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Aero

Generative melodic drone, now for mac users too!

 (331 Votes)
4.0 (Updated 20 years ago)
256.2kB
October 13, 2004
Reaktor 5 or lower
Instrument Other

DESCRIPTION

This version corrects the Macintosh "click" bug, thanks to the CA engine patched by Chris List (thanks!).
The sound is different too... I changed some oscillators and included a resonator.

Enjoy :)

COMMENTS  (60)

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Damon Klettskaro
4 years ago
Change the kHz to 88.2 or 176.4, that got it working for me.
William Hemp
6 years ago
What's the secret to getting Aero to make sounds? I read where you just leave it and it makes sound after awhile I tried but nothing. Tried it on Mountain Lion 10.8 in Reactor 5.
djsegwon
6 years ago
thanks
Greg Killmaster
6 years ago
would be great to get this working ok in R6!
david bick
6 years ago
Got it to work in r6 by reserving through r5 https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/12297/
david bick
6 years ago
could someone with reaktor 5 maybe try to resave this and reupload to see if it will then work properly in 6?
Sebastian Zurek
6 years ago
File is corrupted and can not unzip it.
dkatran
6 years ago
Many thanks!
Roeland van den Berg
6 years ago
don't know how to play ,,i mean make sound coming out but looks nice doo
david bick
6 years ago
I would actually love to have a version of this working in reaktor 6 with unjumbled controls. I've been trying to rearange them but having a hard time getting the macro frames to not be huge. i imagine there are invisible ui elements which are preventing the frames from resizing but can't find them. any ideas on how to approach this?
david bick
6 years ago
huh, sound works for me but the ui is all jumbled. sounds great though.
Jim McQuade
6 years ago
similar problem in Reaktor 6--UI, but no sound?
Tom Niesytto
6 years ago
I have Reactor 6 Player and Aero does not work in it - download is mere UI - nothing else.
beat spichtig
6 years ago
ok, this is old. still, thx.
Michael Bourne
9 years ago
Wow fabulous ! Don't forget to run !
Paul Weber
11 years ago
digging this a lot!
matthias geiges
14 years ago
this is a great machine... bewegende lüfte! :-)
andy myst
15 years ago
Excellent work! just left it playing for hours :)
Daniel Salomon
16 years ago
Months ago, I loaned the CD "World Receiver" by Tetsu Inoue to a friend and never got it back. Now that I have Aero v4.0 to run on my Macintosh, I don't miss the CD anymore. Seriously though - would you happen to know if Tetsu Inoue has used this ensemble in his more recent works? Amazingly similar. Wonderful stuff coming from my speakers.
Christopher Soulos
17 years ago
Wow. This is a mutha! Pls, create more magic for us. Cheers
Will Collier
17 years ago
I love this ensemble! In my opinion it's better than any of the factory ensembles. I could do a whole track using only this. Layering is the key! ;) Great work! I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
Philippe ARNOULD
18 years ago
Beautiful! Thanks!
David Bowes
18 years ago
I think the type of spontaneous you might mean is pressing randomize ? For me the main (maybe only) flaw with this synth is the ability to fluidly input my personality... maybe it's just me not connecting with the synth proper ? Or maybe it's the fact that the synth is dominated by to many buttons and numericals ? Difficult to shape waves with an on / off button.
arachnaut
18 years ago
I think David was too harsh. This is spontaneous at the flick of a click. Fun for sure, and very worth your while-ing away the time of day.
David Bowes
18 years ago
ok,ok.i might have been a bit harsh above.it has a nice sound and it looks good.but i still stick with what i said.its obviously meant to be for programers not sound designers.whats your opinion?
David Bowes
18 years ago
needed to be fun. it isnt needed to be spontaneous. it isnt needed to be worth my time. it wasnt
herw
19 years ago
much fun and very good programming (structure)! thank you
plim plim
19 years ago
gave it 10++ :), excellent instrument. but it crashes in fruity loops everytime... :(( (but not in audiomulch)!
hiromichi fujiwara
19 years ago
これすごいっすね
Kari Komppa
19 years ago
Very nice. Amazing! Beautiful sounds.I like it very much.
David Kennedy
20 years ago
Very nice sounds from this generative ensemble. I had it going for 10-15 minutes while I did other things in the room, and was consistently amazed at the beautiful sounds.
Mark Bonnington
20 years ago
I like this!
Drew Anderson
20 years ago
Amazing! Still getting clicks on me mac tho (G4 tower) Any suggestions? This would be my favorite ens. ever if the click dissapeared. It is that stunning...
James Clark
20 years ago
Very nice and restful. Good work.
Guenther Fleischmann
20 years ago
I listen to it for 15 minutes now and i feel relaxed! There are no repetations so far. You can record it for 60 minutes und sell it as an ambient-cd :)
Guenther Fleischmann
20 years ago
Ah, thank you! It was the play button! Voting is done now :)
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
Ah, and be sure to click play :)
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
Have you tried clicking the XY pad some more times?
Guenther Fleischmann
20 years ago
??? I load this Ensemble, i can see the automated moves of the knobs, but no sound comes out - there's something wrong ???
Zip Boterbloem
20 years ago
Clicks fixed. Thanks!
Dave Bourke
20 years ago
I was right – it IS extraordinary. Thank you for fixing it for Mac users, Roberto (G4 dual 800). Endlessly fascinating, une belle laide :-)
john stainton
20 years ago
Fantastic - I love the interplay between tempo, randominity, and a musical scale - I give it 10
Thomas Watson
20 years ago
Very nice! works fine on my PC, but unuseable on my mac G4.
Zip Boterbloem
20 years ago
Nice, but lots of clicks when the sequencers loop. mac g5 dual 1.8 GHz
Laurent Levesque
20 years ago
wonderfull work, very inspiration, thanks alot
Bill Wandel
20 years ago
It's alive! Alive! Great work.
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
As I thought. I will try to split each matrix in two matrixes... maybe a lower number of cells (a shorter loop cycle) will help to make the transition faster and with no clicks. Anybody wanting to help me with the test? :)
John Koranek
20 years ago
Roberto-I played around with this a little more and I have some new info. The clicks are coming at the end of multisequencer windows. As the play wiper hits the end, and the next generation gets drawn, there is an audible click, regardless of the length. If I press "hold" so that the CA stays the same, it cycles over and over without any clicks. This happens for every multisequencer, even if the audio is turned down.
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
By the way, I use it with an XP 2000+ at 44K without problems...
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
I'm sorry... it seems that every ensemble I make causes problems with mac :(. Try lowering the "len" maximum value in each automation panel, by setting the max value in the property window to 16 or 8. This could help, because each matrix iteration is a loop, and when it happens with big matrixes (32 steps, for example) or, worse, when all matrixes iterate at the same time, these loops cause a short hang, which can be your problem. Also try pressing the "hold" buttons in the automation panels, stopping the iterations, to verify that it is the problem. Hope this helps!
Dave Bourke
20 years ago
This ensemble would be absolutely incredible but random clicks on a G4 dual 800 make it unusable for me. I'm gutted :-(
Phil Durrant
20 years ago
when you described as a "generative drone" i was put off. this is much more than a drone, i agree with everything that Mr Hoppers says.
Donovan Stringer
20 years ago
sounds great man..nice work!
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
Sometimes some clicks can be heard while the CA matrixes iterate, but I'm not sure this is the problem. You can try reducing the "len" range of the matrixes (for example setting 16 as max in the property panel) so there will be less cells being updated.
Maximilian Schäfer
20 years ago
Yes, fantastic. My most loved drone generator so far (at least this is my spontaneous reaction ;-)
John Koranek
20 years ago
I like this ensemble, but I'm getting random clicks on my Apple Dual 533 G4 under OS 10.3.5. Reaktor only shows a 50% CPU. Tried playing with buffer settings but it didn't matter.
Roberto Noris
20 years ago
Yes, I understood. I'll be more careful next time :)
mike daliot
20 years ago
...ou are back on the track. Hope you understood our reasons why and why not. Keep on doing your thing...good stuff. regards mike daliot (sorry my keyboard seems to freak out from time to times...)
mike daliot
20 years ago
so y
Kevin Hopper
20 years ago
Fantastic, Roberto! And TWICE as fantastic without the reverb. Great work!
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