Did I miss an announcement about Realtor 6 working on apple silicon? I just booted Ableton and it opens as an AU unit (no Rosetta).
Maybe your daw is in rosetta mode?
latest version is still 6.4.3 from September 2021 and not AS native.
Right click the application icon in finder, āget infoā, and make sure Rosetta is not checked:
Thanks. DAW (Ableton) is not in Rosetta mode.
Edit: The Reaktor application doesnāt have the option to open using Rosettaā¦
Audio Units can run in rosetta when your daw is run in native, as well.
So thatās likely what is happening.
R6 shows up in my AUs as well. As do other non-native plugins (Kush, Lindell)
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Intel AUs: work automatically, thanks to macOSā built-in AUHostingCompatibilityService.
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Thanks. Thatās pretty cool and has set me up well for the weekend!
Hey @DavidToybox, I just did a gear trade and got myself a second Maschine+.
The idea is to run Reaktor on it and cordon it off as a dedicated drum synthā¦something like a Syntakt+Model:Cyclesā¦hitting just the right balance of flexibility and limitation of concept.
I think that basing my engines on groupings of Reaktor Blocks is the best way to balance quick sound design while building upon deep DSP programming already done and packaged as great sounding oscillators, filters, and shapers. Which product offering of yours will allow for experimental but still saturated and āalive soundingā percussion sounds?
The Tangle Pack?
Thanks for any advice! Your products look so cool!
Iām new to Reaktor and what I was not expecting was to feel like Iām exploring the remnants of a decaying phenomenon. The YouTube algorithm keeps recommending the same videos which are decades old. I guess Reaktor is vintage now. Sounds pretty good to my ears, but there is definitely not much currently going on with it on the internet. There seems to be a couple big players in the blocks/instrument building community, but nearly nothing in terms of current jams/reviews/explorations. Iām beyond late to this party.
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Bro check this out :
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/
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Beyond late? Maybeā¦ but what a fucking party!
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Man, Reaktor! I remember thinking how futuristic it was back in the mid-00s, I learned how to properly use Reaktor around the same time but these days I donāt tend to go āunder-the-hoodā, so to speak.
That saidā¦ I still regularly use Reaktor! I mean, itās mainly to use instruments like Ultraloop (I created a custom bank to use with it, itās become my go-to signature glitchy percussive loop tool) and Blinksonicās offerings, but thereās a ton of great stuff out there still. In the factory library I used to use Vectory and Newscool an absolute ton. As a way of generating interesting audio to further process, itās still an excellent tool.
I dabbled with Blocks and made a couple of neat semi-generative ensembles with it, but beyond that I never really stuck with it.
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I should add that I use Reaktor daily, but mostly for the synths. I replaced Blocks with Bitwigās grid, and I didnāt look back but the synths, man oh man, Kontour, Prism, Razor, Monark, Steampipeā¦ They wonāt get old for a long time !
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Iāve been using Reaktor for over 20 years. When I first got it there were a lot less plugins around to choose from and I didnāt have a lot of spare money so it was a really good way to get an almost limitless supply of synths, samplers and effects.
These days there are plenty of other options around but I tend to stick with what I know so I still use a few ensembles that I like. Itās also good if you want to build something really unusual/specific that you canāt get anywhere else. There are some good ones hidden away inside a ālegacyā folder somewhere in the installation library files.
It does seem to be getting less popular but there are still some people using it on the NI forum and a lot of the other NI synths are based on it so I donāt think thereās any danger of NI stopping supporting it like they did with Absynth (Iām still annoyed aout that!)
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Itāll never fail to surprise me. Best VST ever.
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Similar boat, been using Reaktor for about 20years.
Itās kept me from buying other vstās.
Itās extremely rare that I hear any other software and think it sounds better, or even different than something made with Reaktor.
Software definitely profits off how much people want a ānew thingā even if itās not much different, just has to be new.
Itās such an odd thing these days to watch people on one hand get obsessed over the latest product, yet at the same time are still chasing musical nostalgia that most people were born afterwards.
āI wanna sound like the 80ās or 90ās or 00ās, but only with gear thatās not even a year oldā
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I hope youāre right. Not because I use it in the same way for building as I find it very complex. But because some of the sounds are truly interesting. Itās like a cupboard of dusty old gems in there, especially the physical modelling stuff.
One thing that may have forced their hand with this is Maschine expansions and other sounds in the Komplete ecosystem use Reaktor. Monark is especially one that comes up as being useful and popular, and is heavily used for bass sounds in Expansions. And Super 8 (while not as popular) was released as its own VST, but then put back as a Reaktor instrument. For most Expansions theyād need to make Monark a VST to maintain support for those, or remake all the patches in Massive X which currently is not used within expansions (not sure why but even as of the current expansions this is still the case). I hear Massive is getting NKS2 support which suggests that one isnāt going away.
From a community post when Reaktor for M1 was announced
Sorry, but besides the addition of native Apple Silicon support and the new VST3 plugin there will be no new features implemented. At this point, perhaps it is time to comment on the situation. For a variety of reasons, NI is not in a position to invest major resources in this product, which has not been news for some time.
The way I read that it will be maintained and has been coded in a way to hopefully avoid any similar issues to M1. But otherwise itās not getting QOL updates like resizing that Kontakt and other have been getting. Sounds like there is a very small team that could be deployed on a āneeds mustā basis. At a certain point though, probably some sort of technical change; there could be an EOL announcement.
At least theyāve been clear about that though. NI is a big company with a lot of products. One they currently have for those of us who remain fans is they make it hard at times to commit to using, or certainly relying, on their stuff since at an undefined point it may just stop working. For me, it feels like the best use of these sounds is to make use of them while theyāre here but be mindful that when it comes to machine upgrade time, they may not work.
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Blocks Primes was on sale for a literally stupid price yesterday (Ā£17), so I bought it (as basically I wish I could have afforded to keep my 0-Coast and want some West Coast juju). Then I realised I needed Reaktor for the user library.
oddly that Ā£17 qualified me for an upgrade at Ā£45.
So yeah, I just got Reaktor for about sixty poundsā¦
Fortunately I am on Windows, so even if itās end of life, bit more chance of keeping it goingā¦ It does feel like itās a bit of an NI white elephant tho.
I guess I can just cut the laptop itās on off from the internet when Windows 10 stops working and keep Blocks running for the forseeableā¦
I just wanted the modular stuff really, find the scope of the whole thing a bit bewildering tbh!
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I guess the positive thing is that the general Reaktor owner is probably quite into the idea of hacking a solution if it runs out of road
