Waldorf Music AG is a now insolvent german synthesizer company. It was founded on the 1st of January 2003 to take over the actual business of the Waldorf Electronics GmbH (also insolvent). The CEO used to be Wolfgang Düren. Insolvency is a financial condition experienced by a person or business entity when their assets no longer exceed their liabilities (commonly referred to as balance-sheet insolvency) or when the person or entity can no longer meet its debt obligations when they come due (commonly referred to as cash-flow... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ...

History

Waldorf Electronics GmbH was founded 1988 by Wolfgang Düren. Before this Wolfgang Düren was the German distributor of PPG. The name of this company does not refer to Waldorf School but to the German town Waldorf (near to the former capital of West Germany: Bonn) where the company was founded. The company was headquartered in Schloss Ahrenthal. In Summer 2006 a new company Waldorf Music GmbH (GmbH = limited) was formed officially. The Management board: Kurt "Lu" Wangard (former TSI employee (TSI = Waldorf distributer in Germany)), Stefan Stenzel (former Waldorf employees). The new company is not responsible for the old Waldorf company. But maybe some support will be offered later. This article is about distributors in internal combustion engines. ... The Wave, designed by Wolfgang Palm, was PPGs most successful and well-known product. ... Waldorf Schools (also known as Steiner schools) state as their mission educating the whole child, with a strong emphasis on balancing the childs natural stages of development with creativity and academic excellence. ... Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

Personnel

• Wolfgang Düren, Managing Director

alphabetic order:

• Ralf Bächle
• Andy Busse (software R&D in the early days of Waldorf)
• Jürgen Fornoff (software)
• Wolfram Franke, developer
• Florian Gypser, production & quality management
• Axel Hartmann, industrial design and corporate identity
• Jörg Hüttner, product support (Freelancer)
• Chris Mercer
• Niels Moseley (did an internship and some small projects at Waldorf Electronics GmbH)
• Martin Neideck, central buying & organisation
• Frank Schneider, production manager
• Holger "Tsching" Steinbrink, Product Manager (Freelancer)
• Stefan Stenzel, R&D Director

• and some freelancers working in and outside the castle:
  • Claudius Brüse (product manager and manual of the WAVE)
  • Albert Huitsing (software)
  • Thomas Kircher (circuit design)
  • Michael Marans (WAVE Manual Production and Design)

• Wolfgang Palm, designer of original PPG technology and the resulting "Waldorf ASIC" used in the Microwave and Wave synthesizers. Not an employee of Waldorf Music!

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Products

1989

- Microwave. rack wavetable synth. Built in two different hardware revisions: the first ones had a backlit LCD. The later ones a lit character display. They use a different Curtis CEM analog lowpass filter chips. Later called Microwave I due to the 1997 introduced Microwave II Equipment mounted in several 19-inch racks. ... Wavetable synthesis is used in digital musical instruments (synthesizers) to produce natural tone-like sounds. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Analog electronics. ... A low-pass filter passes low frequencies fairly well, but attenuates high frequencies. ... Television signal splitter consisting of a hi-pass and a low-pass filter. ... Integrated circuit showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery A monolithic integrated circuit (also known as IC, microchip, silicon chip, computer chip or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) which has been manufactured in the surface...

- EQ-27. Compact (table top) programmable and Midi controlable stereo 7 band equalizer. [1] Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Equalization filter. ...

Pulse atop 4-pole atop EQ-27

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1990

- Midibay MB-15. rack Midi patchbay and merger [2] Equipment mounted in several 19-inch racks. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ...

1991

- Microwave Waveslave. 1 HE voice extension for the original Microwave (adding another 8 voices) [3]

1993

- WAVE. A wavetable synthesizer. This was a deluxe extrapolation of Microwave technology, with additional features for wavetable creation and resynthesis. Available in 4 colours. 61 or 76 keys. 16, 32, or 48 voices. [4] Wavetable synthesis is used in digital musical instruments (synthesizers) to produce natural tone-like sounds. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ...

- 4-pole. Table top analog filter box. [5] An analog filter handles analog stimuli (e. ...

1994

Waldorf rackAttack in the earlier blue/gray color combination above Waldorf 'Mean Green Machine MicroWave I. A bit of a WAVE panel is visible here too.

- Microwave I V2.0 ROM upgrade, which added additional wavetables, a facility to algorithmically create custom wavetables, a speech synthesizer, and numerous other improvements. The Waveslave was not compatible with this upgrade, but a trade-in program was offered where the user could upgrade to a full Microwave for a small fee. Image File history File links Wikipedia_MeanGreen. ...

- A limited edition Mean Green Machine was released at the same time as this upgrade, being a Microwave with a new "Nextel" rubberized finish in a green color, a certificate of authenticity, special rubber feet, and comical silkscreening (the power switch was labeled Life, and the card slot was labeled Food.) Normal Microwave units from now on featured the Nextel finish in the usual blue color.

1995

- Gekko Chords & Gekko Trigger Very compact passive powered Midi tools Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...

- Hohner Adam [6] Hohner is a company specialising in the manufacture of musical instruments. ...

- Pulse Monophonic analog rack synth Monophonic can mean: In rrded audio, a monaural recording with only one channel. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Analog electronics. ... Equipment mounted in several 19-inch racks. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ...

1997

Hohner Adam: Software R&D by Waldorf. Design by Axel Hartmann who also did all Waldorf designs

- Gekko Arpeggiator. Very compact passive powered Midi tool [7] Image File history File links Waldorf_hohner_adam. ...

- Microwave II. Motorola DSP driven wavetable rack synth, containing many features of the original Microwave with improved mixing, modulation, effects processing, and multimode filter. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is an American international communications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... Wavetable synthesis is used in digital musical instruments (synthesizers) to produce natural tone-like sounds. ...

- Pulse+. Monophonic analog rack synth with additional audio in and Midi / CV interface Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...

1998

- x-pole. Programmable stereo (in/out) analog filter in a 2HE rack module. With full MIDI, CV/Gate and ACM support. Image File history File links Wikipedia_Q+XTk. ...

- Microwave XT. Microwave II with 44 knobs and audio input, in 5HE package with bright orange color.

- Microwave XT Limited Edition. Microwave XT in charcoal gray/black color scheme, in a limited edition run of 666 units.

- d-pole. VST filter plug-in [8] Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. ...

- Terratec Microwave PC. Synth module for the TerraTec EWS sound cards, featuring a fully functional Microwave II in a drivebay package. Terratec DMX 6fire TerraTec Electronic GmbH is a German manufacturer of sound cards, webcams and TV tuner cards. ...

- Wavetable Oscillator for Creamware Modular

1999

Top view of Waldorf Q

- Q. DSP driven virtual analog synth. 58 knobs! Colours: bright yellow "sahara" and WAVE blue. [9] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3278x1184, 1220 KB) Copied from the manual, stitched and pointers removed in Corel. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3278x1184, 1220 KB) Copied from the manual, stitched and pointers removed in Corel. ...

- XTk. The Microwave XT with a 49 key keyboard

- Q rack. Rack version of the Q synth. Less knobs. Only yellow.

2000

WAVE atop yellow Q. MicroQ keyboard left

- PPG 2.V VST plug-in synthesizer to emulate the blue PPG. wave 2.x wavetable synthesizers [10] Image File history File links Waldorf WAVE atop Waldorf Q. Waldorf microQ keyboard at the left. ... Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. ... Palm Products GmbH, commonly abbreviated to PPG, was a synthesizer manufacturing company. ... Wavetable synthesis is used in digital musical instruments (synthesizers) to produce natural tone-like sounds. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ...

- microQ. Even more compact and afforable Q rack with only 7 knobs and different DSP. [11]

2001

Waldorf microQkeyboard

- Attack. VST drum-synth plug-in [12] Image File history File links Wikipedia_microQkb. ... Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. ...

- Color of the Q, Q rack & mQ changed to the classic (Microwave) blue

- microQ keyboard. 3 octave keyboard version of the mQ. Classic blue coloured

2002

- D-coder. A TC Powercore synth and vocoder Plug-In

- RackAttack. The VST in a microQ housing Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. ...

- Q+ A ruby red Q featuring up to 100 dynamically allocated voices and 16 analog lowpass filters [13]

- A1 VSTi software synth

- Waldorf Filter for Halion

2003

Musik Messe 2003: PC running ROT Analog Filter Step Sequencer. AFB-16 below. rackAttack (here in the later color combination of blue/yellow) and microQ (classic blue) below the speaker on the left. Q+ in the background

- AFB-16. 16 analog filters to be used via USB for VST instrument and effects. [14] Image File history File links Waldorf Music Frankfurt Music Fair booth 2003 (detail). ... Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ... Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plugins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. ...

2004

- on the 5th of February Waldorf Music had to declare insolvency at a German court.

2006

- as of April 2006, Waldorf seems to be back in business. According to their website, "The new Waldorf Music GmbH is currently being founded". [15] As of Sept 29 2006 the website is offline and the company may not be responding to emails.

only distributed

- Emes Monitors

done for Steinberg

- SMP 24 - SMP II - Midex und Midex+ - Midex - Topaz (Harddisk recording, Mr. Wolfgang Palm was involved too)

others

The infamous Waldorf Clack Board as shown in one advertising leaflet of Waldorf in their early days.

- Clack-Board a controller for a TV-game. Done in the early nineties. Not actually published? Maybe someone could give us more information on this soon. Image File history File links Clack-board_450. ...

See also

[16] The new founded Waldorf Music GmbH Homepage

[17] Waldorf User FAQs (faq.waldorfian.info) FAQ is an abbreviation for Frequently Asked Question(s). The term refers to listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. ...

[18] Contains manuals as PDF files as well as all public OS versions of their products. PDF is an abbreviation with several meanings: Portable Document Format Post-doctoral fellowship Probability density function There also is an electronic design automation company named PDF Solutions. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Noticed on November 18th 2006, WALDORF's SITE IS BACK UP AND RUNNING, AFTER FTP ISSUES HAD TO BE SOLVED. They are not dead, but very much alive!