Just wait for Behringer WAV, a hardware mp3 to wav file converter and Behringer WA, a Wah pedal that didn‘t age so well.
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What are the chances of a desktop version?
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Good in my opinion, but it’s more a question of when.
Given the price of the keyboard version what i might propose :
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I’d be really surprised if they didn’t given they desktopped the UB and the Deepmind 12 (which is at a similar price point)
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if its similar to this reddit mockup that would be nice. Just hoping the buttons would stay 
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This is pretty much what you might expect. When you design a product like the keyboard in this case, you try to make the electronic board assemblies able to be reshuffled ( for a variety of reasons ), or perhaps separated and used with something else, and reused in other arrangements. It makes sense that the control buttons and displays are separate from the musical interface control part.
Looking at the back it appears there may be a third board with the audio electronics and connectors. Helps a lot to have digital components and analog audio components on separate boards, to isolate from interference.
Passive cooling ?
Which one on top would be better. I like this layout, but perhaps the other way 'round, top and bottom, with the buttons flush to the right, and some sort of modulation input to the left ?
ADDED : Notice the AC input with internal power converter.
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Anyone have any insight about similarities or overlap between the Wave and the Waldorf Iridium (which even has PPG filters and, I believe, wavetables)?
The Quantum has the analog filters, Iridium filters are digital, to the extent that has relevance.
You can look at ( or ask about ) the comparison of either those two with the original PPG Wave, and find info on that. Put simply the Quantum model expands greatly with many more synthesis engines, more complex modulation, a large color screen, and many other things, with a much greater price.
One short reductive ( perhaps unsatisfying ) answer to your question is the Wave is simpler, while still sounding good.
Jupiter 8 and CS80 to come after this.Thats all she wrote.
from Tom Noise
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Well Elektrons old CEO did release a wavetable synth that is, dare I say it is a modern classic and it is called the hydrasynth.
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Super cool synth, but not the balance of aliasing sound character and immediacy I attribute to the PPG. I’d sacrifice the sound slightly for the Elektron sequencer built in.
Right after I complain about the Pro Vs being limited they dropped an update adding a fifth voice and reverb… Now this paraphonic Prophet Vs 5 is actually nifty
The significance for this thread is that the “energy going on guy”, did the demo for the Pro VS Mini update USING THE WAVE AS THE CONTROLLER.
Wondering if the knobs send CC in a way that might give the Wave other uses ?
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A musical intermission
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id like to vote as well, where was this poll done?
Didn’t take them long.
[27 December 2024] The price has come down on the Behringer Wave and it’s now €599. Time to break out that holiday money?
Behringer Wave is available at Thomann* for $525 / £489 / €599 .
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Wow. Ordered.