New from Native Instruments....

So, NI have a new teaser out which they're being super-secret-squirrel-club about the marketing with like most things these days:

It could be another Reaktor-based synth they've got coming out. Or maybe the video is hinting that they've finally got Reaktor 6 on the cards? The latter could get me awfully excited.

A new Massive perhaps?

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looking tight

i'm sure its not Reaktor 6. Its either a new Reaktor 5 instrument or another instrument that they have integrated Reaktors core layer into. at least they definitely show a Reaktor core macro in the teaser video. Tim Exile posted a demo sound from a new Reaktor instrument he was working on some months ago

I think my G1 Nord Modular sounds better

not really interested in any more softsynths right now but i gotta admit the demos sound pretty good.

Looks like a subtractive pretend-analog. Sounds nice by the demo. Should be sweet to see more info.

someone thinks it's going to be called MONARK, hence the M in the beginning of the video

taken from the source of the page:

  On 3/2/2013 at 6:02 AM, Audioblysk said:

Looks like a subtractive pretend-analog.

not

For a long time I hated NI.

I bought all their stuff and thought it was overrated. The sound was always kind of off or something... IDK.

BUT PLEASE: Recently, I realized, NI is the *fucking shit*. Their instruments have character in and of themselves. I'm seriously in love with Absynth and Massive. I always thought Massive was tinny. I was wrong. It's fucking amazing. Enlightenment yo.

clever marketing. I'm placing my bet on something that includes hardware or has something to do with hardware integration.

It's just a fun bet.

But to be honest, if that's what it is, I also add on a sub-bet that it doesn't fulfill "revolutionary" requirements.

  On 3/8/2013 at 5:05 AM, vamos scorcho said:

clever marketing. I'm placing my bet on something that includes hardware or has something to do with hardware integration.

 

It's just a fun bet.

from http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/02/ni-teases-new-synth-video-soundcloud-samples/

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I did clear with NI the ability to say what it isn’t, just in case this video is unclear. This does not involve hardware. It’s a new software instrument. Beyond that, I’ll leave you to watch the video, which I must say includes some clever visual effects.

fuck. second best bett is a new Massive cause they flashed an M. but honestly I should probably just stop placing bets!

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new software instrument

ok. definitely reason to be excited

NI hasn't made a really impressive stand alone instrument since Vokator. I never jumped on board the Massive love-wagon, i can't deny it's a good synth its just not very interesting or ground breaking. Too bad since Absynth and FM7 were some of the most massive undertakings by a software synth company ever. I guess i'll have to remain content with where all the good NI innovations are being made, inside Reaktor. Prism and Spark both prove to me they still 'have it' they just would rather make money, which is understandable since they have expanded into a huge player in the digital music industry.

i really like the lfo and performance stuff in massive. very useful for techno and loop stuff but not the hottest sound of all time by any means. none of their stuff has hot sound. it might sound cool in like 10 years but right now its tinny. the thing that matters is that the sounds you can get are pretty complex and unique.

  On 3/8/2013 at 5:34 AM, vamos scorcho said:

fuck. second best bett is a new Massive cause they flashed an M. but honestly I should probably just stop placing bets!

 

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new software instrument

 

ok. definitely reason to be excited

M probably stands for the synths name "Monark" (it was discovered through inspecting the teasers page html code) the teaser vid shows that it includes Reaktor design. I would bet all my chips that its a Reaktor synth based around a self oscillating core modeled filter, the teaser vid shows frequency response graphs which seems to point in that direction.

The benefit to NI for selling Reaktor synths instead of hard coded plugins is that so far Prism/Mouth/Finger/Razor/Spark have all been made in peoples spare free time so the development hasn't cost NI anything.

  On 3/8/2013 at 5:05 AM, vamos scorcho said:

I'm seriously in love with Absynth and Massive. I always thought Massive was tinny. I was wrong. It's fucking amazing. Enlightenment yo.

Yeah Absynth is definitely one of my all time favs. I really dislike the interface though, but that is possibly a simple matter of taste. Regardless though, you can get some really unique sounds out of it. Camel Audio's Alchemy is somewhat comparable, also worth a check if you're into that sort of thing.

As for Massive, well it is a wavetable synth, and it sounds like exactly that imo. Again, a matter of taste I guess, you either like that sound or you don't. People seem to get grumpy when X synth doesn't produce Y sound, but I think it's all about using the right tool for the right job. Massive is really good for digital sounding, complex patches. It's not great for "analogue warmth" but then again, is it really meant to be?

  On 3/8/2013 at 6:13 AM, RadarJammer said:

The benefit to NI for selling Reaktor synths instead of hard coded plugins is that so far Prism/Mouth/Finger/Razor/Spark have all been made in peoples spare free time so the development hasn't cost NI anything.

I don't think this is right. I suppose some additional time would be required to port stuff from Reaktor to C++ or whatever, but I think you might be considerably misjudging the amount of graft that goes into designing and developing a really good instrument inside Reaktor, from both the designer and NI themselves.

reaktor based minimoog emu

http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/native-instruments-announces-komplete-9/150871.

and battery 4

Uuuuuuuuuuh....!

Pretty interested in Monark

is it that hard to put a sequencer in battery? maybe no point i g uess i just wish komplete came with fxpansion guru instead or something

Lil bummed not at least switchable to polyphonic. Arturia hit the mark with me on their Mini because of this feature and the (mostly) fully featured modulation matrix.

oh well. New Battery looks nice and slick with the newish GUI.

I really don't "get" battery. it seems useless to me. it takes a long time to set up and then there is no sequencer so its... idk. who even uses it?

Mark Fell does, though I haven't seen it mentioned in any other interviews I've read.

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/mark-fell-interview

  On 3/11/2013 at 6:03 PM, vamos scorcho said:

I really don't "get" battery. it seems useless to me. it takes a long time to set up and then there is no sequencer so its... idk. who even uses it?

you're obsessed with soft samplers having sequencers

i can't remember ever using a soft sampler with a sequencer

which ones have sequencers?