{"id":179,"date":"2017-09-24T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/reaktor-primary-1-building-a-synth-absolute-basics\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:04:00","slug":"reaktor-primary-building-synth-absolute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/reaktor-primary-building-synth-absolute\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaktor Primary – 1. Building a Synth: Absolute Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This has loaded a sine oscillator into the middle of the screen. You will be able to tell quickly which oscillator it is because, aside from its name, it has a graphic of a sine wave in it. Let’s look at the two inputs, (left hand side). We have one labelled P<\/i>, and one labelled A. <\/i>These stand for Pitch and Amplitude. When someone hits a note on the keyboard of a synth, two basic signals are sent: the note, e.g. what pitch is being being played, and also the note status. P<\/i> will take the MIDI value and assign that to the pitch; A<\/i> looks at a number of things. For now, we only want the note to be on, when the key is hit, or off when the note is not being played.<\/p>\n To get the information from the keyboard, right click in the main window, as before, and select MIDI In, <\/i>from here, load up a Note Pitch <\/i>and Gate <\/i>module. These are the inputs we need to make the oscillator know what is being played. Gate <\/i>essentially sends a value of 1 or zero, depending whether the note is being played on or off. When this goes into the A <\/i>input of the oscillator it will translate to 1=max volume, 0=min\/zero volume.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is because the modules in reaktor are not all<\/b> capable of handling polyphonic signals. The easiest way to tell is by looking at the musical note symbol on the module itself. Below, you are able to see that the two inputs have a single note and are therefore monophonic, the MIDI in modules on the other hand can send the signals of numerous notes simultaneously. Just like the input modules, the output modules can only take a monophonic signal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n