Iridium from Waldorf is a 16 voice, polyphonic, bi-timbral, stereo, digital hardware synth. It’s the desktop version of Quantum, and it trades in Quantum’s analog filters for a lower price tag, more voices, a smaller footprint, and a few additional features.
It has almost every synth engine and feature in the book, so the big question is how accessible and usable those features are, and if there are any tradeoffs compared to Quantum. Here’s my full review:
TIMELINE:
0:00 Overview
7:50 User Interface
13:00 Osc controls
13:55 Wavetable
18:10 Waveform
21:15 Sampler
22:15 Multisamples
24:25 Granular
27:30 Live granular
28:40 Resonator
32:45 Kernels synth
38:00 Subharmonic kernels
39:05 Kernel macros
41:40 Stereo filters 4
5:15 Digi former
47:50 Effects
50:30 Modulation
53:10 Controllers
55:15 LFOs
56:10 Envelopes
57:15 Komplex mod
58:30 Layers & unison
1:00:20 Arpeggiator
1:01:40 Sequencer
1:04:13 Pad config
1:05:00 Pad trig sequencer
1:06:55 Misc
1:08:10 vs Quantum
1:09:00 Pros & cons