Reaktor Primary 2: Oscillators and Wavetable Synthesis | Simon Hutchinson

A Reaktor 6 beginner tutorial, starting work on a synthesizer by building a bank of oscillators (that we'll add subtractive synthesis to in the next video), testing them out, and making some presets.
This is the second 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.
Starting with this video, we'll start putting together a synthesizer that will get more sophisticated and nuanced each video.
#Reaktor #synth #oscillators
0:00 Intro
0:32 Simple Sawtooth Oscillator
2:19 Adding an Oscilloscope
3:12 Making wavetables selectable
10:50 A Temporary Solution for Pops
12:00 On/Off Switch
13:58 Duplicating the Macro for Multiple Oscillators
14:58 Making a Mixer for the Oscillators
19:37 Experimenting with Sound Design
22:39 Polyphony
24:25 Making Presets (Snapshots)
28:58 Closing
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[@DrNordenstam]

This is great stuff. Very handy guide for starting off with Reaktor. You narrate what you are doing so effectively you can more or less follow along by just by listening. Makes it a lot easier to follow along when you just have the one screen.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Much appreciated!

[@ashpat78]

really good tutorial and explanation

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thank you! Glad it helped!

[@alejandroquintero6690]

The best Video of WaveTable Synth that I saw !!!!

[@aspsa6246]

I appreciate this Reaktor Primary videos series; thank you.

[@MGCaverly]

This is great channel, thanks.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thank you!

[@craigmurdock9307]

VERY well explained, paced and crafted. Thank you so much for these demos.

[@davidjaques5714]

Thanks for these tutorials! The first two lessons have been the best intro to synthesis/Reaktor I've found by far. Really enjoying going through the playlist, so thanks so much for creating these.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Always glad to hear these videos are helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@alejandroquintero6690]

Rlly thanks you !!!! this was so usefull !!!

[@nightwizard4168]

These videos are amazing, thank you! The series is really helpful for my university project. Also, your presentation is really refreshing, as I find the majority of youtube tutorials to be chaotic and too busy.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad to hear it!

[@oberon2159]

Keep making these videos! Really helpful and well produced - was a huge supplement to my sound design studies.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad to hear it! I'm taking a break from Reaktor for a little bit to focus on some other things, but I've got plans for a few more coming. Thanks for watching!

[@oberon2159]

@@SimonHutchinson Great, looking forward to more and if you have a chance to do a similar 'intro' type tutorial format for MaxMSP I'd sign up straight away! :)

[@ripsniff9742]

You make the best Reaktor turts! Subscribed 😊

[@SimonHutchinson]

Welcome aboard!

[@sasajovicic5]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pnutbuttajellee1394]

Great basic Reaktor tutorial 👍. Although this is not technically a wavetable synth. Its more of a multi-oscillator synth.

[@genericwhitename8776]

super appreciate the tutorials. strangely difficult to get to good, non-paywalled reaktor resources. the documentation is even kind of ass

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad to hear they're helpful! Yeah, I agree that it can be hard to find stuff on Reaktor Primary, especially since Reaktor 6 and Blocks. But, anyway, now two years since I started putting these together, I have a whole bunch of these videos up, so enjoy!

[@nuttob]

Great tutorial!!! One thing I noticed is that you saved presets, but you didn't name or save the ensemble. Don't you have to save the ensemble to save the basic setup of the osc, mixer, macros, etc? That way you load the ensemble first and then load from a selection of presets or do I have it all wrong?

[@SimonHutchinson]

Absolutely right. If you don't save your ensemble, none of your work is retained after you quit the program.

[@damionmortenson84]

Cool video! Thx for that. But isnt it very heavy on the CPU if the gate and pitch activate all Oscillators, especially if one would like to stack oscillator macros. Is there a way to have the switch (with Dropdown-Menu)? Is there a way to have the switch before sending the signal to the oscillators, so that only one signal is sent when hitting a key?

[@SimonHutchinson]

That's a good question, and very good thought process, but Reaktor doesn't compute things that aren't wired to the output, so as soon as the oscillators aren't selected by the switch, Reaktor ignores them. Try it out and watch your CPU in the upper right.