Just wondering if polychaining 4-6 pulse 2s would make a good 3 osx polysynth.

I have yet to read nor hear of anyone actually doing this and yes, it would make a formidable 4 or 6 voice analog poly...but also a very expensive one, as -4- Pulse 2's would cost as much as a Prophet 6 here in USA (4x$700).

I have Pulse 2 and still own my classic Waldorf Pulse+ rack and do know that although the software has been made to allow polychain, also know that almost every Waldorf User Manual towards the end will mention in their great "Waldorf Humor" something along lines of, "Once you have purchased 6x of [insert instrument name], you qualify for a dinner with the Waldorf Team.
The original Pulse is able to have up to 8 polychained as well.

If you can eventually find a Pulse+ (Plus Model has various cv/in/outs/gate and midi->cv/cv->midi convertor), you can utilize the Pulse 2's cv/gate outs to trigger the Pulse+.

A Poly Pulse with a very knobby interface would be a formidable synth but at some point I imagine the 'market' will reach the 'oversaturation of analog', simply due to so many options out there and making something like that at an affordable consumer cost would place an exclamation mark on the actual bang for dollar the Sequential Prophet 6 is at $2700. A Moog 'equivalent' poly would easily be 3 or 4x that price if not more.

Without taking the Pulse 2's paraphonic 4/8 modes, if you detune those great oscillators to make a "mono chord/5th, et al" and run that through FX you will
have happy ears.

Its funny you'd at least thing Waldorf would produce a demo, seeing as its in the software and you have to test it somehow.

s/h prices on the pulse 2 are edging down to £250-280 so it starts to look doable if you are patient. even brand new you could get 6xpulse 2 for the cost of the P6 over here.

has anyone tried this yet?

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how can the internet not have a single example of this?

Waldorf told me a while back it's broken and they'd fix but I don't see any notes of that in the latest firmware and they don't respond to my emails about it.

I’ve polychained 3 pulses. Not the pulse 2s but the original. It’s a cool sound but just not as usable since the interface is slow. Plus the sound is geared a bit more for mono. It’s one of my favorite monos. The pulse 2 was a bit more sterile when I had it compared to the original.

I’ve sold them all.

For the price I would just by a poly all in one box.

I’ve even polychained 4 moogs. Honestly it just isn’t the same as a real poly to me. Notes would get jumbled occasionally, and the moog sound is so full it just got crazy.
Ymmv

don't see it mentioned in the manual at all, not convinced it can be done.

That Russian(?) poster Gyang (sp?) is a bit of a superslut with gear and I believe he has polychained several Pulse2's to good effect.

We were talking about this several months back with a 6 voice setup a very clever fellow made with Pulse 1s - don't know how different the sound / features are for the Pulse 2.

The Waldorf PolyPulse - soundclips, discussion, etc

would love to see/hear this if you have time/memory to help me track it down.

and, thread bump, does anyone have any experiences/sounds to share with trying this?

ANy new info on polychaining the PULSE 2? can it be done?