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Originally Posted by nyne  I saw Reaktor at a friend's place last night and thought it was really cool. Definitely a learning curve involved but sounded really really good.
I don't see it mentioned much anymore. How do u guys feel about it ? Thinking of buying it so figured i'd ask around.
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I guess it depends on your experience with synthesis and your expectations of how you will want to use it.
I have mixed feelings about reactor.
Editing can realy stop my creativity when i'm making music.
The process of creating can take up huge chunks of time (and then you need to arrange the UI components as well to make the patch usefull).
I realy like some of it's (rather cool) features so i'm still using it.
But it doesnt fit in my process of music making like a modular synth would.
You're either editing it of using it as an instrument.
When i'm editing, the 'logical' side of my brain takes over and i'm not very capable of thinking 'musicaly'.
Not that i don't like it, i do, but it's more like programming than making music.
So when i'm making music and i want to make a sound in reaktor i usually either use syths i already made or i restrict myself to simple constructions that i can make within 10 minutes or so (like a bass synth for a dance track) and using more complete elements.
OTOH, if i have some concrete idea of a synth i can completely dissolve in building it so it can be a nice workbench.
But there are alternatives.
MaxMSP can be nice too and has some unique features.
SynthMaker is another one that i'm revisiting recently.
And there are a few others.
So maybe download a demo and see if it finds a place in your music (or your heart).