Native Instruments Reaktor (Macintosh and Windows)

Completely modular sound-design studio.

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 9 out of 10
Value:: 8 out of 10
I Want It:: 8 out of 10
Sound:: 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 6 out of 10
Support:: 7 out of 10

"It will make you cry. First out of frustration trying to learn everything then out of joy when everything starts making sense."

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 8 out of 10
Sound:: 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 7 out of 10
Support:: 5 out of 10

User: a customer from gmail.com

Submitted: 9/6/2007

Style of Music: Breakbeat Techno, Dowm-tempo http://www.myspace.com/samdadds

Musical Experience: Overly Enthusiastic Hobbyist

Location: United States

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Feature:
So many with some much more potential its VERY intimidating.

Quality:
This is the best piece of software I own. Now if they would just integrate Battery into it...

Value:
Is it possible to get anymore for your money?

Desirability:
Very sexy in the geeky "Oh baby I'm gonna program you all night long" kinda way.

Sound:
Amazing range of sounds from synths to samplers to effects for your external inputs.

Ease of Use:
7 because the presets are VERY easy to tweak and save but the learning curve for building your own custom intruments/fx is steep.

Support:
Had to use support once after a bad update. It was slow so I just reinstalled the software and updated to the previous verision until the bugs were worked out.

Overall:
I've looked, boy have I looked, and I haven't found anything quite like Reaktor.

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"My studio would be incomplete without this wonderful VST!"

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 9 out of 10
Quality:: 9 out of 10
Value:: 9 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 8 out of 10

User: a customer from echowavepro.com

Submitted: 8/10/2004

Style of Music: All

Location: Canada

Feature:
The features are so numerous and so far beyond what I've even touched. A tweakhead's dream come true if that's your cup of tea. The array of presets for synths and effects blows away everything else I've tried so far. Many patches outperform some of my $2000 outboard synths, and some of the effects like "Banan Electrique" are simply monstrous!!! Run your synths or guitars through that and you are in industrial-tech-metal outer space!!! My outboard $3000 tc electronic fireworx effects processor is collecting dust because of the instant convenience, kick-ass quality, and VST automation capaibility of native plugins. I'm hooked.

Quality:
Ranges from pristine, stunning, organic-like georgeous tones to mind-boggling, gritty, grimy synthesized insanity! Plus effects! What a pallate!!!

Desirability:
I would miss this a LOT if I had to give it up!

Sound:
Simply stunning, full-out, digital madness, with a lot of pristine organic sounds as well.

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"Tassman sounds better"

Overall:: 3 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 4 out of 10
Value:: 4 out of 10
I Want It:: 1 out of 10
Sound:: 3 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 5 out of 10

Submitted: 3/7/2006

Feature:
Lots of features...just wish the sound was better.

Sound:
Overall, sounds thin and sterile compared to Tassman.

Overall:
To me, this software just doesn't feel like an instrument the way Tassman does. It can do a lot more than Tassman and has a nicer user interface in many ways, but it ultimately sounds flat/uninteresting to me. Tassman is more of a playable, expressive instrument IMO.

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