Ambient Live looping with Enso and Waldorf Iridium / M

[@stateazure]

Love Enso, except for the slight glitches/pops sometimes, but since they don't get recorded into the loop, it's fine just a bit annoying during live streams. Having the option for going Record into Overdub is crucial, not only to preserve tails/FX etc coming into the input, but it also just keeps the whole process of live looping fast, smooth and seamless. My favourite thing to do with Enso is to decouple playback speed and record speed, it's great to have playback -2 octaves, as long as you play the notes high enough it leads to some really nice ambient, especially with long reverb tails pitched down, which just sound gorgeous. One thing I wish Enso had, is the ability to add your own plugins into the feedback path, so that you could for example insert your own filters, or saturation/distortion plugins.

[@MartinStuertzer]

I should have credited you for pointing me towards Enso! I did not run into the glitches yet, I guess I am lucky so far with my configuration. More insert effects would be great, yes!

[@stateazure]

@@MartinStuertzer Yeah, I'm wondering if the glitches are only affecting PC users. I should test Enso on my Macbook Pro sometime.

[@devondetroit2529]

I think the audio pops might be a problem with your setup

[@stateazure]

@@devondetroit2529 Others have mentioned the glitches and pops, plus the developers even mention it in the manual iirc, it's a design limitation or something. Nothing wrong with my setup, and the same issue happens on different computers

[@devondetroit2529]

@@stateazure Fair enough

[@el-bov8034]

You can tell how much of a cat-lover someone is by the amount of contortion and discomfort they will go to, to prioritise the comfort of their cat. Here we see Martin risking a synth filled with hot tea, ergo Martin is definitely a proper cat-lover. Oh, and lovely sounds also ;) ;)

[@MartinStuertzer]

Thank you! You are right about the social role of my cat Neptun here. :)

[@el-bov8034]

:)

[@el-bov8034]

@@MartinStuertzer I went shopping after watching your video. On the way home, I came upon two cats (clearly family) who had very similar markings as Neptun, albeit they were both a a bit more rotund ;) Anyway...they were both so friendly, allowing me to stroke them. Landlady doesn't allow cats where I live, so i have to make do whenever I can :)

[@shitmandood]

Definitely some masterful dexterity going on pouring that tea with a cat and $$$$$ gear all around. I'm sure I would've blundered.

[@el-bov8034]

@@shitmandood tea-hee ;)

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Absolutely gorgeous! Enso has always eluded me. I will give it another try. Inspirational content as always Martin!

[@kittycloudz813]

Most peaceful tutorial 🌀

[@katermorgana]

Great video - Neptun(e) is adorable! You can disable the 1 minute restriction very easy! I found this in the menu: "Long Memory The LONG MEMORY switch determines how much memory (RAM) Enso reserves for recording. By default, the switch is off, and every instance of Enso consumes about 22MB, enough memory for one minute of stereo audio recorded with a 48KHz sampling rate. If you turn on LONG, each instance of Enso sets aside 10 times as much, so that your loop can be up to 10 minutes long (if recorded at 48KHz)."

[@labworx]

Bought it, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Epic with the cat and the tea!

[@moonandmelodies]

Hello Martin, hi Neptun! Very interesting stuff! Thank you 🙏

[@adanhdz5481]

that cat is a compete master in sound and mastering,, he is warching carefully everythimg you do😺😸

[@albertoselvaggi]

Thank You Martin, Enso is very helpful plugin for ambient music with long pads. your tutorial helped me to go foward in my studies.

[@Collectively_Adrift]

THis was really cool to learn! Just picked up Enso! What a coool thing!

[@deanandthebeans857]

That is one chilled out cat

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Recently got this. Really nice plug-in. One of my favourites. Was looking for something like it for a while.

[@Heavenchord-so1vx]

Martin its nice ambient! And one of the best way for session recording!

[@Rectangulaire]

Thank you Martin, you helped me a lot with this one! Greetings from France

[@lightconstruct]

Love the relaxed, laidback style of the video.

[@RemixSample]

How cool! Sounds beautiful! I have to try out Enso!

[@iamthatiam1]

Wonderful!! Love your Ambient Live streams!! And thank you for the information on Enso!! 💛

[@francotonini6446]

Om Shanti Om 🎶🎹🎶🪐👍

[@PhilippeLanckriet]

Inspirational plugin! Thanks once again for sharing, Martin.

[@lmsprojekt7741]

This was really helpful mate, thank you.

[@JonathonChilders]

Gorgeous! Thank you for everything you do Martin!

[@AndroLectric]

Sehr eindrucksvoll, so schöne Sounds 🤗🎶🎶✨️✨️🙆‍♂️

[@MusicotherapyOfficial]

Amazing!

[@joostvanbunnik7646]

great showing off a superb tool.

[@russellbutterfield1419]

Beautiful kitty.

[@darrencurtis4277]

Yes love this creative use

[@vasil3089]

freeze reverbs are nice for ambient, indeed

[@andy-simmons]

This looks cool!

[@issiewizzie]

within 1 sec of this video ...I gave you a thumbs up

[@MartinStuertzer]

Thank you so much!

[@HeikoStapf]

Ha. First time I saw Neptun hitting a key

[@MartinStuertzer]

He decided to have a nap on the keys, yes. He had a few hilarious moments that I needed to cut out from the material that I recorded.

[@HeikoStapf]

You need to do an outtakes video 😃

[@henrikfisch]

Yes, me too! 🙀

[@alphonsoacqua]

Excellent!

[@turgutbelen6374]

Nice tutorial. Danke schön 😻

[@MrArpSolina]

I didn't really follow the Enso stuff, but watched Netpun all the time ;-)

[@MartinStuertzer]

A truly stellar performance of Neptun!

[@tapeexperiments]

Helpful, thanks!

[@deepsubmicronmusic]

As an Ableton user I am torn on buying Enso, apart from the prettier UI the functionality is a direct copy of Ableton’s looper, except for being able to unlink the record and playback speeds. Is that enough to justify having it, I am not sure. On the other hand Ableton’s looper has audio tap points that let you send and return the audio in the record path through another track, allowing you to put any plugin effects you like into the recording on each overdub pass, not just the fixed set of effects Enso has; that allows for some creative destruction of the looped audio that is quite fun. So it is a bit six of one and half a dozen of the other for me.

[@stateazure]

Ableton Looper is objectively the better looper, but when I tested the two in comparison, the pitched down playback from Enso just sounded better to me and I'm not sure why that is yet. I didn't know you could insert any FX you want into the feedback path of Ableton Looper either, that's huge imo.

[@deepsubmicronmusic]

@@stateazure yeah I have only just got into using it because I struggled to understand how to actually use the looper at all for ages, really until I saw your video using it instead of Enzo recently. So I decided to do that thing nobody ever does and go read the manual to see if I could finally figure it out and the looper insert audio stuff jumped out at me; although given Ableton’s general component style philosophy I suppose it should have been expected that you could do this. Now in fairness having to add another audio track and set up the routing isn’t as immediate as just having the selection of fx right there as you do in Enzo, so maybe not so convenient for what you do in live steams for example.

[@stateazure]

​@@deepsubmicronmusic True, Enso is definitely more immediate to use. I wish there were more options out there. I'm hoping Bitwig eventually make a good audio looper device with control over the feedback path, since that is my preferred DAW.

[@wilschobeiri]

@martin which patches are these out of the iridium? theyre gorgeous!

[@MySynthDungeon]

Coffees on !! Thank you!! ;-)!!!!!

[@ChrisCorrado]

there is a plugin called augustus loop from expert sleepers. fantastic features like up to 60 min. loop time, a real tape-like inertia when switching times and also the possibility to use own plugins in the feedback loop. however, it is already relatively old (but M1 ready) and terrible to look at. so i've been looking for an adequate replacement for ages. Enso comes pretty close to that. but i would really like to see a more tapemachine like behavior, as well as a custom feedback loop....

[@MartinStuertzer]

Keep in mind that the length can be set to "as long as your computer has RAM" in the settings. A feedback loop for effects would be great!

[@wsplatinum]

you can change skins (make your own) on augustus loop and enso at this point seems to be abandonware...

[@solyarisoftware]

@@wsplatinum honestly august looper seems to me a big step backward the Enso concept.

[@Timespacefractal]

Martin, thanks for your kind contributions and dedication to the electronica community. Quick question: What's the difference between a recorded loop in Enso and a recorded clip in Live (from a recording point of view only)? And compared to Live's Looper?

[@MartinStuertzer]

Thank you for your kind words! If you record a clip in Ableton it will always repeat as the exact same copy. With Enso (or other loopers that have a similar workflow) you can overdub (= record new material) on top of the same loop and apply filters and other effects that change the recorded material over time. The Ableton Looper is working quite similar, but it lacks the nice graphical representation of the recorded waveform and a few other features.

[@Timespacefractal]

@@MartinStuertzer Thank you for your swift reply. I'll give it a try.

[@mothergarage]

Danke Martin. Hab Enso. jetzt brauch ich nur noch eine Katze.

[@Shakes_The_Clone]

Hey Martin, Did you do the “album cover” artwork for Ambient Nights Vol. 1? I’m interested in getting a print to frame.

[@lofi_soul_jazz]

I"m curious if anybody knows if this is more or less the same as in the LOOPER device in Ableton Live, with the feedback rates etc? Or is Enso it's own beast capable of much more?

[@katastrophickhaos]

How do you get the notes to last forever after you hold the keys for only a few seconds

[@CB-nd9ki]

i have this Enso and get confused all the time with the retriggering of notes back at zero. I'm confused on how to get the end to blend with the beginning

[@Thirdeyesoundmeditation]

Hello Martin, love your tutorial, do you only use Enslo for live performance or do you produce with it as well?

[@wulfboi8808]

Hi my friends, Martin and Neptun! Your friends in Ontario, Canada ... Wulfy and Blizzard. 🐺😻🎶🎹🎄🌎💯💥🍔🍟🎧🍁

[@santaclaus3175]

Thanks for the video, very helpful. Is it possible to see the wheel during the first recording though? I find it a bit confusing that one must count the first minute using the DAW instead of Enso.

[@MartinStuertzer]

With a workaround, yes. You can record an empty loop and then go into overdub mode. But the wheel will stand still during the first recording. Unless you use quantized mode with a fixed length. I guess. Not sure!

[@santaclaus3175]

​@@MartinStuertzer That's very smart, I wouldn't have thought about that. Once again, thanks a lot!

[@Buddhadreams]

hello Martin, can you tell me do you just use the audio interface or do you also use a mixer for your synths?

[@critbyte]

Learning a lot, big eurorack enjoyer, there must be a module or something for this? hmmmm

[@AuntyProton]

We all know Neptun is the star of the show.

[@HeavenlyEmotions]

Hallo Martin, danke für das tolle Video. Enso kannte ich noch garnicht. Wie hast du denn Enso in Ableton eingerichtet ? Ich kann nur Samples loopen und nicht mit Synth Plugins loopen. Evtl. könntest du ein Video machen?😊 Danke schon mal

[@Luap-ls3ix]

Neptune approves of Enso 😂

[@devondetroit2529]

Enso is really nice, I wonder though is the loops able to be midi quantized?

[@MartinStuertzer]

Yes, that is possible!

[@maydaygoingdown5602]

Can't you just do that with your looping tracks in Ableton though?

[@MartinStuertzer]

Technically yes, but I find the Ableton looper not very intuitive to use. A few features like crossfades and other stuff that I did not talk about in this video are not possible here. But I like your idea of making music with what is already there. I try to do as much as possible with the on board tools.

[@stateazure]

Do you mean MIDI looping tracks vs Enso/Looper? IMO the difference between standard looping tracks i.e. midi clips and using an actual audio looper are huge, but one doesn't replace the other. You can't for example playback the loop 2 octaves lower, and reverse, well you could but you would just be transposing rather than actually pitching the audio + FX down, which can result in really beautiful timbre and frequency changes that you just won't get with midi clips

[@maydaygoingdown5602]

@@stateazure Hi my freind, yes kind of, I sometimes tend to if it's a long slow evolving texture pad I make on a Hardware synth record into an Audio track and loop it, However yeah after looking at the software online it can do quite a lot of things with the loop can't it, which are actualy quite interesting to experiment with. It's a fair price too I reckon. I'll definatly add it and I reckon it's something I'll be using a lot. 👍

[@cr2843-q9f]

I assume this plug-in would work in Logic? Also would you have to open an instance of Enso on each or your tracks you want to use in the loop? Or do you use it as a bus or something else? That’s the part I don’t understand about Enso at all. Awesome video

[@MartinStuertzer]

Sorry, I noticed during editing that I did not address the routing. You can load enso as a plugin to each channel or put it on a bus or even the master! So it just depends on your preference.

[@CMGALAN]

Great explanation, Martin, as always. One question: is there any other application similar to ENSO?

[@MartinStuertzer]

Well the simplest solution is the Ableton Looper that comes with Ableton Live. There are a lot of looper tools on the market but I did not work with them other than Enso and the Ableton looper.

[@CMGALAN]

@@MartinStuertzer Thank You, Martin. Please keep making such great music.

[@Berti-YT]

Hello (Moin) Martin! Phantastic description of ENSO. This video, viewed as an advertising, is better than from Audiodamage itself. Its so good, that you put me in the conflict: "I have so many stuff, do i need any more? - Yes, now i think so" ;-) The first sound from the Iridium, is that an original preset, or is it based on an original preset, and when which one is it? (for own use) Bye

[@MartinStuertzer]

Thank you! Both patches from the Iridium are my own programs. About your trouble: there is a demo version. Try it and see if it gives you joy.

[@Berti-YT]

@@MartinStuertzer Schade wegen des Sounds, aber hatte ich mir schon gedacht. Danke für den Tipp. Grüße, Torsten

[@MrArpSolina]

Did you record the reverb inside Enso, or is the reverb post-Enso or in a FX send channel?

[@MartinStuertzer]

The effects are post Enso. It uses crossfades but for a smoother result I put the effects in that order.

[@themattschulz3984]

Every thumbsup on your videos is also for Neptun

[@MartinStuertzer]

He already requested a raise!

[@themattschulz3984]

@@MartinStuertzer He wants to be paid in food and cuddles by the looks of it :D

[@jurgentillmann6214]

Hi Martin.... Hört sich toll an, sieht auch gut aus, aber verstehe aufgrund meiner eingeschränkten Englischkenntnisse leider nur die Hälfte deiner Ausführungen. So etwas auch mal in Deutsch zu machen, oder eventuell mit Untertitel wäre vielleicht auch mal eine Idee für zukünftiges??? Würde mir enorm bei deinen Ausführungen weiter helfen...Gruß Jürgen

[@MartinStuertzer]

Ich plane zusätzlich eine deutsche Tonspur anzubieten. Weil ich den Text nur nachspreche und nicht alles neu aufnehme wird es nicht Lippensynchron sein, aber man kann es dann immerhin in deutsch hören. Leider ist diese Funktion von KZbin noch neu und nicht bei allen Konten freigeschaltet. Sobald ich die technische Möglichkeit dazu habe werde ich es aber ausprobieren!

[@jurgentillmann6214]

@@MartinStuertzer Vielen Dank für die ermutigende Antwort....

[@devondetroit2529]

I love Enso, I’m shocked you didn’t go into it’s most powerful feature tho, it has 4 sectors or tracks you can have going at different speeds and lengths Maybe do a part 2 more in depth

[@MartinStuertzer]

As I explained I just started working with Enso a week ago. I already discovered a few more tricks that I am starting to explore the Sectors. A second video with my long term observations will be recorded for sure.

[@devondetroit2529]

@@MartinStuertzer Gotcha, its a rad plugin.. I tried Sugarbytes looperator also, but wouldnt bother with that personally

[@saren6538]

Jeez let the man alone and be grateful

[@solyarisoftware]

​@@MartinStuertzerHi Martin, did you discover some smart usage of sectors (for long evolving sounds as you / us made)? I'm asking because I do not find a creative usage of sectors to be honest, instead what lack in Enso is the possiblity to record at once multiple tracks and crossfade them... in facts I noticed that in your performances if I'm not wrong you used nr. 2 instance of Enso doing the "crossfade" manually switching between the two plugin instances. Just for curiosity: did you ever tried a Gibson Echoplex Plus (EDP) or successive discontinued variants? Also what I lack in Enso is a realtime updated counter (in seconds) of the loops. What do you think ?

[@VirtualModular]

I'm giving up making ambient music on KZbin, due to being allergic to cats. 😂

[@Kmuggle]

Lava Lamp makes you immune ...