


The controllers for the ADSR envelope, which again affects both the filter and amplitude, as well as the knobs to the right for controlling the filter, correspond to those we got to know in SynthOne. LFO rate sets the speed, and Depth the amount of LFO modulation. The pulse width of both oscillators is set with PWidth and can also be modulated with the LFO. The tuning of the second Oscillator can be controlled relative to the first one, coarsely with the knob labelled Interval, and finely with the Fine knob. The Pad synth contains two oscillators that both generate a pulse-wave. Together with the panels for Pad and Stereo Echo you see all control elements of the Ensemble. The panel of the Master Instrument gives access to two knobs: Main for controlling the master volume of the Ensemble, and Tune for setting the master tuning. If you want to do this you will need to switch back to the panel view. You can play the Ensemble with the Structure window open (as pressing a key on your MIDI instrument will show), but you won’t be able to play around with any of the knobs and sliders to edit the sounds – which of course is not much fun. Double click on the background of any of these to back to the Ensemble Structure view. Take a look at what’s going on behind the scenes at each stage of the Ensemble by double clicking in the panel view first on Pad, then on Echo Stereo and finally on Master.
REAKTOR BLOCKS WIRED TUTORIAL WINDOWS
You can switch between the Structure and Panel windows by double-clicking the black background of the Panel window, or double-clicking the dark grey background of the Structure window. The other is that Reaktor is not restricted just to Synthesisers, because Echo Stereo is an effects unit.

Take a look at the structure of the Padecho Ensemble and you’ll notice a couple of important things that we talked about last week one is that an Ensemble can consist of more than one Instrument. Their counterpart, who is also present in every Ensemble, is the Audio In module, which represent the audio inputs of your sound card (or the Plug-In connection if you use Reaktor as an Insert Effect in your host sequencer). They represent the physical outputs that your soundcard has or the Plug-In connections to your DAW and are the software’s connection to the rest of the world. You will find these Audio Out modules in every Ensemble.
