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Digital Audio Variant Explorer!

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Nick Dwyer
1.2 (Updated 2 years ago)
693.7MB
January 17, 2023
Reaktor 6
Instrument Sampler
Transformers Other

DESCRIPTION

A granular dual sample player that can create mad, surprising sounds with a few tweaks, and some very good sounds with a bit of diligence.

Onboard is a set of 200 embedded samples taken from a selection of Flintpope's online libraries at sounds.com; namely LAYERED, ARPS, AUTOBAHN, MIKROPRISM, PHOTONE, PALETTE, PULSING, SUGAR, TANGLED and TEXTURAL SPACE. This will hopefully help you create a range of out-there sounds; 85 snapshots act as a starting point for experimentation.

Double click "Embedded" in the presets side-pane* to get to the banks of snapshots. These are grouped under

Rhythm Fields (24 Snapshots)
Atmospheres (24 Snapshots)
Pads & Stabs (24 Snapshots)
Noise Spaces (13 Snapshots)

Essentially, two samples are overlaid and manipulated individually by various controls. These are then passed through a set of global FX and if required noise (choose from 13 types) can be added to the signal too.

As a further variable, Sample A can be pushed into the Sample B slot to double up. This is useful for octave splits or thickening/experimenting etc. Each bank has 12 included B variants.

During live playback the sounds can be manipulated from within the GUI with the pitchbend dials, mirrored on your midi keyboard's Pitchwheel.

Similarly, your midi keyboard's Modwheel is linked to Reverb mix amount and Filter Gap.

*No side-pane? Click the magnifying-glass icon top left on Reaktor's interface. Unsure what a control does? Click the "i" logo top right to show info hints in pop-ups when hovering the mouse near anything on the GUI.

Reaktor Notes

You can change the sample set using the onboard SAMPLE MAP.

Need advice? Go to the Reaktor 6 Diving Deeper manual and open Chapter 8, page 69 (The Sample Map Editor) for a detailed guide.

Ensure all your samples are set to midi note 60 and the keyboard range is from midi note 0-99 inclusive for the selector dials to operate correctly.

Thanks to Errorsmith for the eye-candy wave display and to the developers of Straylight for the inspiration for this.

Thanks also to Mike Daliot, Efflam Le Bivic, Nick Dwyer (hey, that's me!) and Stephan Schmitt for various elements in the structure and design of DAVE.

COMMENTS  (11)

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Patrick van Raalten
1 year ago
Wowww!!! This a seriously cool and sophisticated sound design tool that leaves a lot of paid tools far behind! Thank you!
Nick Dwyer
1 year ago
Hey @Irakli Berika thanks so much for being enthused by this. Your question regarding noise spikes is probably to do with my shoddy optimisation of the ensemble! I hope it doesn't ruin your experimentation.
Irakli Berika
1 year ago
Holy .. many thanks creator! truly a Mad Lab ensemble. just, while dialing density or jittering, i do get noise spikes, however, my CPU meter stays fine. is it due to my sample rate ? or is it about Ensemble optimization
Der Einmeier
2 years ago
@ Nick, thanks for the reply and explanation about the 'Hornfish'. When you play with the parameters and work with your own maps, you realize very quickly that there are a lot of clever ideas under the hood that allow you to make very unusual sounds with just a few tweaks. Accordingly, again a very big compliment and my earlier bias to the ROMpler theme was absolutely wrong. But now I'm more than curious what else you have in the drawer, because experimenting with your ensembles is pure meditation for me at the moment. ;)
Nick Dwyer
2 years ago
@ Der Einmeier I must thanks you for all your thoughtful comments on these ensembles. To be sure, they are more than just romplers as they can all do things to the samples to morph them inside the box. Hornfish is essentially the demo for Dave here so I haven't included it, though it has some cool sounds I never quite eclipsed in this updated ensemble here. Perhaps the simpler controls led to purer sounds... I do have a couple of gizmos left that I may drop here before too long.
Der Einmeier
2 years ago
Thank you for the wonderful ensembles: frankly, one has always come across your name when searching for Reaktor ensembles outside of this library, but I had never purchased a product because I just felt they were more ROMpler and might not work as well with my own maps. Now you've proven me wrong. Very interesting ensembles and sounds that I enjoy the most with my maps. Very generous that you decided to make them available to all of us here now, I really appreciate that, so MANY THANKS! Presumably you still have a few treasures in the drawer that you're just giving us for Christmas? I remember being very interested in the 'Hornfish' in particular at one point. ;)
Kev Hopper
2 years ago
Nice design
Nick Dwyer
2 years ago
@bindlestiff Hey thanks. I used to sell these but I quit all that so now they're free.
bindlestiff
2 years ago
Wow, what a fantastic contribution these past few days! Wonderful inspirational things, excellent quality all ty!
Nick Dwyer
2 years ago
@cool breeze I hope you get lots out of these ensembles.
cool breeze
2 years ago
Thanks Nick, for all of these. There's a lot to explore.
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