Title link takes you to shots via this auction. These look better larger - click them. The second shot shows you all editable parameters. I still think Waldorf should have tried a Poly Pulse... 
Yes, you can chain multiple Pulses for polyphony, but then you'd have multiple wall warts, you'd need a mixer, it would take up space, would be awkward to edit vs. a keyboard or desktop version, etc...
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The problem with a polyphonic Pulse, of course, would have been the price. But that's the curse of discrete components in anal;og synths.
ReplyDeleteBut there are ways to use a single power supply with multiple Pulses, and the audio could be easily ganged without too much extra outlay. I would love to get several more, but that auction is starting at more than I paid for mine new.
As the saying on the Waldorf forums goes...the Q was originally going to be called the PolyPulse. The oscillators and filters are even modeled from the pulse. They didnt like the name, though, and thought "what comes after P?" Q of course! Haha.
ReplyDeleteDont know how much truth there is to that, but the algorithms on the Q are really based on the Pulse. If you have a Q+, then it's almost like having 16 Pulse synths in a keyboard ;)
Yeah almost,like.
ReplyDeleteI heard that as well. I have a Pulse Plus and a Q Rack. They sound significantly different to me. The Pulse sounds bolder to me - more raw with a bigger punch. I'll have to set up an init patch on each and test them out.
ReplyDeleteAs for price, $400 x 5 = $2000. That's less than a Voyager at 1 voice and less than a PEK at 4 voices, so I think it could have been done at a reasonable price compared to other synths. I wonder how much the delta between 5 Pulse cases and knobs would be compared to 1 Micro Q keyboard.