I reference Reaktor a whole bunch on my channel, so I figured with it being 50% off ($99.99 USD) until November 30th, I would do a general overview of what it’s capable of and how I’ve used it over the years.
This covers the basics of blocks and core mode.
Written by Benn Jordan
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@BlazertronGames
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Would you still recommend reaktor? I'm thinking of buying it whenever it goes on sale.
@pcread
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
It's like Synthesizer Lego. You can make almost anything.
@JINX_ZIRS
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Reaktor is next on my list
@directHITz
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Love the creativity but why do all reaktor sounds sound so tinny and cheap
@FronasMusic
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Man, watched this start to end and then bought Reaktor. It's like with working out. Best day to start with it would've been 17 years ago, but second best day is today.
@issiewizzie
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I have komplete 13 and I’ve decided to just that spending time going through reactor
@iowamusicarchive4633
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I usually watch all your content from my phone and almost never want to log in so I can't like and subscribe or comment. Funny thought about good generative content and how to get effective feedback from a fanbase.
@ricgl84
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Hey Benn, you should share those instruments that you build back in the day. 🙂
@mariomijatovic7847
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
4:12 i want to remix it ! 😀
@NicholasBryantBonzaiSequoias
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
17 years.. hmm, so you missed the joys of 2.3, 3 and 4? Reaktor has changed a fair bit over the years.. slightly better MIDI IO, slightly better visual aspects, controls that are nearly different in size between large, medium and small.
IMHO blocks is not worth using (VCV is better for tweaking modules).
Reaktors strength is in the making of things below the surface (even as far down as Core).
I can't imagine Endlesss would have happened with only Blocks as a starting point.
I wish NI would put more resources into Reaktor, instead of ceaseless kontakt libraries (Zzzz).
@ChrisWoodBandit
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
whoa I didn't know that THAT was what reaktor was! To be honest I used to work on a farm and I hated it and those names are too close to Tractor. But I'll tell you what got me, in your video wwhen you showed what it could do around 4 minutes in there was a Synthi looking thing in the upper middle and in the next patch a rene looking thing in the bottom middle, and it looked like 8 times more fun than the software modular synths i have been messing with (cherry audio, the one in Arturia's big package). I'm going to get this and thank you for making this video.
@ryOVXX
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
i like the coral music generator one
@Anci3ntRobot
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Great !
@JuusoAlasuutari
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Ok that block thing is just another Jeskola Buzz clone.
@AykutKlc
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
scrabble is super deep. sounds beautiful.
@kunalpareek8321
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Oh man. this looks like so much fun. But here I am late in delivering today's code and watching vids like this and wondering how on earth will I get time to even get in 20 mins practice on my Piano and guitar.
@lpil
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Very informative, thank you. Have you ever tried Supercollider? What are your thoughts on it?
@blinkybill5266
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Watching your vids from Nairobi, and I enjoy them!
@playtf2
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
The blast from the past: 4:12 got released on Our Simulacra album as "Clockfox"
Who could've known?
@sapitron
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Reaktor was extremely frustrating to me because it was the opposite of what I was looking for: a synth full of radio ready mainstream pop sounds. So I deleted it. Im watching this video to change my mind
@TampaTerry54
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
reaktor fucking slays, the best time to have started using it was yesterday, everyone needs to check it out.
@deepspaceocean
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
So cool clockfox ended up on the album! 🙂
@mariomijatovic7847
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
clockfox sound super amazing !!! we need the download file 😀 cmooon
@shatteredsquare
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
10:49
@EspenFrafalne
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I love this software!!! If you download "Knobman", you can create your own buttons, knobs, and faders. It will be saved in an image file that is a series of pictures arranged vertically, which means that you can use your regular photo editing software (like gimpshop, photoshop, etc) to create an image file with whatever images you want (they need to have the same height and width). And if you add that as a custom knob or fader, you can then control that parameter with an LFO (or whatever you like), and suddenly you have your own custom animations. I have the words "Dream Machine" flashing on and off in a LCD screen on the top middle part of my "creation", and to the left of this, i have a blue neon girl dancing. Both are synced to tempo.
@balloonxm
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Clockfox!!
@alyeska4226
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
This thing seems like it's just another block in a pyramid scheme. Isn't it?
What I want, is Molekular. I like the auto ease of Komplete controllers, so I have an m32. Do I really need Reaktor to use Molekular reliably? And will these be too computer intensive?
@buggedmusik
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Great video, I've just started getting into blocks, I am just wondering how do you record some of the patches into my daw, I am using logic x, some of the patches have midi out but some presets just play out.
@ajn2747
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
dude this video is awesome! was dead sunflower based on dead can dance?
@mconstant007
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I want clock 🦊 and 🌈. Are these shared? Wow they all sound amazing. Please say they are shared?
@ajofnazareth3061
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
clock fox was amazing
@Semyaj3
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Very Informative ~ Thx 4 Sharing Bro
@jrileyhill
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I bought REAKTOR…. I think during this sale. I used a bunch of instruments over the last couple year, so many unique sounds have made their way into my productions.
Recently had time to start learning how to build my own synths, and also the new update with "racks" came out recently….
So awesome, it's truly a gift that keeps on giving.
@junaidf
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Some of those generative tracks at the start are actually really good. You should make full tracks out of those.
@the_real_redx
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Hey, Benn—are any of your Reaktor ensembles on the user community site? I searched your name and found nothing? Where are you hiding these gems, man?
@shortcutDJ
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
it's turning me moist
@midinerd
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
+1 6:00 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DT4PYIqKZY
@pauliexoxoxo
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
nice work there man! your 20 years of reaktor has paid off . 🙂
@gossamyr
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I think piracy is necessary in the beginning for 1.education and 2.what if this isn't for me(no returns, bye tons of money vs hardware you can reverb/ebay). That's how I learned stuff too, but the shit I really like, I bought. Since I found hardware more reliable I focused on that and stopped software altogether, but I remember playing with absynth and being truly amazed at the ooey gooey yummy. It's 2018 and NI is having the sale again, hmmm, maybe it's time, before they ruin it with ilock and I go back to hardware again 😉
@VincentJames3912
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
I got the free Reaktor 6 player and was immediatly blown away by how good it sounds and never understood why I never saw people use it on the thousands of beat breakdowns videos I've watched and tutorials. It actually somehow made my bluetooth monitor speakers sound better which started me looking into how and NI's DSP code. The free player comes with some very usable presets Im just confused as to it's limitations I don't think i can use any of the free user ensambles on the interwbs.
@VincentJames3912
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
Lol bruh I love you're the first musician I ever heard say in a video you understand why people pirate and have done it before. It's such a taboo subject and all these channels act like they never did it when they got into music or everybody has all this money to spend especially on a hobby as most people pirating are only into production and music as a hobby not a profession.
@codesymphony
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
so can we download these?
@codesymphony
April 6, 2026 at 11:37 pm
oh my god these sound incredible. so to get this straight these sequences are contained entirely within Reaktor itself, including the reverb/cello sounding patches? 5:20 for example