Waldorf Iridium Mk.2 – Leaked!
They’re cracking the whip over at Waldorf with a slew of new products seemingly every few weeks. Now we have a leak of their latest synthesizer, the Iridium Mk.2!
I don’t know what they’re feeding the developers at Waldorf right now, but whatever it is, it’s working as they continue to put new products out at an alarming rate. Hot on the heels of the Protein wavetable synth and the fantastic update to Attack, we now seemingly have a new version of the Iridium.
Waldrof Iridium Mk.2
Just yesterday, they released a teaser video, and if I’m completely honest, I was hoping it might be another product using the Protein platform, something that Waldorf has said is likely to happen. But over at Elektronauts, a new image appeared and it seem that we’re being treated to an Iridium Mk.2!
You may recall that the original Iridium was essentially a Quantum in desktop form, featuring all the synthesis engines of its forebear, but minus the analogue filters. It was a powerful alternative to the Quantum that allowed for desktop, rackmount and VESA-mounted use.
Flavour and Seeds
Information on the Iridium Mk.2 is, as you can imagine, virtually non-existent apart from the photo but from this, we can see that it’s borrowed the Flavour feature from the Protein, as well as adding something called ‘Seeds’.
Flavour allows you to mess with the sonic behaviour of the sounds being played by adding micro-variations. These variations happen to many parameters of the sound in what Waldorf describes as a ‘methodical way’. It’s actually a very cool function, so I’m excited to see how it is applied to the larger sound palette of the Iridium Mk.2.
Anything new from Waldorf is good reason to get excited and I hope we don’t have to wait too long to both see and hear this, as well as learn how much of our annual synth budget it is going to eat up! The original was a big success so we can be fairly sure that the Iridium Mk.2 will follow suit.
More Information
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Meanwhile, the Iridium keyboard, Iridium Core and the M Desktop are still available!
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