Good Bye Reaktor, good bye NI synths

[seafire]

What is the best synth if i want to buy only one ?

Zebra 3

What about if you want to make music this decade?

Use what you have!

Whoosh!

[martiu]

Reaktor best synth, use now

[218]

Reaktor best synth, use now

This!! Listen to teh man!

IMO one of the key elements to using Reaktor is to only have a very small selection of ensembles in your main every day toolbox. Cream of the crop and a strict policy bout dl’ing mindlessly from the user library. Diving into the user library is a rabbit hole

[martiu]

yeah, you can be overwhelmed from options if you go to the UL, there is some gems there though

[martiu]

for example this noise generator ensemble i stringed together from blocks, download now, Richard Devine approved (read comments if you not believing :DDDD)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/15453/

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[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

for example this noise generator ensemble i stringed together from blocks, download now, Richard Devine approved (read comments if you not believing :DDDD)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/15453/
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Nice one! Thanks!

Really love how Reaktor modular looks as well as sounds.

[El°HYM]

for example this noise generator ensemble i stringed together from blocks, download now, Richard Devine approved (read comments if you not believing :DDDD)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/15453/
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[BONES]

IMO one of the key elements to using Reaktor is to only have a very small selection of ensembles in your main every day toolbox.

Interesting. If I was going to buy Reaktor, it would be to make my own stuff, not to use other people's.

[_leras]

IMO one of the key elements to using Reaktor is to only have a very small selection of ensembles in your main every day toolbox.

Interesting. If I was going to buy Reaktor, it would be to make my own stuff, not to use other people's.

Yeah, yeah. That's what everybody says!

There such a lot in the use library that it's impossible to even give much of it a decent try. But there are some gems and obscure fx that can be worth the exploring.

That said, the plug in market is much larger than it was even when reaktor 6 came out, so there are also tons of interesting non reaktor plugs in too these days.

But... the reaktor library is free and comes with good vibes and esoteric ideas. So it's still an absolute treasure trove.

[BONES]

I don't know that I'd even look at what it comes with. I already have more synths that I'll ever need and Reaktor is expensive. If I was going to fork over all that cash it would be because there are things I want to make. If you recall, I had a pretty vast library of synths and effects I made in SynthEdit, back in the day.

[Ah_Dziz]

I'm very worried about NI moving forward but reaktor is a platform as good as any for building cool synths and processors. Provided they don't just stop activating new installations, it's as good as anything else out there. Blocks is a nifty addition, but just a tiny aspect of what reaktor does. There are lots of other options for trying to capture the eurorack workflow in software, but blocks is as good as any. Then you have all the other crazy things you can build for yourself that can cover almost any style of synthesis or processing that has been conceived of not to mention all the free instruments made and released for free by users, and the amazing factory library.
Kontakt is also still the best sample platform for huge in depth libraries, but they keep updating it without adding anything that makes a difference for me and only cause compatibility issues with older libraries (did they ever activate the other midi ports (b,c, and ,d) in the VST3 version so that a single instance can be 64 part multitimbral?). It's sad and they don't appear interested in listening to their loyal users. I get tons of use out of my machine software, hardware and standalone as well as traktor.

They could have stayed the top company but they just can't seem to stop making horrible decisions and breaking support for perfectly good hardware. It's hard to want to support them financially when they seem so incompetent and unreliable.

[dionenoid]

In case some of you missed the memo :
https://synthanatomy.com/2025/02/native ... llers.html
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... 2X5ic9sWrT

My controller just got NKS support, plus a free version of Komplete Select.

[seafire]

Richard Devine approved...

What does that mean?

[oobesan]

I don't know that I'd even look at what it comes with. I already have more synths that I'll ever need and Reaktor is expensive. If I was going to fork over all that cash it would be because there are things I want to make. If you recall, I had a pretty vast library of synths and effects I made in SynthEdit, back in the day.

Reaktor- and all of its ensembles- can be purchased for $99 right now. That's the opposite of "expensive".

[martiu]

Richard Devine approved...

What does that mean?

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