Re: Reaktor

["Mark Smart" <mwsmart@insightbb.com>]

After looking around at Reaktor 4, yes, it would be difficult to implement 
a
looper without multiple tape deck modules! But in Reaktor 5 they have the 
new
Reaktor Core capability which lets you get down to a lower level with the
function blocks. There is a memory read and write module that looks like it
would work, because you can read and write from different locations
simultaneously. I have Reaktor 5 but can't use it till my NeKo gets here. 
But
I'm anxious to try it.

Mark Smart
http://www.marksmart.net/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Larson" <Jeffrey.Larson@Sun.COM>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Reaktor


> mwsmart@insightbb.com wrote:
> > If you want to have undo capability, then they have to be recorded on
separate
> > decks (this is what's happening inside the Echoplex, of course).
>
> No not really.  The Echoplex is more like one "deck" with a really long
> piece of tape and a feedback loop that allows you to copy things that
> have already been played and merge them with what is being recorded.
> Undo is just "rewinding" the tape.
>
>  > But rearranging it so that one Tapedeck's playback gets mixed with the
input
> > and recorded into a different Tapedeck would be trivial. You could 
>probably
> > set it up so that it ping-pongs between:
>
> That's closer but you don't get "undo to zero".  You could only undo
> back one loop if you were ping-ponging between two decks.  With the 
>Echoplex
> (subject to memory restrictions and certain functions) you can create any
number
> of overdubs, then stop and use Long Undo or Loop Windowing to seamlessly 
>step
> back in time until you've returned to the very first loop you recorded.
>
> Jeff
>