Waldorf Edition User Manual
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Waldorf Edition
User Manual
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nobody really wants to use this “feature”. There are many more factors, that are
responsible for the typical PPG sound and we are proud to say that we have found
them all and reproduced them in our Wave 2.V.
Differences to the Original PPG Wave 2.3
From today’s viewpoint, some functions in the original PPG Wave 2.3 are not up-to-
date. For this reason, we have made a view changes to the plug-in user interface,
compared to its brother in hardware:
The naming of the different menus: In the original, there were PROGRAM,
DIGITAL, TUNING, ANALOG and SEQUENCE. The ANALOG menu displayed
the dial parameters as numerical values in the display. This helped the user to
compare between the physical dial setting and the actually set parameter value of
the current sound. In the PPG Wave 2.V this menu is not necessary, as the dials
show the settings of the selected sound at any time. The SEQUENCE menu was
used to call up the built-in sequencer of the original PPG. This had a very simple
structure and could in no way compare to the power of a modern software se-
quencer, which is why we haven’t included it in the Wave 2.V. Still present are
the Arpeggiator and the possibility to record parameter changes using MIDI Con-
troller messages. In addition, the PPG Wave 2.V has two new menus:
MODULATION shows all possibilities for modulation within one menu, while the
GRAPH menu offers graphic envelope and filter editing.
The second difference lies in the parameter names that are used: On the original
PPG, quite cryptic names were used for a number of functions (e.g. MF for the fil-
ter modulation or SW for sub-oscillator behaviour). In the PPG Wave 2.V, these
names are either not abbreviated or the abbreviation makes sense.
The third difference concerns the display of values. On the original PPG, even
switches only used numerical values. The parameter SUB-WAVES, which had the
values OFF, OFFSET, DIRECT and ENV3. These were represented by the numbers
0, 1, 2 and 3 (where 3 oddly enough stood for OFF). The PPG Wave 2.V offers an
approach that’s a little more comprehensible.