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Reaktor Quantizer Block

Discussion in 'REAKTOR' started by Nedim, Oct 19, 2018.

  1. Nedim

    Nedim NI Product Owner

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    Hello, is there any actual Quantizer Block for Reaktor in the real sense such
    as Quantizers in the Eurorack format such as uScale, TipTop Quantizer, ADDAC
    and many others? I tried looking but nothing so far.

    Thanks
     
  2. Jonathan Tremblay

    Jonathan Tremblay NI Product Owner

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    Like the stock Digilog Quantize block?
     
  3. Nedim

    Nedim NI Product Owner

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    Hey Jonathan yes something similar. I tried the Digilog but it does not
    behave as a Quantizer. Even if you shut all of the Notes on the Scale
    it is still sending out Quantized, you can not confine it.

    Thanks
     
  4. Philippe

    Philippe Well-Known Member

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    So you want a Quantizer with a bypass ?
     
  5. colB

    colB NI Product Owner

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    I think the problem is that with all notes deactivated, the quantizer shouldn't send out gates. But it does if you play notes greater than an octave apart.

    I was trying to think why this would be a problem. I suppose if you were performing live using this, you might switch notes on and off, and close off the whole stream by switching them all off. In that case it would be a faff to add extra blocks purely to close off the stream when the quantizer should do it.

    It should be possible to fix the problem, but the internal logic would have to be reverse engineered to find it.
     
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  6. colB

    colB NI Product Owner

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    Nedim This fixes the all notes off gate problem, but it's not fully tested, so it might break other functionality.
    You should check it out, and if it seems to work, thoroughly test all the other functions and report back :)

    EDIT: hmm. Still not quite there. This only partly fixes the problem... will take another look when I have time.
     

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  7. colB

    colB NI Product Owner

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    OK, maybe this does it?

    Kind of annoying fix. Like patching wire jumpers onto an SMD circuit board. That or a re-write.
    It's one of the problems with the NI style of macroizing code to the Nth degree... it looks pretty, but if there's a bug caused by a conceptual design issue, then it's harder to reverse engineer. And to have it look as 'nice' after the fix is often impossible without de-macroizing half of the code, then re-macroizing it... life is too short!
     

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  8. colB

    colB NI Product Owner

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    It pretty good fun playing with this. Driving it with an LFO. Using it's gate out to control an envelope/VCA... Switch off all the notes on the quantizer, then you can bring in the ARP effect just by turning on some notes... then get rid of it by turning them off. It's a nice way to use the quantizer.