Reaktor Primary 1: First Steps, Simple Sampler | Simon Hutchinson

A Reaktor 6 beginner tutorial, building a MIDI-controlled sampler.
This is the first video in a series of projects to get you started in Reaktor 6 "Primary." Reaktor has a number of ways that you can work (including Reaktor Blocks, Reaktor Core), but Reaktor Primary can be a good place to start in creating your own synthesizers.
In this video we talk about some of the terminology in Reaktor and build a simple MIDI-controlled sampler for playing back your own sample files.
#Reaktor #Sampling
0:00 Introduction, Why Reaktor?
0:50 Different levels of Reaktor
1:19 Sound Test, Loading an ensemble
2:56 Starting to build the ensemble
7:56 Loading and mapping samples
10:19 Polyphony
11:25 Letting samples ring out
12:22 Embedding samples
12:45 Changing samples
13:49 Mapping multiple samples
16:29 Closing
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[@hegood]

Finally, a relevant free, relevant tutorial series. Thank you!

[@SimonHutchinson]

You're very welcome! Enjoy!

[@mathewshaw1111]

This series is such an amazing resource. NI should hire you...

[@SimonHutchinson]

Ha! You're too kind. As I say, I'm not sponsored by NI, but maybe I should be!

[@mathewshaw1111]

@@SimonHutchinson I'm not kind, it's really a great set of videos. Thankyou so much :D

[@beckya1095]

Hello Simon, Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make this video. It's helped so much, and you've explained everything so simply. Not just in the Reaktor interface, but the sound engineering concepts too. I really appreciate it, -becky

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thanks, Becky. Glad it was helpful! Best of luck with your journey in both Reaktor and synthesis in general!

[@promixr]

I had to migrate a crapload of data at work today and had your tutorials on as bg - super useful- can't wait to get home and implement them!

[@SimonHutchinson]

Nice! I never considered these tutorials as possible background ambience, but glad to hear they were effective!

[@promixr]

@@SimonHutchinson actually the data migration was the BG- my full attention was on your tutorials and I went home and built a pulse wave sync instrument based on your sync tutorial till after midnight last night- first cool thing I've done on my new16" M3 MBP. So thanks!!!

[@SpectralEvolver]

Nice! I haven't used Reaktor but it's always cool and useful to see sound in another environment. Thanks for taking the time and making this!

[@SimonHutchinson]

My pleasure! Yeah, if you've got Kyma, I'm not sure I really recommend Reaktor, but for students who are coming in with DAW experience the ability to run it as a plug-in is a big deal, and the price tag is pretty good now (though it varies quite a bit year to year--used to be $400, I think).

[@FactsForKidsYT]

Super interesting, as usual.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thanks again!

[@cageaudio8158]

MANY thanks! the first of the reaktor tutorials I can actually follow- and you actually ZOOM in on what your doing! many thanks - good presentation and good teaching. Im still trying to get to grips learning to build in reaktor- I never know where to start.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Awesome, thank you! I mostly use Reaktor when I want some customization in my synths, but I'm still going to work in a DAW (harder to do that with Pd or Kyma). For some less traditional ideas, check the "intermediate" playlist - kzbin.info/aero/PL7w4cOVVxL6HQ6JrYWso_B3gaLAHQheYG

[@BazekBlu]

OMG I pressed play to hear some sounds. Sheesh.

[@SimonHutchinson]

OMG

[@ripsniff9742]

I added them to favourites, but still it would be nice to be able to load them with the right click menu.

[@steveprincipato4915]

Hey Simon, How many samples can be input into a Reaktor Sampler like this one?

[@SimonHutchinson]

I actually don’t know what the limits are, but it’s a lot. You can map to all 127 MIDI notes, and the map to multiple different velocity ranges for each of those notes!

[@steveprincipato4915]

REPLYso awesome you replied so quickly! Thank you!! I did some digging and experimenting and solved my issues for creating a really interesting instrument with your articulate tutorial! Thanks! Btw I was a student of Herb Deutsch and lifelong friends. Love the fact that you have a degree in electronic music! Degrees like that didn’t exist when I was in college. Back then Everything was analog… there weren’t any books just trials and trials and errors but what a journey!Loving all this technology as well … seeing it evolve as it is from 55 years ago! Thanks again for shining some light on a really exciting program. Steve

[@nightwizard4168]

Hi Simon, I'd like to ask you some questions about Reaktor 6 primary. Would it be better to ask you them here in the comments or by email?

[@SimonHutchinson]

Here is probably best. I'm pretty swamped at the moment TBH, but I'll do my best to help if I can. What's up?

[@nightwizard4168]

@@SimonHutchinson No worries! Any help you could give would be great. With regard to the Reaktor 6 primary’ build, do you have further tutorials/resources for or can you help me with: i) modulation cutoff; ii) chorus; iii) reverb; iv) distortion (sequencer); v) creating an EQ; vi) sample and hold; vii) bitcrusher; viii) where to put these in the signal flow; and finally, ix) I am planning on creating an LFO macro and putting other custom-built macros into it such as vibrato, tremolo, delay, chorus, etc. Do you know if it is possible to put these macros within a single designated LFO macro? My intention is to then put one of these LFO macro’s into each oscillator in my dual function plugin, which has a gated real-time synth (x3 oscillators); and 2) self-generating oscillators (x13 oscillators). Is this possible? Finally, do you know much about the GUI design element of Reaktor 6? Any help that you can offer would be gratefully received :)

[@SimonHutchinson]

Lot's of questions! But I think I have a few leads for you. For other tutorials, I like the ADSR ones - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5jHY2mIpNp2oZY Salamander Anagram goes through things quite a bit faster than I do, but if you're ready to pause the videos a bit there's a lot of great ideas. They probably cover all of the different things your asking about (though some might be in Reaktor Core). I'm planning a video on chorus and reverb, but there are quite a few other things I need to take care of before that, so it might be a few months. Anyway, everything you say sounds possible. I'm not really the one to ask about the GUI stuff, since I don't dig into that much beyond the very basics. I think there are some good sources out there if you search though (maybe in the Reaktor community pages on NI). Good luck!

[@nightwizard4168]

@@SimonHutchinson Thanks Simon, those tutorials look in-depth which in good. Looking forward to your upcoming videos! :)

[@mtt8896]

How to deal with stereo samples ?

[@SimonHutchinson]

For stereo samples you would need to use one of the different sampler modules.

[@zuul902]

where can I get some good free samples?

[@broyojoe]

i don't have the factory library

[@SimonHutchinson]

It should come with Reaktor. If it’s not showing up, check your file paths in the options.

[@broyojoe]

@@SimonHutchinson I have

[@SimonHutchinson]

@@broyojoeSounds like you might want to reach out to Native Instruments for help, then.

[@broyojoe]

@@SimonHutchinson ok

[@ripsniff9742]

I would really appreciate if I could get this ensamble to use as a base for the build I'm making. I can PM my email. Thanks in advance 🤗

[@SimonHutchinson]

Hey, sorry. I don't think I have this ensemble kicking around anymore, but you could probably rebuild it yourself in like 5 minutes, right? You just need 7 modules! Let me know how it goes!

[@ripsniff9742]

@@SimonHutchinson no problem. First time I saw it I saw from the middle thinking it was from the start!