Preview in German:
Amazona
New, analog 
With a Synthacon filter, Hypersaw (analog - an old idea from Electronotes) and āMetalizerā - seems to be a triangle clipper.
To be announced at NAMM 2012.
France drops nice surprises on us! Who would have thought that something like this would come up? Come on Korg, make us a new MS-20 something something! We know you can.
WoOOOOOOOoOt???!?
Under 500ā¬11
einsElf!
I dont belive in that. If that would be true it would be the end of DSIs MoPhoā¦
edit: Just checked, its not the 1st of Aprilā¦
Isnāt it weird?
Also, I like how I want one just for lulz even though it is aesthetically challenged (ugly in plain English). Itās like wanting to do someone old, but famous (just because theyāre famous). Yeuch!
Looks like a must haveā¦
This is a great project, and they had the big balls to put a Steiner filter in it (Ok, itās not as weird as a Polivoks, but itās still nasty). Some of you might have heard about Yves Usson (Yusynth), heās the guy behind it (he did the schematics and TH proto, Arturia industrialized it). Arturia has nice infrastructure in place for having things made, so they can be made cheaply. Itās in the same order of complexity of a controller after allā¦
What this means is that Iāll increasingly have to compete with gear from well-established brands with 100x my marketing and production strength. I canāt be āthe guy who does analogueā. Releasing a box with classic circuits and knobs - Korg will do that, and Roland the year after. I canāt be āthe guy who does DIY / open sourceā too, it feels like wanting to win in the special olympics. I have ideas about things I will do and that other manufacturers wonāt, because they are not obvious and are not sexy for the mainstream public 
Youāll have to be behind me on this 
Its not exactly uglyā¦its just - Ƥhem - subesthetically? Ćgly? Ill just buy Jojjelitos when he either gets bored (hey - no wavetable no prolonged fun. Women should have wavetablesā¦) or blind by the shere greyness.
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Im right behind you pichenettes, and i bet many of the guys here, too.
Well, of course Iāll stick to Mutable gear as well! You have good ideas and can afford to be more innovative than the bigger guys. Iām on the Mutable bandwagon.
Obviously Korg will expand into analog after their runaway hits with the Monotron and Monotribes, itās just a question of time. Roland seem clueless these days, but maybe itās snowing in hellā¦
Thereās so many fun things coming out of DIY like Shruthis, Sammiches, OTOs, WTPAs, Vxxyās, Rockits and such. Mainstream gear will co-exist, but DIY wonāt be beaten.
Hereās a hint: Give us moar wavetables! I like Prophet VS, PPG and such. If they had non-soulsucking interfaces, vector control and sequencing plus decent filters weād be onto something. Then we have the Adventure Kid waveform pack to load, plus Speak-n-spell waveforms and weāre off to fun land. Vocoders are nice Then thereās always hard to do in analogue things like wave-morphing, Casio PD stylee and FM synthesis. Try to build a simple saw-to-triangle PWM circuit in analog - not so easy so thereās definitely room for innovation
Still, synthacon filters. Yum!
When will we see a mutable diode filter? Diode ladder ala EMS 
I like Yusynth! Yves has a great collection of DIY projects, PCBs etc. Respect!
nice, but someone could have a 3x shruthi-1 polychain for āunder 500ā¬ā aswellā¦
Its in no way a replacement for such a sonically refined instrument like the Shruthi. Looking closer the Filter seems to be the most interesting thing about it, but its a bit to early to judge just by some blurry Pics and MP3s.
But it show the wayā¦ or will be a total Flop.
I vote for show the way. Still, analog means that thereās so many timbres you canāt get that you can have from the Shruthi. Itās a very different kettle of fish. But, the interface! Canāt beat real knobs for playability. Then again, the Arturia can playa hate all it wants. The Shruthi has a bigger sonic pallet to put on the canvas
ballsy move for sureā¦
As I met Yves Usson the same day I met Olivier (yes in the same room) I can tell you this one shouldnāt sound bad ā¦
There is more to say about the Minibrute than just its filter because the oscillator, though being alone, has some nice and innovative analog waveform transformation tool. Just to set it right, do you see the difference between a squarewave osc and a PWM osc. Here you have similar things for the PWM obviously but also for the saw (Ultrasaw) and triangle Wave (Metalizer).
Then each function on the panel is dedicated to one parameter. And the CV/Gate interface and Audio In input provide means to further expand it.
This one should be a nice companion for the Shruthi-1 which provide quite different features ā¦
Wow nice, there are definitely some nice new analog synths coming out this year MFB Dominion X, Moog Minitaur, MacBeth Micromac, and now thisā¦ awesome!
Seems like a good year for analog synths, no doubt. And donāt miss the Pulse 2.
This is Fake, because it has Knobs for every Row of the Edit Matrix - Waldorf would never ever do thisā¦
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Just to be the first: The Vintage Pulse is sonically far superior. Period.
Oh, youāre right. Now that you mention it, I see that itās just a rendered imageā¦ someone must have hacked their site!
Haha for the Eowave. Itās the Duke Nukem of new synths
Wonder when weāll see the Pulse 2 go from a render to tangible hardware? With āElectron-absorbing black caseā and allā¦
It will be released soon after the Stromberg - 2017 if i am right with calculating Waldorfs Schedule
The pulse2 looks tasty. Fixes the awkward interface of the 1 (grrrrrr big red button to scroll pages grrrrrr). Probably my NAMM favorite so far - Waldorf gear is always well executed and laid-out.
I wonder how they do the 4/8 voices paraphonic mode. If they can duplicate the analog DCO circuit (waveshaper and all) 8 times, why donāt they duplicate the VCFs too? I bet itās either downsized (you wonāt get only 1 OSC per voice in 8 voices mode) ; or VA oscillators, using the Blofeld engine.
On mine the big red button is greyā¦ the only really bad about its UI is that the big RedGrey Button only scrolls the active Row in one directionā¦ Im curios about the inside, the original Pulse its really old school - ill bet now its a mess of SMT.