Exciting news for all owners of the UDO Audio Super 6! At Superbooth 24, the manufacturer has announced the SuperTouch 49 keyboard upgrade kit with polyphonic aftertouch. The kit, which you can install yourself, brings the keyboard of your Super 6 up to the same standard as the Super Gemini and Super 8.
UDO Audio SuperTouch 49: Keyboard Upgrade Kit for Super 6
[Update 16 May 2024] If you have an original UDO Audio Super 6 and have been jealous of the polyphonic aftertouch capabilities of the Super Gemini and the brand-new Super 8, you’re in luck! The manufacturer has introduced the handy SuperTouch 49 upgrade kit, which allows you to add polytouch to your synth.
The kit completely replaces the keyboard of your synth. You can install it yourself without soldering; in-depth instructions are included. UDO Audio says that the upgrade not only adds polyphonic aftertouch, but also improves the all-around feel and weighting of the keyboard.
SuperTouch 49 is now available to order from UDO Audio’s web shop for $426 / £329.17 / €391.95. Shipping will begin in August 2024.
The UDO Audio Super 6 is available at Thomann*.
SUPER 6
[Original post by Robin Vincent, 17 April 2020] One of the most delicious synthesizers to emerge from last year’s Superbooth is the 12-voice polyphonic binaural analog-hybrid synthesizer with super-wave technology – really rolls off the tongue. Let’s just call it the Super 6.
Super 6 uses FPGA digital hardware to model the oscillators before running it through voltage controlled analogue circuitry. The sounds we’ve been hearing have been gorgeous. The main oscillator is a 7-core super-wavetable and that’s backed up with a DDS oscillator with FM, sync, sub oscillator and crossfade modes. The voice architecture is a flexible FPGA/ANalogue hybrid and the binaural side moves the signal path into stereo movement and spatial effects. And there are a lot of digital effects too.
Sound examples and deep dive demos have been thin on the ground and so a lot of the buzz around this synth has come from the people who got to play it at Superbooth or NAMM this year. But there’s no doubt that this has captured a lot of people’s imagination.
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