(SB) Agent Orange v1.5.7

Virtual Analog Synth

(39 Votes)
1.5.7 (Updated 3 weeks ago)
68.1MB
July 05, 2025
Reaktor 6

DESCRIPTION

(SB) Agent Orange is a virtual analog synthesizer with all the effects and modulation options you could wish for to create a wide spectrum of sounds.

Features:

Sound generation:
- 2 oscillators with 4 mixable waveforms (Sine, Triangle, Saw & Pulse), filter (HP, BP & LP) per oscillator. Wavefolding on the sine and triangle waves. PWM.
- Oscillator 1 features a supersaw generator with detune and mix control.
- Oscillator 2 features 4 harmonic generators.
- RM, FM (Osc1 > Osc2).
- Sub oscillator (morphable pulse, triangle and saw waves) with dedicated low pass filter.
- Oscillator mixer with phase invert, bass boost and ringmod & FM control.
- Texture generator with 20 different texture sounds. Low and highpass filters. Sound output is switchable between constantly playing or controlled by the dedicated envelope.
- White/Pinknoise generator with dedicated envelope and low/highpass filters.
- Main filter with 9 filtermodes, key follow, filter envelope & poly saturation.

Modulation:
- Oscillator envelope with control over pitch, PWM rate, osc filters & RM/FM.
- 2 multi-wave mod LFO's with carefully chosen destinations. Restart, invert, fade in & out and tempo syncing.
- 2 Mod envelopes with carefully chosen destinations. Mod envelope 1 contains various synth targets (polyphonic) while mod envelope 2 contains FX targets (monophonic).

Effects:
- Tremolo.
- Distortion effect section (Lofi, tube, crunch and overdrive).
- FX module with 3 effects sections:

Mod:
- Chorus.
- Phaser.
- Flanger.
- Frequency shifter.

Delay:
- Stereo delay with tempo sync, High/lowpass feedback filters with resonance control.

Reverb (2 types):
- Altered microspace reverb with pre delay, Low/highpass filters & lofi effect.
- Metaverb.

- Output section with saturation, high pass filter, volume & pan, width, EQ and brickwall limiter.
- Midi section with poly, mono and various arpeggiator modes (the arpeggiator only works when host is running.

- Agent Orange has been NKS mapped for use in Komplete Kontrol & Maschine Software.
(NKS mapping has been done by Stephen Wey aka Kymeia on the Reaktor forums)



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Update History:

1.5.7:
- CPU optimizations
- Minor visual updates

1.5.6:
- Agent Orange has been NKS mapped for use in Komplete Kontrol & Maschine Software

1.5.5:
- All presets now contain "NI Meta Info" so the presets will show up in Komplete Kontrol and Maschine software (Save the ensemble in the User content/Reaktor folder). The next update of Agent Orange will have a more thorough NKS implementation with panelsets set up.

1.5.4:
- Fixed: Sustain was not connected in the MOD ENV's.
- Added RAMP and NOISE waves to the MODLFO's.
- Added Invert switches to the MODLFO's.
- Added PRO52, NOTCH, BUTTERWORTH2 LP4, LP6 & LP8 filters.
- Added a FLANGER to the FX>MOD section.
- The FREQUENCY SHIFTER has been updated with a quality control.
- Added a highpass filter to the AMP.
- Visual update.

1.5.3:
- Altered the preset library to be more uniform in volume.
- Added more presets.
- Added a keytracking Off/On switch to oscillator 1&2. With keytracking off, the pitch will default to 60 (middle C) and is adjustable with the SEMI and FINE controls.
- Minor filter updates.
- NOIZ upgrades: Choice between white/pink noise & dedicated A/D envelope.
- Extra harmonic oscillator added to Oscillator 2.
- Various visual & performance updates.

1.5.2:
- Fixed MOD LFO & OSC ENV destination knobs staying active when the LFO / envelope is turned off.
- Added switches to change the response of the AMP ENV, OSC MIX and FILTER ENV knobs from linear to exponential.
- Added a Bass Boost option to the OSC MIX.
- Updated MAIN FILTER (exclusively oversampled, better cpu optimization)
- Chorus effect is now single band with more added controls.
- Added 'CRUNCH'. An aggressive kind of distortion effect.
- Various visual and optimization work done..

-v1.5.1 Update:
-Fixed Main Filter keytracking calculation.
-Fixed 'Osc Mix' displayed values.

COMMENTS  (44)

Stephen Wey
2 months ago
Can someone confirm if the NKS mapping also works in Maschine +? In theory it should but I don't have one to test on
Sunborn
2 months ago
btw, here is an article i wrote on how to turn user ensembles into fully NKS: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/28591/create-nks-compatible-reaktor-ensembles
Sunborn
2 months ago
Nice one, thank you!
SampleBasement
2 months ago
Just updated to 1.5.5 which has the "NI Meta Info" added to all the presets. In the next update there will be a more thorough implementation of NKS :)
SampleBasement
2 months ago
The way to have the presets pop up in Komplete Kontrol and possibly Maschine is to add "NI Meta Info" to the patches in Reaktor. In Edit mode you can select all the patches in the banks and set it for all of them at the same time by pressing right mousebutton and setting the "NI Meta Info" to "Instrument". Then save the ensemble in the User Content/Reaktor folder. Now the presets will pop up in the user section of Komplete Kontrol. I am looking into making the synth work nicely in NKS but till i get that all done you can use this way to atleast already have the presets showing up :)
Brian OSullivan
2 months ago
So I'm in Logic, and I have Agent Orange 1.5.4 as a user ensemble loaded into Komplete Kontrol (so I can use my KK S61's knobs to control it, rather than just Reaktor because the S61 knobs don't seem to work that way), and I wish to scroll through the presets that I tagged in the ensemble but I CAN'T! Whenever I try scrolling through them using the window on the top of KK, it changes ensembles rather than the ensemble's presets. This may be a KK question rather than an Agent Orange one, but is there any insight here? The synth sounds fantastic, it may be my go-to if I can figure this stuff out.
Albert Hoffmann
2 months ago
a Maschine+ version possible?
SampleBasement
2 months ago
Haha just having fun. Reaktor keeps amazing me. It´s just an awesome platform with an awesome community :D
Andres Villarroya
2 months ago
The Clockwork Orange of the Community xD
Sven Kretzschmar
2 months ago
Expert in expectation SB ;-)
SampleBasement
2 months ago
I'm very glad you got it to work now and that you are enjoying it. Stay tuned because i'm far from done with developing this synth :D
Sven Kretzschmar
2 months ago
Hi SB. Now works with version 1.5.2. And is a world of sound !! You can create beautiful Klangteppische with it. Thank you for sharing !! Great Ens ;-)
Brett Lavallee
3 months ago
Good Old Times.
Andres Villarroya
3 months ago
I love those presets, they make it a good synth, good job bro!
SampleBasement
3 months ago
@Steven Sauve: Thank you so much! Really happy you like it like that. It is pretty amazing how much you can do with this synth. I feel like the sound is very organic and alive. A lot of VST synths sound kind of plasticy and kind of caged in but that's not the case here. There's another update coming with a few needed fixes and a few more goodies.
Steven Sauve
3 months ago
This was great when the first beta came out, now it's brilliant! So many sonic possibilities.
SampleBasement
3 months ago
Glad you like it! Been a very fun and educational journey. Lot´s of learning and grinding haha. On to working on some under the hood improvements i am figuring out but for the time being i´m very happy with it :D
bindlestiff
3 months ago
This is such an excellent build, a real beauty! Only, hey - what does today's update intro? ty!
SampleBasement
3 months ago
@Sven Kretzschmar: That is very strange. The ensemble has been made in Reaktor 6. Did you get it to open in the meantime?
Sven Kretzschmar
3 months ago
Hello . Hmm... It cannot be opened with R6. What do i have to do ?
SampleBasement
3 months ago
Thanks a lot guys! Glad to hear that. Just uploaded a version with your bugfix Jon :D Thanks a lot for pointing that out. Totally didn't catch it yet
Goremall
3 months ago
Great Updates man! Glad to have some more snapshots! I sent you a reply on Facebook for a quick bug fix.
Andres Villarroya
4 months ago
Good job bro!
SampleBasement
4 months ago
Yes not all controls are automatable in the beta version that's here now. I am planning to upload a new one within a week or two which will have most (some parameters don't really make sense to automate) things automatable. I've been updating a lot of stuff to make everything work more tightly plus i've added a bunch of very useful new things which really elevate the synth more :) In the meantime i've also added a bunch of presets.
terb 30707-58113-91774-95104-53500
4 months ago
Hey SB, Ableton live is detecting automation now. Cheers for the fix. Some parameters don't have the automation enable box ticked, but thats easy to do if people want.
bar max
4 months ago
Great sound. Nice presets. Very usable. Definitely a keeper.
SampleBasement
4 months ago
@Goremall: Means a lot coming from you! Still putting the dots on the i but i'm making good progress with the final patch library. Check back within a few weeks for the final version :D
Goremall
4 months ago
Sounds great! neat interface too, very easy to use and mod sounds.
windplayer
4 months ago
Thank you! :-)
SampleBasement
4 months ago
Please download again. It's fixed now :)
SampleBasement
4 months ago
Ah i see. The synth works as expected but the unembedded sample is still requested. On to getting that fixed. Thanks for checking :)
SampleBasement
4 months ago
@windplayer: Can you please check if beta 4 (just uploaded) works? On my end the sample is embedded in the ensemble and working without having to press a midi key after starting the synth.
windplayer
4 months ago
No, unfortunately not. I have still this message. I tried both Reaktor 6 versions (vst and vst3 - Windows).
SampleBasement
4 months ago
@windplayer: It does load corrctly now, right?
windplayer
5 months ago
Oh, I see, others had the same problem with a missing sample. I did not read all of the comments.
Patrick van Raalten
5 months ago
Very nice synth and love the UI with the color scheme and knobs! Great range of sound design possibilities. Thank you and keep up the good work!
windplayer
5 months ago
The synth sounds fine; but when loading into Reaktor 6, there is a message: "Some external samples cannot be found... A0_Texture_06.wav"
SampleBasement
5 months ago
The sample is now working and is embedded in the synth. At the moment after loading the synth a midi note (doesn't matter which one) has to be triggered for the vinyl sample (just turn up the vinyl knob in the NOIZ section to hear and use it) to start playing. I am about to upload b3 which has all the automatible controls nicely named for display in your DAW. Now it's on to adding more presets :)
Dexter U.S.
5 months ago
I didn't get the sample I received the .ens .... sounds fine without it. the reverb was something I liked alot.
SampleBasement
5 months ago
I'm going to look into it. I dont have Live but if it is a problem with the ensemble it should also show in Reaper. Thanks for checking it out :)
terb 30707-58113-91774-95104-53500
5 months ago
Thanks for the upload, one thing that I notice. In ableton live you cant get live to learn the knobs/parameters (like cutoff). In edit mode > properties > connect TAB, it looks like you have automation enabled, but somethings stopping it from working. I did get the cutoff to respond when setting its value to 74, but none of the others worked when trying similar. Any ideas?
SampleBasement
5 months ago
Just uploaded a fixed version which has the sample embedded. Please let me know if it works now :)
SampleBasement
5 months ago
Thanks! Hmmm that's the vinyl sample for the noise section. I thought it would be included automatically. I'm going to check into it. For now i will upload a new zipfile and include de sample in there :)
Steven Watkins
5 months ago
I got this message when loading: Some external samples cannot be found ( 1 remain missing. Would you like to locate /Users/steve/Documents/Native Instruments/Reaktor 6/Ensembles/Sample Material/Final Texture Samples/AO_Texture_06.wav now?
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