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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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for me, buying reaktor was probably the best invested money into software, because it's very versatile and i rarely need any other effects.
for example few months back, i demoed the UAD Roland Dimension D and liked it, but had no money at the moment to buy it, so day before the demo expired, i just started thinking about how that thing works and made my own, very similar thing in reaktor. it's not an exact copy but i don't care, while it works as good as the UAD one, which would cost me 150$. it saved me so much money this way. effect plugins are usually limited in some ways, so i would always have to buy some more just because of some different features. but in reaktor i have almost anything i want. (i say almost, because there are things that you cannot do. for such things i use pure data or csound (free/opensource software. very good also, but not very user friendly).
and it can really sound very good / as good as any digital plugin/hw, if the patch is done well and if you set reasonable oversampling (and if it doesn't overload your CPU
- but that's the same for all software)
after 10 years working with it (it used to be called Generator back than), i am able to do almost anything with it. don't use the finished ensembles/instruments much anymore. and it fits my workflow very well. its true what was said above, that it's hard to make musick and edit the patches at the same time, but i usually don't need to do this at the same time. i just make music, and when i have an idea of sound, which i cannot find anywhere, i just stop playing for a while, run the reaktor, sculpt the sound (using just the basic modules very often) and continue playing the music.
i can do this very quickly now, but sure it needs experience.
also it's harder to do this when i rehearse with band, because other members could get bored while i'm patching, but often i just leave them to play and have fun, while i patch and test my sounds on headphones.
but maybe even if you're not experienced with patching, much of the finished instruments and ensebles that come with it are very good (but that's the more boring thing you can do with it in my opinion. but can be fun (and good way to learn) if you start going into structures of it and adjusting it for your purpose).
+ much more good things can be downloaded from shared user's library on native instruments web...
i think that the most important thing while working with software like this, is having a vision of what are you want to do. it can be fun to turn it on and just play with the presets, but that way you usually only get lost in all the possibilities, waste your time and end up without any output/results...
good luck!