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NAMM 2012: Suddenly, everyone's making proper analogue synths again, and not to be left out, Waldorf has announced the Pulse 2, an unexpected successor to an instrument that was originally released in 1996.

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This monophonic synth sports three oscillators, a filter, an arpeggiator, an 8-slot modulation matrix and much more, and is backwards compatible with the original Pulse. Here's the full skinny, taken from the Waldorf website.

Waldorf Pulse 2 official info

Sometimes they do come back, and this time, it's with even more brute-strength power onboard. You are looking at a completely analog synthesizer that accurately delivers what synthesizer enthusiasts around the world truly crave. Pulse 2 is the reincarnation of it's legendary ancestor, the Waldorf Pulse, that dominated the electronic music of the 90s.

Three analog oscillators in combination with a true analog cascading filter is what Pulse and Pulse 2 have in common. But we didn't stop there. The filter circuits now also offer Highpass and Bandpass modes. We added analog Filter FM and Ring Modulation along with paraphonic modes that allow up to eight voice chords.

Like the Blofeld Synthesizer, the Pulse 2 is housed in a sturdy metal desktop case. Besides its large LCD display, 8 stainless steel knobs are available to surf through its clearly arrayed parameter matrix, set master volume and edit display accessible parameters.

Specs

• 3 analog oscillators + 1 noise generator
• Pulse width modulation
• Hard sync
• Filter FM from Oscillator 3
• Ring Modulation from Oscillator 3
• XOR Osc Mode
• 8/4 Voice Paraphonic modes
• Cascade Filter
• 24dB/12db Lowpass, 12db Highpass/Bandpass filter modes
• Powerful Arpeggiator
• 8-slot Modulation Matrix
• USB
• MIDI
• External analog signal input
• Stereo line out
• Headphone out
• Backwards compatible with classic Pulse
• 128x64 character backlit LCD

Around the web:

• Peter KadarWaldorf's a cool company. I love the Blofeld - it's a great value and sounds different and amazing. I think this'll be really cool too. I'm curious to hear how the paraphonic modes will work...
• This will definitely be a must get when it comes out.