Bigglesworth is an editor and librarian for the Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer.
Official website: http://bigglesworth.it
Patch Base has been updated, adding a patch editor and librarian for the Waldorf Blofeld.
This is a pre-release version, some of the features are not complete oravailable yet.
Features
Features in italics are still under development
- Feb 22, 2018 Quote: Originally Posted by Ken Kennedy I made a Logic template for it, but could never find the sysex for saving patches/combis remotely on the Blofel.
- Quote: Originally Posted by Ken Kennedy I made a Logic template for it, but could never find the sysex for saving patches/combis remotely on the Blofel.
- Works on Linux, OSX and Windows (OSX/Windows releases are experimental)
- Direct sound parameter editing
- Virtual keyboard (with input from the computer keyboard)
- Dumping sounds from Blofeld
- Dumping sounds to Blofeld
- Organizing sounds and adding/restoring them from factory presets
- Import sounds and sound sets from .MID files
- Import sounds from .syx files
- Wavetable editor
Linux requirements
- Python 2.7
- PyQt4 >= 4.11.1 with QtMultimedia support (not mandatory, required for audio previews in the Wavetable editor)
- pyalsa
Windows requirements
- Windows XP with Visual C++ 2008 SP (usually already installed)
Installation
There is not an installation procedure yet for Linux, just clone the repositoryand run the script in themain directory:
For OSX and Windows, just visit the Releases page.
Usage
A small window will show, listing the latest version of the presets fromWaldorf, from here you can edit a sound by right clicking on it.
Bigglesworth will try to automatically connect to a Blofeld if it's connectedthrough USB, if not you'll have to connect it manually, using Patchage orQJackCtl, for example.
Remember that sound dumping (receiving sounds from the Blofeld) works only ifyou own a Blofeld Keyboard or by connecting it via USB, since the Desktopversion doesn't have a MIDI out port.
What works
- Sound dumping (single, bank or full).
- Sound parameters send/receive for the current sound in 'Sound Mode EditBuffer', not for Multi Mode.
- Virtual keyboard from the Editor window.
- Global parameters send/receive (requires USB connection the Desktop version,since both input and output MIDI is required)
- MIDI connections (through menu and dialog), remember connections
What doesn't work (yet)
- Multi Mode editing
Future
Apart from completing what is in the What doesn't work section aboveand fixing the whole Editor window, I'll add:
- Factory/User library, even with custom libraries (older versions, etc.)
- MIDI input and mapping, to allow the use of an external control surface, alsousing a 'live mode': a simple MIDI interface for the control surface, withoutthe need to load presets or the whole editor window
- sound template 'favorites' library
- arpeggiator template library
- Online shared sound presets
- coffee maker
Waldorf Blofeld Editor
Known issues
Waldorf Blofeld Editor Librarian
Since I'm still in the middle of the development, a lot of (unexpected)things still happen... Anyway.
Waldorf Blofeld Editor Librarian
- Windows releases are still buggy
- widgets in the Editor window are ugly on HiDPI screens
- some scaled dials don't look very good
- the whole Editor window layout is temporary and resizing is allowed. Thismeans that the controls can look ugly and in unexpected places
- the Librarian doesn't know the current sound if you don't manually change itfrom the Blofeld, this means that if you manually send a sound dump from theBlofeld, it will not know what to do with it.If you want to edit a sound coming from the Blofeld, you have to select it bychanging at least 2 sounds from it (I suppose it's a firmware bug).