![]() Reaktor appears really similar to AudioMulch (from what I can remember of AudioMulch from early 2000s) only possibly both easier and more complex. I’ll dip into the manual when I’m flummoxed by a setting or structure or whatever, but, otherwise, I’m ready to learn more this week by experimentation rather than following said manual.įirst impressions: Native Instruments (makers of Reaktor) has a lot of tutorial and getting started info alongside documentation, for all of their applications. It’s given me enough evidence to show that it’s definitely worth ploughing on with another week’s worth of pure exploration. How does this ‘Form’ synth module within Reaktor take that original sound and create something so different and lush and so cool? And how do I replicate that on demand? You can hear how basic, dry and unedited it is. That’s me on the fiddle, from a previous project of mine (before much autotuning in Melodyne and the liberal application of reverb). This is sort of the basic melody that Form has made somehow quite randomly but very musically from the original audio:įor comparison, this is the original raw material: I dropped a bit of a violin recording into it and out popped this GORGEOUS random musical sound design that’s really playable. I ended up making this lovely bit of sound from tweaking a pre-made synth/effects block within Reaktor called ‘Form’ that incorporates audio sampling (whereas all the other ‘building’ I’ve been doing involves basic synth stuff like oscillators and ADSR modules which tbh I’m not at all excited about). And then there’s making sure that, if you’re using it as a plugin in a DAW (such as Logic X), you’ve set the settings up correctly to either automatically or manually save everything correctly within each Reaktor instance.Īs I was starting to lose my rag a little towards the end of work on Wednesday, I decided to say fuck it and just play without reference to the manual to see what I could see (this was partly a test to see how much information I’d retained). I’d be lying if I said I properly had the hang of it. However, I see where the manuals’ authors are coming from, as the way that the app is built involves a hierarchy of ‘things’ that you can save whatever-you’ve-built as – racks, instruments, macros, blocks… you can build in various different levels of complexity, which they label as ‘Core’ or ‘Primary’ or ‘Blocks’. It’s a little bit cart-before-the-horse as it would have been nice to build something worth saving first… The first part of my journey through NI’s Reaktor documentation has involved a great deal of time learning how to save stuff. The Snapshots of the Snapshot Master are the Snapshots that are used to populate the Snapshot menu in the Toolbar. The documentation that comes with the software (though very thorough) isn’t written in nearly as clear, plain English as Serum’s was. As it stands though, I’ve allotted 2 weeks to get well up to speed on how this modular rack synth system works. It’s very powerful and very customisable, and quite frankly I could spend the next 6 months just with this tool and never get bored. Overall, I think I made a good stab at digging into Reaktor’s modular system. ![]() ![]() On Thursday I had the booster jab and on Friday the best I could do was sleep and eat and huddle under the duvet with a hot water bottle so that’s why this is a bit late.
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