Waldorf Iridium (16-voice, duo-timbral Quantum desktop)

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#446

I haven’t touched my Digitone in several months because I still don’t feel like I really jibe with its interface. Sorta tempted to replace the FM part of my setup with this…

#447

I tried routing the audio from my Peak into the Iridium - yes you can mix the audio input with the layers of the Peak.
You can’t route the audio to an entire layer, instead you can route it to parts of a layer - the filter or effects or digital former for any layer and you can still hear the original layers.
(There might be some problem with it, I couldn’t hear any of the input audio if I routed to the filter or former, only if I routed to the effects or directly to out, or maybe I wasn’t doing something correctly)

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#448

Thanks for trying that out :+1: definitely interested in this now

#449

Alright, here’s a clip of all of the boxes co-mingling.

The Iridium is the only thing that plays for the first 45 seconds. It’s a single wavetable oscillator into a 12db bandpass (SVF) and 9 active mod slots:

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Sound Design Methods
#450

Very nice.

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#451

Thanks, man. :heart:

#452

Yes…very nice indeed ! Need to hear more !

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#454

Haha, thanks. I’m working on it. :sweat_smile:

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#455

Yeah this one is really cool. What is doing the drums in the track? I have mainly focusing on using the polyend and quantum as my only music devices for the time being.

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#456

Beautiful mate.

Can honestly say this is the only synth I’d ever need.

#457

That would be the Rytm MK2. :slight_smile:

#458

Here’s a slow sparse custom patch for the Iridium, this is a single patch played/recorded live.

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#459

Bax-Shop today removed the Iridium from their product list, can not order it anymore. Thomann changed the shipping date from 4 weeks to ‘unknown’. That sounds not good to me…

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#460

The reported gaps under the screen, wonky buttons etc seems to me like they are having to sort out manufacturing issues, looks like a longer wait to get one

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#461

On the Gearslutz forum one guy received a Iridium with a complete detached touchscreen. So yes, Waldorf has some production problems.

From Waldorf only silence…

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#462

Alright, so here’s a video demonstrating the Iridium’s Live Granular mode of the Particle engine:

  • Track 1 of the Rytm is set to send MIDI to trigger the Live granular engine of the Iridium (which has been allocated a single voice on layer 2 via “voice split”.)
  • Oscillators 2 and 3 are each set to a “grain poly/ count” value of 1 and panned L and R, respectively.
  • Increasing macro J on the A4 raises the depth of random S&H values being sent when the CV track is unmuted. (These values are set to randomize Particle position of each oscillator in tandem).
  • Macro 5 on the Rytm controls Particle length and decay.
  • Macro 6 on the Rytm controls the range that the grains are allowed to jump (in octaves).
  • Scene 8 enables the effect. (engaged at 29 seconds of the clip – disengaged at 59 seconds)

My criticisms of the current implementation are:

  1. None of the time-based params are BPM-syncable. (ie. particle position/ particle length/ gate length, etc.), so randomizing these often yield unmusical results. (There is a MIDI CC LEARN function for every parameter on the machine, which would allow you to set up a bank of values to quantize to in Max MSP, but doing so would forfeit resolution, as well as the Iridium’s comprehensive mod matrix.)

  2. In Live Granular mode, the travel parameter becomes unresponsive (as the buffer is constantly updating), so there’s currently no option to halt the buffer to loop grains. I’ve put in a feature request for this, and will update things if/ when this should change.

  3. Currently, the Iridium is set to ping pong grain counts of 2 or more, so there is no way to align each to minimize the effect. This is my reason for using two oscillators with a grain count of 1 panned L and R. (The caveat being that the first grain is currently hard-wired to pull signal from the left input, so there is no way to have both channels represented in this configuration.)

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What next in my arsenal? Granular?
#463

What’s is the synth sound from 0.45?))
Sounds organic

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#464

If you’re talking about the melody that enters at 45 seconds, that’d be the Rytm (pinging the filter with the noise generator, etc). :slight_smile:

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#465

Nice))))

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#466

Received my Iridium today. First impressions :

  • The chassis looks good. No touch screen light bleed, buttons aligned, as it should be.
  • Firmware 2.5.0, just updated to 2.5.1
  • The preset sounds are wonderful
  • A synth with lots of modulation options. Need time to discover them.

A perfect companion for my Hydrasynth keyboard, Hydrasynth Desktop and PolyEnd Tracker. Controlled by a Arturia Keystep and a Sensel Morph.

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