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Another Waldorf Iridium Core Beta OS Update Just Dropped!

New Waldorf Iridium OS 4.1.0 beta 2 Just Came Out!

Alright, so, full disclosure, this Iridium OS update, 4.1.0 beta 2, is not strictly for the Iridium Core. It appears that it is also for the other Iridium models and the Quantums, so if you’re a member of the Beta Program, you can get this new update, which still includes the 16-voices expansion!

So far in this update, besides continuing the 16 voice stuff, it also updates the Favorites menu system, and includes

SHIMMER REVERB!

We installed it last night and tested it out on some current patches from the Arete Trance Soundset for funsies, and it made some cool patches sound interstellar on moderate and high settings (it made some of our Plucks sound like fragments of Hans Zimmer’s score for Interstellar), and is definitely going to enter our sound design work on a few upcoming soundbanks.

If you wanna take it for a spin yourself (always remember to back up your data and remember to be careful loading beta operating systems into your units), hop on over to the official Waldorf Beta Program and sign up to get it for yourself!

waldorf iridium core OS update includes shimmer reverb

Waldorf Iridium Core OS Update!

Important info for all Waldorf Iridium Core users out there!

Waldorf just dropped the 4.1.0 b1 beta OS update for the Core that improves a number of features, most notably it increases the available polyphony from 12 voices to the Iridium line standard of 16!

So now you can turn your Core into a full-fledged Iridium for free!

And it’s also worth grabbing, because our soundbanks for the Iridium Core were made using the update, to make epic pad design work easier, so if you wanna get the most from our patches, grab the update!

Waldorf Iridium Core displaying 16 voices after 4.1.0 b1 update

Hear the OS update in action

Our adventures at Superbooth!

Hey all, we’re back from Superbooth 2026 in Berlin, and GASing super hard over a lot of really powerful instruments!

Had a blast meeting all the people behind the synths we make sounds for, and we went deeeep down a hole designing patches on the Iridium and Leviasynth and Fourm (and also discovered just how kickawesome the Teo-5 is)

You can see our video of the weekend, and our explorations of different synths here!

GearNews Reviewed Our Blofeld and JD-08 Ambient Soundsets!

You heard it right!

GearNews just reviewed Windswept for the Roland JD-08, and reviewed Desolate for the Waldorf Blofeld (again)!

Check it out through the button below!


Explore the ambient sounds of the JD and Blofeld

Stereo Width Tricks For The Waldorf Blofeld

Achieving sounds that are both wide and spcaious, and also able to collapse to mono without phasing out of existence, is many producers’ biggest nightmare.

Thankfully, the Blofeld has a number of handy features buried within its many menus that allow you to manage both, and we’ll show you how right here!

Dawnchaser is a Pacific Northwest-based electronic music producer, mountaineer, documenter of all things adventure, mountain, and travel-related, and manager of Kulshan Recordings. If he’s not in the studio writing music about adventures, he’s out on one.


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~ "The preset banks by Kulshan Studios immediately brings out the very best of what the Roland JP-8080 has to offer" - Armada Music Publishing ~ "Kulshan Studios rebuilt the Discovery Pro Factory I bank and the result was excellent." - DiscoDSP ~ "Kulshan Studios’ presets played a huge part in the success of BioTek 3. Bold, beautifully crafted sounds, expertly mapped for expressive, evolving tactile control." - Tracktion ~ "I couldn't recommend these enough. Kulshan Studios made me love the MiniNova even more." - AltWire ~ "This collection of superb sounds properly shows off everything that makes the Blofeld a much-loved synth." - GearNews ~ "High quality soundsets! 5/5" - DuMonde

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