UDO’s Super 6 gets a compact, keyboard-free counterpart

UDO have taken the wraps off the Super 6 desktop, a new compact and keyboardfree version of the company’s acclaimed keyboard synth. Billed as a “no-compromise” take on the Super 6, we’re guessing that functionality is pretty much the same, so expect a 12-voice polyphonic, binaural analoguehybrid engine with FPGA digital oscillators and voltage-controlled analogue technology.

You can also expect filter and amplifier sections, LFOs, envelopes and a modulation matrix, along with an arpeggiator and step sequencer and dual stereo 24-bit effects (delay and chorus).

The Super 6 desktop has an interesting ‘wedge’ design – almost like a compact keyboard synth, but with buttons where the keyboard bit would be. Whether there’s any practical benefit to having this two-tier design is to be seen, but it gives the instrument something of an ’80s home computer look.

The Super 6 desktop is available to pre-order now priced at £1895.