How do i use reaktor3 as a sampler,how do i load samples and play it across my midi keyboard?
How can i set the key range,and chahge the sound paramiters,can i use it like a sampling synth,can it work like hallion?
Regards dmanx

Hi Dmanx
Have a look at rAmpler for starters it is probably
the most straight forward sampler in the premium
library

rAMPLER

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rAmpler is the native answer to high-end hardware samplers: It has a transparent design and is easy to use, has a brilliant sound, great filters, FM and many modulation routings. rAmpler additionally sports special granular functions that allow you, for example, to alter a sample's length without affecting its frequency.

rAmpler is a true stereo sampler. It can load single or multi samples in a normal sample playback module, or in a special sample module based on Granular Synthesis. The normal sampler module is well suited for bread-and-butter sample playback, whereas the granular module allows for more complex sample treatment and special effects. With this sampler module you can play loops at different pitches while preserving their length, for example. This allows for smaller and less RAM-consuming multi samples - to mention just one advantage.

rAmpler offers you parameters and functions you would expect to find in a full-blown professional sampler: amongst others a great sounding and extensively modulatable resonance filter with different modes, slopes and a separate envelope generator as well as two LFOs and a time/level envelope with extensive routing capabilities.

rAmpler offers even more: For example an additional oscillator with a separate volume envelope for "pumping up" the sound or frequency-modulating the sample. By the way: You can even frequency-modulate the normal sample module by the granular sample module.

Last, but not least, a stereo delay is included with rAmpler. It can be synced to the song’s tempo and can be adjusted in note values or in milliseconds.

Instrument: NI; Sounds: Fritz Hildebrandt; Demo: Fritz Hildebrandt

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how do i load samples and play it across my midi keyboard?

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Right click on 'sampler loop' click properties,
click 'load' browse for the sample you want to
load and click open , this should load the sample into the map , use sel knob to select a sample
then play your keyboard

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and chahge the sound paramiters

how do you usually do it ?

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can i use it like a sampling synth

Yes

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can it work like hallion?

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to a certain extent yes & no
no disk sreaming like Halion for one etc

Read the manual & experiment

Regards
Raven

PS
Try some of the other ensembles in the library
if you want to get into sound mangeling
and don't forget you can customise ensembles
so they are more to your needs by adding
or removing modules and macros

killer-hint: use the manual, there's a detailed description...

Hey, good to see this thread.

I also own Reaktor3, but I just bought it to make use of the Audio-In possibilities.
(I don´t use the synths)

What I want to do is: manipulating my own samples and loops, using Reaktor as effect-plugs.
But: Yet I haven´t found my way to be happy with it. I know that Reaktor is VERY powerful, but I am still on the way even to understand these structures...
Its hard, but I am willing to learn it.

Some more good tips from you specialists??

putte

Putte wrote

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Yet I haven´t found my way to be happy with it. I know that Reaktor is VERY powerful, but I am still on the way even to understand these structures...
Its hard, but I am willing to learn it.

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Hey Putte what is it that you wan't to learn ?
can you you be more specific ?

I'm no expert or specialist but if I can help
or point you in the right direction I will
if not may be someone else can so we can all learn

I think some one should write a book that goes
deeper into using Reaktor than the manual does.
The manual is very good but I think it can be
a bit to technical and don't give enough examples
and uses for modules especially the more esoteric
ones.
Something like the Reaktor version of " Fast guide to Cubase VST " would be just the ticket

Regards
Raven

The section "Transformator Tour" in the MANUAL is an excellent starting point for to go into sampling with Reaktor.
Reaktor can do things that Halion can't do and vice versa. Reaktor is the right tool if you want to really "change" you samples (sometimes way beyond recognisability) while Halion is excellent as a preset machine when you've got EMU, AKAI and Giga cds at hand. Sorry, but this is only a very raw discerning of these two progs.

[ 28 October 2001: Message edited by: bajongo ]

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putte:
What I want to do is: manipulating my own samples and loops, using Reaktor as effect-plugs.

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concerning live manipulation as fx, you have more
or less only the usual filter/eq/delay/etc. options.

of course, due to complete freedom in designing
fx-chains, you can extend functionality via
envelope-followers or such, hooked on other
modules, where further manipulation is possible
(for example the heishere-ensemble of lazyfish
demonstrates what feedback can do...). in
addition, parallel midi-control of fx bears
a lot of possibilities.

since v.3.0 there's a module called audio-table,
which can store and re-read incoming audio.
this allows you to change several play-parameters
of your audiomaterial. but this is not really
realtime, because the audio is written into a
storing-place and read out by a an event-signal.
I must admit, that especially the event- and
audiotable-modules are complex and not very
easy to understand (though it's described in
the manual).

if you don't need realtime-manipulation, there's
a bunch of granular-/loopmodules, which belong
to the highlights of reaktor. with this modules
you are able to completely dismount your audio
and rebuild it as you like. check out "sampler
resynth", "beatloop" and other mods from that
category.

gwb