Top 12 Instruments for NI Reaktor (Free Download)

Native Instruments Reaktor has been around for ages and the factory synths that come with it like Razor, Monark, Form, and Rounds to just name a few, are incredible.

But Reaktor is a complete DSP environment to build your own instruments and effects. And the online user library has been growing for over a decade so we decided to round up the best ones from recent years. We chose ones that not only sound good but also have a friendly and good looking interface.

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MONOVOKS

Created by David Frappaz. Fat, vintage, filthy and distorted. Inspired by the Russian synth Polivoks from the 80’s.

Specs

2 OSC

Noise Generator

LP/BP filter with Env

1 LFO

Built-in Soft/Hard clipping

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GIMMICK

Another one from David Frappaz. Beautiful design and clear layout. Beast.

Specs

3 Osc (including supersaw designed by João Ferreira )

Mod LFO and ENV

Multimode ZDF filters

Built-in Reverb

Special vintager knob which randomly detunes everything

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Parasite 2

Inspired by the Access Virus synths. Comes with great presets.

Great for trance music with bright plucks, bass and leads.

Specs

3 OSC

2 Multi-Mode Filters

3 LFOS

Built-in Effects

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Infrastructure

This one is from YUNG FOREVER.  Very efficient design with a versatile Oscillator, feedback filter, and built-in effects.

It can achieve a huge array of sounds and comes packed with over 120 presets.

Specs

Multiple Voicing Modes including Unison

Mixer style Oscillator

Feedback Multi-Mode Filter

3 Envelopes

2 LFOs

Expression Controls

Distortion, Stereo Chorus, Delay and Reverb.

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Juno 60

Emulated the Roland Juno-60 with all 112 factory presets included! with some extra functions not available on the hardware.

Specs

1 DCO

HP/LP Filter

1 LFO

Built-in Arp

Built-in Chorus

Back panel (View B) EQ and extra features

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Calc-U-Synth VR

Replicate the Casio VL-Tone VL-1 in a small and easy to use interface.

A speaker simulator and sampled key-clicks added for an extra level of lo-fi goodness.

Specs

Wave selector

Delay FX

LP Filter

Vibrato & Tremolo

Speaker Simulator

Glitch Knob

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Sri Synt

3 layer synth with a mod matrix capable of long morphing sounds thanks to its 4 LFOs

Specs

3 Mixer style Oscillators with built-in Filters

ADSR

4 LFOS

Mod Matrix

Overload function

Oscilloscope

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Eminent-V 310 String Ensemble

Emulation of a vintage string synth ensemble like the Arp Solina String Ensemble. It comes with a great interface and effect pedals + an EQ pedal.

View A controls the Upper and Lower manual of the instrument while View B gives you access to multiple controls like Vibrato, Stereo spread, Chorus unit controls and Manuals transposition.

Phaser/Flanger, Phase Shifter, Echo/Delay and Reverb effect pedals included.

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The Swarmatron

Emulation of the peculiar cluster synth Dewanatron Swarmtron. Used by Trent Reznor for The Social Network movie soundtrack.

The Swarmatron was created to produce eight tones tuned approximately to one note, each tone slightly different in pitch to produce a complex and natural choral effect.

Very strange and eerie sound.

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KraftStrom

This one is hard to explain. The interface is mostly suggestive and everything fills like using some sort of a post-apocalyptic machine. It can create a huge variety of strange and experimental sounds.

Click everything!

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The Swarm

Another sound generator with a beautiful interface and built-in randomizer called the Swarm (hence the name). Each oscillator can also be a sampler!

Specs

4 Osc/samplers

Resochord effect

Cloud Delay

Reverb

Limiter

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Digit8

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