Waldorf Iridium thread

Gino · February 27, 2021, 1:38pm

Thanks Leo, much appreciated. IMO it mostly shows how good Howard Scarr is It’s almost all Iridium, with DT for percussion, and some Argon8.

The Waveformula patch is the main voice. I made the attack slower, and added longer release, and a generous slathering of chorus and reverb. All done with the Iridium, no external effects.
The crunchier patch you hear about a 1/3rd of the way in is one I recreated on the Iridium inspired by Omnisphere.

Did you see this post?

Leo-iSL · February 27, 2021, 2:23pm

Sorry, I did see that post but forgot about it.

Gino · February 27, 2021, 6:53pm

Recorded a video to show my “Monster Synth”

https://youtu.be/cPX1JaGTtI4

Gino · March 3, 2021, 2:04am

Monster Synth - No talking

https://youtu.be/gd6qMr61hoI

Leo-iSL · March 4, 2021, 7:47pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-hSevPP-c

Leo-iSL · March 5, 2021, 2:24pm

https://youtu.be/fbsWZgckOYo

Gino · March 8, 2021, 2:21am

Cross posting this, as both the PRO3 and Iridium were used

Haesten · April 14, 2021, 12:12pm

What are the hopes for 3.0? Any sequencer enhancements maybe?

sunfalls · April 16, 2021, 4:15pm

figured it out.

Gino · April 17, 2021, 11:43pm

Adding my first video on LFOs

Muu · April 18, 2021, 12:14am

I’m sorta planning on saving up til the end of the year for a big synth purchase. Not sure whether to go with the Iridium or something that’s more traditional like the UDO. I wanna get better at playing keys so… but I also like crazy sound design… it’s tough.

sunfalls · May 4, 2021, 11:06pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/COd-7HKhpJ5/

Tracker beats -> Iridium real time granular & synth session
—— quick notes:
Iridium is processing percussion from the Tracker in live granular mode as the Tracker is sequencing the Iridium pad simultaneously. Master out from Iridium only.
so cool. so cool.

Gino · May 5, 2021, 1:37am

Found something interesting. If you map “Unisono Idx” in the mod matrix, and add a unison voice layer you can control it independently. That surprised me (in a very good way!)

plusn · May 6, 2021, 9:29pm

Iridium Deep Dive with Waldorf

sunfalls · May 20, 2021, 2:51pm

Hmm… is there a randomize sound button combo on the Iridium ?
If not, has it been feature requested?

shinobi · May 23, 2021, 12:03pm

I don t seem to find demos of bread and butter sounds like basses, leads, chords and so on…
Is it great at this type of sounds?
(Say it can beat Virus Ti at building them?)

vvilms · May 23, 2021, 9:57pm

Best advice I can give would be to not base your decision to purchase on its ability to do what other instruments can, but rather on its ability to do what what other instruments can’t.

shinobi · May 23, 2021, 9:58pm

First of all I want to know what IT can do.

vvilms · May 23, 2021, 10:00pm

I’d say you’ve got another 7 years of waiting before someone fully realizes the potential of this engine, tbh. There’s a lot of solid content in this thread tho.

EDIT: Apologies if either of ^these responses sounded at all snarky — I appreciate that it’s an expensive purchase, and that it would be nice to know if it can cover ground that other instruments can, but I don’t personally think it warrants the price tag if its considerable modulation overhead isn’t being leveraged.

sunfalls · May 24, 2021, 7:17pm

Thanks for these. Imported them into my new Iridium… ! (latest firmware)
Unfortunately all the controls were greyed out on every preset.
Didn’t do anything odd really. The import went smooth and efficiently.
But couldn’t modulate or control any of the parameters.
Thoughts? Fix?

*sidebar, any other links to dx7 presets ? is there a specific iridium patch converter for being able to change any dx7 sysex files to .qpat files?
Thanks again to the original poster!