Reaktor 6 Matrix Mixer and Feedback (Reaktor 6 Primary) | Simon Hutchinson

Building a matrix mixer in Reaktor 6 primary, and then exploring its possibilities for sound design.
I've been a little obsessed with matrix mixers lately, because they feed my desire for unique sound design applications (and feedback). A matrix mixer is a combiner module that can route multiple inputs to multiple outputs, often allowing you to adjust how much of each input signal goes to each output. While sophisticated, they're pretty easy to build in Reaktor or other software, and can maybe be useful for some next-level synthesis applications.
0:00 Intro / Why Matrix Mixers?
1:18 Starting the Build, Simple Sine Oscillator
2:50 Matrix Mixer Macro
3:55 Visible Ports for Panel Patching
5:37 First Mixer of the Matrix
9:46 Duplicating It for the Matrix
10:48 Matrix Mixer Basics
12:05 Delay and Feedback
15:29 Adding a Second Delay
18:44 END OF LESSON. Unless...
19:59 Adding Ring Modulation
21:43 Building a Complex Patch
24:45 Other Examples of Implementation
25:58 Final Thoughts, Next Steps
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[@thcdenton]

Every time you post one of these tutorials it's a game changer for how I play with puredata. Great work man.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad to hear it! I try to be software-agnostic as much as possible, but glad to hear that it's clear how these ideas can be applied in different environments.

[@enricomarelli2022]

I got back into synthesis and so getting thanks to you. Thank you!

[@SimonHutchinson]

Ha! Awesome. Glad to hear it!

[@ZealanTanner]

18:22 that’s really cool. Sounds like an underwater theme to a game and it didn’t even seem hard to do

[@SimonHutchinson]

Delay makes everything sound better! Or at least more important.

[@InfectedTofu]

Really cool, thank you!

[@SimonHutchinson]

Glad you liked it!

[@Oliver-dy5my]

It would be interesting to use this with fm amounts and ratios

[@SimonHutchinson]

Absolutely! That's a great idea.

[@СергейСергеевич1981]

Gorgeous!) Thank you for sharing your wisdom!) I can’t assemble a filter so that the cutoff is 192 dB, oct. If possible, help! Thank you!👍👏🙏

[@SimonHutchinson]

Thanks!
You want a 192 dB/Octave slope? So a 32-pole filter!? That's pretty steep. The best way to do that with just Reaktor Primary would probably be to put filters in series, so 8x 4-pole filters, this would likely significantly affect the phase, though. I bet there's a smarter way to do that in Reaktor Core, but I don't know that as well off the top of my head. Good luck!

[@СергейСергеевич1981]

@@SimonHutchinson So I've been scratching my head, thank you!)🖖

[@ricgl84]

Share the patch

[@BerndScheurer]

thats very cool. but i am right that wiring is not stored in presets? so you have to remember to save each configuration as an ensemble.

[@SimonHutchinson]

Interesting. I didn’t think about that, but, while the knob positions are stored as presets, the wiring isn’t (and would be set up in the way last time you saved it). This might require some outside “patch notes”, like an outboard synth! 😅

[@BerndScheurer]

@@SimonHutchinson i only came across it because i'm working on a fairly complex fun generator in which 13 external, very diverse LFOs can be connected to each other and to any target.