Waldorf Microwave 1 Rev A Curtis 3389

Selling my Waldorf Microwave 1 Rev A with Curtis 3389 chips. This is the closest to a PPG Wave you can get without spending a small fortune! Unit features latest OS V 2.0 Eprom Upgrade and NOS 3389 Curtis filter Chips. Unit is in fantastic working order with slight cosmetic rack rash (note there is a slightly bent rack ear)--the face looks great when racked. Please note due to age the Unit is being sold as is! Don't miss your chance to own one the best Wavetable synths with analog filters--these don't come around often!

Note: Updated pics—Original seller listing pictures were utilized initially.

From VSE:

Specifications:

Polyphony - 8 voices, 8-part multitimbral

Oscillators - 64 ROM wavetables and waveform samples

VCF - Analog Curtis CEM 24 dB/oct lowpass filter

VCA - 4 envelopes

Effects - None

Vocoder - Speech Synthesizer

Arpeg/Seq - None

Keyboard - None

Memory - 64 internal, 64 external card

Control - MIDI

Date Produced - 1989

Revision Comaprisons:

Revision Comparisons:

MicroWave revision A (This listing)

• • frontpanel dark metalic blue, not painted, anodized metal 
  • rotary encoder has 52 ticks per revolution, has rippled, metal shaft with slot 
  • uses Curtis CEM 3389 (Voltage Controlled Signal Processor)
    "Included on-chip are a wide-range four-pole lowpass VCF with voltage controlled resonance, and three high quality VCAs, two of which pan the output signal of the third between two outputs."
  • LCD has black characters on green background 
  • case is black 
• microWave revision B (Other listings)
• • frontpanel is made from Nextel, gray-blue, silkscreening blurry, rubs off 
  • high quality red dial 
  • rotary encoder has 24 ticks per revolution, has even, flattened plastic shaft 
  • uses Curtis CEM 3387 (low noise VC signal processor)
    Was used also on the Waldorf WAVE.
    "The CEM 3387 is a general purpose audio signal processor intended for applications requiring high audio quality. Vontained on-chip is a 3-pole low pass voltage controlled filter, cascaded to a 4-pole low pass VC filter with voltage controlled feedback path for Q enhancement (resonance): also included is a final voltage controlled amplifier which drives two additional VCAs for voltage controlled pan into left and right outputs."
  • LCD has green characters on black background 
  • case is grey