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https://github.com/MaurizioB/Bigglesworth

An editor for Waldorf Blofeld, free and cross-platform
https://github.com/MaurizioB/Bigglesworth

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An editor for Waldorf Blofeld, free and cross-platform

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Bigglesworth

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Bigglesworth is an editor and librarian for the Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer.



Official website: http://bigglesworth.it



This is a pre-release version, some of the features are not complete or

available yet.



Features

--------



Features in *italics* are still under development



- 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

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-  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 repository

and run the script in the

main directory:



::



    $ ./Bigglesworth



For OSX and Windows, just visit the Releases_ page.



Usage

-----



A small window will show, listing the latest version of the presets from

Waldorf, from here you can edit a sound by right clicking on it.



Bigglesworth will try to automatically connect to a Blofeld if it's connected 

through USB, if not you'll have to connect it manually, using Patchage or

QJackCtl, for example.



Remember that sound dumping (receiving sounds from the Blofeld) works only if 

you own a Blofeld Keyboard or by connecting it via USB, since the Desktop 

version 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 Edit

  Buffer"*, 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 above

and 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, also

  using a "live mode": a simple MIDI interface for the control surface, without

  the need to load presets or the whole editor window

- sound template "favorites" library

- arpeggiator template library

- Online shared sound presets

- coffee maker



Known issues

------------



Since I'm still in the middle of the development, a lot of (unexpected)

things still happen... Anyway.



- 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. This

  means that the controls can look ugly and in unexpected places

- the Librarian doesn't know the current sound if you don't manually change it 

  from the Blofeld, this means that if you manually send a sound dump from the 

  Blofeld, 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 by

  changing at least 2 sounds from it (I suppose it's a firmware bug).



.. _Releases: https://github.com/MaurizioB/Bigglesworth/releases