How to import wavetables into Iridium / Quantum
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Iridium / Quantum from Waldorf Music imports wavetables like this: on-instrument WAV import at a set sample period.
Every fact is verified against Waldorf Music's own documentation or source code — sources at the end of the page, checked 2026-08-16.
What Iridium / Quantum expects
On-instrument 'Import from .wav' builds wavetables from .wav/.aiff files with a constant sample period configurable from 64 to 4,096 samples (2,048 is called out as the common choice); user wavetables load, save, and exchange via microSD or USB storage.
Step by step
- Export from Hyperwave as a packed mono WAV with a frame size between 64 and 4,096 samples (2,048 is the common choice and Hyperwave's default).
- Move the WAV to the instrument over USB or place it on microSD storage.
- On the instrument, run Import from .wav and set the sample period to match your exported frame size.
If something goes wrong
- The instrument refused my 8,192-sample frames.
- The import's sample period tops out at 4,096 samples — export at 4,096 or below.
- My file sliced at the wrong length on the instrument.
- Set the on-instrument sample period to your exported frame size; a mismatched period slices the file at the wrong length.
Export settings for Iridium / Quantum
Iridium / Quantum has no dedicated export preset in Hyperwave — the default preset ("Default — 2048 × 256") writes 2,048 samples per frame, 256 frames, mono 32-bit float, and matches the layout documented above.
- Default — 2048 × 256
- 2,048 samples per frame × 256 frames · 32-bit float · 48 kHz
Sources
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