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Waldorf Announces Availability Of Pulse 2 Analog Synthesizer

Waldorf's Pulse 2 Analog Synthesizer features an all-new, all-analogue synthesizer design.

Waldorf is proud to announce availability of the Pulse 2 Analog Synthesizer, a reincarnation of the company’s peerless Pulse series.

Waldorf’s Pulse 2 Analog Synthesizer features an all-new, all-analogue synthesizer design. The Pulse 2 flawlessly delivers exactly what synth connoisseurs around the world have been requesting for quite some time — three analog oscillators living in perfect harmony with a VCF (Voltage- Controlled Filter).

In addition, the fresh filter circuits in the Pulse 2 now offer 12dB Highpass and Bandpass modes in addition to 24dB/12dB Lowpass for strengthened sound-sculpting flexibility. Waldorf also added analogue Filter FM, two Overdrive circuits, and Ring Modulation from OSC 3, together with Paraphonic and Unison modes allowing up to eight-voice chords — a feature found on Waldorf’s recently-released Rocket Synthesizer.

Like Waldorf’s well-received Blofeld before it, Pulse 2 is housed in a sturdy metal desktop casing.

Alongside its generous 128×64-character backlit LCD, eight eye-catching stainless steel knobs are available to nimbly navigate through the parameter matrix — logically laid out across the front panel for all to see at all times, set the master Volume, and easily edit display-accessible parameters.

Connectivity includes USB, MIDI In, MIDI Out, Ext In (external analogue signal input), line OUT, and headphone output — not forgetting, of course, CV Out (supporting both the V/octave and Hz/V standards) and Gate Out (V-Trigger- and S-Trigger-compatible), allowing a myriad of suitably equipped older (or newer) synths to be connected to the Pulse 2 to mirror whatever MIDI ‘note’ information is being played by the Pulse 2, including the output of its powerful ARP (arpeggiator).

And if that’s not enough to be getting on with, the CV Out can even be modulated in the eight-slot modulation Matrix, making for even more tantalising tone colours and performance possibilities!

Alongside analog must-haves like a noise generator, Pulsewidth modulation, and hard Sync, other notable features include an Alternating Pulsewidth Modulation mode and an XOR Osc mode that is a binary XOR combination of two PWM oscillators with two distinct output levels — high and low only — capable of producing inharmonic spectra unlike anything associated with any analogue synthesizer other than Waldorf’s original Pulse.

Lastly, 500 onboard sound programs should be more than enough to keep the most diehard synthesist smiling! What’s more, all are backwards-compatible with the original Pulse series, so original Pulse owners can quickly transfer their favourite sounds to their new Pulse 2 via MIDI (dump).

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