Keyboards

The keyboard version of the desktop version of the Quantum, is the Iridium Keyboard even better than the original synth?

The STVC is much more than just a string synth.

Waldorf's new flagship synthesizer is complex, versatile and hugely ambitious.

This fully-functional polyphonic MIDI controller offers an elegant and well-equipped case for your Eurorack modules.

Waldorf build on the success of their Blofeld synth by adding not only a keyboard, but also sample RAM.

In 2004 it looked like game over for Waldorf, but the German company are back, with a hardware synth that more than lives up to their former reputation...

Until now, the only implementation of Waldorf's wavetable synthesis with a built-in keyboard was their pricey Wave megasynth. Now, however, they've repackaged their more affordable Microwave XT in an attractive keyboard unit.

Waldorf's flagship keyboard synth has been available for months — but until very recently, it was so unfinished that it was scarecely reviewable. Since April, Gordon Reid has stuck with it, painstakingly noting the improvements that have come with each system software upgrade, until finally, with the synth standing at OS version 1.13, enough features are working to justify a full SOS review.

Waldorf's long-awaited Q synthesizer is now shipping, but without many of the features it will ultimately possess. Gordon Reid takes a hands-on look at what's here now and what's to come.

Waldorf's dream machine is finally off the drawing board and in the real world, and looks sure to set synth players' hearts beating a little faster.