Reaktor Primary 2: Oscillators and Synthesis | Simon Hutchinson

[@AT-27182]

Thank you so much for this clear and highly useful series of tutorials.

[@SimonHutchinson]

So glad to hear it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@alejandroquintero6690]

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

[@MGCaverly]

This is great channel, thanks.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thank you!

[@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!

[@craigmurdock9307]

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

[@aspsa6246]

I appreciate this Reaktor Primary videos series; thank you.

[@ashpat78]

really good tutorial and explanation

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thank you! Glad it helped!

[@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!

[@alejandroquintero6690]

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

[@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!

[@sasajovicic5]

Thank you for this tutorial!

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad it was helpful!

[@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!

[@pnutbuttajellee1394]

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

[@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.

[@gladtobeangry]

Anorak on "Well actually..." This isn't wavetable synthesis. Wavetable synthesis is when you take a series of two or more single cycle waveforms, and morph between them using interpolation, a digital process that calculates intermediate stages between different waveforms in the wavetable to create smooth transitions between them. Which can be built in Reaktor, but the process is quite a lot more complex than this (fun to build though, and a powerful sound design tool). Still a useful tutorial on how to build a basic classic VCO-style oscillator with selectable waveforms for subtractive synthesis, but that's not a "wavetable". Yeah it's a sort of "table" from which you can select "waves", but by that logic a Minimoog is a wavetable synthesizer, which it clearly is not. On a minimoog (or any other classic subtractive synthesizer) you don´t scan through a wavetable: you pick a couple of waveforms, and if you're lucky enough to have more than one oscillator, combine them in a mixer to create a timbre, which then gets fed into your filter for further shaping. Calling that "wavetable synthesis" is like describing the transpose buttons on your keyboard as "FM synthesis". The thing that makes wavetable synthesis its own thing is the interpolation between the waveforms creating the ability to smoothly transition between them, or picking out unique sounding waveforms resulting from that interpolation. No interpolation = no wavetable synthesis. You could emulate something that sounds a tiny little bit like wavetable synthesis (more akin to vector synthesis actually) by using a scanner or a couple of crossfaders instead of a mixer to smoothly crossfade between the 4 oscillators. Or you could try and do something clever with a single control controlling the 4 different levels of your mixer, if you want to "morph" between different mixed combinations of them, creating something that sounds vaguely like you are scanning between different waveforms in a wavetable. But you're actually still just mixing and matching, as you would on any standard subtractive synthesizer, like your trusty old minimoog.

[@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!

[@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.