Hello my silent visitors

I’ve finished to build Reaktor ensemble that contain something that will show how serious it’s going to be, how clear my ideas are. I know I have not much of publishing experience. I know my English looks strange, probably. I know the site is mostly empty at the moment. But I clearly see reasons I started the project, reasons I’ll continue the work. Due to specificity of the information and preparations processes the ensemble and the all the promised stuff will be published in next post.

During building the ensemble I realized that how much I don’t like these simple multi-wave oscillators based on cross-fading I decided to waste an extra week to redesign this *classic* building block. I didn’t want to ruin a lot of time and I wasn’t sure in my success. Today I finished the redesigned oscillator, and I decided to put it out as another separate post. Basically, I don’t like the fact I have not a clear publishing strategy for the blog. Since the way it goes now reminds me back engineering I think I should make it more clear to myself first.

Anyway, the thing I don’t like about these simple multi-wave oscillators is that most of them produce separated waves. And since the output waves (Tri, Sin, Pls, Saw) have quite different trigonometric nature it’s quite ineffective to mix them down to one wave. The mixing result looks and sounds predictably boring. I said “not this time, baby” and sat down to brainstorm. Read the rest of this entry »

I have to admit it takes more time to build an ensemble that would dumbfound you. But it almost done. I’m about to start write text and make visuals. Also I’m going to contact a couple of persons before publish the post, because I need to confirm that my *5% CPU-1200Mhz load* is going to separate the world of synthesis to before and after. That’s funny to be excited about it. The funny thing is that even at worst case I think you’ll be surprised.
Anyway, I think one more post with a couple of tips won’t be superfluous for Reaktor newbies at least. There we go…
One of the oldest thing I use is Pitch2Factor converter. Sometimes it’s useful to have note-pitch as a scaling factor. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple more of small macros I did for some of visuals for the idea I’m going to publish in next post, GetDigit and LCDigit: Read the rest of this entry »

Hi guys. I’ve been working on one of the ideas I promised to put out since last year and realized that some of the details don’t really fit to the post (which is going to be huge), but they still worth to post and I decided to post the things as a couple of small posts aka tips. Read the rest of this entry »

Before I actually sat to start writing this post I was sure it’s gonna be titled “General Purpose Flanger”. But then I realized that isn’t going to be very true title due to a couple of reasons. First, it’s getting boring, I have to describe at least a dozen macros before I’ll put out something really interesting for you. Second, my general purpose flanger has some little secret, which is pushing the macro slightly further than good’n'old classic flangers.

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This is probably one of the last my simple building blocks before I start to post my completed ensembles and/or instruments. And since I described almost all of the building blocks it’s not a problem to describe the completed things. Well, let’s take a look at the filter design which I’ve left as it was in one of my synths, the design is quite optimized because I had no plans to publish my synths until I realized that the number of my ideas is far bigger than time I have to explore it’s actual creative potential, and I need to write them down before another bunch of them kidnapped the time window.

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It’s funny to note that most of Reaktor users use Reaktor to generate pure audio only, and all of them are full of enthusiasm to find absolutely unique and fattest sound ever. There is no anything bad about it, except one thing - people create thousand of sounds a day and there are very few ones I would kill for. People do the same with the same tools mostly to show some balls, erm, the same balls. People build synths with 10 x 10 modulation matrix to produce x2 madness of the last version with 9 x 9 matrix. There is nothing wrong with it, but these sounds ain’t gonna touch my soul until they brilliantly sequenced. There is no separate sound that changed my life relief, and there is a bunch of sequences that shaped out my biography. There are tons of samples around I would kill for. Quite big magic part of the samples is the elements sequencing. I began my music making practice with huge hardware limitations. I was very limited with sounds and I made things that just put in me shock these days. Now I got gigabytes of samples and I’m confused. It’s obvious the most of them ain’t gonna be useful, but they gonna steal my time. The magic of my talent is in the sequencing, and my brain don’t give a damn for the gigabytes, if there’s a sound to play with - the limits gonna be my path to the pure art of sequencing. Let me introduce a new term on the blog - Sequence synthesis. That’s the subject of the rest of the post.

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