Sound Parameters – Effects
89 Waldorf microQ User´s Manual
Overdrive
The Overdrive effect distorts the input signal by amplifying it drastically and clipping the resulting
signal to a certain output level. The difference between this Overdrive effect and the Drive parameter
of the Filter sections is that Drive affects one single voice, while this effect type distorts the summed
output of the whole instrument. Therefore, the resulting effect is different as soon as you play more
than one note and you should consider which is best suited to a particular sound program. The
Overdrive effect, for example, works great on Organ or E-Piano sounds.
Drive |Post Gain
064 | 064
Drive 0…127
Controls the amount of distortion the effect produces. Low values create no or only slight distortion
while high values create heavier distortion.
Post Gain 0…127
Controls the output level of the distorted signal.
Cutoff
064
Cutoff 0…127
Dampens the high frequency output of the Overdrive effect.
Please note that the setting of the Mix parameter doesn’t affect the strength of the overdrive
effect but only the volume of it. Therefore, you can get a very strong overdrive with a low
volume when you turn up Drive and turn down Mix.
Five FX
This effect type is a combination of five different effects. You can easily use this as a replacement for
one of the above mentioned effect types. The quality of Five FX is the same as if you use a single
effect, only its parameter set is reduced. The effects and their order is as follows:
• Sample & Hold is a sample rate reduction effect.
• Overdrive is the same as the above described effect.
• Ring Mod allows ring modulation of the effect input signal with another signal.
• Chor/Dlay is a combination of a Chorus and a Delay effect.
You should turn the Mix control fully up with this effect type because you probably want the
sample rate reduction to process the whole signal. The Ring Mod and the Chor/Dlay effect
have their own mix control.
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