{"id":21704,"date":"2010-03-14T11:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/?p=21704"},"modified":"2010-03-14T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T13:47:11","slug":"the-ppg-wave-2-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2010\/03\/14\/the-ppg-wave-2-synthesizer\/","title":{"rendered":"The PPG Wave 2 Synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=5DFB3F529A86B1F4<\/p>\n<p>This set of videos, via <a onmousedown=\"yt.analytics.urchinTracker('\/Events\/VideoWatch\/ChannelNameLink');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/12bitrec\">12bitrec<\/a>, demonstrates the <strong>PPG Wave 2 <\/strong>digital synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p>The PPG Wave 2 was a digital + analog synthesizer created by Wolfgang Palm, of the German company Palm Products Gmbh. The PPG Wave combines digital waveforms with analog filters and VCA&#8217;s, creating a &#8220;warmer&#8221; sound than was then possible with digital synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Three versions of the PPG Wave 2 were produced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Wave 2: 1981-82<\/li>\n<li> Wave: 2.2 1982-84<\/li>\n<li> Wave 2.3: 1984-87<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Waldorf has released a virtual version of the PPG Wave 2, <strong>PPG Wave 2.v Classic Wavetable Synthesizer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The PPG Wave 2 was used by Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Gary Numan, Art Of Noise, Thomas Dolby and Ultravox. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 Voice<\/li>\n<li> 2 to 16 Oscillators per voice (using Digital Waveforms)<\/li>\n<li>30 Wavetables with 64 waves per table<\/li>\n<li>Analog 24 dB\/oct lowpass VCF filters with ADSR envelope<\/li>\n<li>Curtis VCAs<\/li>\n<li>8 Part multitimbral<\/li>\n<li>Sequencer: 8-track; 6000 notes\/99 patterns\/99 songs<\/li>\n<li>Arpeggiator<\/li>\n<li>61 note keyboard with aftertouch<\/li>\n<li>MIDI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PPG Wave 2 Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waldorfmusic.de\/en\/products\/ppg_wave\">Waldorf PPG Wave 2 VST<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppg.synth.net\/wave22\/\">PPG.synth.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-sounds.net\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=57\">Pro Sounds <\/a>has several PPG Wave 2 sound sets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=5DFB3F529A86B1F4 This set of videos, via 12bitrec, demonstrates the PPG Wave 2 digital synthesizer. The PPG Wave 2 was a digital + analog synthesizer created by Wolfgang Palm, of the German company Palm Products Gmbh. The PPG Wave combines digital waveforms with analog filters and VCA&#8217;s, creating a &#8220;warmer&#8221; sound than was then possible with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2010\/03\/14\/the-ppg-wave-2-synthesizer\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The PPG Wave 2 Synthesizer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,4832],"tags":[12874,3553,450,2576,182,30605,14725,225,750,1310,14726],"class_list":["post-21704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","category-user-reviews","tag-art-of-noise","tag-demo-video","tag-digital-synthesizer","tag-gary-numan","tag-jean-michel-jarre","tag-keyboard-synthesizers","tag-ppg-wave-2","tag-tangerine-dream","tag-thomas-dolby","tag-wavetable","tag-wolfgang-palm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}