![]() And it’s also a reminder of just how vital the Reaktor sound engine is – enough so that part of me wishes NI would just spin off a Reaktor Foundation and open the thing up, a la Mozilla and Ubuntu, etc. It’s rules-based, polyrhythmic, polyphonic musical exploration with a ton of effects and modulation and rich, modern sound base. The trick is all this ability to suck in audio or make everything sound harmonic and nice using clever real-time pitch mapping – and it’s refreshing to see tuning systems other than just 12-TET if you’re going to be doing all that quantizing. But with unique sound systems, tuning systems, and those LFOs modulating effects, you quickly generate unique sounds.Īnd as the creator indicates, it also nods to the lineage of lots of nice Tenori-On and monome creations. It’s a bit like a software equivalent – fully maxed out – of grooveboxes from Elektron and the like. ![]() Once you look at it that way, it’s way easier to understand. ![]() Sensor is an audio-to-gate converter with peak detector.Intake is an audio input router and looper.Skate MIDI transposer and automation recorder.4 effects: resonate/shift, micro delay/freeze, reverb, and a radio and tape machine emulator.Tuning modules: scales, modes, chords, and other ways of setting truning and microtuning based on different pitch references.Shock virtual analog drum synth (a mix of stuff forming 12 separate modules).(And yes, to anyone still wowed by machine learning and AI – this sort of conventional simple rules-based structures still tend to produce the best results, without any of that complex training.)īut if you do delve deeper, there is an insane amount of stuff crammed into the package. You can certainly just set it to spin out some endless musical materials for you, unsupervised – in case you desire some software that plays for you at the end of a long day. You need Reaktor to run COLLIDZ°, but wow are the two a special combo – a chance to make music without ever touching a linear timeline or conventional DAW UI. (Okay, one of these days I’ll do an all things Kai Krause and Eric Wenger retrospective – you’ve got my word.) This will make sense to I think about 4% of the readership, but – it’s also the nearest to Kai’s Power Tools for music as I think I’ve seen. Meet COLLIDZ° by Blinksonic, aka Sylvain Stoppani. But if other tools get you stuck in presets, this world-builder for Reaktor makes each preset and parameter a gateway to something creative and unexpected. It’s packed with synth engines and effects.
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