Played with the demo yesterday and it is nice but I am back to saving up for Alchemy.

Thanks Scott, good news !

Testing Iris featuring a gerriatric Sax player in a deserted hotel lobby recorded on my Zoom:
http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/iris-test-6-lobby-sax

All Iris demos:
http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/sets/testing-iris/

It is really amazing how well the RX features have been ported over to Iris, isolating very narrow frequency bands, enhancing them with the Magic Wand tool and making them instantly polyphonically playable is a unique feature to this instrument.

few questions im demoing it now:

1. it reminds me of Harmor can it be? but with additional painting options. how is the sound compared to harmor?

2. can you stretch here? and or random a sample somehow?

3. is it comparable to alchemy, i read that but it has no granular synthesis options

4. when does the intro price offer end?

1. Don't know as Harmor is Windows only

2. Just preserving the time scale using the Radius RT algo, no stretching/compressing of the time scale, Radius sounds very good/smooth though.

3. Not really, the spectral domain/spectral resynthesis is far superior to Alchemy but that's it - no additive synthesis, no sfz support, no Granular synthesis - it's not really a competing product imo.

4. Advertized everywhere, also in this thread, May 4th I believe.

thanks a lot, hmmmmm would have been nice to be able to slow down the playback speed, you can do it in Harmor.

Personally, I prefer speed over precision...


...and that's the most important thing of all.

Love the sounds Simon, looks like a must-have tool for sound designers

I remember trying out Alchemy and it always felt like going to work, like a chore. Iris looks a lot more user-friendly, although the price is, once again with izotope, too much.

Cheers Ronnie - yeah it fits well into my arsenal of things for sure

hmmmmm somehow im underwhelmed with this atm, i dunno much besides the drawstuff what it can do better than Harmor, harmor has somehow more options, also import mp3 too. you can also slow down the playback speed. not really convinced yet.

Looks and sounds very interesting!

Can you just select the partials to be played or not, or can you alter partials, like dimming/gaining or moving in time/freq domain? Like in photoshop by blending/moving selections?

Are the samples processed stereo? Or mixed to mono? Can you move selections in stereo space?

I'm asking cause I'm waiting on Roland's R-Mix, but may be purchasing Iris, if I could do nearly the same as with R-Mix, ie (re)moving/dimming vocals/instruments/sounds in a full mix for example...

Thanks for the info! I'm going to forget about this one and be glad I have Alchemy.

To be honest with you, you are correct sir... I did not do a "CLEAR ALL" as I did not find said button. I could not find it. So I cleared each sample independently.

Guess I'll have to look for that button a little more diligently. Or perhaps iZotope could present the button in a little bit more obvious fashion? I'll look again later and see if it pops out for me.

Yes, I can confirm this. Same Here.
Mac OSX 10.6.8, 2009 MacBook Pro 17", 8GB RAM, OS is running native 64-bit, Ableton Live 8.3... Tascam US-800 interface, if that matters.

Changing the attack away from instant does not remedy the problem.