Blop is a free sound manager for the Waldorf Blofeld Synthesizer which runs under Windows and Linux.

Blop - Waldorf BLOfeld DumPer
Copyright (C) 2009 by Marko Mueller (info@bitcycle.de)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.

• Blop Windows Installer - Version 0.2

(Linux binaries are coming soon)

• Blop Source Code - Version 0.2

• Qt-Libs V4.5 (prior Versions should work too)
• Alsa Development Libs (libasound-dev) for Linux

Under Windows the easiest way is to download the complete Qt4-SDK an compile the source using Qt-Creator (this will work under Linux as well).

Be sure that the Qt- and Alsa Development files are installed on your system.

• unpack the source
• run qmake
• run make
• run blop

Because the framework components (Qt/Rtmidi) are designed to work under MacOs as well, it should be no problem to complile Blop for MacOs. I dont own a Mac, thats why I can't try it.

If you have built Blop for the Mac, please send me the build instructions.

Tweak your sounds and download them without storing at the Blofeld.

Upload sounds from the web, your own downloads etc. and test them without overwriting your sounds.

Note: In Multi Mode always Part1 will be affected.

Download the selected sound from the synth or upload it to the selectet location.

The uploaded sound will be stored at the synth and the existing sound will be overwritten.

Download all sounds to a directory.

Most of the Blofeld users using the built in dump functions to store their sounds using a midi recorder.

Use this tool to select the midi file and create/specifiy a directory to store the sounds (as seperate syx files) in.

Every syx file gets a own number, in case it's a Blofeld Sound the name will be attached to the filename.

The extracted sounds can be uploaded to the edit buffer using Sound Edit Buffer → Upload. This will avoid overwriting your stored sounds at a “unkown location” in case you get these midi files from the web or something like this.

Version 0.2

2009/04/25

Blop retains the directories for up/download

Bugfix - split Midi to Syx under MS Windows

Version 0.1

2009/04/20

initial public release

For all questions please leave a comment here or write a mail to blop@bitcycle.de

Special Thanks to:

• the Waldorf-Team for building this little monster synth and the development support
• Gary P. Scavone for the RT-Midi Framework
• Trolltech/Nokia for the QT-Framework
• NSIS for the easy to use installer system http://nsis.sourceforge.net
• Maschinenlabor for beta testing

Hey can this dump os upgrades in Vista with midi-ox? It is way tricker to do in VISTA than xp.

— kidtronic 2009/04/23 02:04

Hi, sending os upgrades to the blofeld is currently not supported .

— Marko Mueller 2009/04/23 19:18