Here’s a little New Year’s Eve gift for Reaktor users. This macro provides both a MIDI value knob (0-127) and Note/Octave menus. The controls are linked, so turning the knob will update the menu selections and vice versa. This will make adding intuitive, readable MIDI note and value controls to your Reaktor instruments much easier.
Usage:
Click here to download the macro.
Logic Pro’s Environment is a source of confusion, frustration and even fear for many users. However, for the most part, it isn’t really that complicated. The Environment provides a powerful, modular system for realtime processing of MIDI messages. All the work is done by a small group of specialized objects that you connect with virtual cables, similar to a modular synthesizer. Most tasks require nothing more than a (very) basic understanding of MIDI.
If you’re new to the Environment and/or MIDI, you might find this project a bit ambitious. Don’t let that discourage you. Each step will be explained in detail, and along the way you’ll learn several tricks that you can use to make your own Environment projects more powerful and easier to use.
Download the Logic Pro 9 project archive for this tutorial here.
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen photos and heard audio clips documenting my pet project of the last few weeks, an 8-step sequencer and voltage controlled oscillator based on projects from the book Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins (Routledge ISBN: 978-0-415-99873-4).
The following video shows the first run of the finished instrument. It features voltage/frequency controls for each step, tempo control, oscillator minimum/maximum frequency controls, and hold/mute/restart buttons.
Click here to watch this video on YouTube
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