WALDORF / Iridium Keyboard

The Iridium Keyboard is a cutting-edge 16-voice digital synthesizer that combines the popular Iridium desktop synthesizer with a polyphonic aftertouch keyboard.

■The Iridium Keyboard is a cutting-edge 16-voice digital synthesizer that combines the popular desktop synthesizer Iridium with a polyphonic aftertouch keyboard. It features a powerful oscillator that can use three of five powerful synthesis algorithms simultaneously (wave table/wave form/particle/resonator/kernel), three stereo digital filters per voice, and a digital former (filter model used in the company's software Largo, Nave, PPG, RM, bit crusher, etc.) to create a solid sound. The large touch screen makes it easy to create complex sounds using a variety of modulation sources and matrices. It also comes with a full range of functions, including eight analog terminals that allow interfacing with Eurorack modular synthesizers. This is an innovative synthesizer that beautifully integrates a cutting-edge synthesis engine with advanced expressiveness. ■ Polyphonic aftertouch support
The world's highest quality ""FATAR TP/8SK"" 49-key semi-weighted polyphonic aftertouch keyboard is used. The aftertouch of a typical synth is mono (channel) aftertouch, which is a technique that changes the ""whole sound"" by applying ""pressure"" to the keyboard. In contrast, polyphonic aftertouch detects and outputs the pressure on the keyboard ""for each note"". For example, when holding down the four notes of a C Maj7 chord (C/E/G/B), you can apply vibrato only to B, allowing for advanced performance similar to that of an acoustic instrument. This polyphonic aftertouch can be assigned to any parameter via the modulation matrix.