which are the best reaktor instruments
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- KVRAF
- 2454 posts since 5 Oct, 2003
Rick Scott's ensembles (aka Rachmiel) are some of my very favorite! Highly recommended to check them out for experimental.
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- KVRAF
- 2000 posts since 5 Jan, 2003 from Brookings, OR
It's one of MANY such, on don't-miss Reaktor creations over the years, each of which is another trove. Great Reaktor builds don't get old in my experience (I've been a serious fan-person for over 20 years now, hard to believe…). They just fade from memory until something like this brings them back up for air. Here's some links to other lists:kevvvvv wrote:This thread is becoming a little treasure trove for me.
cheers
From 2004, selected by Rick Scott himself.
A great previous KVR thread on the topic, started in 2013.
Excellent replies to this similar thread over at VI-Control, esp like this list from Ned B, lots of the great old stuff:
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aL - Rachmiel
Deadbeats - Scott Monteith
Fourious - Paul Woodroffe
Le Truc - Bubu from Bubuland
Delivery - David Dayneko
ergoT-anime - Gabriel Mulzer
Fleishwolf - Program Child
OB-Xb1 - Zook Took
Sofa - Jo Oheim
Aerosynth - Roberto Noris
DZiBan Droner - James Clark
Sine_rave - Daniel Battaglia
Gods Beatbox - Ba
miGraine / Marlene - Gabriel Mulzer
Orange Grains - Florian Erdle
Röntgen - Florian Erdle (don't forget the '¨' in the name of the ens)
StockHausen in my System - Phil Durrant
Synth-in-a-case - ZooTook
Menace - George Gyulatyan
LIMElite (the original, free) - Remmer
rachWool - Rachmiel
Meanmachine - Program Child
VectrixTS - EW
Gertie33 - Kev Hopper
Lifeforms - Rolf Schmuck
Megaklon - Christoph Jäger
SoundScapes - AuReality aka Pau Swennenhuis
Aero - Roberto Noris
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Like many others, I've been posting snap banks for UL ensembles that particularly get me, so you could flip through those, too; it's the equivalent of a downloadable best-of list from me, but sometimes also with factory mod add-ons, or mash-ups of stuff I think works great together, plus lotsa my recent snaps are usually carefully named, to aid recall of what the pertinent controls used were, bad memory, once again, being the biggest obstacle to full use of the User Lib (the other one being totally confusing works of genius—maybe!?—with few to no snaps and no read-me, let alone a manual!). Focused lately on the amazing Buchla-esque Cloudlab…
I've also started to make , including my own "if I HAVE to choose" fav. the a-fore-mentioned Motion Clusters.
There's at least two other YT posters who do the same sort of thing, much better and more prolific: and salamanderanagram for ADSR
2 more, not-to-be-missed both ultra-popular ultra-classics from the UL:
3x
Lenin
And here's just one more single suggestion, a fascinating blocks synth with no oscs; just filtered and resonated noise, great stuff!
…but of course, your "day" is probably over by now, shame, that…:)
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- KVRian
- 547 posts since 9 Oct, 2006
I have a special love for Gertrude / Gertie (13 years old) ensemble :
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/2477/

Made by the same man that did this :

(and many other ensembles mentioned in this thread)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/2477/

Made by the same man that did this :

(and many other ensembles mentioned in this thread)
U N I S O N : shoegaze/electronic wall of sound with heavenly voice
https://soundcloud.com/weareunison / https://www.facebook.com/unison666 / https://weareunison.com/
https://soundcloud.com/weareunison / https://www.facebook.com/unison666 / https://weareunison.com/
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- KVRAF
- 4317 posts since 20 Feb, 2004
I've always had a special place for Ernst Meyer's ensembles. They're pretty old and might not be available anymore; I'm referring to the ones named after philosophers.
A well-behaved signature.
- KVRAF
- 1911 posts since 26 Feb, 2013 from Sweden
Soundsets and presets for Absynth.
Sounds and presets for UVI Falcon "Iterata X".
Bazille soundset - Crystalline Textures 3.
Sounds and presets for UVI Falcon "Iterata X".
Bazille soundset - Crystalline Textures 3.
- KVRian
- 1353 posts since 31 Aug, 2007 from wales
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- KVRAF
- 2000 posts since 5 Jan, 2003 from Brookings, OR
Lenin's still in the UL, an updated version of Leviathan, as linked to in my previous post. Many others are still available, updated for R6 in many cases, here, and no longer free, but some very reasonable—others quite expensive, but all deeply intricate and beautifully made. If you like the free Lenin, you won't be disappointed by the for-money ones, IMO. I'm very fond of Husserl Sapphire, which I was fortunate to get long before it got priced at $80.JerGoertz wrote:I've always had a special place for Ernst Meyer's ensembles. They're pretty old and might not be available anymore; I'm referring to the ones named after philosophers.
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- KVRAF
- 2000 posts since 5 Jan, 2003 from Brookings, OR
It's here; JT's going gumroad, with lotsa great stuff including free; good for him, and us!.jon wrote:…
Differberator, a delay-based thing, seems to have disappeared from the UL? Synite Audio /Jonathan Tremblay makes other interesting stuff, so check him out anyway.
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- KVRAF
- 2000 posts since 5 Jan, 2003 from Brookings, OR
And may you never quit, Michael—wonderful stuff—Thank YOU! I'm especially fond of Aries, your fantastic modulators, and THIS incredible beastie:mike_o wrote:I am a die hard reaktor developer, here's some of my work and a few recommendations.
Lazerbass plus (Expanded Version of Lazerbass)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/6997/
Hyroglyphicus (Massive Multimode wavetable synth with Analog modeled, digital, additive etc...)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/10853/
Aries (Multimode synth - early predecessor to Hyroglyphicus)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/6861/
Hyroglyphicus Drums (Drum Synth, Sampler and Sequencer with swing and Funk Power)
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/7507/
That's just some of my reaktor builds.
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Michael

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- KVRAF
- 2000 posts since 5 Jan, 2003 from Brookings, OR
dave dove wrote:there's always mine i suppose
dave
I SUPPOSE
Many of the free Reaktor UL MIDI sequencers are beyond any available elsewhere for any price, and Adlais 2 is right up there among the very best.
Amongst so many others, Michael Lancaster's work in this area is not to be missed.
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- KVRAF
- 4317 posts since 20 Feb, 2004
Awesome, I wasn't aware of that! I'm sure his newer versions are even more fantastic.David wrote:Lenin's still in the UL, an updated version of Leviathan, as linked to in my previous post. Many others are still available, updated for R6 in many cases, here, and no longer free, but some very reasonable—others quite expensive, but all deeply intricate and beautifully made. If you like the free Lenin, you won't be disappointed by the for-money ones, IMO. I'm very fond of Husserl Sapphire, which I was fortunate to get long before it got priced at $80.JerGoertz wrote:I've always had a special place for Ernst Meyer's ensembles. They're pretty old and might not be available anymore; I'm referring to the ones named after philosophers.
A well-behaved signature.
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- KVRAF
- 2000 posts since 5 Jan, 2003 from Brookings, OR
Actually, I think they're pretty much unchanged; Husserl for instance is just the same now as when I got it 4 or 5 years ago when he first made it and was publishing to his site, not the UL. For his newer work, I think you'd better look at his non-Reaktor stuff. NOT to say it isn't fantastic to have the R stuff smoothed out and working well right now!JerGoertz wrote: I'm sure his newer versions are even more fantastic.
(Digging on The Weirdo as I write,
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- KVRAF
- 5851 posts since 9 Jul, 2002 from Helsinki
Nice, thank you!David wrote:It's here; JT's going gumroad, with lotsa great stuff including free; good for him, and us!.jon wrote:…
Differberator, a delay-based thing, seems to have disappeared from the UL? Synite Audio /Jonathan Tremblay makes other interesting stuff, so check him out anyway.
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And this thread, s much stuff to check out now, thumbs up to all of you
- KVRian
- 1353 posts since 31 Aug, 2007 from wales
@David
Michael Lancaster sprinkled his magic upon this:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/11789/
Michael did the MIDI section
which i then sat on for ages waiting for a dedicated loop library
which sadly never happened...
if you feed it a selection of 128 mixed loops
it will produce wonders....
also
my MaxforLive version of Adlais is different class:
http://k-teck.co.uk/adlais
dave
Michael Lancaster sprinkled his magic upon this:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/11789/
Michael did the MIDI section
which i then sat on for ages waiting for a dedicated loop library
which sadly never happened...
if you feed it a selection of 128 mixed loops
it will produce wonders....
also
my MaxforLive version of Adlais is different class:
http://k-teck.co.uk/adlais
dave
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- KVRian
- 886 posts since 29 Jan, 2017
Anything from Stephan Becker: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... ll/316323/
I really like his synths
I really like his synths
