Two things happened recently, (a) I got my Waldorf Iridium back from the factory, freshly upgraded to the 🌐 SOM2 hardware extension board, (b) I went to the Enter Shikari concert in Munich and loved it. Which got me thinking: How do you make brutal, guitar-shredding-type sounds with that synth? Can I make it sound hardcore?
The Waldorf Iridium is, amongst many other things, a sampler. And so many instruments have already been sampled – you will just have to load the samples to the Iridium, and place them in a patch.
This post will try to create a patch with the sounds of a Yamaha CP70 electro-acoustic piano, and have a small script do most of the work. If you are kind of lost here, read the “Not-so-grand-piano” post first.
The Waldorf Iridium is a great synth — and it is also a sampler. This is a tutorial for creating a multi-sampled piano sound from the factory samples, and having a computer program do most of the work of allocating them.