{"id":2371,"date":"2024-09-23T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=2371"},"modified":"2024-09-23T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:24:29","slug":"the-real-suspects-vavra-and-xenia-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%92%a9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/the-real-suspects-vavra-and-xenia-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%92%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Suspects Vavra and Xenia \ud83e\uddfb\ud83d\udca9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">From the team that brought you the <a href=\"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/the-real-suspects-ostirus-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%91%8d%f0%9f%8f%bc\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">virtual Virus<\/a> keyboards, two related emulations of the Waldorf MicroQ and MicrowaveXT. I&#8217;d have to start with the interfaces which are quite authentically <em>awful<\/em>, just like Waldorf&#8217;s own interfaces. The original hardware was <em>bloody awful<\/em> and what we are seeing here is much improved by many years of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?resize=640%2C377&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2372\" style=\"width:637px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?resize=1024%2C603&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?resize=300%2C177&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?resize=768%2C452&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?resize=800%2C471&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?resize=500%2C295&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/TheUsualSuspects-Xenia.webp?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Here is the face of <em>Xenia<\/em>. It improves greatly on what you once got:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/waldorf_microwave.png?resize=600%2C195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/waldorf_microwave.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/waldorf_microwave.png?resize=300%2C98&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/waldorf_microwave.png?resize=500%2C163&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But still it has no connection with the state of the art in wavetable synthesis interface:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?resize=640%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-355\" style=\"width:614px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?resize=1024%2C600&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?resize=768%2C450&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?resize=640%2C375&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?resize=400%2C234&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/vital-synthesizer.png?w=1243&amp;ssl=1 1243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The point I am making is that there&#8217;s plenty of new wavetable synthesisers out there, even free, that will be a better musical instrument than these oldies. Even Waldorf, bless them, has finally realised you need to <strong>see the damn waveforms<\/strong> on screen. Their new <em>Microwave VST<\/em> finally has scopes that allow informed exploration of the waveforms (but their file system still sucks badly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Download these memories, enjoy the presets but then move on to making your own sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the team that brought you the virtual Virus keyboards, two related emulations of the Waldorf MicroQ and MicrowaveXT. I&#8217;d have to start with the interfaces which are quite authentically awful, just like Waldorf&#8217;s own interfaces. The original hardware was bloody awful and what we are seeing here is much improved by many years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[4,6],"class_list":["post-2371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-virtual-analogue","tag-wavetable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}