Yep, a tweaker's dream. Dance, dubstep or ambient music at best.

got it yesterday, helps if you have a good connection as there is a download also 4gb of sounds :) . Also watched the groove3 tutorial.

the only MINUS, so far I will say they charge for the backup dvd of the sounds.. I feel considering what they charge for it , it's a tad cheeky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWUFLN7_SU 

is a nice watch, the guy who does it also does the groove3 tut's... 

more funny the people who are so anti it.. yet they don't have an informed opinion / used it.

Fog


got it yesterday, helps if you have a good connection as there is a download also 4gb of sounds :) . Also watched the groove3 tutorial.

the only MINUS, so far I will say they charge for the backup dvd of the sounds.. I feel considering what they charge for it , it's a tad cheeky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWUFLN7_SU 

is a nice watch, the guy who does it also does the groove3 tut's... 

more funny the people who are so anti it.. yet they don't have an informed opinion / used it.

I just watched the video ... thanks for that, Fog.  It made me change my opinion 180 degrees.  The Izotope supplied promos I watched initially used non-musical samples and the results were predictably sound-scape-ish.  But this video shows beyond any doubt that this can be an immensely musical instrument as well.  Don't need another synth, but,well, damn you, Izotope ... I guess I'll be getting another one anyway!

dmbaer

Fog


got it yesterday, helps if you have a good connection as there is a download also 4gb of sounds :) . Also watched the groove3 tutorial.

the only MINUS, so far I will say they charge for the backup dvd of the sounds.. I feel considering what they charge for it , it's a tad cheeky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWUFLN7_SU 

is a nice watch, the guy who does it also does the groove3 tut's... 

more funny the people who are so anti it.. yet they don't have an informed opinion / used it.

I just watched the video ... thanks for that, Fog.  It made me change my opinion 180 degrees.  The Izotope supplied promos I watched initially used non-musical samples and the results were predictably sound-scape-ish.  But this video shows beyond any doubt that this can be an immensely musical instrument as well.  Don't need another synth, but,well, damn you, Izotope ... I guess I'll be getting another one anyway!

I'm with you on that.  I didn't need any more synths, but after checking out that video I was intrigued.  I bought it and am downloading the content tonight.  Look forward to checking it out in the morning.  (Maybe very early as I'm feeling a little like a kid on Christmas eve and wondering how I'm gonna get any sleep tonight.

Yeah, just as I suspected, I was up at about 3AM to play with Iris for a couple of hours, then I slept for a couple of hours and have been at it again for hours.  It is so easy to come up with unique and useable sounds with this synth.  I'm really glad I grabbed it during the intro offer.

I'm coming at this with a fairly tech-savvy rock and metal guitar player's background, and I don't think it's just for sound designer's.  I do a little bit of electronic experimentation and I've learned most of what I know about synth programming from playing around with Pentagon, z3ta+ and a few others.  I watched that one video listed in this thread and I've checked the manual for one thing I couldn't find by looking at the screen and I've been off and running all morning.

Iris is unlike anything I've ever used, but at the same time, I find it quite intuitive and easy to program.  At some point I'll probably try to check out the manual for more info, but I really think this is one of the easier synths to manipulate and experiment with.  I don't really have the knowledge to go after a sound in my head and tweak the synth to get that sound, but I'm trying a lot of random stuff and getting a lot of very pleasant surprises.  I like that you can get one or two samples to carry a melodic or harmonic type of sound and have another to just do random texture sounds in the background.  I really like that kind of thing for pads and leads, etc.

Overall, this is one of my favorite new toys I've picked up in a while.  Glad I stumbled across this thread... even if my wallet is a little lighter now.

4th of may according to their email. but thats just for Iris, the backup sound dvd is another $12 or something.. and ya want the textures with it as well.

http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/iris/buy.asp

I bought both glass and wood with the intro price, and I so far I agree that Glass is more interesting and probably more useful for musical ideas, whereas what I've heard so far from wood it's cool for special effects and textures. 

Haven't really spent as much time going through presets as I have been just tweaking sounds and drawing on the display to see how it affects the sound.  Built 7 or 8 sounds so far... not sure if they'll be useful in the context of a song, but I'm having fun exploring.  I think I need to go through the presets to see what kind of ideas I can borrow though. 

I almost passed on it because I have enough synths and didn't want to learn anything new, but it's so simple and unique that I'm glad I grabbed it. 

Genghis

I almost passed on it because I have enough synths and didn't want to learn anything new, but it's so simple and unique that I'm glad I grabbed it. 

thats the reason I bought it, simply because I have too many synths based on the same sort of tech and a bit samey sounding.. Additive or subtractive etc. and a lot of the same as everyone else NI stuff etc.

there is 1 negative I've found .. it imports wav.. but doesn't do recycle , not sure about flac and ogg etc.

rex

Now you guys got me trying this thing out ;) I think I'll buy it and use it as my 1st sample player/mangler. It's missing a few features from the hardware samplers, like assigning a midi channel to each sample, but the Radius play option is nice.

Who said IRIS was meant to be a sampler? It simply has some sampler-like features that are quite nice and could be resampled into another full-featured sampler.

The Radius function is brilliant and while I think there are other samplers that have a similar feature, I do not know what samplers they are and they probably aren't $150 (at least while that price lasts).

Hi tomixornot  Usually a decent virtual instrument will come with a standard library and in this case it's 4G which represents a lot of raw materials to get started with.

Even back in the old days synths with just 8 Meg or 32 Meg of sample ROM could create tens of thousands of presets, all over a wide range of very different genres etc. 4G of data could generate an almost infinate number of patches you could work with.

There will be a lot of sounds to be able to play with I imagine. Think of Glass and Wood as being expansion packs taking a standard library further. But like anything expanding something out to the max is going to give you the best results. eg the standard library with the two extra expansion packs plus your own folder of completely original raw materials.

It is good to keep an eye on future expansion packs to see if they release things that really might take your interest.

Philip - I have taken a cut from a flute and processed it using Iris then used the Radius function to play it and it is remarkably beautiful!  Perhaps you should try the demo and see what you can come up with?

In the end maybe this instrument isn't for you, but it sure works for me.

Jeff Evans


Hi tomixornot  Usually a decent virtual instrument will come with a standard library and in this case it's 4G which represents a lot of raw materials to get started with.

Even back in the old days synths with just 8 Meg or 32 Meg of sample ROM could create tens of thousands of presets, all over a wide range of very different genres etc. 4G of data could generate an almost infinate number of patches you could work with.

There will be a lot of sounds to be able to play with I imagine. Think of Glass and Wood as being expansion packs taking a standard library further. But like anything expanding something out to the max is going to give you the best results. eg the standard library with the two extra expansion packs plus your own folder of completely original raw materials.

It is good to keep an eye on future expansion packs to see if they release things that really might take your interest.

Thanks Jeff. The 4 gig should have plenty of sounds to get started.. I'll try to get the extra 2 libraries if possible.. I'll use Iris to try out sampling real sounds, as it seems easy to map out the pitch.

Phonic


Philip - I have taken a cut from a flute and processed it using Iris then used the Radius function to play it and it is remarkably beautiful!  Perhaps you should try the demo and see what you can come up with?

In the end maybe this instrument isn't for you, but it sure works for me.

Very well, bro,
 
I'll try to download the demo and see what it does to my vox, piano, guitars ... based on you and so many other positive testimonials.  Its just that the Iris videos left me cold.