Any news on new products for 2016

[princefan3]

Hi all any whispers of new products for 2016.

[Hybrid88]

Probably a bit early for that yet, but get prepared for the 'leaks'.

...and by leaks I mean hyperbolic snippets from manufacturers disguised as leaks posted by a 'random member of the public' on a suitably inconspicuous blog/forum/site that no one's ever heard of

Oh and the countdown clocks, oh how I love the countdown clocks...

But seriously, there should be some good stuff this year, the competition is getting pretty fierce, looking for some more analog polys to rival the Prophet 6, also hoping Access gets back in the game.

We do know that Roland will be doing "Boutique" version of the 808 and 909 based on their ACB technology, lets hope they actually nail the look this time because that was the worst thing about the TR-8.

[Percivale]

There is this one on Waldorf. Unable to authenticate.

[AnalogKid]

I'm hoping for a Brute from Arturia, a two (or three) oscillator three octave keyboard synth.

[meatballfulton]

Only 16 days to go...

[Psy_Free]

Karp 2600 hopefully.

[Jabberwalky]

A full fledged FM synth from Yamaha would rock. A continuation of the SY stuff maybe.

[meatballfulton]

There is this one on Waldorf. Unable to authenticate.

128GB internal flash on the "Tapeloop Synthesizer"? I doubt any mfr would try that. Hoax.

[Reginator]

Karp 2600 hopefully.

There may be something to this. It was just announced the TTSH will be sold out and discontinued on Jan 8th.

[Stab Frenzy]

There is this one on Waldorf. Unable to authenticate.

128GB internal flash on the "Tapeloop Synthesizer"? I doubt any mfr would try that. Hoax.

Tape loop as in digital mellotron. Makes perfect sense in that regard.

[Stab Frenzy]

An actual real thing we're going to see is the Pittsburgh Lifeforms, that looks pretty sweet.

[Zamise]

A full fledged FM synth from Yamaha would rock. A continuation of the SY stuff maybe.

Would prefer more knobs and 16 performance tacks, call it a DX-200FS1600

[meatballfulton]

There is this one on Waldorf. Unable to authenticate.

128GB internal flash on the "Tapeloop Synthesizer"? I doubt any mfr would try that. Hoax.

Tape loop as in digital mellotron. Makes perfect sense in that regard.

It's the 128GB I think is bogus.

Noone has ever put more than 4GB of flash into a sample playback machine before. Even the SSDs in the Korg Kronos aren't that big. Streaming audio streams out of the flash to keep up with polyphony requires more than the thoughput of a thumb drive. Yamaha sells 1GB of flash for the Motif XF and MOXF for $300. Of course, those machines need to be able to stream for 128 voices without glitching.

The only way Waldorf could use cheap, slower flash is to drastically limit the polyphony. Look at the Akai MPX8 (8 voices) or Roland SP404 (4 voices). OK, Waldorf might get by with a low voice count. Still 128GB is a lot of samples. 1GB is about 100 minutes of 44.1/16bit storage. 128GB would be over 200 hours! In a box that will sell for maybe $500 tops?

Add in the cheapo rendering, mentioning an ARM processor (who cares?) and the "NOT TO DISCLOSE" it looks like a hoax to me, but I'm ready to be proven wrong

[Stab Frenzy]

It's the 128GB I think is bogus.

Noone has ever put more than 4GB of flash into a sample playback machine before. Even the SSDs in the Korg Kronos aren't that big. Streaming audio streams out of the flash to keep up with polyphony requires more than the thoughput of a thumb drive. Yamaha sells 1GB of flash for the Motif XF and MOXF for $300. Of course, those machines need to be able to stream for 128 voices without glitching.

The only way Waldorf could use cheap, slower flash is to drastically limit the polyphony. Look at the Akai MPX8 (8 voices) or Roland SP404 (4 voices). OK, Waldorf might get by with a low voice count. Still 128GB is a lot of samples. 1GB is about 100 minutes of 44.1/16bit storage. 128GB would be over 200 hours! In a box that will sell for maybe $500 tops?

Add in the cheapo rendering, mentioning an ARM processor (who cares?) and the "NOT TO DISCLOSE" it looks like a hoax to me, but I'm ready to be proven wrong

Yeah true, also 128GB with no screen and only 12 memory locations makes no sense at all. I didn't really look at the picture that closely before I replied, and I hadn't had any coffee.

That said I do like the idea of this thing, a polyphonic sample playback synth that goes through an analogue filter/VCA would be pretty cool. If it said 128MB I could believe they'd grafted user samples onto the streichfett. Fingers crossed it's a typo?

[Bitexion]

128GB? seriously? A normal computer has 8GB RAM. It's most likely 128MB.