Deleting ALL presets from Iridium/Iridium Core/Quantum

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Hello.
I’m looking for a way to remove all preset patches from my Iridium Core (and every other synth I have, actually, but starting with this one because of the insane amount of presets it has).

I know how to reset/init/reset A patch, but there are over 3000 of them (which is one of the biggest reasons I want to delete everything in the first place), and that’s a slow, slow process. Delete is the closest, since it’s just one screen-button click per patch, but that’s still 6000+ button clicks to do it.

Any ideas?

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NM: 6200 button clicks later, they’re all gone now.
Whew.

It’s a much less intimidating machine now.

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103.3 clicks per minute. Nice.

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Wow, you got through those pretty fast! FWIW I don’t think there’s a faster way, IIRC the full reset involves initialising all the original presets too.

The bad news is the buttons are only rated for 10,000 presses :smirk:

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Hahahaha. Yeah, I didn’t like the clicking so I moved screen locations for each pass between the machine locking up (probably due to speed).

The trick is: get a rhythm.
I put on some trance of moderate bpm and really barely noticed I was doing anything. Wasn’t so bad, and now it’s done (good to know there’s a better way though).

Moving on to deleting drum-machine patterns now.
Unexpected side-effect: this is REALLY liberating.

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I just did this recently. I can’t remember exactly but I think you can select a range to batch delete. I definitely did not do them individually. I’ll have to look when I get a chance.

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Got it (here’s a rewording from the manual once I figure out what this part meant):
Open the ‘load patch’ dialog (click the ‘Load’ button or click the Patch name on the UI)
Click ‘Actions’ button in top right
Select ‘Delete’ from the drop down it opens
Select ‘Use Slot Range’ if it’s not already
Enter a ‘From’ Value and a ‘To’ Value
Click ‘Delete’

Just putting that here for closure.
I missed that in the manual because I thought ‘Actions’ was a tab on the ‘Favorites’ page (in the context of the manual) because of the (mis)spelling of the word ‘Tap’ and me not paying enough attention:

Tab on the Actions pop-up menu

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Good question. In my case I did it manually in the Waldorf Quantum. I think there is no other way, at least at the moment.

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I’m thinking about doing this myself, but I’m trying to back everything up first and it keeps crashing every time I try.

I might just do it anyway, I hate scrolling through so many patches of mostly the same pads drenched in reverb.

At any rate you can do this in bulk, you just edit the range and enter the patch numbers you want to remove, assuming they’re all together and you’re not going one by one.

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I thought about it too on the Iridium, its just too much to really make use of it. If there was a hide function, that would also be welcome.

I should do that too also on the A4, too much fx type of sounds, while some are useful, its often the uneven levels i get out of these patches.

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Before I wiped mine I went through all of the presets and noted the ones I wanted to keep. I did this very quickly, just a couple seconds each. Dump it or keep it on first listen. Then on my computer I deleted all the ones I didn’t want from my backup and then restored from there.