Another my ordinary building block - Custom Wave Oscillator (CWO). Another bone to my synths. I could say there is no anything special, but I have to admit there are things that do unique stuff working side by side to the other ordinary building blocks. By the end of this year you’ll get what the hell I’m talking about (I hope ). Right now, there is general info for the macro:

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One of my recent ideas is a wireless LFO mixer unit. I was never happy with these simple waves of the classic LFO, it’s too way predictable and let’s be straight - boring. So, I sat and did this quite simple macro. The peculiar property of the LFO mixer is that it’s always gives fixed 0…1 range at the output. No matter what’s up with the mixing sliders (except the case one of the incoming LFOs has wrong range), the mixer will keep the mixing scale and the output will be within 0 and 1.

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Parabolic LFO shaper

Another simple marcos which I’m going to use hard is Parabolic LFO shaper. There is “Parabol” shaping module in build-in Reaktor libary, but “as-is” module produces one-side parabol shaping (you can’t mirror the parabolic shaping). There is a small addition that makes possible two-side parabolic shaping. Another fundamental thing in my synths.

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You’ll be probably surprised that I’ve spent a week just to create a perfect LFO modulation of mine. The most of synths I’ve seen use regular multiplication (or addition) to modulate a signal/value with a LFO, this is very simple and effective enough in the most cases, but not to me. When I sat with a pan and a sheet of paper I was going to get maximum possible usage of the “modulation” slider. I’ve reviewed a few combinations of input and modulation signals, it’s rates and phases. I’ve concluded the main purpose of the modulation is a work side by side with a LFO which typical range is 0 to +1, and the modulation macro should be available to flip the modulator signal without any routing modules (to smooth the process of the modulation in case the modulate amount is being automated/modulated as well). Using the same modulation range with LFO made possible to create some “modulation of modulation of modulation of ..” in very easy way. Here is the screenshot of the finished modulation marcos:

• mod - modulation LFO input, typical range: 0 to +1
• in - input signal to be modulated, max range: -inf to +inf
• out - output of the modulated wave, typical range: =< input
• modulate knob - modulation amount controller, rate -1 to +1, negative values flip (from +1) the modulation signal (example: 0.3 becomes 0.7), 0 means no modulation.

So, quite simple, yeh? The main idea of the macro is having a simple, full-range and predicable modulation. Of course, a modulation in Reaktor (or any modular synths) is not a big deal, everyone do this in his own way, but with the modulation post I’m starting new category “Building blocks” to prepare you for the synths of mine which use all these blocks. This kind of modulation I’ve described is my most fundamental thing of the synths and filters, I guess.

And here is the modulation macro download link. See ya soon.