Electrocorporation wrote:Well, that was the information thomann provided in an answer to an email I sent them.
I think that's just bad luck, I too sent them an email and they said they arrive on 30th of March!
Then I got the text a few days later!? must have meant the next shipment and they already had a few to cope with all the pre-orders.... and luckily mine was ordered early enough?
Anyway......
I have to be really honest now..... when I first kicked it up I was truly dissapointed in the blofeld! I assumed that I hadn't had the updated OS and all the ealier stated random volume problems were present!!!
and there was a really loud pop when turning on making me nealy spit coke (cola) all over it!
I was using headphones for quickness and to really hear what was going on, and there was a loud hiss and a hum for a while..... which died after it warmed up.......
ok, not the most promising of starts but... I started trawling through the presets and catagories and they were not too inspiring but sound good, apparent volume problems could sometimes be rectified by trying different octaves to hear them at thier best, but still quite a few presets were too quiet an some blew your ears apart when selecting!
I don't use presets anyway so........ hmmmm
after an hour of checking basic parameters I thought I'd leave it and grab some nosh.
later I plugged in again and thought ok! lets get in there and straight away all the bad things faded away! I initialized a programme and started from scratch, its really easy to navigate and sound is awesome!
I really like the filter section especially the comb and notch filters they are awesome and really put some grit into your sound.
I tried the arpeggiator and for some reason the tempo would not work!? but then I tried the tempo knob on the controller and that worked!?
The arp editor didn't seem to work either, but that is more likely to me not doing something right? ha!
I decided to check out the random programme and I fell in love with the first one it came up with!!!!! with a bit of tweaking I saved it over one of those boring quiet presets...... and thats basically what I did for the rest of the night, saving messed up craziness over shitty presets!
ok, conclusion time.
I love it! It really does sound amazing..... but you do have to go past the presets an get shaping your own stuff. Its quick, easy and keeps you entertained with a smile on your face, I'm pretty sure though there will be an update somewhere along the line and if these problems mentioned earlier keep popping up then I'll get emailing waldorf..... but, for now I'm in love!
It will be worth the wait, trust me.