Waldorf Rocket Synthesizer

To be fair the description on the Rocket page states:

'It's incredible sound is much more

louder than the legendary Saturn V engine, and never before has this
been achieved with such an enormous fun factor. It features an analog
multimode VCF with lowpass, bandpass, and highpass, resonance up to self
oscillation and beyond, a powerful monophonic oscillator section with
Ultra High Density Sawtooth and unison for chord play.'

I'm always completely amazed by how poorly these companies really understand their customers.

The Bro was right.

My bad, homie.

  On 2/24/2013 at 11:26 PM, DerWaschbar said:

To be fair the description on the Rocket page states:

 

'It's incredible sound is much more

louder than the legendary Saturn V engine, and never before has this

been achieved with such an enormous fun factor. It features an analog

multimode VCF with lowpass, bandpass, and highpass, resonance up to self

oscillation and beyond, a powerful monophonic oscillator section with

Ultra High Density Sawtooth and unison for chord play.'

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'much more louder' lol

 

  On 2/24/2013 at 11:27 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

I'm always completely amazed by how poorly these companies really understand their customers.

Honest marketing to no-nonsense well-informed consumers would plainly state the synth's attributes right up front.

Like, in the first line.

Instead we get three paragraphs of hype.

Oh, its warm? It's got a tremendous fun factor? That's great. Now please confess the pathetic manner in which the oscillator is generated.

ya and it's completely standard language too. The Shruthi-1 kicks this things ass in every department. Especially in the marketing department.

They should not allow people who do not understand the product to market it. I'm sure this was written by a just-graduated marketing girl who the company hired like 2 months ago.

you guys should have seen the ridiculous forum-rage this marketing text has started here in Germany. Not because of the oscillator, but because of the WMD references...

Stupid question: what is WMD?

weapons of mass destruction

LOL @ PC Germans.

looks like an after thought

seems to not sound bad really. Just really badly marketed. That chord function is goofy, but maybe might inspire some nice usage form it's shear strangeness.

I have to say, I'm warming to the idea of this synth. Doubt I'd jump on the band wagon straight away but maybe a bit down the line I could see me checking it out. Refering the Shruthi comparisons, I have a Red Alert version and I think there is enough difference between them that they could play nice with each other.

someone on some forum said that some email exchange with Waldorf happened, and that the email exchange said DCO.

  On 2/26/2013 at 6:33 PM, telefunken said:

electronimonica!

...analogordian?

DCO as in digitally controlled analogue oscillator or an actual digitally generated signal?

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:11 AM, DerWaschbar said:

DCO as in digitally controlled analogue oscillator or an actual digitally generated signal?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitally_controlled_oscillator

guess it meant digitally controlled analog by that, but whatev, it will be known soon enough... this little thingie sounds nice anyway.

It's a fucking dubstep bagpipe.

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:12 AM, psn said:

 

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:11 AM, DerWaschbar said:

DCO as in digitally controlled analogue oscillator or an actual digitally generated signal?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitally_controlled_oscillator

Yes, just wanting to clarify if the oscillators in the Rocket are in fact DCO or if they are actually digital.

Nevermind, this is claiming that they are in fact digital oscillators.

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:17 AM, DerWaschbar said:

 

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:12 AM, psn said:

 

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:11 AM, DerWaschbar said:

DCO as in digitally controlled analogue oscillator or an actual digitally generated signal?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitally_controlled_oscillator

Yes, just wanting to clarify if the oscillators in the Rocket are in fact DCO or if they are actually digital.

Okay, so a Juno would be DCO (as in digitally-controlled analog osc)...?

And something like the Prophet 12 has digitally-generated osc...?

I think colloquially the distinction has become partially obscured and DCO has come to mean pure digital instead of stable-tuned analog.

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

Okay, so a Juno would be DCO (as in digitally-controlled analog osc)...?

 

And something like the Prophet 12 has digitally-generated osc...?

Yes

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:

I think colloquially the distinction has become partially obscured and DCO has come to mean pure digital instead of stable-tuned analog.

Definitely DCO is often used to describe fully digital oscillators, but that's not it's actual meaning.

Anyways, I'm not meaning to be a word jerk. I just wanted clarification as it seemed like a lot of physical oscillators for the price.

Juno-60 has analogue oscillators. They're digitally controlled, which just makes it so they don't need tuning.

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:31 AM, DerWaschbar said:

 

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

Okay, so a Juno would be DCO (as in digitally-controlled analog osc)...?

 

And something like the Prophet 12 has digitally-generated osc...?

Yes

 

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:

>I think colloquially the distinction has become partially obscured and DCO has come to mean pure digital instead of stable-tuned analog.

Definitely DCO is often used to describe fully digital oscillators, but that's not it's actual meaning.

Anyways, I'm not meaning to be a word jerk. I just wanted clarification as it seemed like a lot of physical oscillators for the price.

 

No no, word-jerkery is needed in times like these.

  On 2/27/2013 at 1:16 AM, LimpyLoo said:

It's a fucking dubstep bagpipe.

electro-house bagpipe