A brief video by Brent Kallmer of Bluewater VST showing the bare bones basics of Spiral for Reaktor.
Update: Brent has a longer video on Spiral and Akkord here:
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MacProVideo’s gone and done a tutorial series on NI and Tim Exile’s The Finger and The Mouth. I’m not sure if NI plans to release the rest of Frankenstein’s monster – would The Foot be a kick drum? And would the… no, don’t go there – anyhow, if you find these ensembles baffling, here are some pointers.
Reaktor Tips readers may remember the name Owen Vallis from this post where I discussed his brilliant use of modulo instead of a step filter to shore up Reaktor’s clock functionality for use in sequencers. Owen has been busy crafting a series of Reaktor tutorial videos and uploading them to Vimeo, the latest being a hefty overview of compressors and envelope followers:
Reaktor Tutorial: Building Compressors from FlipMu on Vimeo.
I encourage you to check out everything on their channel, but today I want to highlight Owen’s series on X0X style sound design in Reaktor, starting with kicks:
Reaktor Tutorial: x0x Kicks from FlipMu on Vimeo.
…and moving on to snares:
Reaktor Tutorial: x0x Snares from FlipMu on Vimeo.
…and claps and rim shots:
Reaktor Tutorial: x0x Claps and Rim Shots from FlipMu on Vimeo.
Reaktor can be a technical jungle and it’s easy to get lost in the details of math and programming, so it’s nice to see instructional material that focuses more on the immediacy of sound design and producing practical output. I should do more of that myself. A big thank you to Owen and FlipMu for the great videos.
A great introduction to Monark from Brent Kallmer emphasizing its amazingly detailed filters.
I’ve been receiving reports from users that Chroma has some issues with Monark – hoping to pick up a copy of Monark soon to address that. Also of course getting it simply because – I want Monark! š
Building a Simple Sampler in Reaktor from Peter Dines on Vimeo.
In this video I walk you through creating a simple multipurpose sampler in Reaktor. I introduce you to basic Reaktor concepts like control and audio signal flow, polyphony, sample import and mapping, signal modulation with an envelope and adding factory effects. This is an introductory level video but it covers a lot of important territory you need to know to build more advanced structures.
Look forward to more videos from me – the next one will be on creating a sequenced beat production center from scratch.