Reichatron

Phase shifting looper

(113 Votes)

Author: Matt Mower

Version: 1.3 (Updated 14 years ago)

File Size: 512.0kB

Created: February 06, 2010

Made with: Reaktor 5 or lower

Category: Instrument Sampler

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Grooveboxes

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** PLEASE READ THESE NOTES BEFORE DOWNLOADING **

Reichatron 1.0 was too big to go in the UL. NI wanted to host if for me but we couldn't get around the limitation on download size. So the nice folks at Alonetone.com are hosting it for me. The link is in the README.txt file which is in the download. Note that the download ONLY contains the readme and the user guide. You'll have to download the ensemble using the URL in the readme. The ensemble download is 550MB.

** THANKS **

Reichatron is a sample playing instrument that grew out of my desire to experiment with phase-shifted looping (a la Steve Reichʼs early works ʻItʼs Gonna Rainʼ and ʻPiano Phaseʼ) and as an homage to Metaphysical Function which is, I think, one of the most interesting Reaktor ensembles.

Reichatron allows you to mix together the phase-shifted blending of two samples and then modulate that mixture using a block of six effects that can be independently controlled. Reichatron also offers stochastic control of the effects block and sample selection. You can take as much, or as little, control over how the sound evolves over time as you like.

COMMENTS (59)

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Scott Stimson

3 years ago

Hi, I would love to download this again. Lost this when I had a computer go south on me. Any way I could get a good download link? Thanks for making this. It's one of my all time favorites!

Chris R Gibson

3 years ago

Hey guys, To those who messaged me on forum...I had some disruptions and delays replying...but did finally message you back so please check your private 'conversations' on the Reaktor forum ;-)

Chris R Gibson

3 years ago

Gregory & Brian, personal message me on the Reaktor forum, using 'Loopy C' ;-)

brian burgher

3 years ago

Anybody have this still? Pretty please!!!!

Gregory O\\\'Drobinak

4 years ago

Please, need a new link to that file, the original site appears to be corrupted. Thx!

Dan Goodwin

4 years ago

Anyone know where I can download the distribution from, my browser won't let me access the link in the readme.

darren fisher

10 years ago

I keep on getting a corrupted .rar file :( Not sure what to do about that as it downloads fine.

Matt Mower

12 years ago

Thanks for the comments, I'm glad people are having fun with Reichatron! @SvenK: Sorry I did not see your comment. It's been several months so you probably either solved your problem or moved on. If not drop me a line at self@mattmower.com

Dennis Harms

12 years ago

Just awesome! Thanks for the upload!

Benjamin Steele

12 years ago

This is a great ensemble, thank you Matt. Just turned on to it from reading about the new bank that Simon Stockhausen's working on. I found serendipitously that one can insert different samples into the different sampler modules of each looper, adding more possibilities.

allan walker

12 years ago

THIS IS SO MUCH FUN. INCREDIBLE. THANX 4 SHARING.

Sven Kretzschmar

12 years ago

Hello Matt. Under 32 Bit the .Ens ran problem-free, but now there I reactor 5.6.also 64 Bit version on my PC had, your whole Samples am not any longer loaded. I am complete at the end and know no other advice than you to write, particularly my whole week work, which is not callable Snapshot of me. Please answer. Owing to for this marvelous work. Sven; -)

Matt Mower

13 years ago

Hi John. How do you see a MIDI version working?

john shearer

13 years ago

Thanks for this Matt. Looking forward to giving it a try. Have you ever thought about making a midi version?

Matt Mower

13 years ago

Swaroop: as is pointed out at the top of this page and in the accompanying README the ensemble is too big to go in the UL. There is a link in the README to where you can download it.

Swaroop Kishore

13 years ago

There is no .ENS file in the zip file. Please upload correctly!!!

Sven Kretzschmar

13 years ago

Hi Matt. ThankÂ´s for your hard work. I believe this is the Ens for biggest deepest "Deepest Dubtech". Dreamly....Fluxion is Back ;-) Thanx for this Wonderfull Ens. Sven

Anthony Ball

13 years ago

Yep too tired, Download has started, look forward to messing with this tomorrow.

Anthony Ball

13 years ago

Hi Matt, the link provided in the download file returns to this page. have tried to search Alontone without luck. Is the link still working or have I missed out here or have i made a classic error that I am too tired to work out. Best wishes, Anthony.

Matt Mower

14 years ago

Hi Stefan. The v1.3 on this page is because the UL stupidly updates the version number any time you edit the details on this page. The *instrument* is still v1.0 and the download link is valid. Matt

Stefan Krajczar

14 years ago

In the download file you'll see an URL for downloading version 1.0 - which version would I get after downloading? ;-) v1.0 or v1.3? Thanks!

christophe bailleau

14 years ago

yes i am disapointed because the dowload doesnt work, what can we do? where to download reichtron?

andy myst

14 years ago

Excellent work, but very CPU hungry and I'm hearing some occasional clipping....

Olaf Bubel

14 years ago

Absolutly grandios, Matt Mower it`s seems to be one of my best ensembles ever, reichatron show what reakor is...great work & thx a lot 4 your time you invest in this great release ensemble & in your work. thx 4 share this wonderfull phase shifting looper :))) reichatron rocks minds...

Matt Mower

14 years ago

Thanks for the comments and votes folks, it's gratifying to know you like Reichatron. If you make any music with it please let me know, it would be cool to hear what's done with it.

Christopher Wallace

14 years ago

I never vote or leave comments but this is wonderful! This EXACTLY the type of thing I bought Reaktor for! Thank you!!!

francois elie

14 years ago

hÃ©hÃ© yes its quite big ...this ensemble it is like a metaphysical journey : huge thanks for sharing it and for your generosity, time and work .

Paule

14 years ago

Today I get it: 22 minutes; thank you again & again, Matt.

Matt Mower

14 years ago

One of the things I would like to experiment with is "phase presets". That is to decouple the sample selection from the phase-shifting and slicing settings. Not sure how to do that since they all work around the sampler modules. I suppose I could move bits into new instruments that feed into each other. Sounds a bit tricky though.

Paule

14 years ago

Sittin' in an internet cafÃ© and waiting for more than 2 hours to get your ens. Voting is 10!

Kimmo Kivelä

14 years ago

I agree with Simon. Very good work.

Simon Stockhausen

14 years ago

Fantastic piece of work! I love MF but this one is a true successor of it. Loaded some mallet quintuplet loops in all four slots, started the phasing experiments and was delighted. 100 out of 10 from me...

Shai Levy

14 years ago

Kudos for the much investment in making this ensemble easy and approachable to the user. the GUI alone is very self-explanatory, but then the user guide!!!! very appreciated.

Matt Mower

14 years ago

As John Gibson says, the download URL is in the README.txt which is in the download. Don't worry that the download is called DUMMY.zip. On reflection that may not have been the best choice of name. I'll call it something less off-putting next time I do an upload.

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

Despite life having presented several major obstacles to my properly enjoying this for now, I can say upon cursory review this is all I would have hoped for and more. An excellent 'lab' to explore and expand on the original premise and special mention for the 'duo' format you incorporated ;-) I will return when I can put current negative circumstances aside and comment further but know I appreciate and am quite excited by your most creative construction. Paulo Branco, he has moved the actual link into a new 'dummy' read me, re-download for the direct download.

Paulo Branco

14 years ago

still a DUMMY...rapidshare?uploarder?

Matt Mower

14 years ago

Hi Kimmo. Thanks for the feedback I'm glad you're enjoying playing with it. The presets turned out to be much harder to make than I'd imagined when I started (I'd originally planned to do a full bank, that didn't last long!) and I think could be better. In making them I learned a lot about what I will explore for the next version in terms of modulation, routing, and how the sample sequencer and effects controller should work. The size of the ensemble is a result of the way that Reaktor stores *all* samples in memory as 32-bit regardless of the original sample. We might hope that a future version will inherit some of Kontakts sample management smarts. If it gets to be too much you could make a new, smaller, sample map. Thanks also for the comment about morphing, I've never played with it so I'll have to take a look. Matt

Kimmo Kivelä

14 years ago

Finally. Worth waiting. I was a bout to go get something to eat but now taking shoes off... At very first glance this look like very piece of art itself. I've had one snaphot (Zombie milkmen) running now for over one minute and it sounds very interesting. Its nicely between chaos and order. I've never had any .ens sized like this: 957 Mb on my HD. With Mac Pro Quad it has CPU on 24%. And, snapshot morphing works with morph timing! (of course they do change sample input so morphing isnt maybe what you dreamed but it works).

J S

14 years ago

Thanks Matt, fast download, fabulous engine and great snaps.

Paulo Branco

14 years ago

OTARIO

David Dilliway

14 years ago

I'd really like to try this ensemble but I cannot seem todownload it.Please help.

Kimmo Kivelä

14 years ago

File moved or deleted. Why not two downloads: one for .ens and other for sound map files? NI server must have 127 mb download limit in PHP (or Apache).

Raymond Szwec

14 years ago

yep - same problem here

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

and a final note, several more attempts with Safari stops EXACTLY same place...126.5 (which is probably the same 127 mb as neal johnson above, just calculated different by Mac/Safari).

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

btw, you can contact me through 'cgibson777 (at) aol (dot) com if you wind up considering other options ;-)

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

...and with Safari download stopped at 126.5 MB. :( My other options (download manager) can't seem to get it either. As I said, if UL can't handle it correctly I can host it (rapidshare) and you could put the link in the 'DUMMY FILE' so only registered users can get it. Just an idea as this doesn't seem to be working out here so far.

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

Above message from Firefox. Seriously Matt, I would be happy to host this on my rapidshare account if NI can't handle it?

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

File not found * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors. * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.

Neal Johnson

14 years ago

It's all there, but the download stops at 127 MB sop it's incomplete...

Matt Mower

14 years ago

Hi folks. Thanks for the counter-votes :) I'm not sure when it will be available, my guess is tomorrow sometime but it depends on how busy the NI folks doing this for me are. Thanks also for the comments on the user guide. I rather surprised myself with it because I'd only intended to write 2 pages :) I hope you'll all enjoy it when it's available. And, if not, that you'll let me know why! M.

Krister Jonsson

14 years ago

Joining the choir . really looking forward to this one! Manual looks quite delicious!

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

Another '10' for posterity and that silly 0.5 star thing...manual digested and anxiously, excitedly awaiting ;-)

Oxygen 05

14 years ago

I've added a ten star vote to have a better rating than the older one... By the way, I can't wait for the full link, it looks great ! Do you now when it will be avaible ? Maybe you should upload it on an other site...

Matt Mower

14 years ago

Just to be clear, I can't upload the ensemble as the zip weighs in at 0.5GB. NI have offered to do it for me and will swap in the real file for the dummy. It's sad that someone has chosen to give this 0.5 stars already but I guess that's the wonder of the rating mechanism around here.

Kimmo Kivelä

14 years ago

World is waiting...

Jedinhopy Xelon

14 years ago

Can you make a mini version?

Chris R Gibson

14 years ago

Wow, manual has got me quite excited (given my 'handle' is Loopy C you can understand why) ;-) A while back Phil Durrant created an ensemble with same initial concept (Gonna Grain) but it looks like you have really gone all out (manual itself is really well done), can't wait for the full link.

Don Dailey

14 years ago

oops, just read your note - duh!

Don Dailey

14 years ago

download does not include ensemble. It's titled "dummy". Just a pdf and a read me.

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Reichatron

Phase shifting looper

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