Holy fuck… just had a major breakthrough with my Reaktor project that will allow me to do much more complex stuff on the audio and synthesis side. I’ve really been feeling Reaktors limits when it comes to multithreading, or rather the lack of, when making my Ghroth tracks and have to make sacrifices to the audio quality (most of the time it has to run at 33k samplerate) and limit the amount of processing and complexity of the synthesis algorithms to make tracks work.
No longer. I bifurcated the patch, separated out the sequencer section which is the biggest CPU load (still takes 75%-85% of my laptop’s cpu) and wired all the connections to OSC. I then took the remainder of the patch (the drum and melodic synths and samplers, mixer and fx section) and put that on my desktop computer. Once i sorted out the OSC connections I had the two talking in perfect harmony and have soooooo much more headroom for sonic exploration and higher samplerates. I also think I can actually do a true live performance with my system now, just swapping out the drums, synths and fx with my MachineDrum and MonoMachine controlled by my sequencer.
Set up some kinda system where you can see a level meter respond to a track playing, make sure it’s loud enough before the drop and that the drop doesn’t clip. This is how it’s done in p much every kinda pro recording situation.
It goes both ways, there’s a noise floor you want the quiet bits comfortably above and also a distortion threshold
Edit: lol replying to old ass posts with info u definitely don’t need anymore
probably not. not enough time to finalize a MIDI version of the sequencer and create patterns and make new kits on the MachineDrum and MonoMachine. Looks likeI’ve found the way forward though, just need more time to work out a set I would feel comfortable playing live.
Do I have a style ? I mean that is recognisible. No. Because I make everything bun people who stick to one genre/bpm. I want a style though so when I make a track ppl be like yeah this is bY him. Hmm.
I think you can work across genres and bpms and still have a style… certain samples, sounds, melodies can all be things that are recognisably you but within different genres
I have this idea for a track and I recorded my vocals doing the hi-hat pattern.
Because it’s done this way the hihats are all slightly different which gives it a nice organic feel.
How do I replicate this using samples? Is there a plugin that can slightly alter the pitch, timbre, velocity etc quite subtly of a loop to give it a “live” vibe?
Or will I have to record an actual hihat patterm on my friend’s electronic kit?
Or die of boredom adjusting each hat sample by hand?
Edit.
Cheap & cheerful method - ripped a hihat pattern off a 1080p drum tutorial video on YT.
Chopped the hits out and rearranged them. It works just fine.
A VST would be easier but I like to micromanage and be hands on amap
if you’re using samples it’s actually quite easy in reaper, you can drag the top edge of the item to adjust volume and i think dragging up and down with alt+shift pressed transposes the sample
I think I just wanted a more live feel and using live recorded hats is a much better way of doing it.
Adjusting pitch and volume etc just isn’t cutting it. It’s still slight variations of the same sample.
You can assign (subtle) LFOs to automate pitch, attack, whatever. I do this to make more natural sounding hat patterns.
As with a lot of audio stuff it’s all about subtle application tho: if you turn it to 10 it’s not gonna sound natural at all. Start with the very least amount needed to be noticeable. You’ll probably wind up dialing it back even more.
Also the LFO doesn’t have to match bpm. In fact it’s usually better if it doesn’t.
