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RAZOR-X: Enhanced Programmability for Reaktor’s Razor

All new update in v1.1 featuring the following upgrades:

• Various bug fixes and interface modifications
• Reactivation of 3-D Display
• Upgrade to CLOCK LFO master function for Gate Pulser

+ Added functionality:

• CLOCK LFO speed division modulation from Sequencer Y
• S+H Output control for Animator Velocity
• S+H Output control for Animator Smoothing
• S+H Output control for Animator Speed
• Sequencer X output to Animator X Path Amplitude
• Sequencer Y output to Animator Y Path Amplitude
• large Animator Display on Razor-X’s B Panel
• addition of Gate Pulser Animator Path trigger function
• S+H Shift and Multiply knobs now also modify incoming Animator control
• new presets in bank 11, “Sample and Hold and New”
• updated User Guide for Version 1.1

Check out the demo videos in the playlist below to see RAZOR-X in action!

Razor-X is an enhanced version of the great additive Reaktor synth Razor by Native Instruments, and can have a variety of uses in music production. The enhancements add a new layer of programmability to make sound design easier and more powerful. The Recordable Animator Pad enables any Razor parameter to be controlled by the X/Y pad, enabling very subtle transformations of multiple parameters simultaneously. Pad movements can be recorded and played back polyphonically, with velocity control over speed and output range. This can lead to really fluid sonic transformations where each note is unique in the polyphonic blend.

The Sample-and-Hold section provides a modulation source based on classic S+H behaviour. The Razor-X S+H system enables polyphonic cyclic patterns, mixed with randomness, to be merged together on the S+H Input pad and sent to any target in Razor. This enables some very unique rhythmic event patterns, assisted by the Clock Pulser, which fires synchronized trigger events to the Envelope Generators.

The Razor-X routing enables the Animator Pad to control the S+H, or the other way around. To round off the enhancements, 2 step-sequencers have been added, which can control any target by routing through the Animator, or control the Animator and S+H pad positions, depth and lag.

Features:

• 250+ amazing presets
• Animator Pad: control of multiple modulation targets simultaneously
• Recordable, scalable, polyphonic and interactive paths on Animator Pad
• Gate Pulser module for adjustable-length note retriggering
• 2 multi-purpose Step Sequencers
• Innovative Sample and Hold section for modulation pattern creation
• 2 multi-purpose multi-waveform LFOs
• Modulators are all inter-connected for flexible routing

250 Presets:

• Smooth Transforming Pads
• Experimental Rhythms
• Sample-and-hold patterns
• Sequencer patterns
• Pulsing patches
• Combined Modulator patches
• Tutorials and Initialization patches

Requirements & Additional Info:

• Requires Reaktor 5.9.3 and Razor 1.5
• CPU recommendation: minimum 2.8 ghz
• Minimum buffer size: 512
• Reaktor control rate: 800 or 1600hz
• Lower the polyphony voice amount if you are using a slower computer and experience problems
• Reaktor and Razor Ensemble are products by Native Instruments they are not included in this download.