I did the Reaktor tutorials (from the original paper books from NI that had to be ordered separately at one time) ages ago and decided at the it felt too much like work. something technical and not work-related. I tried to hold out until Reaktor 6 comes out in the next Komplete (assuming this happens), but I needed something new to dig into at home. I just hope your team continues to develop more blocks in 2016, sooner than later. Its actually nice to know that you guys have a lot of passion about your blocks, and it shows you care about giving people a chance to have fun and enjoy creating music with them. You guys can stand on your own two feet, and make some awesome blocks, and taking inspiration is not stealing at all. What your saying actually makes a lot of sense. It's much more satisfying (and better for everyone IMO) to come up with something that has the same uses, but sounds good in your own way. As a dev, it's much more attractive to instead do our own take on a particular module type, filter style, whatever. It sets up an expectation of exactly equivalent sound and behaviour which requires a huge amount of work to really nail. With the DWG, we wanted to try and bring together the best bits of all these designs, rather than clone one in particular.Īs for the topic of working with specific manufacturers to clone their modules - I'd say in general direct cloning is not worth the effort. The 2 osc + folder complex oscillator archetype is one that's been done many times by many different manufacturers now.

The actual wavefolder itself is a different topology to the one used by Buchla or MakeNoise - it's probably closer to Serge or a Toppo TWF than anything else. The shape knob is the only place it takes its cues directly from MakeNoise, the rest is closer in spirit to a 259. Just wanted to chime in here as someone who worked on the DWG - it's really not intended at all as a clone of the DPO. Native Instruments already did extremely direct clones of Make Noise's DPO and Rene (take a look at the Timbre section, in which the shape control goes through the same waveforms as the DPO), so it seems to me like they're not interested in creating sanctioned clones with partner companies. I don't plan on doing commercial clones, especially without manufacturers' permissions.

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