Reaktor...

[Ldizzy]

^ u little genius

thx much

[mks]

Just got an email this morning. Reaktor 5.6 update is out now with 64 Bit support:


Dear REAKTOR user,

We're pleased to announce that the REAKTOR 5.6 update is now available for free download. Alongside full 64-bit support for Windows and Mac OSX, the latest REAKTOR 5.6 update will appeal particularly to the advanced user community, with several new features for those building their own or modifying existing instruments.
You can download the update using the NI Service Center or the Online Update Manager...


We strongly recommend downloading and installing this update to ensure the best possible user experience and reliability.

Here's a run-down of the main new and improved features:

* 64-bit support for Windows and Mac OSX
* Improved navigation concept
* Added ‘breadcrumb’ navigation to structure view
* Added searchbox to add modules
* New 800-page module reference manual
* Scrolling of structures with Alt+Drag over structure
* Added hide frame and transparency property to XY module
* Added drag copy to other structure view
* Recorder shows recorded time when recording
* Add abort function to file not found dialog on project recall
* Improved loading time for ensembles with many Send/Receive terminals
* PNG file support for picture modules


Best regards,

Your Native Instruments team

[nowaysj]

They like you more than me, didn't get that email... 800 page module reference. Some poor little German has been furiously typing the past year?

[mks]

Don't you have Komplete? Reaktor (and Traktor) are the only software that I have from them. I'm sure they like you too.

Yeah, 800 pages is a fucking novel. That is a big manual.

[jrisreal]

I don't do reaktor, but I'm gettin in to synthmaker which is the same concept. I would like some info on that too haha cuz all I've accomplished is staring at the thing and wounding why it doesn't work lol

[Ldizzy]

welll a lot of people use reaktor ensembles without actually making synths.. is it hte same with synthmaker?

there's just a load of dope thingsmade by reaktor users

according to their forum, massive started like that...

[-[2]DAY_-]

thats an interesting tidbit.. ur saying reaktor users basically developed the precursor to Massive?

I voted Yes, because i have it... i bought Komplete 7 last yr. I also didn't get that email for 64bit upgrade, will have to look for that.

Anyways i don't actually use it, i just wonder about it. instantiated it once, and it started making noise all on its own. I really didn't get it. Then i opened laser bass, because i'd heard it was good. It had some cool presets but they were too preset-ish, if that makes any sense... and i couldn't fucking wrap my head around the interface of laser bass.

I would love to read/hear/see what u lot are doing with it

[nowaysj]

Laser bass is a trip, I couldn't figure it out at first, then revisited it, and it makes prity good sense now. Massive is still an ensemble w/in reaktor, if I'm not mistaken.

Using reaktor more and more. It is not yet essential to my workflow, but it is getting pretty close.

[mks]

Reaktor def takes some time to wrap your head around. I ended up build my own synth as stated earlier in this thread. It was a good experience, but it reaffirmed what I already knew, and that is I am a musician and not a programmer.

There are loads of good ensembles out there made by people that know what they are doing.

[nowaysj]

I use reaktor for chaos. Orderly systems, like music, need chaos.

[legend4ry]

Reaktor def takes some time to wrap your head around. I ended up build my own synth as stated earlier in this thread. It was a good experience, but it reaffirmed what I already knew, and that is I am a musician and not a programmer.

There are loads of good ensembles out there made by people that know what they are doing.

Yeah - ive built a few fx-units but mainly I just use stuff from the NI User Base.. I know reaktor well enough to edit "some" of the back-end of esembles I want to change and i'm happy with that.

[samurai]

this new update is great. some really great building workflow improvements. the searchbox is a godsend.

[Ldizzy]

i could def understand why!

didnt update yet, ahem.

here's a question for Ledge tho : how complex u think it is to actually learn how to code an fx plugin.. (im thinking a standalone version of massive's modulated filters)... altho maybe not as complex..

[nowaysj]

Just dl'ed the 5.6 update, but I don't think I've run it yet. Just picked up maschine, so like, byby.

[RandoRando]

Just dl'ed the 5.6 update, but I don't think I've run it yet. Just picked up maschine, so like, byby.

how do you like maschine? how is it benefiting your workflow? im still trying to wrap my head around how a little box with pads and two litle screens could have complete control over any vst

[futures_untold]

How complex you think it is to actually learn how to code an fx plugin.. (im thinking a standalone version of massive's modulated filters)... altho maybe not as complex..

The complexity depends on the features included in the plugin and whether you code the modules used to develop the plugin or use the existing modules bundled with Reaktor.

If you're using the existing modules, then things are easier. You can then follow any schematic you find online or design yourself pretty quickly.

Best thing to do is open up an existing ensemble and study what is doing what, then try to approximate that in your own plugin.

You may find it useful to find yourself some reference information on how various effects actually work under the hood. The better your understanding of what's happening under the hood, the easier it becomes to identify which Reaktor components are needed to make your designs work.

http://www.rane.com/library.html#gpm1_1 has some useful articles on the innards of eqs (which are filters).

Also buy http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sound-FX-Unlock ... 0240520327 if you haven't already, explains alot in laymans language which is useful for those of us who ain't brainiacs!

[nowaysj]

Just dl'ed the 5.6 update, but I don't think I've run it yet. Just picked up maschine, so like, byby.

how do you like maschine? how is it benefiting your workflow? im still trying to wrap my head around how a little box with pads and two litle screens could have complete control over any vst

Not the thread for it, but I couldn't tell you. I literally just unwrapped it, plugged it in, updated for 2 hours (hehe) did some tutorials. It really strikes me as a limited flstudio with many controls mapped to knobs or buttons. The very second thing I tried to do with a beat, record mutes, didn't work, they don't have that functionality. Pritty disappointed. Will say that this is easily the most powerful piece of hardware I've ever brought into my studio There is a lot of potential here.