It includes drum machines, grain synthesis engines, loopers and stuff you didn`t dream of yet. Just have a look at chapters 3 and 4, grooveboxes and samplers. Work yourself into the cumbersome sample management, explore the library and prepare to get carried away! Oh well, where to start? Reaktor is KING of sample manipulation. I mean, it all works pretty well and sounds great, but it was over 2k of an investment, so sometimes I look at Reaktor and just start to wonder. The other thing I do is send divided clock to my DFAM via Pam’s. Got a question on this - Is there creative sample manipulation like with say, a Morphagene? I basically use my small modular to make crazy acapella lead vocal sounds or add in creative glitchy sounds with my BIA. If reading a little documentation, or asking for help on a forum is too much for you, then Reaktor is probably not you kind of thing! The level of work required to get over those initial hurdles is minimal IMO. Too many useful features would have to be removed for that to be possible. It's unrealistic to expect it to be completely 'plug'n'play' though. They've done a pretty good job of designing it so that you can get results pretty quick out of the box with no experience - just a little look over the getting started part of the documentation. Reaktor is a powerful DSP development environment that is accessible to non programmers, which is amazing. You can't have extreme flexibility, extreme power and extreme ease of use all together. There are a few ensembles that are more complex internally, but not much, and in that case you can literally drag and drop that ensemble into the edit pane of another to import it (not the gui panel!), or explicitly import it as described by - right click in the edit pane and choose 'import ensemble'. Just right click any instrument inside an ensemble and save it to a folder on your hard drive, then you can use it directly. Most of the ensembles are literally just an instrument connected to the audio outs of the ensemble. Only ensembles are connected to the outside world, so beginners were often struggling. "I loaded up an instrument, but it doesn't make any sound. The most common support request by far was: There was a very good reason for changing this. Doing this takes to much time and effort for me, I'd rather just make music. A solution is take stuff and deconstruct it and put it back together the way you want or build stuff from scratch. I've had to break down the ensembles to see how they really work and then patch them together. Now it seems you only get ensembles and I've had a lot of trouble trying to build my ensembles with them. NI use to ship 'instruments' with it that you could use to make ensembles with.
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