Monark is seriously impressive.

[zerocrossing]

You're damn right zerocrossing

I also agree with myself!

[zerocrossing]

Right, but I just listened to it, and even on my cheap-o Motorola wireless headphones it was clear to me which one was the plug in.

Just out of curiosity: which one do you think is which? E.g. on the very first example?

If memory serves, I believe the first one was the hardware.

[stillshaded]

I think Monark is the best sounding VA i've heard.. I have to admit.

I'm about to sell all my analogs except for maybe 2 (i have 7). Reason being, I'm pretty sure in another 5 years, softsynths will really cross into "mind blowing" territory. They're almost there, and personally I'm not a "gotta tweak knobs" kind of guy.

[aMUSEd]

Those are not macros, those are math modules (add and mult).

OK thanks - I have added those now but can't see how to set the multiply module to 1 - there is nowhere in the properties pane to input numbers.

[EvilDragon]

Right-click the input and send it to new QuickConstant. A bit of acquaiting with Reaktor Core might be in order?


Also, after a bit of inspection, this will make the vel>volume additive, instead of multiplicative. There's no need for the add after that mult. Instead of that, and instead of creating QuickConst, just link it to a QuickBus named Master lev.

[aMUSEd]

First time I have touched Core - I usually just dabble at the macro level.

Think I have it done - time to test

[aMUSEd]

And getting no sound whatsoever...

I think the problem is I wasn't sure what to put for the ins - Velocity, Amp Vel and Vel contrl - I assumed these were just right click, new in - then renamed them, but clearly I need some additional params.

[EvilDragon]

Vel - you should put a Gate in there (mono). The other two are just knobs to scale modulation amount.


This might work wrong depending on note priority and env retrigger modes on the B pane.

[Glyn Darby]

Hi guys,you do need an `add module` in the flow,and right click the free input, select connect to quickbus Master level.The two knos#bs for amount have values of `0` for low and `1` for high and the velocity input is connected to a `midi in -on velocity `input in the midi ins-in the built in modules selection. Hope that helps.Cheers Glyn.

[MarlaPodolski]

any good VA is seriously impressive if you know what you're doing with it.

This is one of the best comments I've seen in this instrument forum in a long, long time. It should fly as a banner over the index page, because it is a major problem for today's 'instant musicians'!

[aMUSEd]

OK thanks - now it is making a sound but still not responding to velocity. I have copied the image layout exactly but wasn't sure if the ins should be set to audio or event (I assumed event as it's midi). I can't see any knobs though, maybe that's why it's not responding to velocity?

[EvilDragon]

Hi guys,you do need an `add module` in the flow,and right click the free input, select connect to quickbus Master level.The two knos#bs for amount have values of `0` for low and `1` for high and the velocity input is connected to a `midi in -on velocity `input in the midi ins-in the built in modules selection. Hope that helps.Cheers Glyn.

You don't need it... the way it should work properly is this:

velocity input gets subtracted from 1, then put that through Ctl Shaper module, then multiply that with Master vol, then subtract that mult from Master vol. Then it works as you'd expect from velocity modulation. Velocity is never supposed to be additive - it should be multiplicative and scale the current output volume, not add to it.

MasterVol - (((1 - Velocity) * VelAmount) * MasterVol)

[Glyn Darby]

Thanks for that info evildragon, removed the add module and connected quick bus in the multyply module to the master level and it performs much better now thanks. Cheers Glyn.

[carrieres]

any good VA is seriously impressive if you know what you're doing with it.

This is one of the best comments I've seen in this instrument forum in a long, long time. It should fly as a banner over the index page, because it is a major problem for today's 'instant musicians'!

one of the best demonstration is kvr one synth challenge https://sites.google.com/site/kvrosc/

[zerocrossing]

Hi guys,you do need an `add module` in the flow,and right click the free input, select connect to quickbus Master level.The two knos#bs for amount have values of `0` for low and `1` for high and the velocity input is connected to a `midi in -on velocity `input in the midi ins-in the built in modules selection. Hope that helps.Cheers Glyn.

You don't need it... the way it should work properly is this:

velocity input gets subtracted from 1, then put that through Ctl Shaper module, then multiply that with Master vol, then subtract that mult from Master vol. Then it works as you'd expect from velocity modulation. Velocity is never supposed to be additive - it should be multiplicative and scale the current output volume, not add to it.

MasterVol - (((1 - Velocity) * VelAmount) * MasterVol)

This kind of thing hurts my widdoo head. I wish someone would just do a step by step tutoral for this. I just spent some quality time with Monark, and it is indeed great sounding... but it only made me run back to my ATC-X. I do love that Moog style feedback hack though.