SPIRAL SEQUENCER (NI Reaktor)

a Tech SOUND TALK

I only just figured out how to get NI (Native Instruments) Reaktor's Spiral Sequencer to control an external instrument in another Ableton Live 9 Midi track.  For anyone as clueless as I am here's the steps I took to achieve this.

Before trying this however, you might like to first check out Brent Kallmer's Youtube video, at https://youtu.be/xINRksSacUE. Brent shows, step by step, how to use Spiral to sequence an instrument in Reaktor itself.  You'll probably understand the instructions below better if you do.

ABLETON -

* Create a Midi Track.

* Load Reaktor.

* Click on the Spanner Icon.

REAKTOR - 

* Locate Spiral in Reaktor's Browser 

   (Factory/Instruments/Sequencers).

* Go to Edit Mode, if not there already, to reveal 

   Spiral's structure.

* Remove the 2 inputs, & any instrument modules if 

   present, leaving only the Spiral module & 2 outputs.

* Connect the Spiral module to the 2 outputs.

ABLETON - 

* Create another Midi Track.

* Load desired instrument.

* Set Input to Reaktor Track.

* Switch from Pre or Post FX to Reaktor.

* Press Play.

You may have to wait a few seconds before you hear anything as some of Spiral's snapshots don't start right away.