Waldorf Microwave Tuning Info

Is there anyone on the list who has experience retuning a Waldorf Microwave?
I'm looking for basic information about tuning it and methods of
saving/reloading tunings under DOS/Windows. I couldn't find much on the web.
This looks like a great instrument for microtonality. Is it?

Randy Winchester
P.O. Box 426074
Cambridge, MA 02142-0008
RandyWinchester@netscape.net
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Hi Randy,

I looked it up a bit recently. The big bad mega buck Waldorf Wave has full
MIDI tuning tables with a 1.56 cent resolution (-64/+63 I think), but the
Microwave2 and the supercool MicrowaveXT do not have tuning tables. You have
to use the keytracking parameter, which yields only certain EDOs (equal
dividions of the octave). They say 100% tracking = 100cents/step (12EDO). If
you think of the 100% as being 100% of 100 cents, then what you can actually
get are EDOs that are whole number CETs, i.e. between 1 and 100 cents per
step. I could be wrong about this. It also has an interesting pitchbend
setting called "harmonic".

http://www.waldorf-gmbh.de/

From the PDF manual for the XT/Microwave2 :
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Keytrack -100%...+200%

Determines how much the pitch of the oscillator depends on the MIDI note
number. The reference note for Keytrack is E3, note number 64. For positive
settings, the oscillator pitch rises on notes above the reference note, for
negative settings the oscillator pitch falls up to higher notes and vice
versa. A setting of +100% correspondes to a 1:1 scale, e.g. when an octave
is played on the keyboard the pitch changes for the same amount. Other
settings than +100%make sense especially when using ring modulation or
oscillator synchronisation. Try to use values in the range 0�+75%or even
negative settings for one oscillator while leaving the second at
+100%Keytrack.

Pitchbend Range 0...120 / harmonic / global

Determines the intensity of the pitchbend via MIDI Pitchbend messages in
semitones.

If harmonic is selected, the pitchbend is performed in steps of the harmonic
and the subharmonic scale. The harmonic scale is used when pitch is bended
upwards and built upon multiples of the base pitch. If the base pitch e.g.
is 1000Hz, the harmonic scale consists of 2000Hz, 3000Hz, 4000Hz, 5000Hz...
and so on. The subharmonic scale is used when pitch is bended downwards and
built upon divisions of the base pitch. If the base pitch e.g. is 1000Hz,
the subharmonic scale consists of 500Hz, 333.3Hz, 250Hz, 200Hz, 166.7Hz and
so on. The following example illustrates the harmonic and the subharmonic
scale for the note C3:

Harmonic scale: C3, C4, G4, C5, E5, G5, A#5, C6, �
Subharmonic scale: C3, C2, F1, C1, G#0, F0, ~D0, C0, �
Please note that all notes use a pure tuning.
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Ciao,
Drew

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