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Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:26 am

I just purchased the Native Instruments Monark Reactor instrument. It has been designed to emulate an earlier analog (MM?) synth. This was an instant favorite... love at first hear! It runs in Reactor Player or Reactor full version. The sound is warm and creamy. So far, all the presets are gorgeous and it is a dead simple synth to learn. It's currently on sale at 50% off at the NI website. I have quite a few really nice VSTi synths but this one inspires me to no end! Highly recommended! I'll review it after I have a while to become more familiar with it.

KingTuck · Post by **KingTuck** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:29 am

Integratron wrote:(MM?)

Yes, Monark aims to emulate the Minimoog.

Monark is a great synth.

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:32 am

God - I couldn't figure out that MM was Mini Moog????

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:36 am

It's one of the main reasons I'm planning on upgrading my Komplete soon.

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:18 am

Wait till you start messing with the distortion/overload/feedback stages this thing has. Really opens up the sound palette, almost into sync-like sounds, but more organic.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 6:51 am

Arguably the best virtual synth for synthetic basses.

electro · Post by **electro** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 7:14 am

recursive one wrote:Arguably the best virtual synth for synthetic basses.

Monark is tops. Another one to look out for next week is the Oddity 2 by Gforce.

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 2:02 pm

Other kind synthbasses i like also Blue 2. These which are "hybrid" or digital basses not maybe not these analog type basses.

Integratron · Post by **Integratron** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 2:47 pm

Everything I've purchased over the years from NI is top shelf in my book... Guitar Rig Pro, Drum Lab, Kore, Abby Road, Polyplex (WOW), Reaktor, etc.

JPQ · Post by **JPQ** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:19 pm

True even FM8 and Massive they Absynth even they are not duitable often my style. Massive is biggest problem maybe. is hard get sounds what i like and only few presets are my taste. But i still know becouse i know and even understnad other people needs.
ps. to me top stuff form NI few their samples,reaktor,kontakt and guitar rig. even last one for synths not guitars at least yet.

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:27 pm

I'd almost forgotten I have it. Should pull it up and mess around with it again. I do remember it being great for the more aggressive stuff. As I recall, Diva seemed to be more appropriate for the more smooth/creamy type Moog basses (the kind of thing I used to use the Little Phatty for before getting rid of it). Atm I'm finding myself bypassing softsynth filters altogether for Moog bass and using the new Moog filter in Cytomic's The Drop.

One complaint I had with Monarch (unless they've done an update and addressed that by now) is that the more commonly desired choices for pitch bend ranges were not offered.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:30 pm

It's easy to change the pitch bend range in Reaktor...

The control for pitch bend range is defined from 0 to 1, which means it is scaled differently somewhere deep inside the structure. So, if the range 0-1 is scaled to 5-9 semitones, that just means you have to set the range of the knob to fit the range of 2-12 semitones.

If you set the knob range to go from -1.5 to 1.5, you will get an actual pitch bend range from 0 to 12 semitones. If you don't want to have 0 semitones as an option, just set the lowest value to -0.75 and that's it, now it's set to 2 semitones at minimum.

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:23 pm

Is that an option you can only get at with full Reatkor, not the player? I googled and found a reference where someone posted a screenshot of the button you click to get at the pitch bend settings...right next to the magnifying glass and down arrow. I don't have that button in Reaktor Player...just the magnifying glass and down arrow buttons.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:26 pm

Yeah, full Reaktor needed.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 5:09 pm

I just re-posted my thread with 128 free Monark partches that i had deleted a while ago (but kept the important content i na text file):

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 2#p5954222

As you could see there the modules could not be fully edited but they could be used for other ensembles.
It seems to be important to use oscillator modules based on core modules (not the "basic" oscillator modules) or the enveleope release will not work properly.

Ingo

NI Monark