I finally got around to trying to replicate the technique on Look How Hard I’ve Tried in Reaktor over the weekend. I got sorta close, I think, but I found it quite hard to recreate, especially the swoopy effect that @cowan385 was looking for. That’s because LPGs are super-sensitive, small changes to damp and offset have a big effect on the sound, and also the interaction between the LPG’s own very exponential envelope and any other envelopes you’re using to create the swoopy effect mean that small tweaks have drastic effect . It also depends to a great extent on the sounds that you’re feeding it with – really big pads with lots of harmonic content work best, but getting the balance of frequencies is tricky (brightness vs darkness – Look How Hard I’ve Tried has great bass providing the rhythm but also a lot of top end, too, so you need to spread the chords). I used a pad from Alchemy. Anyway, it was a fun exercise, I learned quite a bit. I could probably get closer with some more tweaking of the envelope and more processing and effects but I think I’m done messing with it:
I used an envelope to modulate the offset of the LPGs in my example (offset allows more of the original sound through, reducing the gating effect)
I didn’t make an ensemble in the end, I just used some blocks to make a rack. I’d be happy to share that if anyone is interested (you’d need to have Blocks Primes, as I used blocks from there to create it)