VA Pads for Waldorf Quantum & Iridium
I am very pleased to be able to announce my second combined preset and sample library for the Waldorf Quantum. This library consists of 243Mb of stereo samples recorded from a variety of virtual analogue (VA) hardware synthesisers that I have collected over the course of the last twenty years.
VA synths tend to have high polyphony and multi-timbrality, more oscillators, waveforms, LFO’s, EG’s, filter modes and master effects than equivalent analogue poly synths, and this makes VA synths great for creating lush, rich pad patches. VA Pads is a collection of 16 of my own pad patches. Please check out the following video for more information and to hear the pad sounds in action:
So why might you use synthesiser samples with the Quantum when the Quantum is a synthesiser itself? For starters, there are some pad sounds here that would be difficult to recreate on the Quantum without using some form of bespoke samples or wavetables. But personally, I see these VA Pads samples as building blocks for your own patches, you can use them individually of course but the true power of the Quantum with its three oscillator engines per voice plus its 2-part multitimbral capability means you can combine multiple sampled pads together and combine them with your own oscillator sounds.
LIMITATIONS OF USE
You are free to use the presets and samples provided in this library either separately or combined for your own commercial musical productions. However you are strictly prohibited from the onward distribution, publication or sharing of either the presets or samples, whether original samples or derived samples, whether for use on a Waldorf Quantum, Iridium, or any other hardware or software-based synthesis or sampling engine.
Hi Tim,
You can reach me directly at one of my email addresses regarding helping out with creating a sample set of your really great VA pads, for the Prophet X.
Obviously the sample set will stay yours. All I want is to assist you and get a copy myself: enlightened self interest 😉 .
Regards,
Gerry (Gerard)
Tim, thanks for doing the “boring” side of sampling/mapping/etc. You are spot on about these (1-16) being mere foundations for much more complex sounds. Important issue for me (and soon many others I bet): the just announced desktop Iridium will be sans analogue filters. Any idea how your patches (these or your other libraries), if they happened to use the AF, would translate in the Iridium. Supposedly it has the same sound architecture as the Quantum thus interchangeable, so would it simply default to the DF instead of the original AF, or do we dig in and adjust setting manually? Not sure you know the answer since full specs not yet released. If you get your hands on one would be interesting to do a quick A/B. Thanks and looking forward to use your libraries once mine arrives.