Reaktor Patch: VidSeq

Hurray!!

Really excited to start sharing some of my Reaktor patches finally. I hope to upload all types of different things, some will be pretty full on synths and live patches, others smaller toys, designed only to be a bit of fun.

This one is probably a bit more in the second category. It's a granular sample based beat machine, but with a difference! More recently, I've become really interested with the idea of combining video and audio, and I'm really excited to explore the various ways the two things can be integrated.

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This patch began as an experiment to see how well Reaktor can manage video playback, and ways that the 2 elements can work together. The idea is that sequencing and granular parameters have a direct influence on the video playback as well as audio. Reaktor is certainly not designed to do anything video related, so it took a bit of experimenting to get this working, but I'm really pleased with the result.

You can download the patch HERE, be warned though, due to all the image files it a pretty large file (+200mb!)

I've left the interface pretty simple, I thought it would be more fun to leave things unlabeled so that the user felt more inclined to just try things out and see what happens. There aren't so many parameters, so it should be fairly straight forward. I plan to upload some instructions on making your own video content for this patch, as well as audio, and would be interested to see what other people try out!

Hope you all enjoy it, and as I plan to develop this into something much more powerful, any suggestions and feedback are genuinely appreciated.

Sound-A-Day 17.01.2011

Right, back on with sound a day!

I figured it's easier for me to keep track of the sounds I'm uploading if I try to carry a theme through each week. Last week was mostly synth blurps from a Reaktor patch I'm busy with, this week I decided loops should be the theme.

I find the notion of loops really interesting, because while it's a good descriptive term for a type of sound, really it can cover a very wide spectrum of things. Midi loops, sampled breaks, whole sections of tracks even. Although the ones I'll be uploading this week will be mostly beats, just mulling over this has made me reconsider my approach to loops quite considerably.

Anyway, enough of that tangent, here's a sound!

VIDSEQ-TEST-LOOP by Noisy Neighbour Sound

This one was made in a Reaktor patch I've been building over the last couple days called VIDSEQ. It's effectively a granular sample based sequenced drum machine, but with a few added features. More about that another day! The hits themselves are from a folder I made of glitched out hits made in all types of ways, some of which I have shared on here previously.