KVR Audio

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:37 pm

Knew they had something cooking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phi8zPZcWtw

Looks and sounds nice. Probably expensive though (Rolf mentions something like $3.000 plus in the video). Great name choice.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:52 pm

BTW, i have a feeling that, even though this is a Waldorf synth, and it's obviously quite a complex OS, with touchscreen UI, and all the functionality, that it may be a bit more issue free, seeing that Rolf Wöhrmann is involved, who obviously also did a good job on Nave (i think?).

Curious to hear more of the analog filters.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:03 pm

Stromberg 2017 Edition?

Seriously, though, looks/sounds pretty awesome.

AnX · Post by **AnX** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:04 pm

50 shades of grey....

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:05 pm

cryophonik wrote:Stromberg 2017 Edition?

Let's hope it won't just become a discontinued design study.

DodgingRain · Post by **DodgingRain** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:55 pm

Lets hope waldorf doesn't go bankrupt again by over reaching.

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:58 pm

DodgingRain wrote:Lets hope waldorf doesn't go bankrupt again by over reaching.

They've given themselves a decade selling (thousands of) small, cheap, competent boxes first to fill the coffers. They might be alright this time.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:02 pm

tehlord wrote:
DodgingRain wrote:Lets hope waldorf doesn't go bankrupt again by over reaching.
They've given themselves a decade selling (thousands of) small, cheap, competent boxes first to fill the coffers. They might be alright this time.

One can only hope.

This looks fabulous.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:14 pm

tehlord wrote:
DodgingRain wrote:Lets hope waldorf doesn't go bankrupt again by over reaching.
They've given themselves a decade selling (thousands of) small, cheap, competent boxes first to fill the coffers. They might be alright this time.

I hope so. I want to be first in line to buy a second-hand one.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:00 pm

This rather catches my interest... want to learn a few more details...

How would this synth work as a controller too?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:05 pm

One thing i'm wondering about is why they can't pack more than 8-voices in this thing. Given that the sound production is fully digital, if i got it right. Might be a bit too few voices for a "flagship" synth.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:21 pm

chk071 wrote:One thing i'm wondering about is why they can't pack more than 8-voices in this thing. Given that the sound production is fully digital, if i got it right. Might be a bit too few voices for a "flagship" synth.

The filters are analog (dual filters per voice at that)

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:30 pm

Alright, guess that is what i was missing. That the filters are per voice. Still a bit of a shame though, maybe it would have been possible to also implement digital filters, so that you can use more voices. Anyway, can't have everything i guess.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:52 pm

chk071 wrote:Alright, guess that is what i was missing. That the filters are per voice. Still a bit of a shame though, maybe it would have been possible to also implement digital filters, so that you can use more voices. Anyway, can't have everything i guess.

Would love it if it had a future expansion to 16 voices...

But besides the 8 voices not quite being enough, 3 Osc's of wavetables, sampling, granular and resonator with 6 lfo/envs through analog filters sounds pretty yumm

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:59 pm

chk071 wrote:Alright, guess that is what i was missing. That the filters are per voice. Still a bit of a shame though, maybe it would have been possible to also implement digital filters, so that you can use more voices. Anyway, can't have everything i guess.

I'm pretty sure they have digital filters in it as well, after analog ones.

16 voices of this complexity would very likely push this above 4000€ and that would really put a damper on a lot of things.

Waldorf Quantum - 8-voice hybrid synth