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Originally Posted by Silver Sonya  Umm.. yeah.
In general: the scientist/tweaker-types make the instruments and the musicians use them. Rarely the twain will meet. That's pretty much the Reaktor story.
I'm in the latter camp.
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It wasn't always that way, but as Reaktor became bigger and better, it became more complex.
And more power to the scientist/tweakers because they have made some incredible specialized synthesizers not found anywhere else. I have much gratitude toward many of the contributors that have made the NI Reaktor user library a gold mine!
I suppose you can look at the KVR downloads and say the same as with Reaktor by finding soft synths that in my opinion could have been marketed such as Synth 1 and its gigantic patch library, but with Reaktor there is a bit more consistency.
Before Reaktor I was using Seer Systems Reality partly created by Dave Smith. It wasn't bad sounding at all, but when I heard Generator which later morphed into Reaktor around 1999 nothing else came close.
Reaktor isn't for everyone, but if you are looking for depth, flexability, and the chance to create new sounds and synth methods, it's definitely worth the money...actually many times over.