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Who here uses REAKTOR??

  • 27-11-2009 8:55am
    #1
    DIRTY69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭


    hey just wondering how many of you guys use Native Instruments' Reaktor?

    Do you build your own patches or just use the presets?

    Finally maybe you can recommend a few favourite patches and a good place to start with it.. its a bit of a colossus when starting out with it!! :)


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  • #2
    Fstudios
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭Fstudios


    Hey Dirty,


    I have Reaktor myself, it's such a beast I've never really got into it. I'm sure there are easier synths out there! I do however like the carbon.ens one!!


  • #3
    fitz
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭fitz


    This should be in the main MP forum.
    Commercial Interaction = Buying and Selling.


  • #4
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    I'm sure it's no harder to figure out than an analouge synth and sequencer was for Haack or whoever else back in the day.

    I think taking the time to learn REAKTOR or similar is totally worth it. It's like learning an instrument I suppose. I'm going to go off on one here but I there is a culture now in which people expect music, or video or any of the arts to come in a pre-packed box. An assembly line mentality where the scope of knowledge extends purely to ease of use. There's no deeper understanding of the processes involved. So you get whole genres of electronic music that all use the same per-packed sounds always, plug it in and start banging out "tunes". Trouble is it goes nowhere, or at least nowhere fast. There's so much electronic music out there yet so much of it sounds the same, until a new toy comes out and everybody gets one of those...

    Using something like Reaktor goes back to the fundamentals of making music with a synthesizer and like any instrument, to gain a full understanding of it's operation you need to start at the fundamentals. Then you can be truly original.


  • #5
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    fitz wrote: »
    This should be in the main MP forum.
    Commercial Interaction = Buying and Selling.

    Nice bit of back seat modding there fitz. What's the reasoning behind that? Who's buying or selling what? :confused:


  • #6
    SeanHurley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭SeanHurley


    Got Reaktor, recently enough as part of the Komplete 5 bundle. There is a lot to it. I think the presets are really there to just show what the thing is capable of, however, I couldn't see myself using most of them.

    Personally I have had most fun messing around building patches (or ensembles or whatever they call em in Reaktor) with the core cells. I have learned a good deal about synthesis from it. Still class myself as a novice but I am going to stick with this one because I feel that this could be the only synth I will ever need. Just need the knowledge to fly it.


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  • #7
    fitz
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭fitz


    studiorat wrote: »
    Nice bit of back seat modding there fitz. What's the reasoning behind that? Who's buying or selling what? :confused:

    The reason this sub-forum was set up was for people to buy and sell gear and services, and to give the guys on MP with a comercial agenda somewhere to interact with potential customers with regards to their business. It's pretty clear in the Charter. I don't see what's confusing tbh. This isn't the place for general discussions of gear...


  • #8
    Quiggers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭Quiggers


    think the topic got moved before you read fitz's suggestion.

    As for reaktor, its a great tool, but one of the steepest learning curves, only outdone by max/msp. but it is usable, just start out building simple fx or mono synths. be prepared for hours of head scratching, its the same as taking delivery of a huge modular synth.
    Also try these http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reaktor+tutorial&search_type=&aq=1&oq=reaktor


  • #9
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    I have it as part of Komplete 6.

    Frankly I am scared by the sheer size of it, but that said one of these days I am gonna stick my head in the manual and not come out for a year or two.


  • #10
    kfoltman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭kfoltman


    Same here - got it as part of Komplete 6, ran it a couple of times to try out different preset ensembles, but it was never a priority to learn the damn thing. Have much more "urgent" things to do now. Apart from the whole modular approach to synthesis, it takes some time to get used to the interface - maybe not more than Csound, but not much less either.

    One day it might be nice, might let me find some use for my rusting MPD16 (using polyphonic aftertouch on different pads to control specific attributes of the sound).


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