RAZOR
by Native Instruments
À LA POINTE
- Synthèse additive dynamique et détaillée – aussi précise qu'un RAZOR
- Flexibilité sonore extrême pour un sound design sans limite
- Commandes soustractives intuitives et retour visuel unique
SYNTHÉTISEUR ULTRA-PRÉCIS
Le laboratoire de synthèse additive révolutionnaire RAZOR offre un son puissant et un contrôle sonore de pointe.
LE SON DE LA SYNTHÈSE ADDITIVE
Dans la synthèse additive, le son est fabriqué à partir de partiels – des ondes sinusoïdales uniques déclenchées en parallèle, dont l'amplitude et même la fréquence changent avec le temps. Le son qui en résulte reste clair et précis à tout moment, même quand il est fortement modulé.
Le moteur additif de RAZOR comprend jusqu'à 320 partiels. Tout ce que tu entends – les filtres, l'imagerie stéréo, même les réverbérations et les délais – est créé en manipulant ces sinusoïdes individuelles. Cela donne à RAZOR un son franc, de haute résolution, clairement différent des autres synthétiseurs logiciels.
LE FIL DU RAZOR
Au-delà de la qualité sonore exceptionnelle, le niveau de contrôle de la synthèse additive offre une multitude de nouvelles possibilités pour façonner le son. Voici quelques exemples de possibilités dans RAZOR :
- Filtres créatifs – des pentes et des boosts variables
- Dissonance – de la modulation de partiels individuels à la compression de l'ensemble du son
- Réverbération par partiel – la queue de la réverbération suit la hauteur du son (pitch)
- Panoramique du partiel – faire un panoramique sur le spectre de fréquence séparément
- Formants complexes – comme les filtres et les oscillateurs
- Echo steps – créer des échos évolutifs
- Vocodeur – un vocodeur à 34 bandes exceptionnel
Plus d'informations : Errorsmith sur RAZOR
CONÇU POUR LES MUSICIENS
L'interface de RAZOR s'inspire des concepts familiers des synthétiseurs « traditionnels ». Tu reconnaitras les oscillateurs, la section de filtrage et beaucoup d'autres paramètres, mais les options sont nouvelles – les réglages du formant ou du waterbed, par exemple. Cette combinaison de nouveautés et de familier rend la création de sons étonnamment simple.
RAZOR a été conçu pour les musiciens, pas pour les scientifiques. L'ensemble de l'interface est compact et ciblé, avec un cadre de modulation interne clair et un large affichage graphique. Lorsque tu crées des sons, cet affichage offre un retour visuel utile et de superbes graphismes en 3D.
DES COMMANDES MACROS HAUTE PERFORMANCE
Un mode d'affichage performance offre huit commandes macro, pré-mappées sur les filtres, les oscillateurs, la modulation et les effets de chaque preset. Il te suffit de mapper les macros de RAZOR aux huit potards de ton contrôleur. Et lorsque tu utilises RAZOR dans MASCHINE, ces macro sont automatiquement mappés aux huit potards du contrôleur – un contrôle du matériel instantané, en toute facilité.
DES COMMANDES MACROS HAUTE PERFORMANCE
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."
NOUVEAUTÉS DE LA VERSION 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 - le laboratoire de synthèse additive reconnu est mis à jour avec de nouveaux modules de sculpture sonore pour une manipulation audio de pointe et un contrôle physique inégalé avec MASCHINE 2.0.
NOUVEAUX PRESETS ET MISES À JOUR
Plus de 100 nouvelles mélodies, basses et sons uniques - nombre d'eux conçu par Errorsmith, le génie de RAZOR. Les paramètres clés des presets existants sont désormais mis à jour et pré-assignés avec soin aux huit Macro contrôles pour une intégration parfaite avec MASCHINE 2.0. Découvrez de nouveaux sons et boostez votre créativité - les presets sont désormais optimisés pour la performance sur MASCHINE.
DOUZE NOUVEAUX MODULES
Élargissez vos horizons sonores avec douze nouveaux modules inspirants. Un nouveau filtre produit des ondes de filtering pas commun pour des sons aventureux et extraordinaires. Ajoutez de la texture – le module de distorsion donne une touche de brut. Huit modules de dissonance différents allant de la modulation de fréquence au stretching de fréquence métallique et la manipulation du pitch. Ajoutez de l'intensité et du punch avec des effets dynamiques alors que les réverbs stéréo vous portent vers des territoires inconnus.
Plus d'infos :Errorsmith sur RAZOR...
L'INTÉGRATION MASCHINE OPTIMALE
Un parfait contrôle physique. Un workflow MASCHINE inégalé. RAZOR 1.5 offre désormais un système de Macro contrôle qui mappe des paramètres uniques ou multiples directement aux huit curseurs de MASCHINE. L'affichage Performance compact de la bande plug-in de MASCHINE 2.0 offre une interface ergonomique pour un retour visuel précis.
RAZOR
Créé par le producteur non conformiste de Berlin Errorsmith, RAZOR est un synthétiseur additif avec un son unique, précis et dynamique.
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