And that just feels wrong – you lose that feeling of easy patching you get with hardware. The less-cool thing about Reaktor Blocks – until now – was that it forced you to dive into the Structure to change anything. And while other tools do this, too (VCV Rack, Softube Modular, Voltage Modular, and long before that Propellerhead Reason) – you didn’t have to give up any of the power under the hood. The cool thing about Reaktor Blocks was that it added just this sort of interface, plus a bunch of amazing-sounding modules using the latest NI tech in analog modeling and digital techniques. Patching in traditional hardware and software development happens under the hood, but patching a modular can be part of playing it. It’s still a tool, and still only a component of a larger instrument, but that component is more likely to be higher-level – a particular kind of filter, a sequencer, a reverb – and with a pre-selected set of parameters you might want to control.Īnd most importantly, patching here is on the front panel. Modules usually aren’t just doing a simple task like mixing two signals they combine a number of functions into a musical whole. Hardware modular is normally designed differently. This also makes sense in the world of the computer, where you’ll never run out of patch cords or modules or knobs or physical space – only CPU power or memory. And that’s often a good thing, as Reaktor ensembles now can get down to the level of DSP processing, meaning the Structure can be layers deep and expansive. Unless you’re part of a small group of people who get really fluent in Reaktor, you probably separate the “I’m building a tool” phase of work from the “now I’m making a track” or “now I’m going to try playing.” One nice aspect of Reaktor is that the interface acknowledges this: there’s a separate view for patching together your creation (the Structure), and a different view with all the bits with knobs you turn and so on (the Panel). ![]() So patching has always been part of the company’s DNA – to the point that Reaktor is still frequently used (as far as I know) for prototyping new tools internally.īut these are really development tools. ![]() ![]() Native Instruments got its start building a modular, building-block tool for making your own synths and effects (Generator, which grew into today’s Reaktor). There are 50 pre-built racks, but this one steals our hearts – a Buchla Easel-inspired creation.
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