Reaktor 5: Morphing Effects as Sound Generators using Feedback Matrix

Here's something I've been playing around with recently: using effects in feedback matrices and morphing between presets. I got the idea when playing around with frequency shifted feedback in a Serge modular system. So I created a crude macro that let's you morph between the presets, but intend to improve upon it before releasing it (morphing speed modulation, snapshot lists etc). A lot of effects in Reaktor unfortunatly use non-interpolating parameters, like switches (which is good for saving cpu), thus creating clicks when morphing. I will be creating a set of effects intended for morphing like this which are completely designed for morphing (complete with polarizing mod matrices and such). In this particular setup, grainstates fx, a stereo frequency shifter with a wide range and crossfade between up and down-shift, a spacemaster reverb and an analogic filter box are being mixed using a matrix mixer. This allows for any output to be sent to any input. All of the effects are morphing randomly between presets and so is the matrix mixer. Works quite well as a proof of concept if you ask me!

Limit Cycle EP - Out now on Fools Forest!

Limit Cycle EP, containing the tracks Limit Cycle, Ax34 Suimle, Tryastvec Pattern and Mosaic, has just been released by Fools Forest! This EP basically started out with me getting into the Max4Live beta, spawning the track Ax34 Suimle. When Fabian at Fools Forest heard it, he said he wanted to release it and I said go ahead. Limit Cycle followed Ax34 Suimle and then Tryastvec Pattern. At that point there were going to be just those three tracks but before Fabian had the time to finish up the cover artwork I finished Mosaic.

These four tracks are in a sense experiments: They are all made using possibilities open up by Max4Live, the extension to Ableton's Live sequencing software, which allows for easier control over things such as algorithmic composition. And this EP is filled of just that. Variations on the concept spawned by Per Nørgaard's Infinity Series are restrained by mutating scale quantizers while psuedo-random pattern and weighted random generators create constantly moving rythmic material. These numbers comes to life via synthesizers in which all sound parameters are slightly, slowly moving, creating an organic texture of sounds. These tracks could have been created before Max4Live of course, but I can only imagine having to spend at least 6 months on every track, working out these tremendously complex mathematical relations between the notes by hand, in a traditional sequencing enviroment.

With this, I would also like to say that Max4Live is quite possibly, in my opinion, the greatest innovation within music technology in the 00's!

I hope you'll enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it!

Download via Fools Forest 320 kbps mp3

Download via Bandcamp Multiple Formats

Exploring M4L & The Finger: Ax34 Suimle

Ax34 Suimle by Veqtor
First audio demo/track using Ableton Live with the Max 4 Live Beta and Tim Exile's The Finger. All control data is generated through different infinity-row generator max devices. One drum track, manipulated by two instances of The Finger. And two instrumental tracks, notes are infinity row again, one instance of The Finger on each. Loads of filtering and dynamics processing, controlled by M4L LFOs. I love this kind of over-the-top complex processing.

This track will be released on Fools Forest.

FREE: Retrospective EP - Out Now!

I'm very proud to announce the release of Retrospective EP, released by The Centrifuge, home of prestigious drill n' bass artists Neutek, Gasman, Mark Swift, Gareth Clarke and many more!

"An action packed bumper 8-track EP from Sweden's Veqtor, curator of the OXO-Unlimited netlabel and all round hardware/software demon. The release twists and turns between melodic junglism, max/msp-fuelled glitch explorations and a dirty, dub techno vibe."

Tracklisting:

1. Tanuki Jingle
2. 3-Aulien Caexf-9
3. Pecking F-Key
4. Kickuchi and Retort
5. Room 431
6. Computers Will Inherit The Earth
7. Snowflakes
8. Retrospective

What are you waiting for?
DOWNLOAD NOW!

Hobnox Audiotool: Feedback

Having nothing to do I opened up Hobnox's Audiotool, which is kind of like a modular version of rebirth, running in most browsers, using flash. What I discovered through experimentation was quite fun, you can do feedback loops through the tb-303 if you have delays in the loop. The results are, unpredictable, filthy and awesome.

Audiotool Feedback Demo

nitro2k01 - INSEX Micro EP

My friend nitr2k01 just released a FREE "Micro EP" of 4 tracks made on Gameboy using only two channels, the pulse no.1 and the pitched noise channel. And not just that, the pulse instrument had to be really short.

Check it out NOW!

Plogue Bidule + DtBlkFx = Fun

Something I've been working on, using plogue bidule to turn dtblkfx into a FSU-device (like glitch but with fft fx)
Example, featuring livecut:

Plogue+DtBlkFx

Meet the bitfreak!

This is the Bitfreak for Reaktor 5, it uses pseudo-random, or pitched noise (NES, Atari 2600) as it's main sound source, and more than 200 types of it!!!There is no other software synth that does anything even similar to this
(I have no idea why, because it sounds awesome!).
Now you have another good reason to get your hands on Reaktor 5!

Download (rar)

Bitfreak Demo