d'cota?

would it be possible to make a synth like steinberg's d'cota in reaktor or say in max/msp. Thanks for any replies

 

Depends. From what I've read of it, I'm sure you could get a lot of the same sort of sounds and a similar editing experience from something like JWH's 3X (in the user lib).

The other thing is that d'cota aims to be a jack-of-all-trades sort of instrument. When I started with reaktor I tended towards trying to build those kinds of things. As time went on, I found it was a much better use of time to make much smaller, more specific sinstruments, and just pick and chose which one I want in whatever particular case.
The "uber-synth" concept isn't always the best way to go in Reaktor, but that's not a bad thing because you have a huge library of synths that are all free - you don't have to have just one.

Layered multi-tembral sounds, however, are a pain to do in Reaktor no matter how you slice it. An instrument that could do a FM bell with a piano sample and slow pad swell all playing at the same time woudl be a huge CPU hog and a real bitch to program. You'd be better off running three synths in one ensemble, which is also not pretty. For something like that, something like d"Cota is probably a better choice. OTOH, I personally find those sorts of layered sounds to be somewhat genre-specific (cheezy movie soundtrack music comes to mind).

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