Can you walk us through how you selected which Reaktor user creations to experiment with?
Every few months, we’ll have a big research and development session where we’ll dig through samples and plugins and decide what’s going to be relevant for our next few months of writing music. We create a limited set of tools and sounds to work with that will provide the sonic palette for the coming studio sessions. It’s like having a set of instruments to play with.
We also create a template with all of the relevant mixing and creative effects set up and ready to use. It’s like walking into a room full of equipment that’s turned on and ready, rather than going into a music store and having to choose the gear and set it up every time.
During this process, we decided we wanted to have a homemade glitch library that would add a unique twist to the rhythmical elements of our music in the coming months. We went through all of the noise and rhythm generators in Reaktor and found presets that sounded cool. Then we played with the parameters until we found something we liked.
Once that was done, we recorded a couple of minutes of audio while playing around with the parameters. We continued until we had about 20 recordings.
Pro tips from Audiojack: If you want to have a unique and recognizable sound, spend a bit of time creating custom effect racks that you can use in your music. Make them a bit different from the standard things people use.
