RAZOR
by Native Instruments
THE CUTTING EDGE
- Síntesis aditiva dinámica detallada, con toda la potencia de RAZOR
- Extrema flexibilidad y versatilidad sonora para crear cualquier sonido
- Controles sustractivos fáciles de usar con información visual única
SINTETIZADOR SUPERPRECISO
El revolucionario sistema todoterreno de síntesis aditiva que es RAZOR ofrece un sonido potente y un control sonoro nunca visto.
EL SONIDO DE LA SÍNTESIS ADITIVA
En la síntesis aditiva, el sonido se construye a partir de parciales: ondas sinusoidales que se lanzan en paralelo, cambiando su amplitud e incluso su frecuencia con el tiempo. El sonido resultante siempre permanece claro y preciso aunque se module hasta el extremo.
El motor aditivo de RAZOR se compone de hasta 320 parciales. Todo lo que oyes (los filtros, la imagen estéreo e incluso la reverberación y los delays) se crea manipulando cada una de estas ondas sinusoidales. Esto da a RAZOR un sonido de alta resolución con un gran presencia, claramente diferente a otros sintetizadores de software.
RAZOR: PRECISO COMO UN BISTURÍ
Aparte de su espectacular calidad sonora, el nivel de control de la síntesis aditiva proporciona toda una serie de nuevas posibilidades para crear sonidos. Aquí hay algunos ejemplos de lo que se puede hacer con RAZOR:
- Filtros creativos - pendientes y boosts variables
- Disonancia – desde la modulación de parciales individuales a la compresión de todo el sonido
- Reverberación por parcial – la cola de reverberación sigue al tono
- Panorama de parciales – controla por separado la posición en el panorama estéreo de ciertas partes del espectro de frecuencias
- Formantes complejas - como filtros y osciladores
- Eco por pasos – crea ecos envolventes
- Vocoder – un excepcional vocoder de 34 bandas
Más información... Errorsmith habla sobre RAZOR
DISEÑADO PARA MÚSICOS
La interfaz de RAZOR utiliza conceptos habituales de los sintetizadores “tradicionales”. Reconocerás los osciladores, la sección de filtros y muchos otros parámetros, pero las opciones son nuevas: la formante o los ajustes waterbed, por ejemplo. Esta combinación de lo nuevo y lo tradicional hace que crear sonidos sea sorprendentemente fácil.
RAZOR ha sido diseñado por músicos, no por científicos. Toda la interfaz es compacta y sin distracciones, con un sistema interno de modulación fácil de entender y una gran ventana gráfica. Cuando creas un sonido, esta ventana muestra información visual útil y espectaculares gráficos 3D.
MACROS PARA EL DIRECTO
Una vista de interpretación ofrece ocho controles macro preasignados a filtros, osciladores, modulación y efectos en cada preajuste. Solo tienes que asignar las macros de RAZOR a ocho botones o ruedas de tu controlador. Y cuando uses RAZOR dentro de MASCHINE, estas macros se asignan automáticamente a los ocho botones del controlador para que tengas un control sencillo e instantáneo desde el hardware.
MACROS PARA EL DIRECTO
Thanks to its unique sound and sonic depth, RAZOR has earned a formidable reputation, particularly in the bass music community.
"Razor really stands out for me - the phat sound is very unique and 'outside-the-box'."
"Razor is something like a stealth bomber among software synths... Small and inconspicuous, but ridiculously mean when it spits out sounds..."
"This Razor synth is something real different... dead easy to use and above all, attacks the eardrums in a proper way, sharp as fok!"
"It's exactly what a digital synthesizer should be – a tool to sculpt special and interesting sounds. Well, it was built by Errorsmith so I’m not surprised."
"Razor is my favorite virtual synth ever. It's never been this much fun to modulate a sound on the computer."
"Razor sounds great – it will be especially useful for our new album. I'm really excited about the sound!"
ABOUT ERRORSMITH
Errorsmith is a producer and DJ based in Berlin. He is a solo artist, a member of MMM and half of Smith'n'Hack. Errorsmith operates without a label, releasing all his tracks independently through the legendary Berlin record store Hard Wax. He developed RAZOR initially for personal use, using REAKTOR 5. Errorsmith is a REAKTOR ninja – he’s been using it since 1996.
Read on for his personal take on some of the unique features of RAZOR.
GRAPHICAL DISPLAY
"RAZOR's graphical display shows the exact spectrum of the oscillators, filter curves, the stereo spectrum, etc. It provides helpful visual feedback, which makes it easier to set up sounds because you can see exactly how the sound changes. It also shows beautiful animations, especially in 3D mode. Be careful: you might find yourself creating nice 3D graphics with RAZOR and totally forget about making music!"
CREATIVE FILTERS
"Usually, you only get Cutoff and Resonance as filter parameters, but Razor lets you additionally set the resonance width, because I love the sound of broad resonance peaks... You can also set the Filter Slope continuously from 0 db to an extreme -36 db/octave.
Comb filters have repeated notches or peaks over the frequency axis. My simulation of the comb filter found in hardware flangers, though ‘mathematically correct,’ sounded too thin, so I experimented with less spiky shapes and they sounded much better. I also added a continuous blend between flanger and phaser behavior.
The waterbed filter is really new. It simulates ripples on a water surface, creating a filter curve with a rippling shape. It's like an 'organic' phaser. This sound, together with the spectral display, has an instant calming, meditative effect on me. Try it out for yourselves!"
DISSONANCE AND CENTROID
"Dissonance is a great effect for creating tension within a track. Let the sound get more and more dissonant before the drop, then bring back the harmonics. RAZOR comes with some really great dissonance effects!
One which I like for its simplicity and its drastic-ness is the Centroid effect. It gradually de-tunes the partials so they meet at one frequency. Apart from looking cool in 3D, this is one of RAZOR’s signature sounds."
PANNING THE PARTIALS
"Both the stereo pan and the stereo spreader FX pan each partial individually in the stereo field. These effects are great for creating a stereo sensation without altering the basic sound too much. It's amazing how much a simple sound gains from this – it stays 'pure' but sounds broader and fatter."
REVERB IN RAZOR
"Remarkably, RAZOR's reverb is created in the additive engine – a filtered noise is added to the dry signal, similar to the noise tail of 808 claps. Yet it doesn't sound like noise, it sounds like even better reverb: spatial, dense and without the ringing sometimes heard in other reverbs. Even with very short decay times!
As a musical side effect, the reverb tail follows the pitch of the synthesizer voice, so it's pitchable via envelopes, LFOs and dissonance effects. In monophonic mode, this feature is especially useful, as the dry signal and the overlapping reverb tails are always in tune, so even very long decay doesn't muddy up your melody."
SPECTRAL CLIP AND SAFE BASS
"There are two tools in RAZOR that keep the partial amplitude in check. The first is Spectral Clip. It's like a multiband limiter with up to 320 bands - every partial has its own limiter. It's useful when using two modulated filters in sequence, for example, when their resonant frequency overlaps. Set the clipping curve so that the single resonances are just above it (use the spectral display!) and your problem's solved.
The second is Safe Bass. It doesn't boost the bass – it backs it up, adding bass frequencies to fill out the sound and preserve a big low end. This can be very handy – with the Pulse Width oscillator, for example, the sound gets brighter and less bassy as the pulse width gets narrow. Safe Bass irons out this dynamic and keeps the bass energy at a constant level. Even if the pulsewidth gets so narrow that the sound is turned off!"
DELAYS AND ECHO STEPS
"The FX concept in RAZOR is about integrating them into the additive structure to create unique features. Delay is a good example of this approach. In RAZOR, the echoes are created by echoing envelopes instead of audio. Thus, the echo affects only those parameters which are modulated by these envelopes, creating artificial but very musical echoes.
Echo Steps takes this idea even further, changing the effect of the envelope step by step. Use it to create increasingly dissonant echoes, for example, or to pan the echoes independently from left to right."
PSEUDO PITCHBEND AND OVERTONES
"The 'pseudo pitchbend' oscillators don't actually bend the pitch at all. Instead, they give the illusion of pitch bend by filtering out partials that would not be present in the pitch shifted waveform. For example, if set to octave step, the first partial is eliminated, then the third, the fifth etc. This sounds exactly as if the sound had been pitched up an octave. Other pitchbend intervals are approximated – this sounds less polished, and in a way, more interesting.
It's similar to overtone singing, where melodies are created just by shifting formants. Sometimes it has a dissonant character, but this is an illusion – the sound is actually perfectly harmonic. I like this sound a lot."
THE FORMANT SETTING
"The 'Formant' setting in the oscillators and filter 1 is great for organic and complex spectral shapes – in fact, it adds 32 different oscillators and filters to RAZOR! The original idea was to integrate single cycle waveforms. At first I wasn't too sure about this – it seemed to contradict RAZOR's purist approach. But then I experimented with formant shifting – and I was convinced.
Formant shifting is the movement of resonance peaks across the spectrum. It sometimes sounds like shifting the cutoff frequency of a filter – in a way, this oscillator is a hybrid between oscillator and filter. It's a great sound, and a lot of fun. It's a unique RAZOR feature."
NOVEDADES DE LA VERSIÓN 1.5
Errorsmith is a producer and DJ based in Berlin. He is a solo artist, a member of MMM and half of Smith'n'Hack. Errorsmith operates without a label, releasing all his tracks independently through the legendary Berlin record store Hard Wax. He developed RAZOR initially for personal use, using REAKTOR 5. Errorsmith is a REAKTOR ninja – he’s been using it since 1996.
Read on for his personal take on some of the unique features of RAZOR.
RAZOR: la aclamada unidad de síntesis aditiva, se ha actualizado con nuevos módulos de creación de sonidos para una manipulación de sonido de última generación y control físico inigualable con MASCHINE 2.0.
PREAJUSTES NUEVOS Y ACTUALIZADOS
Más de 100 principales, bajos y sonidos únicos nuevos: muchos de ellos diseñados por el genio de RAZOR Errorsmith. Los parámetros clave de los preajustes existentes ahora se han actualizado y se pre-asignan cuidadosamente a ocho controles de macros para una integración perfecta con MASCHINE 2.0. Descubre nuevos sonidos y revitaliza tu proceso creativo: los preajustes ahora se han optimizado para un mejor rendimiento en MASCHINE.
DOCE MÓDULOS NUEVOS
Expande tus horizontes sonoros con doce inspiradores módulos nuevos. Un nuevo filtro multimodo ofrece formas inusuales para el filtering irregular y sonidos atrevidos. Dale textura a tu sonido: el módulo de distorsión añade un toque brusco. Ocho módulos de disonancia diferentes que van de modulación de frecuencia a expansión de frecuencia metálica a manipulación de pitch. Dale más intensidad y ritmo a tus efectos dinámicos mientras las reverberaciones estéreo te llevan a espacios inexplorados.
Más información:Errorsmith sobre RAZOR...
LA MEJOR INTEGRACIÓN CON MASCHINE
Control físico impecable. Flujo de trabajo en MASCHINE inigualable. RAZOR 1.5 ahora ofrece un sistema de control de macros que asigna uno o varios parámetros a los ocho mandos de control de MASCHINE. La vista de rendimiento compacta en la banda de plug-ins de MASCHINE 2.0 ofrece una interfaz que ahorra espacio para una información visual concentrada.
RAZOR
Creado por el inconformista productor de Berlín Errorsmith, RAZOR es un sintetizador aditivo con un sonido único, con un sonido único, preciso y dinámico.
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