Protein is a new portable desktop wavetable synth from Waldorf – inspired by their classic gritty 8-bit Microwave 1.
It’s designed with affordability, portability, and hands-on controls in mind. It has 8-voice polyphony and can layer or round-robin sounds across 4 different timbres.
It’s all digital, though anything but clean – its oscillators serve up microwave 1 wavetables and artifacts, and it’s got dirt, distortion and flavour features to spice things up, as well as a host of other built-in effects.
In this video, I’ll take a look at what makes it special, what it can do in depth, pros and cons compared to the competition, and I’ll also upload multisamples of it to my Patreon, so you can get a taste of playing its sounds at home:
TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
2:10 Overview
4:30 Workflow
7:00 Build
7:45 I/O
8:25 Oscillators
11:15 Noise/dirt
12:15 LP/HP filter
13:20 Drive “filter”
15:00 Pan
15:20 Envelopes
17:10 LFOs
18:15 Mod matrix
18:55 Effects
22:20 Arp
23:55 Sequencer
25:10 Multi modes
27:45 Flavor
28:30 Chords
29:05 Scale
29:50 CC map
31:15 Misc
31:35 Pros & cons
34:20 Some sounds