Ambient Live looping with Enso and Waldorf Iridium / M 

You can tell how much of a cat-lover someone is by the amount of contortion and discomfort they will go to, to prioritise the comfort of their cat. Here we see Martin risking a synth filled with hot tea, ergo Martin is definitely a proper cat-lover. Oh, and lovely sounds also ;) ;)

Absolutely gorgeous! Enso has always eluded me. I will give it another try. Inspirational content as always Martin!

Love Enso, except for the slight glitches/pops sometimes, but since they don't get recorded into the loop, it's fine just a bit annoying during live streams. Having the option for going Record into Overdub is crucial, not only to preserve tails/FX etc coming into the input, but it also just keeps the whole process of live looping fast, smooth and seamless. My favourite thing to do with Enso is to decouple playback speed and record speed, it's great to have playback -2 octaves, as long as you play the notes high enough it leads to some really nice ambient, especially with long reverb tails pitched down, which just sound gorgeous. One thing I wish Enso had, is the ability to add your own plugins into the feedback path, so that you could for example insert your own filters, or saturation/distortion plugins.

Yes love this creative use

Gorgeous! Thank you for everything you do Martin!

Wonderful!! Love your Ambient Live streams!! And thank you for the information on Enso!! 💛

great showing off a superb tool.

How cool! Sounds beautiful! I have to try out Enso!

Inspirational plugin! Thanks once again for sharing, Martin.

Bought it, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Epic with the cat and the tea!

Love the relaxed, laidback style of the video.

instant buy, thanks for the demo

Nice tutorial. Danke schön 😻

Excellent!

Hello Martin, hi Neptun! Very interesting stuff! Thank you 🙏

Recently got this. Really nice plug-in. One of my favourites. Was looking for something like it for a while.

Amazing!

THis was really cool to learn! Just picked up Enso! What a coool thing!

Helpful, thanks!

This looks cool!

Sehr eindrucksvoll, so schöne Sounds 🤗🎶🎶✨️✨️🙆‍♂️

This was really helpful mate, thank you.

Thank you Martin, you helped me a lot with this one! Greetings from France

Thank You Martin, Enso is very helpful plugin for ambient music with long pads. your tutorial helped me to go foward in my studies.

Great video - Neptun(e) is adorable! You can disable the 1 minute restriction very easy! I found this in the menu: "Long Memory The LONG MEMORY switch determines how much memory (RAM) Enso reserves for recording. By default, the switch is off, and every instance of Enso consumes about 22MB, enough memory for one minute of stereo audio recorded with a 48KHz sampling rate. If you turn on LONG, each instance of Enso sets aside 10 times as much, so that your loop can be up to 10 minutes long (if recorded at 48KHz)."

Martin its nice ambient! And one of the best way for session recording!

Beautiful kitty.

Coffees on !! Thank you!! ;-)!!!!!

that cat is a compete master in sound and mastering,, he is warching carefully everythimg you do😺😸

Om Shanti Om 🎶🎹🎶🪐👍

Ha. First time I saw Neptun hitting a key

Amazing! I have the Ocean Machine guitar pedal that has a similar process for looping, but man, that visual for the looping and the easy clicking looks a lot easier to make use of. I often find myself messing up the loop and having it cut off at the wrong time with the Ocean machine.

within 1 sec of this video ...I gave you a thumbs up

That is one chilled out cat

freeze reverbs are nice for ambient, indeed

@martin which patches are these out of the iridium? theyre gorgeous!

Hello Martin, love your tutorial, do you only use Enslo for live performance or do you produce with it as well?

Martin, thanks for your kind contributions and dedication to the electronica community. Quick question: What's the difference between a recorded loop in Enso and a recorded clip in Live (from a recording point of view only)? And compared to Live's Looper?

Hey Martin, Did you do the “album cover” artwork for Ambient Nights Vol. 1? I’m interested in getting a print to frame.

Hello (Moin) Martin! Phantastic description of ENSO. This video, viewed as an advertising, is better than from Audiodamage itself. Its so good, that you put me in the conflict: "I have so many stuff, do i need any more? - Yes, now i think so" ;-) The first sound from the Iridium, is that an original preset, or is it based on an original preset, and when which one is it? (for own use) Bye

I didn't really follow the Enso stuff, but watched Netpun all the time ;-)

I assume this plug-in would work in Logic? Also would you have to open an instance of Enso on each or your tracks you want to use in the loop? Or do you use it as a bus or something else? That’s the part I don’t understand about Enso at all. Awesome video

How do you get the notes to last forever after you hold the keys for only a few seconds

I"m curious if anybody knows if this is more or less the same as in the LOOPER device in Ableton Live, with the feedback rates etc? Or is Enso it's own beast capable of much more?

Enso is really nice, I wonder though is the loops able to be midi quantized?

hello Martin, can you tell me do you just use the audio interface or do you also use a mixer for your synths?

Great explanation, Martin, as always. One question: is there any other application similar to ENSO?

Learning a lot, big eurorack enjoyer, there must be a module or something for this? hmmmm

i have this Enso and get confused all the time with the retriggering of notes back at zero. I'm confused on how to get the end to blend with the beginning

Thanks for the video, very helpful. Is it possible to see the wheel during the first recording though? I find it a bit confusing that one must count the first minute using the DAW instead of Enso.

As an Ableton user I am torn on buying Enso, apart from the prettier UI the functionality is a direct copy of Ableton’s looper, except for being able to unlink the record and playback speeds. Is that enough to justify having it, I am not sure. On the other hand Ableton’s looper has audio tap points that let you send and return the audio in the record path through another track, allowing you to put any plugin effects you like into the recording on each overdub pass, not just the fixed set of effects Enso has; that allows for some creative destruction of the looped audio that is quite fun. So it is a bit six of one and half a dozen of the other for me.

Hallo Martin, danke für das tolle Video. Enso kannte ich noch garnicht. Wie hast du denn Enso in Ableton eingerichtet ? Ich kann nur Samples loopen und nicht mit Synth Plugins loopen. Evtl. könntest du ein Video machen?😊 Danke schon mal

Neptune approves of Enso 😂

there is a plugin called augustus loop from expert sleepers. fantastic features like up to 60 min. loop time, a real tape-like inertia when switching times and also the possibility to use own plugins in the feedback loop. however, it is already relatively old (but M1 ready) and terrible to look at. so i've been looking for an adequate replacement for ages. Enso comes pretty close to that. but i would really like to see a more tapemachine like behavior, as well as a custom feedback loop....

Hi my friends, Martin and Neptun! Your friends in Ontario, Canada ... Wulfy and Blizzard. 🐺😻🎶🎹🎄🌎💯💥🍔🍟🎧🍁

Did you record the reverb inside Enso, or is the reverb post-Enso or in a FX send channel?

Neptune!!!!!

Danke Martin. Hab Enso. jetzt brauch ich nur noch eine Katze.

We all know Neptun is the star of the show.

Can't you just do that with your looping tracks in Ableton though?

Hi Martin.... Hört sich toll an, sieht auch gut aus, aber verstehe aufgrund meiner eingeschränkten Englischkenntnisse leider nur die Hälfte deiner Ausführungen. So etwas auch mal in Deutsch zu machen, oder eventuell mit Untertitel wäre vielleicht auch mal eine Idee für zukünftiges??? Würde mir enorm bei deinen Ausführungen weiter helfen...Gruß Jürgen

I love Enso, I’m shocked you didn’t go into it’s most powerful feature tho, it has 4 sectors or tracks you can have going at different speeds and lengths Maybe do a part 2 more in depth

Every thumbsup on your videos is also for Neptun

I'm giving up making ambient music on RU-vid, due to being allergic to cats. 😂