Sujet Commentaires sur le test : Test du synthétiseur Waldorf Quantum

(...) I was originally looking for a piece of gear that would provide something for granular synthesis, and to manipulate audio in a creative and immediate way. I wanted something outside a computer to do this: I’ve done it many times before with software, but I wanted something different and the Quantum seemed like the perfect answer.

It’s very easy just to keep it connected to a patch bay and feed it an output from Logic, and then sample it and mangle it into an instrument; it’s immediate in this way. That was the way I got into it, then I realised how unique an instrument it is.

Every sort of synthesis that it offers is presented in a meaningful and creative way. I can get lost in it very easily, but not in a way that four hours pass by and I haven’t come up with anything interesting. I started writing patches for it, and I keep overriding the ones that are in there, and then I started using it on the record for several things, like on “Let Go,” where the speech synthesis is actually from the Waldorf. You can input a phrase and then the synth will play it back, and then you can play it on the keyboard. It’s also used on “Momenti” for a harmonium sound, and a string counter-melody that sounds like violin, but it’s in reality a Buchla 700 that I adapted to a granular sound within the Waldorf. I am sure I used it in other parts too: as I said, it became like the spice for the album, used to give a common denominator to all tracks