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rbarata · Post by **rbarata** » Sat May 11, 2013 5:33 pm

Hello, my friends

That's right! Programming in Reaktor... what exactly does it means?
Is it something like the usual computer programming, using a language, or is it joinning instruments and effects modules, using for that the knowledge of what is the function of each module (knowing what is a filter, a sine wave, etc, etc, etc)?

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat May 11, 2013 6:15 pm

Reaktor is a data flow language.

miedex · Post by **miedex** » Sat May 11, 2013 6:18 pm

rbarata wrote:Hello, my friends

That's right! Programming in Reaktor... what exactly does it means?
Is it something like the usual computer programming, using a language, or is it joinning instruments and effects modules, using for that the knowledge of what is the function of each module (knowing what is a filter, a sine wave, etc, etc, etc)?

Reaktor has levels of complexity, if you did something like this I wouldn't feel justified calling it programming:

but if you go deeper and do something like this I'd say you are pretty close to programming in some way:

Reaktor is listed in the visual programming article on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_pro ... g_language

~Pd~ · Post by **~Pd~** » Sat May 11, 2013 8:02 pm

miedex wrote:
rbarata wrote:Hello, my friends

That's right! Programming in Reaktor... what exactly does it means?
Is it something like the usual computer programming, using a language, or is it joinning instruments and effects modules, using for that the knowledge of what is the function of each module (knowing what is a filter, a sine wave, etc, etc, etc)?
Reaktor has levels of complexity, if you did something like this I wouldn't feel justified calling it programming:

Heh. That's my old, and I do mean old, simple granular synth. In this case, indeed not programming - primary level is where you do instrument design and wire together components. But you can also do sequencing logic and algorithmic things, which are more like programming. And there are ways to do iteration and loops.

but if you go deeper and do something like this I'd say you are pretty close to programming in some way:

Sure, you can do all kinds of heavy lifting DSP in Core, and often translate C code pretty much straight into Core structures which are compiled at runtime.

edit: I find it helps to think of building in primary, especially dealing with events, as being like that old Mousetrap game.