Native Instruments Reaktor Equinox: Bill Holland In A Padded Room
Bathe yourself in soothing sine waves. Get lost in swirling pads. Give yourself over to sweeping atmospheres. Breath deeply this demo of the Native Instruments Reaktor Equinox soft synth.
Your sensory-guide on this image-journey will be none other than Bill Holland, recognized spiritual medium and level-seventeen empath in World Of Wacraft. Let his synth textures transport you to a time before "electronic music" was ever "cool."
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. My name is Bill Holland. You’re looking at the Equinox Deluxe, named after the famous late ‘70s album “Equinox” which you may recognize these models of patches from. If you listen to the Equinox pad, for example...,
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
...very similar to the work of Jean Michel Jarre and please forgive me if I’m not pronouncing his name correctly.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
Now, you’ll see I have assigned controls to my filter, cutoff, and resonance.
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And the way you do that is by right-clicking or Ctrl-clicking and hitting MIDI learn. You can also go to show and structure and it’ll show you the actual structure. I’m going to show you real quick what these different controls do and how they work. We have our ensemble control.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
We approach a detuning or unison control.
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We have color here which is basically this control basically works as an LFO or phaser.
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We also have two separate delays and left and right delay, so I can set these completely at odds with each other, set different mix levels per channel.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
You can hear my left delay just kind of keeps on going. Turn that down.
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Let’s take a look at some of the other patches here real quick. We also have Dry Solo.
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We have an In Your Face Echo...,
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...Carpad...,
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...30’s Chorus which is kind of like a Mellotron almost...,
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
...The Mars of C. S. Lewis named after the Out of the Silent Planet author.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
...and a patch called [PH] analgesis.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
All in all, you can also set your in -- MIDI ins here. You can set channels where your audio is going to internal and external. Beyond that, you can set your interna/external MIDI, your audio sends, external MIDI sends and internal MIDI, and you can also -- minimize that of course -- set your voices.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
Hold this down while I do it.
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And change up your unison.
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This makes gigantic pads, but the problem with that is that then they take up a lot of your mix.
[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING THE NATIVE INSTRUMENTS REAKTOR EQUINOX]
Well, that’s it for the Equinox Deluxe, one of the many programs available on Reaktor. For now, this is Gearwire.Com and my name is Bill Holland.
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