Sample Based Resynthesis VSTs (feat. iZotope Iris) – Other Gear

Something I was looking into at the end of last year, was iZotope Iris, which looked pretty interesting as a way of playing with sample based synthesis.

Iris wasn’t updated for M1, and was then discontinued. I haven’t seen too much else that does anything similar. I hear that the original Camel Audio Alchemy is in a similar ballpark, but this is a Logic only device. As an Ableton user on M1, both of these options are out of the window.

Overall; I think this general concept is pretty sweet – the idea of chipping away at a spectral map of a sample to find fragments in there to create your synthesis seems like something really interesting.

I’ve come across this Dillon Bastan device for M4L, though I’m not sure if it does the same thing as Iris or Alchemy.

Does anything else exist along these lines outside of the options listed above, or are these 2 tools unique in their approach to using bits of samples to create synthesis?

I’d be interested to hear about options, alternatives or even combinations of tools that you might have used to achieve something similar.