Instead of a mesh striking surface it has a plastic membrane that resonates in a very pleasing way (like x-ray film being used for a drumhead, for instance), reminding me of timbales or a high-pitched snare. Then I started running through a folder of samples I recorded with a racket toy, sort of a tennis game, called Sonic Smash. What can mainly be heard of it is a beat (caused by the thread reinforcing?), of sorts, but what I found attractive about it was sort of a rumble of rubber on rubber between those beats.…The two samples didn’t really work together, so the clicking is an intro and outro sound, kind of quoting the main body.
Maybe it was some other object that was nearby during that session that I momentarily picked up.…The second sample, that loops almost the whole length of the piece, was, I think, made by rubbing the hose on itself. But how I made such a sound with that dull hose is long forgotten. I brought it home, set up a microphone, and played around with it.…The first sample I use here, a clicking sound, could easily be created hundreds of ways-pencils, twigs, chopsticks, drumsticks, et cetera (listening now, before posting this, I hear it as a metallic scratching, which I find equally perplexing). A layer of rubbery plastic wrapped in crisscrossed threads encased in another rubbery layer, this one transparent. Maybe 2002 or 2003 I was cleaning out an abandoned industrial site and found an interesting bit of hose (at least this is where and when I remember finding it). The item has been muted in the Item Properties panel and is there only to extend the end of the composition, so the reverb tail won’t be cut off.
Note the single bar sample at the far right of the timeline. Reaper screenshot of “Quarantined”-draft 1. (The text will be toward the end of the post.) I would say it’s something of a random, haphazard examination of self-loathing. My composition, the “poem” written years ago, has nothing to do with infectious diseases. All I will say is that it does look a bit samey with just the Bento Box modules.Obviously anything from 2020–2022 with a title like “Quarantined” is about life with covid-19 as fact or metaphor. It’s an awesome bundle of modules that’s a great way to get started in modular. And then a load of utility modules that mix CVs, clock stuff, trigger stuff and brings it all together. There are 11 modules from Bento Box which give you the main meat of your modular – oscillator, VCA, ADSR, LFO, mixer, sequencer and so on. There are 35 preset racks and some tutorial racks to take you through your first bits of patching. It’s a suite of 24 modules which is enough to build your own synthesizers and audio processors. But let’s check out the new Blocks versions. I’m sure there are a load of other improvements which you can read about here if you wish, including a surprisingly useful Welcome Screen.
Reaktor 6 crack blocks Patch#
Patch an LFO or other modulators to port A or B and then choose how much of any or all parameters you want to modulate. Modulation is handled quite nicely in that you get two modulation ports per module.
So too does the “hide wires” button because once you start patching they do tend to get in the way – but we like that! They’ve added a very handy “Quick Search” box for finding modules and adding them to your rack without having to search through the browser. The In and Out “ports” appear on either side of the module which helps in keeping the patch cables in order.
This makes so much sense and connects you to Blocks in a much more intuitive and visually pleasing way. Reaktor 6.3 brings in the idea of a “Rack” and within a rack you can now patch the Blocks modules together from the front panel rather than dropping to the scary ensemble structure environment that still sits behind the scenes.