street priceThe Waldorf Iridium is a high-end, professional-grade synthesizer designed and manufactured by Waldorf Music. It is a hybrid analog/digital synthesizer with a powerful sound engine and a wide range of sound-shaping capabilities. It features a 61-note semi-weighted keyboard, a 16-voice polyphony, and a variety of analog and digital synthesis techniques, including wavetable synthesis, FM synthesis, and physical modeling. The Iridium also includes a variety of effects, including reverb, delay, chorus, and distortion.
3 Oscillators
Oscillator Modes:
3 Stereo Filters per voice
True stereo path Dual Digital Filter:
Digital Former:
Modulators:
Mod Matrix:
Pads:
Performance features:
Screen:
Patches:
Connections:
CV connections:
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The Iridium is designed, constructed, and manufactured in Germany using industrial-grade components.
Country of origin / production: Germany
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| Usage area | |
|---|---|
| Synthesizer | |
| Sound Module/ Tone Generator | |
| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
| Without Keys, Desktop | |
| Rackmount, 5U | |
| Archetype | |
| Digital (D) | |
| Virtual Analog (VA) | |
| Polyphony | |
| Voices | 16 |
| Multi Timbral Capacity | 2 part(s) |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Synthesis Method | Digital Subtractive |
| Synthesis Method | Wavetable |
| Programs/ Voices/ Timbres | |
| Single Voice Preset | 1000 |
| User-defined Single Voice | 7000 |
| Filter | |
| Digital (DCF) | |
| High-pass Filter (HPF) | |
| Low-pass Filter (LPF) | |
| Band-pass Filter (BPF) | |
| State-Variable Filter (HPF+LPF+BPF) | |
| 2-pole | |
| 4-pole | |
| Envelope Generator (EG) | |
| Assignable | 6 |
| Modulation | |
| Modulation Matrix | 40 slots |
| LFO: LFO Count | 6 |
| Effects | |
| Bit Crusher/ Crush | |
| Ring Modulation | |
| Sequencer | |
| Step Sequencer | |
| Max Step Count | 32 |
| Arpegiator/ Portamento | |
| Arpegiator | |
| MIDI in/ out | |
| IN | |
| OUT | |
| THRU | |
| Display | |
| Display type | LCD |
| Color resolution | 16M colors/ 24bit/ True Color |
| Touch Screen | |
| Pads Matrix | |
| Pads Count | 16 |
| Pads Count, vertical | 4 |
| Pads Count, horizontal | 4 |
| Multicolor Pads | |
| External controllers | |
| CV in | 4 |
| Gate in | 1 |
| Trigger in | 1 |
| Ext Clock | |
| Audio out | |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) | 2 |
| Audio in | |
| Analog 1/4" | 2 |
| Computer Interfaces | |
| USB | USB Storage |
| External drives/ memory cards | |
| MicroSD (SecureDisk) | |
| Dimensions | |
| Height | 85 mm |
| Width | 440 mm |
| Depth | 305 mm |
| Weight | 5.4 kg |
| Case/ body | |
| Metal | |
| Color | |
| Black | |
| Production start | 2020 |
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