Excellent tutorial Martin- Love the iridium/Quantum Waldorf world of sound, and this is a great insight into how to program a very powerful layer for any electronic music. Keep up the good work :)
I bought an iridium first year it was released and sold it…..last year. I bought the Keyboard version! I’ve iwned a ridiculous number of synthesizers starting in 1987. The Iridium is the most useful, beautiful, deep and easy to use synth I’ve ever owned. In my opinion nothing matches it. You surely know your way around synths and I love your videos
you guys who are able to do sound design, so adeptly and so patiently, using myriad hardware devices, absolutely blow my mind. especially someone such as yourself because you seem fairly young (30s maybe?) and it might've been tempting to keep it all "in the box". nice video
@@MartinStuertzer 10 years old? wowie. that's so cool. you indeed have quite some experience. i think you are also quite gifted. those two things are a great combination! take care and thanks for the reply
You made magic with the simple sample you had. It is amazing your ability. Thank you. How many hours are necessary to learn well the Waldorf Iridium synth keyboard, for people who has some knowledge of synth?
Nice technique, I haven't used the second layer on my Iridium yet. This Synth has a Lifetime of sound possibilities.... Also, watching your video I realized that one of the buttons one my Iridium has a wrong label, lol. I always wondered why I have two LFO buttons.
@@MartinStuertzer Yeah.... Someone in QA probably had a bad day. Not sure it's worth getting it replaced though, technically it works fine. More of a cosmetic thing. Maybe I'll send an email to Waldorf Support and see what they say haha.
To become better in dealing with my soft synth I tried to rebuild this. It came out a little bit different but I am satisfied with it. Your first two oscilators (the wavetable ones) i rebuild in Vital. (OK I did not have the wavetable you used in the Iridium but it came out quite similar.) Than I recorded it in ableton and gave the recording to two single tracks of the granulator to be able to pan them. One problem I got was the right setting of the delay. Because the delay is a bit different from yours there is another groove in there. Second problem was the timing of the granulator. So the beat of the granulator sometimes goes off. Could not fix that problem.
Vielen Dank für die vielen Anregungen, besonders: - den S/H-LFO-Wert per voice, - das Recording von Layer 1. Dass man den Iridium ‚in sich selbst‘ aufnehmen kann, hatte ich echt nicht auf dem Schirm; habe immer nur aus externen Quellen recorded. 🤦♂️
This is beautiful as ever Martin. I've been saving up to buy a new synth - quite possibly a Matriarch, but listening to this makes me think the Iridium could be another contender.....As a matter of interest - do you think that you could do very similar with Omnisphere? I have had Omni for a few years - like many people (I suspect) I have mainly used the massive array of presets and also a few extra libraries from Luftrum and Tom Wolfe, and haven't really gone too far into using it for sound design. I realise that of course it doesn't have wvatables as such - but seeing this gives me inspiration to look at Omni more closely to see if I can get it to do something similar! Also very pleased to see Neptune seems to enjoy relaxing to it 😃G
Hi Paul! I have tried the Hydra a few times in the shops and it certainly is a good synth. However I already have a few wavetable synths and think that it would be redundant in my setup.
Most important parameters can be accessed on the panel but due to the complexity of the synth with it five different engines (analog, wavetable, FM, samples and physical modeling) there are a lot of pages. But I find everything organized in a very logical way and would not call it a menu diving hell like other synths that I tried, like Jupiter Xm or Wavestate.
I looked at Google and found out that only this iridium machine you have in the beginning costs around 2500 Euro.. So you have pretty much money in your studio.. Wow
That's a very interesting patch you got here. I'm very interesed in the Waldorf Iridium and I was afraid there is too much menu diving, but it looks very easy when you doo it and it can creat very interesting sound. Correct me if i'm wrong, but the Iridium has 6 LFO, right? But is it in total, or per layer?
yes, there are 6 LFOs. Did I say 5? You can also loop the envelopes so you have a lot of modulations. Everything is per layer, so for each one you have a dedicated set of LFOs, envelopes and everything else. It is basically two Iridiums in one.
@@MartinStuertzer No no, you didn't say anything, but I though there was 6 in total, not per layer, it's amazing to have suche possibilities. Two Iridium in one box, wonderful thing
Awesome sound. Not an owner of the fantastic Iridium, but I tried to recreate the sound with what's possible on the Blofeld! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dzGUNrijJXI.html Thanks so much for the inspiration!
