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Now it seems you only get ensembles and I've had a lot of trouble trying to build my ensembles with them. I've had to break down the ensembles to see how they really work and then patch them together. A solution is take stuff and deconstruct it and put it back together the way you want or build stuff from scratch. Doing this takes to much time and effort for me, I'd rather just make music.
I basically use my small modular to make crazy acapella lead vocal sounds or add in creative glitchy sounds with my BIA. I mean, it all works pretty well and sounds great, but it was over 2k of an investment, so sometimes I look at Reaktor and just start to wonder Re: Reaktor 6 is awesome Post by andybizarre » Wed May 05, pm Sample management is actually not that bad.
You have to get yourself familiar with the multisample editor, the concept of instrument snapshots and saving the Reaktor ensemble file for recall. I recommend to always embed your samples within your Reaktor ensemble for later use. A pile of shit? One could achieve certain aims within reaktor, but never what I would call a final goal. Reaktor is really a mono synth as far as the Blocks paradigm is concerned.
I've made plenty of music in my lifetime using very little. As stated earlier, I could see myself probably using something like Bazille regardless of having eurorack.
Also this whole "switching between a plugin and your daw being so hard bit" huh??? I use Protools like a normal person, that shit isn't a problem for us one bit.
Triggered much? And dissing the rack too. Very classy. Thank you for making my point, albeit in a crude, trashy sort of way. Off-topic: I left Pro Tools behind years ago. And hey man, you're the one with the complaints.
Grain is a block that lets the end user record, modulate, and output a single grain. While that may sound tame at first, these are meant to be used in parallel. There is nothing stopping you from using twenty of these at the same time to process sound. Unique to this granular processor is a ten second audio buffer. You can freeze and scan through this buffer to build layers of sound over time.
Grain Envelope is a drawable 16 segment envelope that will radically change the sound of the grain depending on how the envelope is drawn. You can even run the grain through a filter and control the cutoff with the envelope output to get even crazier results. Grain Control will let you control any number of grain blocks from one panel. You can easily control the position and size of every grain in your patch this way.
Neon has had its display updated so that the drawn bands line up with the mouse. Neon is based on the Buchla Spectral Processor. It can act as a static filter bank, an equalizer, a formant filter, or even a harmonic distorter. The shift knob will let you go down below audio rates to shape CV signals. The bands can be animated with a bank of internal modulation waves that can affect both amplitude and pitch. Nice time to be alive. Reaktor Blocks continue to be my primary itb modular setup.
Pull up a chair kids, Grandpa Jopy's going to tell you a story. Those were the days when Sowari and Rachmiel and John Nowak and Dieter Zobel and Chris List were all putting out some new masterpiece every couple of weeks.
It really was a vibrant and exciting community of experimentation. Unfortunately, those skills are rare. Many ensembles including ones I designed ended up playing themselves, so the end user's role in making music was diminished. Every single one of the criticisms of Reaktor above also have some truth.
Mapping many controllers is a pain in the neck, user library ensembles can be glitchy in a bad way , and sample management is futzy admittedly not really any more complicated than using micro-SD cards in hardware. I also dare any Reaktor user to not end up needing a better computer.
Anyway, for a while when Blocks came out I thought I could get to a hands-on approach again with Reaktor, but even with the new setup, most R6 ensembles were vastly less ergonomic and inspiring relative to knob-per-function hardware. Preset-ville returned, mapping MIDI to complex ensembles felt like a bad day at the office, and it was again more like computer troubleshooting than musical expression. Eurorack modular eliminates the temptation to fall into presets and there are so many wonderful intuitively mapped ports and knobs.
There is no comparison in my opinion, physical modular absolutely dominates for the user experience. And yes, it can still overload even a fast processor and it will crash if you push it. Still, the untapped potential for some of the complex sequencing functionality was there in R6, so I got a cv.
At this point I've realized that for me , Reaktor is better thought of as a single digital module or sequencer rather than a meta-mega all-in-one modular replacement machine. A rack with 8 knobs maximum, just a few functions. Sequencing with MIDI out to the modular is a clear strength, and with clock out you can at least keep it in time with the external modular.
For example, the XY module with clock dividers sending variable speed triggers to the X and Y ports and a quantizer on the back end can do a lot with just four or five mapped controllers.
It's not as intuitive or inspiring as my 0-ctrl or even a BSP, but it's certainly useful as part of a larger modular environment. For audio, Reaktor 6 does sound about as good as some digital modules, so it could make a simple FM synth that could work a bit like Akieme's Castle.
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