Agreed, everything about Dave’s and Focusrite’s approach to and motivations for the acquisition has impressed me. This is indeed a great price, can’t wait to see what they continue to produce together.
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Another one running silent and deep at the moment, but who might pop up with a surprise is Waldorf Music. They have a booth, and while they may just be showing the Iridium, Quantum, and Kyra, along with there other quality hardware, it is also possible that they’ll have something new and surprising.
Rolf had indicated the possibility of a third something in the Iridium / Quantum line, in that video quite a while back. And i wouldn’t doubt the existence of new products in other categories as well.
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Maybe they will go the Dreadbox way and produce affordable Synths.
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Seems like the Kyra has kinda been abandoned. Happy to be corrected but I was looking at the FB group for it a while back and it seems like theres a lot of issues and no real noise from Waldorf about it. Always a bit hard to say with COVID etc, very hard to know what impact it is having on companies/teams internally. A shame though cause it seemed like it could’ve been a virus successor.
Well it was only at Musikmesse 2018 that Manuel Caballero first showed the Exodus Valkyrie, now the Waldorf Kyra, so the product is still young. Caballero is no longer with Waldorf, he just joined Harman (a holding company owned by Samsung) so he won’t be at Superbooth with Waldorf, though likely there will at least be some people from Harman walking around at Superbooth.
Here is the announcement and a nerdy interview with Caballero joining Harman:
https://www.harmanluxuryaudionews.com/2021/07/23/manuel-caballero/
BTW: Looking at the team at Harman, we can expect to see more from them. Samsung must be investing heavily in those companies.
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As i noted elsewhere something may be up with Waldorf and their Eurorack products. They don’t have a lot of Eurorack stuff, and just what is going on is hard to be sure. Perhaps a sale is just a sale.
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Yeah interesting I did not know he had moved on. I wonder what he will be doing at Harmon? Some cool DSP stuff i guess,
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Has anyone heard anything about Polyends aleged new product? theres rumors that Richard D. has been involved once again with the development.
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Craig might know something more, if it’s OK for him to talk about. I don’t know much more than what i already posted. It’s not alleged which is the good news.
aah ok, cool. i wonder were i read the blurb about RDJ though. i know he was somehow involved with the tracker, so it wouldnt be suprising.
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Polyend has been very good about working with others and bringing in good partners in the past.
Polyend x RDJ x Pearl: a Perc and a tiny kick drum built into a 10HP module.
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All I know is this line from the Polyend CEO:
we are working on two very cool new devices
So, I’m not even sure if it will be for Superbooth
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Maybe you remember this (from early 2020), which turned out to be the AFX Bass Station II:
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…just ordered a ticket for first day…wednesday the 15th…
with all day acces outside area…and limited to indoors in the afternoon…
so between 15 and 19 hundred i’ll be aaaaall in…
naggin’ vlad constantly for an enner…until he finally gives up and takes my money…
but i get there defenitly way more early…
u can find me at the coffee booth… 
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Will everyone be masked ? I know i would be ( indoors ).
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…and ooops…had no idea dave is joining focusrite now for the option to spread his truuly famous analog flavour wide open at better pricetags…
good choice i guess…and hope…
was already wonderin’ when noticing the new designs…thought…hmmm…this does not really look like a next sequential prophet something as usual…
but i just heard one little utube demo until now…and hmmmpf…that was a pretty classical and pretty booooring example for now…
and wearing masks indoors, if not demanded anyway, is defenitly the better way to go…
delta is on the rise also in berlin…
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Soz, do you mean Richard Devine or Richard D. James?
I mean either way it’s a winner 
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No it’s Richard Downey Jr.
Another comeback.
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