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Waldorf Iridium Core: new firmware boosts it to the same 16-voice as its bigger brothers

September 23

Waldorf Iridium Core, the compact, cheaper sibling of the Iridium desktop and keyboard synthesizer, now has 16 voices instead of 12.

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