Simple Clock Demo

Short and sweet tutorial on clocks and events

(90 Votes)
1.4 (Updated 17 years ago)
120.1kB
September 24, 2006
Reaktor 5 or lower
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DESCRIPTION

This covers some of the same territory as my Virtual Instruments magazine tutorial but goes more in depth about the clock and modulo operations, as well as featuring a sequencer driver macro that syncs to the host.

I was going to work some of this into the first chapter of a book - I still might - but decided I want to have this info freely available. That way people who want to write tutorials or instructional material on Reaktor don't have to keep reinventing the wheel to teach the basics.

I'm writing some more advanced tutorials and will be posting them at my blog, reaktortips.blogspot.com, in the coming weeks.

The tutorial is written with the expectation that the user will have at least some nodding acquaintance with the program, has done the very simple build-a-synth tutorial in the manual, and has already configured his audio out and so forth.

Update 1.4: Bug fix. I've added a second step filter before the output of the SeqDriver macro, to trap duplicate events. Also, thanks to Nicolaas Cottenie for catching an error in my explanation of the step filter.

COMMENTS  (21)

Leandro Muñoz
4 years ago
Yes, I`m with Steve Morris, how can I get invited to your blog?
Steve Morris
7 years ago
How do I get an invite to join your blog please?
Jason Corder
8 years ago
this is still super useful!
9 years ago
Nice one! I have a dream! To build a "bass" part sequencer. Basically - a new sequencer / piano roll that works in any host with drag+drop import / export. This is step one!
dave french
13 years ago
Nice one, your tutorial is clear and easy to follow. thanks
Bill Ambrose
14 years ago
brilliant. very helpful thank you
randy adams
15 years ago
Thanks for your hard work . I really appreciate this tutorial.
Scott Baggett
15 years ago
Great tutorial. Thanks for this... it is very much appreciated.
Joshua Rochowiak
16 years ago
Thank you for the work
Marc Hermann
16 years ago
yes yes ! thank you pd !
bill bradley
16 years ago
My first tutorial, very good, easy to read, and fun. The modulo 'remainder' output needed some thinking about though when I switched on the 'information' and aimed it at the wire, took the numbers and did the maths it all became clear. I was rolling around the floor! all those numbers and they work out everytime, I was wowed, thanks.
Mark McDonald
16 years ago
Thank you SO MUCH for putting together this document (Basic Clock Demo). I'm just getting started with Reaktor and this is exactly what I needed! I did find the basic clock structures in other ensembles but had a lot of difficulty deciphering them. This document explains how and why everything works. You've saved me a lot of time in experimentation!
Peter Dines
17 years ago
Good catch, Nicolaas. I'm updating the PDF accordingly.
Russell Stolp
17 years ago
This tutorial is 100% gold. You should have wrote the Reaktor manual!
Nicolaas Cottenie
17 years ago
I think there's a small mistake on page 4: it says that the default Tol value of a Step Filter is 1, while it's 0, which means that with nothing connected it blocks events with the same value as the previous event. In this example that has the same result as if you put a 1, but it's not the same when you work with non-integer values. At least i think...
Angela Mitchell
17 years ago
Diva L (2007-01-04 14:55) thanks for this explanation i look forward to more in the future
mike stacey
17 years ago
great work. very well written and laid out. something that is much needed in the reaktor world.
Richard Figone
17 years ago
This is a very well written and very descriptive tutorial. thank you for the time to help people like me understand these nifty tickers!
CC4
17 years ago
Nice explanation for someone who may need it.
Phil Durrant
17 years ago
thanks Peter, looking forward to more tutorials.
tymes2
17 years ago
Thanks Peter! I think it's cool that recently this tutorial thing started happening. The time and effort that went into this is much appreciated!
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