Yes music is still an art for sure. And no matter how interesting any synth may be and how complex a sound it makes, it still comes down to the music at the end of the day. It is not enough in my opinion to just make an interesting sound. It is about what else is going on and where is it all going? The total composition.

The ideas need to be there, they need to well executed and then last of all well produced so it all sounds great and the best it can be. If any of those links are weak the end result is weak.

I am a synth fan from way back from the monophonic analog synths right up to the latest thing like IRIS. I love all of it! And this is what I like about software as well. It can develop and be implemented faster than any hardware synth which takes ages to come to fruition and then it cannot go further. But good ideas in the hands of a hardware instrument are still going to sound good no matter what.

I just love the options now though. Things like Prism, Alchemy and IRIS and all those great others too of course.

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

LOL WENT TO BUY IT AT STORE  ......no stock ..went back with UVI ElectroSuite , Mach Five3 and Emulation 2 ....

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.

Streamworks have dropped their video to $19.95 over the weekend. http://streamworksaudio.c..roducts/FA_iZotope_Iris

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!

How is this thing working out for all you guys who bought it? 

Worth it at the intro price do you think? 

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.

backwoods


How is this thing working out for all you guys who bought it? 

Worth it at the intro price do you think? 

I wouldn't have bought it at full price *BUT* , you feel you do a bit like you have. as 3 optional extras.. 2 texture packs (wood / glass) and the additional DVD backup . it's way too soon to say and well personally I'm not in any state to make music let alone use it properly (got bad flu , ears are broke) for a few weeks .  It does have a CPU hit though, if you turn on some of the functions within it,  but that's to be expected as it's in real-time.. so a decent cpu is really a good idea.

the intro price is "ok" I did buy the textures also.. but US pricing in the UK is messed up slightly as opposed to their euro counterparts like NI. etc . I have to really justify buying a plugin these days that is actually something different from what I already own.

the comments geneally online so far about it, I have found amusing and in a few cases near mis-information.. I mean I looked into what it did before making blind comments / assumptions about it. others are comparing it to stuff that isn't anywhere like what it generates e.g. normal synths or stuff that is closer, but limited compared e.g. padshop

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.