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Hey guys, Merry Xmas to all of you with the religion brain mod installed

I’m also about own upgrade – gotta see my dentist as soon as possible. As well I’m thinking about my PC upgrade – switch to Intel’s Core 2 Duo. New Year is coming and it’s quite interesting to note that I’ve got better start with the project than expected. I started a couple of months ago with a couple of word in my head – “Synth of Mine”. I’ve put some very basic stuff and the great thing is that people liked the basic idea of the project, I’ve got a support that I wasn’t expecting. I haven’t put out my most interesting ideas yet due to a small number of visitors and my own recent busyness, but I’ve got tons of time to make the ideas clear and time-independent. I have no illusions – my project is future aimed.
Most synth-builders are not ready to share their work properly, they’re sure they’re ready to provide a finished product. But the product has “use if you can” name in most cases and actually they put out own work to nowhere, there are only few persons who are ready to the back-engineering, and a couple of them are really interested. There is no a progress vector within community. Everybody’s got own vector which is actually a curve aimed to a dusty shelf.
Some people are lazy to share, some people are scared to share, some – both. But let me open your eyes as I did a couple of years ago. To do that I’ll answer to one of the greatest questions of the human race – what’s the meaning of our lives? I’ve been searching the answer many years and I’ve found it. Ready to hear it? The meaning of life is a chance for immortality. You have a chance to become immortal within people you’ve inspired, people that have a small piece of your mentality. The more things you’ve shared, the more immortal you became. It sounds quite unreal and funny. But I’m ready to ruin your laugh. There are few simple questions you should be able to answer. When you answer them you’ll see I’m right. Do you agree all the atoms of our bodies came out of stars? Do you agree there is an energy conservation law? Do you agree an energy is transforming from simple to complicated all the way to survive? Do you agree our society is sponsored by solar energy? Do you agree Universe don’t give a damn about your dusty shelf?

Have nice holidays!

calling all London Reaktorists!

a few of us will meet up up for an Xmas drink on Tesday December 12th.

the idea is to meet up, get to know each other and maybe plan something for 2007.

early ideas are to meet up at the Old Crown pub in Holborn.

times and venue conformation later

Source: NI Forums

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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Let me step away from Reaktor for a moment and put out a couple of general thoughts. Since my early ages I was quite a computer-geek person. I started to harvest my first programming skills with BASIC on my first ZX-Spectrum 48k machine. It was something like 13-14 years ago, I was truly shocked that you get a programming language a moment after you turn the computer’s power on. It was so simple to begin. I was a 11 years boy, I didn’t have a clue about a programming theory or even English language. But I did see a flashing [K] cursor and 40-keys keyboard. And I had one of most powerful tools to get a result – “method of a scientific guess”, in other words I’ve just tried all of the commands and operands combinations to comprehend Basic, my first programming language The key of my success on learning BASIC is ZX-Spectrum’s usability: 1. BASIC “flashed” in ROM (Read Only Memory, no need to load anything); 2. Few commands per key (no need to type commands letter by letter). So, these simple tricks of sir Clive Sinclair have created my ideology and vectored my biography path.

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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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