With Iris you have the visual aid of working directly on a Sonogram Image. This is a workflow advantage in some cases.Pixelwarrior wrote:Is there something Iris can do to the sound that I can't do with Ableton's Sampler and an automated EQ?
I would not know if you could wth careful use with your setup achieve very similiar results. But in my view it would be needlessly diffuclt in comparison.
Not to say that I'm not a big fan of working with what I have. I love to work with automating my effects like U-he UHBIKS Q, and Filterscape also has it's own Envelope Followers Step Sequencers and delay and so it's very powerful. But still these tools don't come close to achieving the results I can easily reach with Iris.
I remember that before I bought Filterscape I reasoned that surely I could setup a few UHBIK Q EQ's plus a delay or two to achieve the same results. But I quickly gave up as my FX chain combined with all the Lfo modules and envelope Followers, step sequencers modules available in Numerology Pro got more and more ungainly. My DIY setup would be useful and perhaps more powerful then Filterscpae, but because of the increasing complexity in the end My DIY certainly did not end up being more used. Workflow efficiencey went down the drain. I still learned some useful things by going through the exercise though.
Filterscape or Iris are not tools that are absolutely essential, they are very nice to have as a way to flesh out a production system. Also getting tools and learning about the mindset behind them,is for me as much about educating myself about general sounddesign production methods as achieveing superior quality gains in my output. Each piece of gear I learn and get experience with means I gain access to one more piece of the overall puzzle of how to approach Sound, Music production Like a sort of master course. Maybe in the End you can just reduce and simplify a production setup because you have becomed more Seasoned, have more indepth understanding after using all the advanced tools..