MUSIKMESSE 2017: Waldorf introduced Quantum 8-Voice Hybrid Synthesizer

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With a big surprise, the german company announced today Quantum, a new 8 voice-hybrid analog digital Synthesizer. Quantum is an 8-voice polyphonic keyboard, with a sound engine that use three digital oscillators (wavetable, analog waveforms, granular (particle sampling) and resonator synthesis) per voice paired with analog filters. 























Our friends of Sonicstate visited the day before the first day of the Musikmesse the booth of Waldorf and shoot an exclusive video about this new Synthesizer with some first audio demos. We must be careful about our first impressions about the sound quality because the device is still in deep development and not ready until Q4 2017. A price is not yet fixed but they estimate a price of 3000€ + what goes in the flagship Synthesizer area.

From my personal side, I really like this new Synthesizer because it’s something new and innovative. The granular and resonator oscillator features sounds awesome and will be for sure an excellent new territory for sound designers.

Features of the Quantum 8-Voice Hybrid Synthesizer

  • 3 Oscillators 
    • Wavetable (classical Waldorf wavetables) 
    • Waveform (traditional analog waveforms)
    • Partical (Granular Sampler) 
    • Resonator
  • All three oscillators are freely assignable
  • Two dual analog filters  
  • Digital Former (Drive, Bit crusher, digital filters,…) 
  • 3 Envelopes on the panel 
  • 3 Envelopes in the menu (6 envelopes in total) 
  • Multistage envelope, glide…
  • 3 Digital effects
  • 6 LFO 
  • Touch Display for adjusting parameters
  • Multi-timbral (two layers) 
  • Advanced arpeggiator 
  • 2 USB  
  • Stereo In for sampling 
  • Stereo Out 
  • ….

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