Creating a New Patch with the Waldorf Iridium Core

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"m-tech's Phil Tucker explores building a custom patch from scratch using the Waldorf Iridium Core. Nothing beats the satisfaction of building your own sound, but these days it's far too easy to just pick one from the list! The Iridum Core is a powerful synth with fantastic features – in this video Phil explores building a sound from a basic sine wave to a juicy pad, saving it, and then finding it again later in the library!"

Ashun Sound Machines Hydrasynth Explorer – complex synthesis, control and modulations made easy

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"Ken ‘Flux' Pierce from Ashun Sound Machines gives us a deep dive on the Hydrasynth Explorer, a synth designed with simplicity in mind. Despite its size and the fact it can even run on batteries, the Hydrasynth Explorer is not light on for features, or in-depth sound design features.

Almost everything can be modulated, controlled, or otherwise sculpted by touching the relevant parameter buttons. Assigning LFO control, creating a sequence, and modulating any parameter with almost anything else is remarkably easy."

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Soundtoys Space Blender – their new imaginary space machine plugin!

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"It’s not convolution, it’s not an emulation – it’s like a delay matrix with chorus and a granulator…but not that either. From stuttering to vastness, it’s great for sound design, soundtracks, and gaming soundtracks. So interesting, it’s almost an instrument."

Melbourne Instruments Roto-Control – First Look with Honeysmack a.k.a Dr David Haberfeld

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"On the first day at NAMM 2025, we saw the newly released Roto-Control from Melbourne Instruments, a totally unique MIDI controller perfect for live performance. With motorised touch-sensitive knobs, customisable haptics, and hi-res labelling screens, the Roto-Control is capable of saving 8,000 assignments for total control of your rig.

We love the physical feedback in the knobs and the haptics in the buttons – it makes using the Roto-Control to control something like Ableton Live much more like playing a real hardware synth. Honeysmack (Dr David Haberfeld) is a veteran of live performance with synths, and his enthusiasm for Roto-Control is obvious and contagious!"

Melbourne's Synthtemple - 160+ playable synths, two studios, Atmos enabled, and available to hire!

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"Tony Osmond's Synthtemple is the ultimate destination for electronic musicians. This globally significant collection of more than 160 both genre-defining and rare synths is all patched and playable, enabling instant creativity. Its two studios, designed by acoustic engineers, are Atmos enabled, with top-end Genelec monitoring. Patching is both analog and digital, and recording via Logic or ProTools.

Highlights in the collection include the world's largest Roland 700 system, early Moog synths, rarities like the Buchla 406, three Yamaha CS-80s (and a DX1!) and much, much more.

Set in the inner-eastern suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Australia, and opening in early 2025, Synthtemple is set to be become a major international drawcard.

mutech.media's Paul Frech interviews owner and synth collector Tony Osmond about the collection, the studio, the long path to its creation, and what people can do with all this raw synth power!"

See the Synthtemple label below for more.

Waldorf Iridium Core Tutorial Videos

Waldorf Iridium Core Part 1 - Envelopes

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"Multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer Phil Tucker takes us on a tour of the Waldorf Iridium Core desktop synth. In this first video, Phil explores manipulating envelopes in real-time with the Core's hardware encoders"

Waldorf Iridium Core Part 2 - Loading Programs

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"Multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer Phil Tucker continues his tour of the Waldorf Iridium Core desktop synth. In this second video, he looks at speeding up workflow and loading programs"

First Look! Korg's new multi/poly Virtual Analog Synthesizer!

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"Australian synth legend Dean Walliss (Synth Sound Designer, Touring Musician and Session Synthesist for The Church and Real Life) introduces us to the Korg mutli/poly, their new Virtual Analog Synthesizer. Here's the low-down:

Developed by KORG R&D in California, the multi/poly is inspired by the legendary KORG Mono/Poly. While adopting some of the features that popularized the original Mono/Poly, the new multi/poly is a completely new synth designed to be the ultimate VA synthesizer. It features a completely new, powerful sound engine that simulates analog feel and sound to a level of detail unparalleled in digital synthesizers or virtual synths.

With a mix of East—and West-coast style oscillators, a wide selection of next-generation modelled filters, innovative functions like Layer Rotation, KAOSS Physics, Motion Sequencing 2.0, and a massive amount of modulation possibilities, multi-poly delivers the ultimate synth experience for all synth fans and musicians."

See the announcement post for additional details.