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The Blofeld adaptation uses Universal Inquiry to detect the Blofeld, so thecorrect OS version should be displayed in the Parameter window afterinstallation. Since the OS version is only determined while scanning, you'llhave to re-scan if you update the OS on the Blofeld and want the parameterwindow to reflect that. If you have problems scanning, install the adaptationmanually, then increase Timeout, Send Pause and Play Delay in the parameterbox and save the adaptation. Re-Scan to see if that helped; if not, you shouldspend some quality time with the MIDI setup of SD and some loopback cables tothoroughly test the MIDI communication. As long as there are any errors withthe communication, you will have occasional trouble and possibly corrupt datawhich may crash your Blofeld at inconvenient moments, so you should really seeto fix that.

If you have an SD version before 3.0.5b, universal inquiry only works ifthere are less than 256 files in the Diver folder. You may have to moveadaptations and helpfiles that you don't use into a backup folder. Updatingyour system to the latest SD version is highly recommended.

Installation on OS9 (SD3.0.5)

Please unpack the ZIP file into some temporary directory, then install onlythe adaptation from the «Blofeld_OS9.hqx» BinHex archive. Thiswill take care of setting the filetype and creator which you would have toedit manually otherwise. I believe that the workarounds implemented for theOSX version are not necessary on OS9. If you find that only the first entryin each bank can be requested, please let me know so that I can implement theappropriate workaround for OS9, too.

Installation on OSX (SD3.1Beta2)

Please unpack the ZIP file into some temporary directory, then install onlythe adaptation from the «Blofeld_OSX.hqx» BinHex archive. Thiswill take care of setting the filetype and creator which you would have toedit manually otherwise. The 3.1Beta2 version of SoundDiver on Mac OSXhas several bugs needing workarounds that have already been incorporated inthis particular version so it should work without any editing of theadaptation after you've installed it.

For the curious, the bugs and workarounds are: the checksum for an outgoingmessage is never sent, so the checksum byte has been replaced with 7Fh in allbank driver strings (this would normally be done on the outgoing message, butSD ignores the incoming checksum anyway). Also, this version of SD does notconvert the entry increment in the bank driver correctly when the adaptationwas produced on a Windows system, which results in all but the first sound ineach bank inaccessible. If you have this error, please check that the entryincrement value in the affected bank driver is set to '1'. The workaround forthis is that the entry increment has been set to 256 on the windows version,which will then be converted to 1 on OSX.

Installation on Windows

Please install only the «Blofeld.ada» file in the main folderof the ZIP archive. The «Blofeld_OS9.hqx» and«Blofeld_OSX.hqx» files are not needed on Windows.

The Windows USB MIDI drivers unfortunately are buggy when it comesto large sysex messages like the Blofeld uses. Also, the Blofeld USBMIDI interfaces will be shown as «USB Audio Device» unlessyou usethe driverprovided by Waldorf in their download archive. To work around the bugin the USB MIDI driver, you need to installboth MIDI-Yokeand MIDItrixV1.24 and do some changes to your SD/sequencer setup. You need tobe aware that MIDI-Yoke provides something like a virtual MIDI cable(please read the documentation), so no application should ever attemptto simultaneously open both the input and the output part of the sameMIDI-Yoke interface, because that would create a MIDI loop. Mostsequencers grab all interfaces they can get hold of, consult the finemanual on how to prevent that. For SD under Windows you control thisin the [SoundDiver] section of WIN.INI (see the example below). Youshould set up the SD so that it opens one set of MIDI-Yoke interfacesonly as MIDI Inputs and the rest of the MIDI-Yoke interfaces only asMIDI Outputs and leave all USB MIDI interfaces without their owndriver disabled (INI parameter is set to 0). This will ensure that SDonly sees the MIDI Yoke interfaces and never tries to open both endsof the same MIDI Yoke «cable». Then connect the MIDI YokeInputs and Outputs with the real (USB) MIDI interfaces via MIDItrix(MIDI Yoke 1 → Waldorf Blofeld, Waldorf Blofeld → MIDI Yoke2). On the connections to the USB MIDI interface (Waldorf Blofeld,both input and output), enable the 'defragment' option. This willcollect all parts of a SysEx message and send it from a single largebuffer to the USB MIDI driver. If you plan to use SoundDiver forWindows with the Blofeld that is the only way it is going to workreliably when you only use USB and not an additional 'normal' MIDIinterface to send to the Blofeld.

Example [SoundDiver] section from my WIN.INI

MIDI-Yoke is set to provide eight virtual MIDI cables, of which four are usedas inputs (even numbered ones, enable with '1') and four as outputs (oddnumbered ones, enable with '7') from SoundDiver. Direct access fromSoundDiver to USB audio devices (these devices may have different namesdepending on the language of your Windows installation) and the WaldorfBlofeld is disabled. Since my (older) MIDISport 2x2 has it's own,correctly working drivers, I leave it enabled. To have the Waldorf Blofeldshow up as «Waldorf Blofeld» instead of «USB AudioDevice», please get this INF-Filefrom Waldorf Music and follow the instructions in their ReadmeFile.

Operation

Some Global parameters can not be edited from within SD as the Blofeld willoverwrite them periodically with its own values.

Release Notes Blofeld

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Version numbering scheme: Vx.yzRr, where «x.yz» is the earliestOS release that supports all the features used by the adaptation and«r» is the release number for the adaptation itself. Unless«x» changes, the adaptation normally works with an earlier OS aswell, only that certain functions that are in the adaptation may not beimplemented on the synth.

V1.15b11

  • experimental multi support w/ editor, init values for Multi
  • bank driver improved w/ bank request support and pauses between dumps for better stability
  • sound edit: support for user wavetables and sample oscillators

V1.04R2

  • Corrected more parameter labels for popups
  • Added 'slider cap' to Oscillator Bend Range
  • Changed the name for complex envelope to ADS1DS2R to match display on Blofeld
  • Workaround for OSX issues implemented so that adaptation works 'out-of-the-box'
  • Parameter changes from the sound editor go to the corresponding multi edit buffer

V1.04R1

  • First version supporting the release OS 1.04 of the Waldorf Blofeld
  • Corrected some problems with Envelope 4 editing.
  • Added missing edit facilities for LFO 3 and Filter 2
  • Straightened spelling for modulation sources lists
  • Corrected parameter labels for popups
  • Added init values for Sound and Global Data
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V1.03R1

  • First version supporting the release OS 1.03 of the Waldorf Blofeld
  • This version does support full FX editing via parameter changes. Youmust upgrade the Blofeld to OS 1.03 for this to work correctly!

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V1.02R1

  • First version supporting the release OS 1.02 of the Waldorf Blofeld

V1.00R1

  • First version supporting the release OS 1.00 of the Waldorf Blofeld

Missing Features

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  • parameter change messages for multi editor (support missing in Blofeld OS)
  • name request for user wavetables and sample banks (support missing in Blofeld OS)
  • user wavetable editor (probably impossible to implement in an adaptation)

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Known Bugs

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