I get that, but I will go ahead and say that (to my ear), the Iridiumās oscillators very handily destroy the SQ out of the oscillators of any of my favorite VSTās. Especially in the wavetable department. (Of course, Zebra 3 is due out sometime in the next year or two, so maybe waiting until then could be wise, if youāre ok with involving a computer.)
That said, as someone who was gigging before COVID struck, I do rather appreciate not having to worry about CPU overhead in a live context, and even Zebra 2.9 HZ can start bogging the system down at 2048 samples (latency on my interface isnāt bad), if you start encroaching on 50% of the modulation overhead it affords you. Conversely, Iāve had no issues with freezes or lockups while running 2 pretty filled out mod-matrices.
Lastly, factoring in the fact that Iāve begun running reactive visuals alongside, I really donāt see how feasible it would be to incorporate audio generation on the same computer, and the idea of running two separate laptops is a bit unnerving.