Usefulness of Reaktor 5

[musikmachine]

Some more nice free ensembles here: http://www.radiansoundlab.com/ You have pay with a tweet or facebook like, seems fair! Decent sounding bass synths from brief play though a lot of wobble bass presets.

+1 very nice stuff

All the snapshots are geared towards the WobbleBoss crowd, but it's quite simple to dial up your own sounds too.

Nice looking also they are

Yeah i was curious if the sound would reflect the UIs and it does, Atmos stood out, that's got some analog bite to it, not what i expected.

[Numanoid]

The Eminent-V is also an awesome ensemble-emu, really nails that JMJ Oxygene/Equinoxe sound

https://co.native-instruments.com/index ... lview=list

[Divian]

Anyone knows if NI-Komplete normally comes with a good promotional price (and what to expect: normally €500)? I might then let this one go by, learn a bit more on my DAW and other (free) plugins and pick up Komplete later at a better price.

[EvilDragon]

If you purchase Reaktor now for $99, you can get Komplete cheaper at a crossgrade price later.

[electro]

If you purchase Reaktor now for $99, you can get Komplete cheaper at a crossgrade price later.

That's the smart upgrade path to K Standard which gives you Monark and Kontakt 5. Otherwise look for someone selling K7.

[Divian]

If you purchase Reaktor now for $99, you can get Komplete cheaper at a crossgrade price later.

That's the smart upgrade path to K Standard which gives you Monark and Kontakt 5. Otherwise look for someone selling K7.

Can you explain a bit further? Crossgrade Price is still €400. Which still makes it €500 in THE long run...

[electro]

I'm sure they had a similar price path to K7 at one point

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/native-ins ... -eur-18553

[Numanoid]

Can you explain a bit further? Crossgrade Price is still €400. Which still makes it €500 in THE long run...

But it means you wont loose anything if you buy Reaktor now, then you can think a little bit more about buying Komplete

Crossgrading with Reaktor 5 to Komplete Ultimate 9 is €749, full price of KU9 is €999, so buying Reaktor and then crossgrading will save €51

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[ChiTown24]

I understand that it will vary according to patch and synth structure

excellent, that's gonna save us some time.

but it would be nice to have a range and/or average to consider.

yep, it would be nice wouldn't it! But luckily you understand that it will vary according to patch and synth structure and I don't have to make a really patronising post, essentially saying "How long is a piece of string?"

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[Vintage73]

I don't have actual numbers, but I've run ensembles with next to no CPU, and I've tried ensembles that crashed my system.

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[Numanoid]

Essentially, I'm just asking what kind of 'mileage' different users are getting.

But now I'm wondering if Reaktor is the name of the synth or a description of what happens to the people that buy it.

Running Razor in Reaktor and also using Reaktor ensembles in the FX chain, gives me no problem at all.

I'm using FL Studio 11, with Asio4All, on a i3 laptop with Win 7 64 bit, 4GB RAM

[Ingonator]

BTW, Zebra gives a description of being 'CPU' friendly until you load 'Dark Zebra' which it describes as 'CPU Expensive'.

AFAIK Dark Zebra contains modules of Diva and when using those this could explain the difference in CPU use. Without the Diva modules CPU use should be much less.


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