Ok, I haven't used Skanner, but can you "extract and isolate the most interesting sonic components with a full suite of visual selection tools" in Skanner?

Skanner is something completely different. It uses LFOs, Oscs and Envs to "scan" through a sample. That's not even apples and oranges anymore that's more like apples and rainbows

Iris seems to be a classic spectral editing thingy, like spear, wraped into a synth.

Cheers
Dennis

Well, I've been demoing for a bit. It's pretty cool, but, if you already have Alchemy there's nothing here that will make you want to spend money. I think Alchemy more than covers what Iris is trying to do, and after Iris's introductory price is past, I have a hard time imagining that it will be worth the price when you can get Alchemy for the same. One of the things that's cool is the speed that you can a get a result with. But, I don't mind working a little bit slower to get a more careful result.

But it is really fun to use, so there's that to recommend it.

I don't care. It sounds like chipmonks on higher keys and like being on ludes on lower keys. Doesn't much matter anything else.

One of the fastest demos I've ever done. You know me, HO! I saw nothing here that is any more inspiring than dropping a wav in sampler "a" and then going from there.

Ha ha. Ooookeeeey.

Another really cool gadget I can't afford. :/ Well, back to V/A...

Nice review RussUK.

So this is what happens when iZotope does a synth/sampler... it completely turns the genre upside down.

What is especially interesting is how simple it is for the average joe (me) to construct something that sounds really cool, unique, different than something anyone else has. While it's cool that it comes with 4GB worth of samples and two expansions out of the gate, I think what's more interesting for me is that it adds life to every WAV sample I already have floating around on my hard disk. And potentially everything that I can capture with a microphone. I can see this taking me in some very unique directions. I have a vocalist coming over tomorrow night (the same one that recorded this song for me most recently: http://lightsfadelow.com/track/small) and I'm thinking of having her record a bunch of vocal takes that I can then drop into Iris and build a song around instead of a traditional linear vocal track.

What I find most interesting of all is how dead simple it is to get something really cool. With the exception of the necessary LFOs and ADSR envelopes, all of the hard work is totally hidden from you and made simple through the use of the RX2 drawing/selection tools.

This will absolutely show up in one way or another in most of my tracks moving forward...

Has anybody tried the Glass or Wood expansion libraries? Thoughts?

I was wondering what kind of new dimension synthesis would take... I think it is cool. Wish I had the money and time for it.

yeah, do you want chipmonks, or ludes?

A snippet from a Piano Concerto by Tschaikowsky processed/played with Iris:
http://soundcloud.com/sampleconstruct/iris-test-2-piano-conc erto

I just figured that the Radius algo (which avoids the chipmunking) can be set to 10 voices and high quality making it sound so much better!

That sounds awesome. You should put together a video to show how you made it.

A great example of how Iris is going to unlock some serious creativity.

I couldn't get that to work here. Maybe there is a bug in windows x64? It just was the same no matter what.

PLUS, the standalone version was all f'ed up. Maybe because there wasn't a setting that was the same as my buffer setting? (64)

Cheers, yeah a video should be helpful - need to find some time for that. A nice trick is to lasso a narrow frequency band and then use the magic wand tool on that selection (just click on it) - this will add overtones/spectrals to that selection yielding pretty magical stuff really. I'm buying this!

Hmm, are you sure you set the Pitch parameter to "Radius RT" rather than "resample"? If you choose Radius RT a popup window should show which allows you to adjust the settings for the Radious algo.