Waldorf Protein – portable digital synthesizer

Waldorf is introducing a compact wavetable synthesizer.

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The instrument is an eight-voice polyphonic wavetable synthesizer with voices assignable across four different layers. The new model has oscillators based on Waldorf's original ASIC chip and includes all original Microwave 1 wavetables, many of which came from the PPG Wave.

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Protein shares some features with the Iridiumsynthesizer, including an arpeggiator, a step sequencer with up to 32 steps, chord mode, and reverb, delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, drive, EQ, compression and tremolo effects. Other features include 8-bit quantization and aliasing, a CEM filter model with adjustable cutoff/resonance detuning, three envelopes, two LFOs with tempo sync and sample-and-hold, an eight-slot modulation matrix, polyphonic aftertouch support, more than 100 factory presets and 250 memory slots.

Photo: official website waldorfmusic

The Waldorf Protein will be available for about $400.