Reaktor tutorial

Hi Reaktor users. I've uploaded a new tutorial on my blog, Reaktor Tips. Check it out.

Do you guys have anything that will take Reaktor from "NRG FUCKING AGGGAHGAHGAHAGAGAHAGHAG" in terms of user interface to more of a Nord Modular "Mmm yes, this all makes sense quite nicely!" level?

  ten fingers ten toes said:

Do you guys have anything that will take Reaktor from "NRG FUCKING AGGGAHGAHGAHAGAGAHAGHAG" in terms of user interface to more of a Nord Modular "Mmm yes, this all makes sense quite nicely!" level?

Heh. Well, you could stick to building on the macro level. It depends on what you want to create. Synthesis and sampling in Reaktor is not rocket science, but sequencing and algorithmic stuff requires a bit more thought and study of event flow. That's what I'm attempting to cover in the tutorials.

Actually yah Sequencing seemed to be a rather large headache. The clock modules aren't very intuitive. To be honest even though I have Reaktor now I'm mainly focusing my efforts on Puredata. Really I think Reakto has been a great concept ruined by the worst UI I have ever been subjected to in my life, but to each his own.

  ten fingers ten toes said:

Actually yah Sequencing seemed to be a rather large headache. The clock modules aren't very intuitive. To be honest even though I have Reaktor now I'm mainly focusing my efforts on Puredata. Really I think Reakto has been a great concept ruined by the worst UI I have ever been subjected to in my life, but to each his own.

My main beef with the Reaktor UI is that you can't drag primary level modules off the palette into a structure anymore. That's insane. And ghost macros would be nice. And a scripting language! :devil:

I still like it though. Once you're familiar with it you can sort of feel your way through the building process. I like the mood it puts me in, creatively. The Max derivatives are too deliberate or top down for my liking. If you have access to the Reaktor library, check out the work of Dieter Zobel. More than anyone else, his building style and creativity captures the essence of Reaktor for me.

Yah, at the oposite end of the Puredata spectrum is my Nord Modular. So easy to just go with the flow and toss in some modules and hash together some cool generative sequence. It's like Yin and Yang, those two...

the only thing that bugs me is that no one has a clear concise tutorial on how to make a set of knobs.

and i'm a dumb ass who can't figure it out.

Right click on what you want to control with a knob and it's an option. You have to go back to the front panel view to move it (have to unlock the front panel to move it). It's a really stupid way of doing it.

  ~Pd~ said:

  ten fingers ten toes said:

Do you guys have anything that will take Reaktor from "NRG FUCKING AGGGAHGAHGAHAGAGAHAGHAG" in terms of user interface to more of a Nord Modular "Mmm yes, this all makes sense quite nicely!" level?

 

Heh. Well, you could stick to building on the macro level. It depends on what you want to create. Synthesis and sampling in Reaktor is not rocket science, but sequencing and algorithmic stuff requires a bit more thought and study of event flow. That's what I'm attempting to cover in the tutorials.

I can;t help but read that with Professor Frink voice in my head.... GLAVEN!

  mosca said:

the only thing that bugs me is that no one has a clear concise tutorial on how to make a set of knobs.

 

and i'm a dumb ass who can't figure it out.

You mean skinning? I've never bothered. To make life easier you'd need to make a script or action in Photoshop that rotates a knob image half a degree (or whatever) then places a copy adjacent to the original on a very tall canvas, over and over. Sounds like drudgery. Glaven!