Exploring the Waldorf Q Keyboard

[devmiles]

i had the yellow kb version. i sold all my VA synths and gone completely analog but have to say i sometimes miss this one. It's probably the best VA you can get. It sounds very convincing, harsh, vivid, bright..it has it all. waldorf has a very unique sound and you can go really deep. if you don't have the money to try out the big Q try the micro Q instead, great value for money.

[johnshima1]

lovely music mate, really good demo

[orientalflux]

dang.. I love this synths.. knobs gallore!

[belagiorgo]

nice price but to bad not control VST i looking exactly same keyboard has many knobs

[belagiorgo]

hey how much this cost this keyboard Waldorf Q synthesizer? you can control virtual mdi 2?

[attorks]

@belagiorgo I bought it 2nd hand for 700 euros. You can control it via MIDI but not as VST.

[zenmachinefilms]

Really nice. Reminds me of Tangerine Dream from the Chris Franke years. I own a Q and don't play it enough.

[cprostudio]

i think your title is misleading, i did not see any exploration of this synth, only a recorded track and some knob twiddling

[MorenoMusicGermany]

Great Synth and great line. Make a track out of it!

[bubblebottoon]

is there a download of this song,i love it,it has a faithlless sound to it,nice work

[attorks]

@bubblebottoon No, not yet. I'll see what I can do. I'll let you know.

[zenmachinefilms]

@bubblebottoon - You can download any YT video on Savevid.com. From there, it's just a matter of converting it to an audio only file.

[TheSynthZone]

I just listened to some of your stuff now I am all fired up to go practice with MINE . Nice effort!

[4etzelenz4]

WOW, what a cool arpeggiator sound. This is not boring but inspiring. I think a Waldorf would be the perfect complement for my XF. Thank you for posting...

[WARDISWARD]

Sounds a bit like the orb

[zenmachinefilms]

Really nice sounding!

[dvamateur]

Damn, I love the Yellow one, even though it was unfinished. It seems as if they finally implemented the step sequencer on the gray one.

[TheSynthZone]

@dvamateur the Q and Q rack has an amazing sequencing ability which goes far beyond up-down or arpeggios! I have had several sequencers including analog and this one is complex and deep as well as doing the 'simple' routine stuff.

And it can do wavetable scanning similar to the FIZMO. Actually both units together is quite an exciting way to develop new sounds.

[mpresev]

sounds like DM. I like it.

[StudlyHero]

This is one of my favorite waldorf Q vids. I liked it so much that I recently acquired the yellow waldorf Q desktop. Also wondering if you upgraded your OS. I would like to do that on mine via Midi to usb cables with the turtle beach software on my PC. Do you know of a good Sysex Midi program for PC, and maybe a good tutorial? Thanks again for the the awesome vid.

[attorks]

@StudlyHero Congratulations with your Q. I upgraded the OS in the beginning because I wanted an initial configuration and the latest OS. If I remember correctly I used the QBankManager for that. I also uploaded some soundbanks with that. Can be downloaded from the Waldorf site in the downloads/q/tools section. But also Dumpster is a great and simple tool to dump and send MIDI Sysex.

[TheSongsparrow]

One of the better VA's. But after awhile, the sameness of tone per each patch gets old. Layer Prophet five with a DX7, matrix, m1 etc. and you get the multi layer stuff without the sameness of sound.

[attorks]

@TheSongsparrow I know what you mean. It does have a certain sound. For the video's I usually search for a preset but most of the time I find it difficult to find a suitable one. I had the same problem with my Kawai K5000R: lovely synth but never could find the right sound when I needed it. The Q has the advanced that it is easy to edit and alter sounds to you tase.

[DharmaTechster]

I've been playing and programming synths since 1987 and have owned literally dozens of them. The Q is one of my absolute favourites of all time - one of a handful that will never, ever get sold. Love it to death. Thanks for posting this. :)

[DeathFromAbove72]

That has such a beautiful sound!

[WARDISWARD]

beginning of the 'orb '( forgot the title of the song )

[v8bert]

You all send your Q to me immediately, OR FEEL MY WRATH!

Lovely, lovely vid. Not boring at all. The intricacies in its repetitiveness as well as the Q's sound made it bliss.

March 15 marks the day I started saving for the Q.

Thanks!

Goed gedaan, jochie!

[Lemure333]

@v8bert ...hey did you get your Q yet?_?

[v8bert]

@Lemure333 LOL. Nope, but I did get a Blofeld keyboard and it sounds quite like the Q. Love it despite the glitches in its software.

[TheSynthZone]

@v8bert The Blofeld sounds good but having so many knobs in the Q interface makes the q a dream to work with.

[christianwelde]

nice thing going on there :)

[Robbinsffxi]

I never ended up buying the Q. it was allways the second option by some reason. But I'm very tempted to buy the Phoenix edition. I love the look of it. :P

[korgpadude]

i love sounds on it

[hasnamussannihilator]

Yes! I have a Waldorf Q+ and they make a good difference:

The digital filters are very pretty too, The Sound is amazing from both filters types: I see the analog filters in the Q+ more a supplementary extra for more choiche to make interessant sounds.

They are smoother and creamyer and with resonance are more agreeable..but not forget the Q+ it's a Hybrid and the sound remain unlike a Andromeda A6 or others full analog Synths

[mfitz1969]

The Waldorf web site has comparison clips playing the same patch with the digital and analog filters on the +.

Yes, it makes a difference!

[gianfuzzi]

pleas recording a new demo j like waldorf q ! ! !

[Korgator]

very nice Demo!5*****

[filmakerjamiefilmz]

i love waldorf q, it has such a unique sound to it.

[musicman2047]

I have the funky yellow version, rare as fuck

[MARANTZamp]

sell it to me

[StudioF]

awesome synth, i recently bought a blofeld keyboard

[korgpadude]

where can i purchase 1?

[Zelamir]

It's not boring at all, interesting meditation instead. I've got the Microwave XT recently, and I like it a lot, but this beast is quite another category. I'm thinking about getting one. Thanks fpr posting.

[aspidistral]

Thanks for the demo. I was looking for some in depth demos of the Q+, but I've enjoyed your posting here. Have you used a Q+ as well?

I like analogue filters, but I think Waldorf have always done a really good job with their digital filter models too, specially for the time they first used these.

I'm waiting on delivery of a MicroWave 1A and a Pulse. Should be fun. Just love electronica.

[attorks]

Thanks for watching. This is my first Waldorf device so I cannot tell you much about the Q+. Also wanted to buy a 2nd hand MicroWave before but I was a little bit worried about the lack of controls on the panel.

[BXLrules]

I have a blue rack Q 32 voices. Actually it is almost identic to the keyboard version. Some controls overlap and are to be switched by buttons but that's it.

Incredibly deep synth, you can connect every parameter in the mod matrix, there is a great morph function and the random function is a killer. The manual says that most of the patches are made by this, but this is nothing compared to what it can do...

Great sequencer and arpeggiator too.

I actually sold my sh-101 to buy this one...

[Thalassa77]

Hello, Martin, congratulations for your new synth. I've posted this video on my blog switchedonsynthesizer.blogspot . com . Will be great if you can do something similar but only with the waldorf , without any other synth. Pablo

[MoogMyHarmony]

Pretty good sound mate!!

I love the Q, its a great synth with lots of possibilitys as well. I use it since 5 years. And know together with the Electribe SX. No need to buy music any more!!

[mattsynth]

I once had a Q rack unit for some time and sold it because it was hard to program but the keyboard version looks like it has lots of knobs for easy programing. Thanks for the video.

[attorks]

That's just why I bought this keyboard, the many knobs for realtime control. That's why I love my Nord Lead 1, only knobs and practically no menu operation. The Q is more complicated and has more possibilities that the Nord Lead. The Q also replaces my AKAI AX80 because I was not satisfied with the editing features of the AX80; I could only alter one parameter at a time.

[korgpadude]

hello nice demo, any idea where can i purchase 1 ? thnx

[synthpro]

Great Demo!!!