Where are all the articles on "Top Reaktor Ensembles"?!?

Who runs the NI blog? I had a whole bunch of articles bookmarked for whenever I wanted to check out a recommended Reaktor ensemble but I now only see a few posts. They were very helpful in choosing from the thousands of ensembles available in the UL. Nobody has time to try ALL of them. And most of the more popular ones are very generic in terms of function. I don't plan to build in Reaktor but have always loved it for its modular design which welcomes experimentation. I've searched the web for top reaktor ensembles and found some good stuff here and there. And I was real excited that NI was making lists of "Top 10 Reaktor Ensembles". Hope someone from NI sees this and puts back all the old posts. And hopefully they continue to make more!


And since I'm here does anybody have any weird and experimental ensembles that they recommend? Also who are your favorite Reaktor builders that you can purchase ensembles from? I have Twisted Tools' S-Layer and love it! Also looking at Tonstrum's Whoosh.

 

I'm a sound designer and prefer the genre AmbieGarde. This is a new word from ambient and avant-garde.
My free music is here:
https://archive.org/details/@p_amca

My Reaktor monsters are free also. So you can't purchase them:
https://www.native-instruments.com/de/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/all/all/all/275215/

 

Totally agree—what could possibly be the advantage to anyone from taking down all those great lists!?

You can find MY list of great brilliant weird UL stuff just by searching with my name and looking at the ensembles I've made snap sets for. Each one was so engaging and fun that I couldn't resist spending hours, and sometimes days, with them—And often return to…

Here's a builder AND a snap-maker for other makers, all of whose creations are well worth exploring, both for themselves and as a guide to other stuff not to miss. Paule. EDIT: Well, see…^^^

Also don't miss the UL sorting options for viewing the entire collection—instant lists of all the don't miss devices as well as best builders:



For-sale builders I ALWAYS check out and have often bought from, in no particular order: EverythingTurns, https://www.blinksonic.com, https://k-teck.co.uk/reaktor, https://www.deepdataloops.org/downloads/category/reaktor-patches/, and of course: ToyBox!

One common problem I've found with UL devices is that they are very often incomprehensible on first encounter and even more often, not explained at all. Here's one particularly notable exception, also from a great builder of both UL and for-sale stuff: Michael O'Hagan.

Here's another useful YT search result.

And btw, do NOT miss Boscomac.

 

They're still there aren't they? You just need to browse the Reaktor tag in the blog:

https://blog.native-instruments.com/category/reaktor/

 

Ahh…thanks for that!

 

Yeah they left SOME articles. But I had a whole bunch more saved that I can’t find. Like “Top 10 IDM ensembles”. I can’t find that list anywhere. There’s a whole bunch more missing.

 

You are right - One of my instruments was in a top 10 article (fame at last). That one's gone

 

https://blog.native-instruments.com/
type in the searching line Reaktor than there are more as in the above link


First click the magnifying glass (lens)

or use

on the bottom of the page

 

The listing for 3 months rankings appeared to be broken.
For example
Mono Fm by gentleclockdivider is not in the list.

 

fascinating thread.

 

I used to have an ensemble featured in that blog, I didn't know someone had written it.
When I read what they wrote about my ensemble, I deleted it from the U/L.

 

Which one, and why?

 

I think that's because it's actually a few years old .
Recently I just added a bugfix + a small new feature so it can't really be considered a new ensemble

 

wow.

 

If the link is the same?