NYC, Nov. 8th: “Reaktor Brain Dump” a new bi-monthly gathering of minds

hosted by Chris List and Matt Moldover

Hang out, share patches, swap ideas, talk, learn, drink!

Wednesday, Nov. 8th
7pm-10pm
Botanica Bar
47 E. Houston st. (btwn Mott & Mulberry)
Click here for Google Maps location!

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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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Perhaps you’re not sure what I mean under the “tight” word. Well, I’m not really sure about the word as well, but generally I mean natural and catchy sounding. Some of magazines and celebrities use the “tight” word to describe the music they promote, so let’s use the word to promote this post

I always wonder why there are loads of tight live beats and very few truly electronic ones. The most of hip-hop producers used to sample live drums, no matter what’s the quality of the record they sample. There are a lot of examples where bad quality gives more catchy feelings to the drums. Sometimes you have to enforce mono to get this tight live feeling. Well, no experience can be written down within one post. Let’s start with the basics which I’ve experienced intuitively. I surely won’t tell you something really new, but I’ll try to start something that could grow up to useful after a couple of posts.

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Finally, I did it! I’ve wasted 14 shots of my hands and 2 hours to produce the artwork. The general idea isn’t very original, but it’s clear and simple, that’s exactly what I wanted. I’m not sure if this final version of the picture, but looks ok right now.

Now, it’s time to review materials for the next post. It’s going to be about drums mixing with a couple of easy humanizing tricks. See you soon.

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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