(B-Stock) Waldorf Protein synthesiser

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Warranty:	This product comes with a 3-year warranty.
Complete	Yes
Original packaging	Damaged
Condition of product	Traces of use (no damage/scratches)
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(B-Stock) Waldorf Protein synthesiser
Product no: 5000-0026-4352 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

Several families of synths have appeared in history. Classic (analogue) synths were all about filtered sawtooths, square waves, triangles, noise and the like. FM was about a lot of different sounds, especially bells were a good match. Later, sample-players became more affordable, and so we got synths in which acoustic sounds were actually already ready-made and you could at most adjust some generalities. There is another form of synthesis that is perhaps sometimes forgotten: wavetable synthesis. And by this we don't mean the 'wavetable' sound cards of the 1990s, where Creative Labs, among others, simply used the term 'wavetable' and caused years of confusion. In the 80s we had the legendary PPG Wave, in the 90s Waldorf took over with the legendary (and expensive) Waldorf Wave, among others. Today, Waldorf is once again betting on this concept with the Protein, at a price that is very manageable!

Features of the Waldorf Protein

As already written in the previous paragraph, the term 'wavetable' has been somewhat diluted in commerce, where people claimed that wavetables were related to regular ROMplers. In reality, wavetable synthesis is about a collection of small waveforms that can move towards each other in all sorts of ways. That way, you can change the overtones of a sound (the timbre, that is) in a much more fundamental way than you could with a simple subtractive synth. So all this can also get very rough, but we have a filter (CEM modelling) for that to contain the fray. If you don't do that (only partially) then you have to deal with aliasing. With acoustic sounds you never want that, but with the type of sounds you make with the Protein this aliasing can provide an interesting extra timbre. Especially in combination with effects, it results in a nice timbre. Enough envelopes and LFOs are available to adjust the sound in a lively way. If you are looking for traditional pianos, flutes and violins: this is not it. But if you want to go back to '80s traditional sound-design, this is - especially for this price - a very attractive product!

Specifications

Product features

19-inch rack size	not applicable
Number of keys	none
Arpeggiator/sequencer	arpeggiator, sequencer (phrase/controller)
Audio via USB	no
Complete	Yes
Control	none
Sustainable product	not specified
Synthesizer inputs	none
Sound source	wavetable
MIDI & other	MIDI over USB, MIDI in (mini jack), MIDI out (mini jack)
Synthesizer options	standard
Original packaging	Damaged
Synthesizer outputs	line out jack, headphone
Polyphony	8
Synthesizer kind	experimental
Condition of product	Traces of use (no damage/scratches)
Type of keys	not applicable
Vintage remake	no
Synthesizer type	desktop module
Difficulty level	intermediate