Vintage Sampler & Vintage Sampler Lite (free)

These blocks have the ability to ‘sample’ audio from their input port (like a real hardware sampler), for independent recording and playing back of samples. The controls have been laid out to make jamming with a sample very easy and fun!

A high-quality playback engine allows click-free looping, juggling and granulizing of samples using the ‘crossfade’ control. Plus there are 5 different FM modes including a ‘scratch’ mode for scratching effect.

The blocks feature a fantastic GUI designed by Christian Schneider from Sonidiom (who also designed the GUI for the Toybox Sequential Switch, which is also in the free User Blocks Pack). Of course, being modular, all functions (including arming, recording, scratching etc.) can be modulated using the other blocks in the User Blocks Pack.

The ‘Vintage Sampler’ block features high quality modelling of a variety of vintage hardware samplers (not available in the ‘Lite’ version). A lot of work has gone into accurately emulating the signal path of several vintage units. The sampler has 5 different ‘models’ which can be selected from the block’s ‘Options’ page: TOY1, TOY2, 80s, 90s and CLEAN.

Pricing and Availability

The ‘Vintage Sampler Lite‘ block is available for free as part of the Toybox User Blocks Pack, and the ‘Vintage Sampler‘ block can be purchased for $19 (or just $14.25 using the current SPOOKY25 discount). Reaktor 6.4 (not the player version) is required to use either block as they are both ‘User Blocks’.

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Flintpope launches REICHIAN V2

REICHIAN is an unusual rhythm maker for REAKTOR 6 that doesn’t use drums. It is almost as if minimalist composer Steve Reich (and not the therapist Wilhelm Reich) started working in Acid House. Thanks to the blocks makers who invented the Dattoro Reverb and the Resonating Wood Oscillator, the latter which lends a distinctive percussive clank when needed.

REICHIAN Version 2 features 48 presets (including the original 24) reached by double-clicking “Embedded” in the presets side-pane.

It also features a cleaner, annotated GUI that follows the signal flow and the modwheel is now wired to FM and preset B (user setting). All tempos have been set to 104 bpm across the instrument but like everything else in a Blocks ensemble it is up to the user to do what they like with it.

Also try out a dedicated sample set made by Flintpope here at sounds.

Flintpope released Formant Related Entropic Devolver (FRED) for REAKTOR 6

Flintpope released Formant Related Entropic Devolver (FRED) for REAKTOR 6 by Native Instruments.

Formant Related Entropic Devolver (FRED) is a pair of doubled-up formant oscillators tuned as a bass and a lead that play against each other to produce a surprising range of tones, albeit with a distinct audio signature.

FRED can give you acidic leads and basses as well as a weird array of soundscape capabilities. FRED has 40 presets accessed in the drop-down up top and has an A/B GUI, the latter being a bit darker.