Category Archives: Practical Reaktor

The Freshmaker!

Here’s a fun new toy in the Reaktor library for you. It’s two recordable XY faders with IC send modules so you can send the controller info to another instrument in the ensemble. I’ve found it’s a great way to perk up a boring instrument without much effort and re-engineering. To demonstrate that, it’s wired up to control some of the knobs on an old FM synth from an earlier version of Reaktor. But of course, the whole point is to experiment and wire it up to whatever you please – maybe even something you’ve built yourself.

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For my next tutorial, would you folks be interested in having this dissected and explained? There’s a lot going on under the hood in this one.

Basic Clock Demo

This covers some of the same territory as my Virtual Instruments tutorial but goes more in depth about the clock and modulo operations, as well as featuring a sequencer driver macro that syncs to the host.

Here’s the link – it contains the ensemble and an instructional PDF.

The instrument is very rudimentary. Don’t expect to make music with it. Expect to learn some essential Reaktor skills. I’ll be covering ways to use this knowledge in future tutorials. This will be on the exam, in other words. šŸ˜€

Questions and comments are welcome.