

#Steampipe reaktor pro
I Had a Dream, draft 1, ACID Pro screen shot. This is a very heady experience for someone who, for decades, has been producing art in the closet. “I Had a Dream” was the second recording I’d make (again, very quickly) that was immediately posted on SoundCloud, potentially for the world to hear (realistically it was probably less than ten people). After lunch I recorded the vocal and threw in one more Reaktor track, the ensemble Carbon preset X the Scornopier.Īs always, I then tweaked the mix, adjusting levels and panning the sounds. They were quickly jotted down on paper and, according to my notes, I went to lunch to let it gestate. I think the words had been percolating in my mind as I laid out the sounds. Following this I did yet another drone with another Reaktor ensemble, Gaugear, with the preset Far Away. I then threw in a couple of my own loops made with children’s toys, Magic Mic and Sonic Splash. The next track was a drone in another Reaktor ensemble, Steam Pipe 2, the preset Dark Wave Pad. I think I used one of the presets, edited, and added a synth organ/calliope sound last time.I definitely would have bought a sampled calliope if I could have found one at the time of that project. I have a feeling one could program something helpful there. Native Instruments, Reaktor 5, Space Drone screen shot. Theres a template within Reaktor called Steampipe. If you need steam bad I recommend leaving the reactor steam inside the reactor and only extract the heat then pipe into a massive boiler that actually can produce steam reliably. I think I did this with Reaktor in stand alone mode, saving the performance as a WAV file then opening it in ACID. Make a sink and transport water into reactor port. It’s that tinkling sound like icy snow being blown against a window.

Initially I was in Native Instruments’ Reaktor, an ensemble called Space Drone, twisting virtual knobs as the file recorded. It was just a flow of words inspired by the sounds I’d been playing with. Of course it wasn’t a real dream, as Gabor (from Hungary) so quickly pointed out.
