3X

Analog synthesiser

 (3K Votes)
1.8 (Updated 19 years ago)
260.5kB
March 22, 2004
Reaktor 5 or lower

DESCRIPTION

I wanted to make a general-purpose synthesiser, compact, easy to use, and light on cpu, yet still capable of a wide range of quality sounds. 3X is the result.

http://www.lost-online.com/

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V1.6 features various improvements including better filters, new presets, and you can now bypass any section by clicking on the label.

COMMENTS  (164)

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Pascal Preuss
5 years ago
thx
Andreas Neufeld
5 years ago
super light on cpu and insane capabilities
Nathan Mowatt
5 years ago
Just downloaded! And its amazing! The pads!
David Parson- Josephson
6 years ago
is this mac only?
Michael Bourne
9 years ago
No wonder this is the top synth :)
William Whitsett
11 years ago
Hat tip to Brent Kallmer (BlueWater VST) for pointing me to this elegant result of your brilliant work,JW-H.
HABRIAS Guillaume
11 years ago
Excellent job ! May answers for many questions; Thanks so much !
Mustafa Tilek
11 years ago
Nice work !!!
Gerald Duncan
11 years ago
Simply Amazing! good job James Walker-Hall! Good Job!
Harald Schmidt
11 years ago
Great! Thanks a lot
Huen Alfee
11 years ago
This is great one!
Matthias Roeingh
12 years ago
downloading for try out
Samuel Segoua
12 years ago
formidable merci
山崎 将嗣
12 years ago
yes
Sandro Bohnenblust
13 years ago
puahh ... 10/10!
Zdenko Kovacevic
13 years ago
Thanks!
Bob Kershaw
13 years ago
Thanks. No chance to try it yet. From all the above, must be good.
SERGIO RODRIGUEZ
14 years ago
thanks a lot !!! great work :)
Adam Anderson
14 years ago
Thanks!!!!!!!!!
Damian Press
14 years ago
Really exploring the depths of good sound. Thank you!
Scott Nixon
14 years ago
GREAT SYnth Cheers!!!
Phillip Orlando Daniels
15 years ago
Straight to FAV folder. A 10 if there ever was one.
Christopher Brockway
15 years ago
hours of fun for the whole family... great work man!
Grant Miller
15 years ago
I love this synth. Great sound. Easy to use. Thanks
Jop Mijwaard
15 years ago
Excellent presets! Very inspirational synth. Thanks for sharing.
John-Paul O'Keeffe
15 years ago
A fantastic Synth with great sounds top marks.
Semper Fi
15 years ago
I like origenal more.I dont understant why you cut effect magic.
Brandon Thompson
15 years ago
IT'S A BEAST!
Bob King
15 years ago
Is the Reaktor 4 version available?
< Elektronix >
15 years ago
Inspirational to play and great sound! can't believe its free. Thankyou!
Brian Berg
15 years ago
Sounds great so far. A versatile beast of a subtractive beastie!
javier silverio
16 years ago
i love it!
Terone Bullock
16 years ago
Great Job!!!!! I will use this one alot
ariald pestmal
16 years ago
Good job
jimmy monk
16 years ago
Volker Nowak (2008-12-27 16:19:15): Clean, easy to use synth. Its going directly in my Fav Folder.
Volker Nowak
16 years ago
Clean, easy to use synth. Its going directly in my Fav Folder.
John Leach
16 years ago
LOVE this. I don't know from 'general use' but this is definitely going in my front line toolbox!
Jason Roberts
16 years ago
Hi new R5 user - Mac users - if clicking and pops, try disable wireless networking - fixes on my MB pro (I also have to do same thing in pro tools) - nice synth - thanks
Nina Cording
16 years ago
Wow, you created a MONSTER! One I will be using quite often :)
Stephen Gallagher
16 years ago
GREAT! Thank you
Robin Barklis
16 years ago
amazingly CPU friendly - thank you!
ari takahashi
17 years ago
Well balanced ensemble. Comes with nice sounds. As others have already pointed out, it's ready to be used right after download.
17 years ago
cant stand it osom synth greetz
Adam Pickard
17 years ago
Superb! Very impressed - very usable! Top work! BIGUPS!
Dragan Jovanovic
17 years ago
Amazing piece of REAKTorING !!! Thank you, Mr. J.W.-H. Dragan Jot
Yuki Yaei
17 years ago
THANKS!! CYO COOL
Lex Nowak
17 years ago
Topa di top! Big up to you james!
javier silverio
17 years ago
reay cool sounds!!!!
Christopher Soulos
17 years ago
U set out and made "a general-purpose synthesiser, compact, easy to use, and light on cpu". And light on the pocket! I could go out and start playing gigs with this thing. pH-pHat FAT! Magnificent!
Jörg Schnitzer
17 years ago
In one word: Phat! Thx!
Brant Groff
17 years ago
Great!!! Perfect!
Michael Lee
17 years ago
Great work, very usable right from the start.
endo shingo
18 years ago
nice sounds thank you
Schmidt Ronald
18 years ago
Nice sounds, easy to use, very useful.
Dean Coleman
18 years ago
Very Useful!
Donald Valdez
18 years ago
top 5
David Bowes
18 years ago
After staring at this instrument for about 16 seconds..... i feel like i'm going to die on the inside. I just wanted to say that.
julien darolles
18 years ago
i like!!
Fintan Doran
18 years ago
welloh doneoh !
michael huckaby
18 years ago
nice. just like everyone says it is. man useful presets, and wonderful sounds.
Eduardo Acosta
18 years ago
I have to jump on the bandwagon to see what all the hoopla was about! Hot Damn! +10
A. Bryan
18 years ago
great sounds,great ideas...nice work
Donavan Cook
18 years ago
Very nice, thank you. This one will run side by side with my Nord Lead. Can't wait to start programming sounds on this.
Alexander Jr. Punzalan
18 years ago
I can't get enough of this Synth! It's my secret ingredients to many of my tradks.
Andy Boyd
18 years ago
nice. you might as well have just given it a trigger. point, shoot, dope.
Volker Hinkel
18 years ago
very good ! easy to use ! I enjoy very much working with it. cheers
PATRICK COOPER
18 years ago
LOVE THE 'ANY OLD ANALOG' PRESET REMINDS ME OF BACK IN THE DAY...
Pascal Joguet
19 years ago
Good work! thanks !
Larry Martin
19 years ago
awesome sounds and very flexible too.thanks sooo much
Roy Williams
19 years ago
Nice Synth. Its a work horse.
Kevin Schoenbohm
19 years ago
Damn, 12000 dl's, can't wait to hear it!!!!!!!
Jamie Maloney
19 years ago
Wonderful! A perfect 10. Sounds great, variable and useful!
Donald Avera
19 years ago
I used this synth to jam with some friends the other day & I was the envy of them.
Christian Siems
19 years ago
WOW! Man, this thing is great. Many thanks. TEN!
Reiner Hutwelker
19 years ago
It got a prominent place in my rack. Thank you.
Paule
19 years ago
Thanks for good basic sounds & a GUI that says 'I'm your servant'. The sometimes-clicks comes from the sequencer. Hello from Paule. Reduce the latency in REAKTOR from 1 ms to some more.
michael huckaby
19 years ago
nice !
Peter West
19 years ago
This is great. Looking into the structure of this thing, there is about enough virtual wiring to stretch round the solar system. Amazing synth, and amazing build efficiency too (hence perhaps the CPU efficiency)
Logan Susnick
19 years ago
Downloaded file still says 1.6. Isn't it 1.8?
Kevin Richardson
19 years ago
Smokin!!!
Stan Stewart
19 years ago
Interesting experiment. Now where?
Sinisa Jagarinec
19 years ago
this is excellent. very usefull and a great amount of cool snapshots for fast results. the charakter is quite similar as the famous K5000S ... breathy, glassy, clear!
Steve Watson
19 years ago
Excellent, top notch
Stephen Andersen-Clay
19 years ago
Good work!
alex talavera
19 years ago
talavera: great synth!
Scott krakoff
19 years ago
One of the best of it's kind!
PAOLO SASSI
19 years ago
amo questo synth !
James Sellars
20 years ago
James Sellars Spendid, versatile instrument.
Bruce Baldwin
20 years ago
absolutely fantastic synth. kudos!! & mucho thx.
OSAMU HASEGAWA
20 years ago
Fun,thank you!
Theron Corse
20 years ago
Fantastic - within about two minutes of downloading I had slapped together a great funky bass line. A breeze to use.
Timothy Dieden
20 years ago
I'm still trying to grasp the overall feel of this synth. It has a really wide range with lots of great unusual sounds. Keep up the good work.
Sean Privett
20 years ago
Simple design makes this synth a dream to use. And it sounds brilliant. Thanks James!
Michael Polane
20 years ago
Great, Great, Great..... really great
msl
20 years ago
excellent excellent excellent, thanks JWH!
Shakeeb Alireza
20 years ago
Simple. Functional. Usable. Sounds Excellent. Thank you for sharing this.
Victor Valcarcel
20 years ago
Inspiring
Dirk Radtke
20 years ago
thanx a lot!
gunther stein
20 years ago
hi, i am a greenhorn for using the reaktor session library, but i understood this synt by doing. it`s really great
Rick Corbo
20 years ago
Wicked synth! A breeze to automate with my Korg MicroKontrol. Absolutely rock solid on my rig. No clicks. Dual 867 G4, OSX 10.3.6, Logic 7, Motu 24io and only 512m of ram
mike hodges
20 years ago
Nice layout! Very intuitive. I appreciate all the hard workj that went into it. However, the sounds are very small and thin. This is more of a basic sound effects machine than a musical instrument. I have a novation k-station and a korg z1 to compare to, and there is no comparison. Im still waiting for a Reaktor VA that can compare with others. So far I have not found it. Everything else in Reaktor is amazing, but the synths are lacking IMHO. Still, nice job.
daniel battaglia
20 years ago
i guess i found this a little late (finally checked out the top 100 list). this is probably my favorite reaktor synth so far. wonderful job
Nezo Msci
20 years ago
what more could I ask for? you have created a beautiful instrument that functions flawlessly. it sounds good and is well designed. thank you .
Kay Wächter
20 years ago
This instrument has great sounds, lots of snapshots and great dynamics. I love it. Sehr gut! 1A.
Eric CORMINIER
20 years ago
One of my favorite free synth. The very cool little brother of Amphitryon, THE SYNTH !
matthew doughty
20 years ago
arsom
Ran Bagno
20 years ago
This is GREAT!!!
Richard Patterson
20 years ago
otherwise it is awesome and very useful. Its nice to download something that isn't designed to invert some sound and twist it up and spit it out and the kitchen sink. this thing is a workhorse and sounds really rich!
Richard Patterson
20 years ago
very cool, I too have the clicks in OSX. Should I try to track them down or someone already did this? OSX panther, G4, 800MHz, 640MB RAM.
Andreas Fichtner
20 years ago
one of the best "normal" reaktor synths(if not the best :) ). great!
SOTIRIOS GOUGOUSIS
20 years ago
Very, very good design, but the presets are too crazy. Maybe a few more conservative presets would show that it can "sit" well in an arrangement ... but hey! spend some time with this and it's a rewarding synth! Thank you!
DAVID PEREZ DE LA COBA
20 years ago
DEXEX SAY I CANT NOT WORK . 3X GENERATE A 57 CPU USAGE 002 RACK DIGIDESIGN CARD FIREWIRE WHATS UP
Antonio Blanca
20 years ago
goods sounds and filters,and....... CPU=OK thanks you friend bye8-)
Rory Dow
20 years ago
A great all round synth. I can see it getting alot of use in my songs. Thank you James :)
karsten svendsen
20 years ago
works as standalone,can´t run it as audiounit in logic 6 on a G5.
gregory corsaro
20 years ago
hi just new in the community !! was plannig to vote after playing the instrument. oups!
Keith Nicholson
20 years ago
Very flexible, and not too much bite on the CPU. Thanks
John Doran
20 years ago
Very very nice! Thank you!
健司 川元
20 years ago
Thank you&#65281; from Japan
Laurent Levesque
20 years ago
a lot of good ideas there ! FX, bass, lead, key, seq, a huge choice of stunning sounds and not cpu hungry at all. Thanks a lot !
Jared Madere
21 years ago
you make the hottest most versatile synths and samplers, i love your sampler pack ensembles and this is equally spicy
Charles Roth
21 years ago
Played a LOT with this yesterday. Incredible! Perfect for music-to-picutre guys. Lots of useable presets and excells at icy landscape sounds. Also BIG props for breaking out of the regular Reaktor-look gui and giving us not only something different, but also something that one can actually NAVIGATE. Terrific!
Andrew McCulloch
21 years ago
Quality
Carlo Pearson
21 years ago
Best synth in Reaktor, hands down!
Phil Durrant
21 years ago
ant, i agree the supplied snaps are "tidy velvety and clear" BUT if you spend some time as i have with this you can get sounds that are "grinding confusion" this is one of the top 3 synths ever uploaded. get to know it, it is brilliant.
Al Watson
21 years ago
ant, there's plently other .ens here if you want grinding confusion......... this is a welcome break from random generating madness...a ray of light even!!! thanx
ant stewart
21 years ago
bolox to that, it's much too tidy and the sounds give too much prominence to velvety and clear sounds, not enough grinding confusion.
Jason Jochems
21 years ago
Deserves all the respect it has gotten, Good on all fronts. Great interface, great sound, the most versatility for the fewest knobs. Gave it 10. (and i never give 10's generally)
Stefan Chowdhury
21 years ago
Patrick ANGLARD
21 years ago
James, 3X is one of my Reaktor favorites. I like the quality, versatility ease of programming. The Trinket and Whistle presets are absolutely unique. Thanks a lot Regards PA
James Walker-Hall
21 years ago
tatu, you need to switch to the A panel
Tatu Metsätähti
21 years ago
why i do not see the whole panel (about 1/3 of all the knobs..) is it because i'm a session user?
Sinisa Jagarinec
21 years ago
very good, will replace my K5000S
Eric Wistrand
21 years ago
As always James,a wonderful job!Superb sounds,functional UI and lots of cool ideas:-) Thanks! ew
Patrick ANGLARD
21 years ago
James, 3X is absolutely great. Great presets too.
Jan Kubny
21 years ago
My most beloved synth this time :-)
Charles Loverme
21 years ago
I keep going back to this one over and over again. just great... charlie L
Lenny Wohl
21 years ago
lots of usable sounds in the presets
James Walker-Hall
21 years ago
yes... and a very special thank you to whomever gave me *yet another* 1 vote!
Robert Croft
21 years ago
This is a MUST HAVE item if you are new (or old) to the R4 user library - exellent snapshots, exellent layout, exellent versatility - did I forget to mention it's EXELLENT!?!? Well done and THANK YOU !!!
Michael Liebner
21 years ago
You da man! Love this synth! Great presets too!
James Walker-Hall
21 years ago
Really??! First time ive heard of that! What is your spec?
Kevin van Hoof
21 years ago
Mmmmm Strange its a super ensemble that in the first place but i'm running it on a PC and I also have clicks in the audio.... I Hope you can fix it ! But for the rest GOOD WORK !!
James Walker-Hall
21 years ago
Ben - thanks for that - but another mac person told me that even though the clicks are more audible with fx, they could still hear slight clicks on patches without fx. weird... there's nothing wrong with the structure, so theres nothing really I can do i've decided - except for hope that it will dissapear in V4.03...
Benjamin Suthers
21 years ago
Gold! I tells Ya! Gold! fantastic James. and so CPU efficient. clicks and pops are in the delay and chorus modules. I just 'deleted' these, because I prefer my synths without FX...(synths tend to get used in a host application that has it's own effects) .if you need a hand debugging them let me know. ben.
Phil Durrant
21 years ago
this is soooo good. in terms of flexibility versus number of knobs (i don't like too many knobs) this is one of the best reaktor synths. loads of AM (which i love) and loads of routing possibilities in a very uncluttered environment, make this a joy to work with. all three oscillators can be used as LFOs as well. thanks so much for this.
Jörg Müller
21 years ago
my precious thing.clever designed,great snapshots and nice handling.glückwunsch!
guy papius
21 years ago
This is a Excellent synth.
PGunderson
21 years ago
Great layout, great presets, just plain great.
James Walker-Hall
21 years ago
Hi - well if one of you Mac guys could trace in which macro these clicks occur then I would be grateful. Without that, im clueless...
herw
21 years ago
Hi James, good work! But there is a clicking in the background (ca. 0.5 Hz) on every preset. (G4 733MHz). It seems to be created before passing the audio envelope.
Zip Boterbloem
21 years ago
Same glitching problems on my Mac G4 OS9 desktop...
Cliff Douse
21 years ago
Versatile, inspiring, intuitive, full-blooded and better than several commercial synths I can think of. :-)
Michael Storgaard
21 years ago
Geeeeaaat synth!!! No problemo running on my PC. You get 10 for this one. Good work!!
George P. Macklin
21 years ago
Excellent synth. Works fine on my PC. 10 all the way.
Damon Wild
21 years ago
Great synth..Will use! 10+
Terry Engelbrecht
21 years ago
This is a really nice sounding synth, with some excellent usable presets. Thanks James.
Artur Nowak
21 years ago
great synth, versitale sounds, nice panel design.
Yves De Mey
21 years ago
One word: MASSIVE! How did you know this is exactly what i needed? Thumbs up!
Antony Gorman
21 years ago
fantastic synth - error free operation in win2kpro - amazing variety and quality of bundled presets and overall a fantastic sounding synth - just the right amount of dsp ness for my tastes .. great work :)
Bodo Kuznik
21 years ago
No clicks and glitches, but 10 Points from Resomusic for this Supersynth...! Easy and groovy :-)
Zip Boterbloem
21 years ago
Nice, but I'm experiencing clicks and glitches on my Mac TiBook OSX.2.6 using the standalone Reaktor 4.0.2 (the latest)
Thomas Watson
21 years ago
Wicked Synth!!! I can't believe its free :o) p.s. no unintended buzzing/clicking on my mac.(G4 933, R4.02, X10.2.6)
stefan weyel
21 years ago
Perfect! A very good GUI makes it easy to work with that synth. Although it 's very versatile and has a well implemented modulation routing matrix it is light on CPU use. It's one of the first synths on which i could directly start creating own sounds with ease. By chance it matches almost any creteria i wanted to implement in my own synth creation :-) An extra plus for providing lots of presets.
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