pricey. Very nice! What exactly is the SSL license? Something froMS old State Logic I assume?

excellent demo excellent patches excellent player with lot of style and insane fancy video the only non-excellent stuff in there is actually the synth i got mine one and a half years ago and almost never used it cause is a bug's sewer -_________- 'll see what happens with the last fw. cheers dude 10/10 vid

Love the sounds at 7:19 which sound like video games like atari/nintendo!!!

The dude with half face painted. What film is that?

you're the best!

Interesting sounds

whats the name of the patch @ 5:45 ?

nice sound bud =D

Blofeld or MicroWave I ??? What do you prefer ? Thus Blofeld seems far more powerful but lacks this gritty PPG sound

I'd come to your gig

@w3colond IMHO the waldorf mQ strings (at least with pwm and saw oscs) sound beautyful and powerful.

7:19 Sounds unbelievably SID-like! How the hell did you get it so close? Even the noise wave sounds identical. Im guessing wavetables were used to get it close.

both. haha I'd start with the venom if you don't have a keyboard, simply because the blofeld keyboard is 1000+ dollars. But if you already have a midi keyboard... well it depends on you're taste. I have a venom and love it's synthesis, but it's fairly tedious to edit, and is highly un-knobular (but so is the blofeld). What matters most is you're capability with synths. Whichever synth you get, spend time with it. Build patches from scratch, tweek the presets etc.

dr3tri: I agree, the demos and samples of this synth has been horrible and kind of off-putting, I kinda thought it sucked until I heard Jexus demo, and all I can say is WOW.. With the right person using it it sounds amazing and twisted, I'm thinking of picking up the desktop next week.

I saw it today at Sam Ash, I test it with headphones, it sounds better than the Access Virus Ti2 that was beside, it has more air and more depth.

amazing. best synth vid ive seen in ages 5:02 is really good