What's your favourite Reaktor ensemble?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 713 posts since 1 Jul, 2002 from Haarlem
I haven't been using it for a while, but now I feel like playing with Reaktor again. If you like please tell me what your favourite ensemle is, and it will be even more interesting if you tell why.
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- KVRAF
- 4807 posts since 10 Feb, 2006 from Stockholm, Sweden
SteamPipe2 is just an amazing flute. More ensembles listed tonight once I'm home.
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- Banned
- 93 posts since 14 Feb, 2009
Sure is! And you can even run external sounds through its FXBERFAB wrote:I don't have the full Limelite, just the knockoff that's in the online library. But that one's a damn fine drum machine.
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It has a effects pad like the Korg Kaoss pad in it so you can chain many instances of it and modulate the f**k out of something.
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- KVRAF
- 23102 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
Solina Ensemble.
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- KVRAF
- 6254 posts since 25 Mar, 2004
Another great one. If it's the one I'm thinking of, this is an excellent string sweetener for just about any type of track.DragonSagoth wrote:Solina Ensemble.
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Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...
So many plugins, so little time...
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- KVRAF
- 23102 posts since 7 Jan, 2009 from Croatia
This one here, there can be only one 
I find this ensemble even better than Eminent 310 emulation.
I find this ensemble even better than Eminent 310 emulation.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 713 posts since 1 Jul, 2002 from Haarlem
I like Travelizer for adding ambience to moody tracks.
I have used Limelite for a beat on an album of one of my bands. I like it, though I find myself using it merely for inspiration, after which I go to Battery.
I have used Limelite for a beat on an album of one of my bands. I like it, though I find myself using it merely for inspiration, after which I go to Battery.
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- KVRAF
- 9216 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Pequot Lakes, MN
I don't have any one favorite- it's more like a dozen or two 
Commercial- NI
Metaphysical Function- I usually have MF running as a background part in most of my tracks. While the Kore versions for both EIv2 and for Animated Circuits are nice, my modded versions of them make MF into much more of a performance instrument.
Spark- The more I work with Spark, the more I like it. The feedback routings make this the ensemble I reach for when I'm looking for what are my bread and butter sounds. Of course, my bread and butter sounds are jalapeno cheese bread with yak butter, but...
Commercial- not NI
Padrone- originally a Dash ensemble, Paul (auReality) also sold it at Wavekrafters when that was up and running. One of the best ensembles I know of for unearthly drones, it also makes a wonderful pad machine as well. Once again, I've got a Koreized version that makes it into an out of this world synth. It appears in one place or another in a lot of the things I do: I use it for wolf barks, feedback squeals and all sorts of other good stuff.
Xantos- another by Paul. An algorithmic composition device; I use it for weird percussion tracks every once in a while. It's also good for Jacuzzi jazz motifs with the stock sample set.
Travel Brother- a liqih creation that's just tons of fun to play with. FM synthesis combined with algorithmic table sequencers. Great for talking percussion and things along those lines; this is a great example of what you can do with it.
Amphitryon- James Walker-Hall's masterpiece. It picks up from where his 3X left off, and adds such things as user wavetables to the mix.
Factory library
Gaugear- one of the craziest concepts yet for a Reaktor synth. It can be a pain to tame, but it's worth it.
Carbon 2- another synth that's great for getting unusual sounds from. A very flexible synth that can go all the way from typical pads and the like to some of the rudest noises I've ever managed
Newscool- a wonderful update to one of the seminal beatboxes of the Reaktor library. Compare the R5 version to the one in the R3 library to see how far Reaktor's come
User library
Ernest Meyer's Dead Philosophers series- while I'm partial to his earlier ones like Kant and Descartes, all of them are amazing synths
t55t- a lazyfish creation from the Reaktor 2.3/Reaktor 3 days. Another sequenced ensemble that does wonderful things.
versus- a programchild creation that uses table oscillators and filters. Analog it's not- nor does it try to be.
ChantSam- an ensemble from the R3 days made to emulate monks chanting. With 31 tone microtuning as an option, a cool player instrument and other such things, I used to let this one drone while I was doing other things around the house.
VFripp- I had to mention one of my own, after all
And, then there's things like Rick's Icepad and remix ensembles, Stephan V's creations... the list goes on and on.
ew
Commercial- NI
Metaphysical Function- I usually have MF running as a background part in most of my tracks. While the Kore versions for both EIv2 and for Animated Circuits are nice, my modded versions of them make MF into much more of a performance instrument.
Spark- The more I work with Spark, the more I like it. The feedback routings make this the ensemble I reach for when I'm looking for what are my bread and butter sounds. Of course, my bread and butter sounds are jalapeno cheese bread with yak butter, but...
Commercial- not NI
Padrone- originally a Dash ensemble, Paul (auReality) also sold it at Wavekrafters when that was up and running. One of the best ensembles I know of for unearthly drones, it also makes a wonderful pad machine as well. Once again, I've got a Koreized version that makes it into an out of this world synth. It appears in one place or another in a lot of the things I do: I use it for wolf barks, feedback squeals and all sorts of other good stuff.
Xantos- another by Paul. An algorithmic composition device; I use it for weird percussion tracks every once in a while. It's also good for Jacuzzi jazz motifs with the stock sample set.
Travel Brother- a liqih creation that's just tons of fun to play with. FM synthesis combined with algorithmic table sequencers. Great for talking percussion and things along those lines; this is a great example of what you can do with it.
Amphitryon- James Walker-Hall's masterpiece. It picks up from where his 3X left off, and adds such things as user wavetables to the mix.
Factory library
Gaugear- one of the craziest concepts yet for a Reaktor synth. It can be a pain to tame, but it's worth it.
Carbon 2- another synth that's great for getting unusual sounds from. A very flexible synth that can go all the way from typical pads and the like to some of the rudest noises I've ever managed
Newscool- a wonderful update to one of the seminal beatboxes of the Reaktor library. Compare the R5 version to the one in the R3 library to see how far Reaktor's come
User library
Ernest Meyer's Dead Philosophers series- while I'm partial to his earlier ones like Kant and Descartes, all of them are amazing synths
t55t- a lazyfish creation from the Reaktor 2.3/Reaktor 3 days. Another sequenced ensemble that does wonderful things.
versus- a programchild creation that uses table oscillators and filters. Analog it's not- nor does it try to be.
ChantSam- an ensemble from the R3 days made to emulate monks chanting. With 31 tone microtuning as an option, a cool player instrument and other such things, I used to let this one drone while I was doing other things around the house.
VFripp- I had to mention one of my own, after all
And, then there's things like Rick's Icepad and remix ensembles, Stephan V's creations... the list goes on and on.
ew
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- KVRian
- 1353 posts since 6 Jul, 2004
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