waldorf oddjob?
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Itās obviously the Waldorf Pierce Brosnan.
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Waldorf ātedious , long , overhyped, predictable , full of product placement and blandā ā¦ not sure itās a good direction to go in.
Sorry ā¦ please donāt reply to this pointless post ā¦ Iām not actually interested in what it might be. I only buy cheap synths at the moment.
The Poly Pulse 8 with 61 key poly-aftertouch keyboard.
Someone will inevitably do a Blade Runner sort of demo on it.
Just having fun with the ideas. Itās an open book.
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Extremely buggy and laggy. It sounded great but whenever I attempted anything too complex it would choke up. Sometimes becoming unresponsive sometimes the audio would get crusty (like when you overload your CPU while running softsynths in a DAW) and it would often crash in ways that werenāt reproducible. I use to do QA for software and hardware instruments so itās second nature for me to remember what exactly I was doing before encountering a bug so I could right repro reports but when I tried to repro a bug that would crash the Iridium it wouldnāt happen so it just seemed to crash randomly.
Those things plus certain features I found to be lacking or missing entirely plus the touch screen being generally laggy all combined to make me sell it and itās one of the few things Iāve sold off that I donāt really miss.
The most interesting part of the synth (Kernel mode) was the most cumbersome to program.
Itās a cool synth for sure and capable of a lot itās just in my opinion no where near completion. For its price point it should have been absolutely rock solid in both software stability and build quality and components and itās just not.
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Damn. Guess Iāll be crossing that one off the list, thenā¦ 
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I donāt know that Iād rule it out completely I would wait and see how the OS looks in a year or so and keep your eyes on the Iridium user groups to see if the production issues get ironed out. It is a really nice synth but the way I see it itās currently in its beta stage. If Waldorf fixes it then it would still be a pretty desirable synth.
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Itās pretty wild when I read the problems some have with the Iridium. Iāve had the Iridium for over a year and never once had any issues like that. 
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Latest post in Iridium thread, where the continuation of this discussion is a better fit, is someone with a crashing Iridium who exchanged it ( for free ) with another and the crash problem went away. My read of that thread is the 3.0 Iridium (beta) software has made large improvements too.
For me, the Iridium has always been conceptually appealing, though I have yet to hear anything from it that would justify adding it to my studio. Nevertheless, on paper it has always intrigued me and has always been near the top of my list of new synths to try.
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The Quantum came out in 2018, so a Quantum 2 with a poly-aftertouch keyboard would be a possibility. Or would it be called an Iridium Keys ? I think Quantum 2 is probably a better name. I know there have been some hardware changes that have been considered for the Quantum as well, so there is some reasons to rev the hardware.
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Itās not confirmed to be a synth, right? My hope is that itās a controller keyboard with poly aftertouch (thus the āpressureā tagline), maybe positioned as an accessory to Iridium and M (or Streichfett or Blofeld for that matter) but actually just a really well-built, all-around MIDI master keyboard.
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Yeah, this is pretty much all we have.
The keyboard controller market has a lot of competitors, and Waldorf hasnāt been to date a real competitor on price. But what might be possible is dual roles, a synth that also can be a controller, like the Hydrasynth Keys.
Oh hell. With lots of Strymon shimmer.
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Much more than we have from the omnipotent Syntaktā¦ scnr.
Has anyone done a copyright search for Waldorf ?
Both already have keyboards, though this could be a new hardware version of either. Unlikely imo.
Streichfett => STVC
Yeah that is my hope also, a nice really well built polyaftertouch midi controllerā¦ Waldorf did tag it with synthesizer in the Instagram post though and the previous controller type unit kb37 did have some labeling directly above the keys. So yeah probably not as likely to be just a focused high quality midi controller.
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That says a lot to me.
Btw the Fatar keyboard from the Blofeld keys is excellent.
So maybe Fatar came up with a poly pressure keyboard and we will see more synths with those?
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