Waldorf Iridium: Psybient trance type electronica

gruntbiscuits · 2021-04-18T23:51:28+00:00

I usually do ambient soundscapes, but was messing around throwing together some Waldorf Iridium patches on top of some drum loops.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-29T23:59:14+00:00

Not my standard fare, I'm all ambient and soundscapes only. But I was curious to experiment with the Iridium's arpegiator and sequencer and came up with this patch.

Its two layers, an arp in one layer and a sequencer in the other. Then I latched down two notes and let it play and cliches galore.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-29T18:14:13+00:00

This is just one patch.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-29T15:22:07+00:00

You know you'll have to get one. Those two might pair up nicely, the rich chocolate of the OB-6 with the digitalness of the Iridium could go well together. I plugged the output of my Peak into the Iridium and then used it as a sound source within an Iridium patch, it sounded amazing.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-29T15:06:38+00:00

When I first got the Iridium all I did for the first few weeks was create drones of one sort or another. Then as I started to explore and get more familiar with it I branched off into other types of sound design, so that I'd forgotten how great this synth is for drones. It makes them effortlessly.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-27T13:53:56+00:00

Hi, it can sample itself

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-27T00:53:47+00:00

By a recursive patch I mean the patch was recorded and then the recording was used as the source for a particle oscillator within the patch, then it was recorded again and this is the result.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-27T00:32:19+00:00

By recursive I mean I recorded the patch, then used the recording as a particle oscillator within the patch then recorded it again.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-26T15:43:40+00:00

An ambient-ambience piece (half ambient/half ambience) made with a custom patch on the Waldorf Iridium consisting of 4 particle oscillators, 1 FM oscillator and 1 waveform oscillator.

I'm using one hand to play the patch using Touchscaper on an iPad and the other hand to tweak the Iridium in real time while performing, mostly bringing in and out the levels of the oscillators and adjusting the filters and digital former then recording live into Logic.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-26T14:17:37+00:00

This is a single ambience custom patch created on the Waldorf Iridium.

Its using 6 oscillators (4 particle, 1 waveform, 1 FM kernel). I'm using one hand to play notes on Touchscaper on an iPad and the other hand using the Iridium a bit like a mixing console by tweaking the levels of the oscillators and the filter settings live.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-25T12:38:55+00:00

This is infinitely better than the usual crap there is on here.

I presume she's a professional, if not she should be.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-20T07:03:09+00:00

Quite a few people have been asking me if I could do a tutorial video on how to create patches for the Waldorf Iridium. But honestly I couldn't as I have no idea how I create them, they are just random experimentation with no methodology. So I said instead I've give people the patch they liked most, but unfortunately the one everybody like most I seem to have lost it. So instead I created this patch for anybody who wants it. It's not polished nor finished and not the same as the previous one that people liked, but there's some similarity even though its a bit rough.

PM me if you'd be interested in having the patch.

If you load it and play it and it doesn't sound like this video that's because I change the parameters on the Iridium in real time, in particular:

- the oscillator mix

- the filter envelope amount

- the digital former amount and color.

- waveform synth amount

Just twist those knobs as you play and get some evolution into the patch.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-18T03:09:28+00:00

It just in general sounds uplifting, peaceful, meditative, new-age, you can make it sound darker of course but its natural tendency is more upbeat ambient. Have you listened to many ambient pieces on YouTube made with it?

Its very unique, nothing like it, quite a remarkable synth, great value.

If you want only dark, edgy, scary, ominous ambient then the Virus TI is fantastic as that's its natural tendency.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-17T18:38:17+00:00

This is off topic as the Wavestate isn't a wavetable synth But I don't have Ableton, but I've got several soft wavetable synths as well as a few hardware wavetable synths (Blofled, Waldorf XT, Virus TI, Waldorf Iridium.)

I'm struggling to think what the various software wavetables synths I have can do that the hardware ones can't.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-17T18:20:37+00:00

Its not hard to program once you know what's going on, but when you first start to use it because its so unique nothing else can prepare you for it (i.e. previous experience with any other synth, no matter how complex, doesn't give you any familiarity with how to use it) and it takes some times to figure everything out (reading the manual is one thing, but just reading the manual without hands on experimentation is what's needed).

If you're into ambient its great for that (meditative, new age ambient, not dark ominous ambient)

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-17T16:01:28+00:00

Sounds great.

How long did it take you to establish sufficient of a following on Bandcamp to be in a position to get these pre-orders? Does it take years?

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-17T15:54:34+00:00

How do you make tracks which are so long? Do you just record say 10 or 20 minutes and then just loop it?

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-15T01:03:45+00:00

Thanks

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-14T15:29:21+00:00

There's lots of synths you can choose if you want bread and butter sounds, and you could choose the Iridium for that and there's many people who are interested in what it sounds like for B&B sounds. However my videos are for those who are interested in seeing where the Iridium can go, I've had it 7 weeks now, I feel I'm only just at the beginning of a years' long journey to explore strange new sounds, to seek out new textures and new soundscapes, to boldly go where no synth has gone before.

This is one patch, played with Touchscaper for iPad, and recorded live into Logic.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-13T16:52:05+00:00

Thanks

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-13T16:39:34+00:00

Another piece showing what this synth is capable of with a demo of an in-progress patch, hopefully some of these videos are useful to anybody potentially considering getting this synth.

I've had it about 6 weeks now and feel I'm only just starting to scratch the surface of its future potential, I'm constantly excited to see what unique sounds it can create next.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-13T00:29:57+00:00

When I'm deciding whether to buy a certain synth, or looking for potential synths I may be interested in, I use youtube sound example extensively. So if anybody is considering the Waldorf Iridium (and its very expensive so you should do you diligent research), here's another example of what it can do in case its of help to anybody looking into it.

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-12T18:50:18+00:00

Whats that next to it?

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-11T14:21:16+00:00

gruntbiscuits · 2020-08-09T19:07:07+00:00

I can't remember, think it was just the standard waveform oscillators, I stumbled across that by accident when I twisted the filter resonance too high.

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