Maker
Waldorf
German synthesizer maker
Waldorf is a German synthesizer maker founded in 1988, known for wavetable synthesizers such as the Microwave and the Blofeld.
Models
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Waldorf Quantum
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Quantum, introduced in 2018, is a flagship digital synthesizer offering five oscillator modes per voice - wavetable, waveform, granular and sampling, resonator, and kernels FM - feeding three stereo filters, with both digital and analog filter paths. The current Quantum MK2 provides up to sixteen voices of hybrid polyphony on a 61-note polyphonic-aftertouch keyboard.
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Waldorf Quantum & Iridium Series
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Quantum and Iridium form a family of flagship multi-engine synthesizers sharing the same five oscillator modes per voice - wavetable, waveform (virtual analog), particle (sampling and granular), resonator, and kernels (FM) - with patches interchangeable between them. The Quantum is the keyboard flagship; the Iridium condenses the same engine into a desktop unit.
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Waldorf Pulse 2
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Pulse 2, released in 2013, is a compact analog desktop synthesizer with three analog oscillators plus a noise generator, hard sync, ring modulation, and filter FM, capable of monophonic play or up to eight-voice paraphonic operation. It offers multiple filter modes, an arpeggiator, and an eight-slot modulation matrix.
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Waldorf Microwave
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Microwave, released in 1989, is a wavetable synthesizer module that carried forward the technology of the PPG Wave. Its digital wavetable oscillators paired with analog filters produced distinctive evolving, metallic, and digital textures.
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Waldorf Iridium
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Iridium, released in 2020, is a sixteen-voice duo-timbral desktop synthesizer that condenses the Quantum's full synthesis engine into a rack-compatible unit. Each voice provides three oscillators with five selectable modes - wavetable, waveform, particle, resonator, and kernels - three stereo filters, a 40-slot modulation matrix, and a color touchscreen. Patches are interchangeable with the Quantum.
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Waldorf Blofeld
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Blofeld, introduced in 2007, is a compact, affordable digital synthesizer with up to 25 voices and 16-part multitimbrality. Each voice has three oscillators - two capable of wavetable synthesis or virtual-analog modeling and one analog-modeled - plus two multimode filters with FM. It includes the Q oscillator models and Microwave II/XT wavetables, and is offered as a desktop module and a keyboard.
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Synthesizers
Hardware synthesizers, synth model families, and related electronic instruments.
Representative model
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Waldorf Microwave
Synthesizer · Germany
The Waldorf Microwave, released in 1989, is a wavetable synthesizer module that carried forward the technology of the PPG Wave. Its digital wavetable oscillators paired with analog filters produced distinctive evolving, metallic, and digital textures.