Do you use BLOCKS with your Eurorack hardware?

I just acquired the hardware to do that yesterday. I finally got an Expert Sleepers ES-8, so that’s definitely territory that I’m looking to traverse into. The next step is to merge my entire Eurorack rig with Reaktor. I always knew that I wanted to build a hybrid system so I wanted Reaktor Blocks to be a big part of my entire Eurorack rig. I’ve already spent a ridiculous amount of money on the case that I have right now. I can’t even imagine having two or three of these cases. You’d just go bankrupt at some point!

The ability to have Reaktor, and have as many modules as you want, really blows things wide open, especially from the standpoint of the more utilitarian modules, stuff like LFOs, function generators, things of that sort. It’s really nice to know that I have the ability to have a lot of them on tap. A lot more so than I would in hardware form.

You seem eager to push the envelope of what’s capable with the technology, and in one of your Instagram posts you mention making your computer ‘cry DSP tears’.

The way that Reaktor works in its current state is that it uses a single core. That’s something that I’ve been trying to lobby with Native on, and I’ve been in direct contact with the people that are responsible for developing Blocks. One of the limitations right now is that even if you have a hexacore MacBook Pro, only one of your cores is being tapped. Obviously, the way around that in Ableton Live is to use multiple instances of Reaktor across multiple tracks to spread out the load. But one of my favourite things is actually to not open Ableton at all, just to open Reaktor stand alone and create something out of nothing. Really, where the most joy comes from is the exploration, like ‘today I’m going to sit down and make something that’s that’s never been created before’. I like to create self-generative songs and environments all out of one single patch.