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Reaktor confuses pretty much everyone until they sit down and learn the basics. So not sure what's going on at your end to make playback stop after a few seconds. Playback commenced and sustained until I hit stop. I just fired up Blue Matrix, selected the first preset and hit play in Sonar. RTFM refers only to "Start the system clock and step through the presets!" I'm obviously missing the point. Select record mode for the Reaktor track, start via record button and then it plays as you might expect, but to my simple mind how am I supposed to know what I want to record when I haven't yet been able to hear what the synth is going to do without starting the recording process ? This is the only way I can get BM to make a sound. I presume because as far as sonar is concerned, there are no tracks to play. Playback/Synth very briefly starts and then stops again. New project>insert synth>Reaktor 6>from factory library/Sequenced synthesizers select Blue Matrix> select first preset within that (Jam Jarre) then press play in sonar.
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OK, well that's not what's happening here. I don't need to be in record mode to audition the instruments/patches in Reaktor. Rsinger paulo Yeah, I figured that much out now, but that only seems to work for me when in record mode, which is not much help when I'm just trying to audition things and see what the presets are etc before committing to anything I'm not sure that I have enough patience to ever get my head around that particular concept tbh. What I have learned so far then is that I have some vst's that don't work within Sonar and some vst's that do what they want to and I can't tell them when to STFU and that this is intended behaviour. As you say in standalone version it is, so at least I wasn't going mad when I couldn't find it. OK, I had it open as a vst within Sonar and the play button is not there. Be patient, it will take a while to get the hang of it.
#REAKTOR METAPHYSICAL FUNCTION MANUAL#
Reading the manual will help, also try utube for an introduction to Reaktor.
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Some instruments need to be played with a keyboard, and others like Metaphysical function, and the other Sound Generators, drone on and on forever, as intended. All of the Sequenced Instruments and Groove Boxes work this way. In standalone Reaktor, you need to press the start playback button (top middle of the screen, left of tempo) to get Blue Matrix to play. Shawker Reaktor is probably the deepest and most challenging vst's out there, due to the wide array of thing that can be built with it.