I've always felt that almost everything NI has put on the market was built upon the technology available in Generator and Reaktor. Whether it's FM7 or B4 or Pro 52 - the components for that stuff were pretty much all available in Reaktor. NI simply repackaged that technology, gave it an appropriate GUI and the rest is history.  
 
Heck, back in the day, the best amp sim I had was in Generator. Granted, it looked a bit weird. :P
 
 

sharke
I guess you could say the same about Lego if you only spent half an hour with it.

Nah, lego is intuitive, Reaktor not so for me. Any desire to make music just became mired in trying to figure out what it was supposed to do.

paulo

sharke
I guess you could say the same about Lego if you only spent half an hour with it.

Nah, lego is intuitive, Reaktor not so for me. Any desire to make music just became mired in trying to figure out what it was supposed to do.

I hate to state the obvious, but did you try just double clicking any of the synths or effects in the browser? You don't have to know how to build anything to use Reaktor, it comes with hundreds of ready made instruments. 

Rain
I've always felt that almost everything NI has put on the market was built upon the technology available in Generator and Reaktor. Whether it's FM7 or B4 or Pro 52 - the components for that stuff were pretty much all available in Reaktor. NI simply repackaged that technology, gave it an appropriate GUI and the rest is history.  
 
Heck, back in the day, the best amp sim I had was in Generator. Granted, it looked a bit weird. :P
 

 
I don't think they're much different from any other plugin company in the respect that all of them have their own code libraries which get used over and over. 

sharke

Rain
I've always felt that almost everything NI has put on the market was built upon the technology available in Generator and Reaktor. Whether it's FM7 or B4 or Pro 52 - the components for that stuff were pretty much all available in Reaktor. NI simply repackaged that technology, gave it an appropriate GUI and the rest is history.  
 
Heck, back in the day, the best amp sim I had was in Generator. Granted, it looked a bit weird. :P
 

 
I don't think they're much different from any other plugin company in the respect that all of them have their own code libraries which get used over and over. 

Just so we're clear, I'm in no way putting them down for it - all the contrary. To me, it re-enforces the notion that when one buys Reaktor, he's essentially buying a ticket to an endless collection of synths and effects, built on the same technology that gave us Pro 52 and the others. Incidentally, isn't their Monark a Reaktor synth?

Yep, four of their best synths were made in Reaktor - Monark, Spark, Prism and Skanner XT.

And, like my hero John Yossarian, I'm content to let them keep making them for me and not me making them for me:-)
 

sharke

paulo

sharke
I guess you could say the same about Lego if you only spent half an hour with it.

Nah, lego is intuitive, Reaktor not so for me. Any desire to make music just became mired in trying to figure out what it was supposed to do.

I hate to state the obvious, but did you try just double clicking any of the synths or effects in the browser? You don't have to know how to build anything to use Reaktor, it comes with hundreds of ready made instruments. 

As I recall there were basically 3 synths in the demo version I had. One looked like a bad 80's computer game that just made random non-musical noises on one key only whichever preset I selected, another that made droning pad noises that carried on playing long after I had released the keys and could only be stopped by turning off the audio engine and another uninspiring analogue type synth. Give me lego any day.

Well I don't know what's in the demo version but there are some absolutely amazing synths in Reaktor. There's thousands of them. Every type of synth you can imagine, from basic analog-subtractive to FM to additive to granular to ambient noise generators and everything else. There are some insanely talented synth engineers contributing to the user library and you'll find absolute gems you just won't find anywhere else for free. I discovered an amazingly real string modeling synth the other night. A while back I found a violin modeling synth with a virtual bow you can assign to a controller. It's amazing some of the stuff people come up with when they're not constrained by any commercial limitations. And as far as commercial synths go, Reaktor has some of the best. 

Well I don't know what's in the demo version but there are some absolutely amazing synths in Reaktor. There's thousands of them. Every type of synth you can imagine, from basic analog-subtractive to FM to additive to granular to ambient noise generators and everything else. There are some insanely talented synth engineers contributing to the user library and you'll find absolute gems you just won't find anywhere else for free. I discovered an amazingly real string modeling synth the other night. A while back I found a violin modeling synth with a virtual bow you can assign to a controller. It's amazing some of the stuff people come up with when they're not constrained by any commercial limitations. And as far as commercial synths go, Reaktor has some of the best.