About C.List

I'm Chris List ("CList" to the Reaktor community).
Note: If you don't know anything about what Reaktor is, then this site won't really mean anything to you. You can read about it here on the Native Instruments Office Site, or on the FAQ link at the top of this page.

I'm currently one of the moderators for the Reaktor forums on the Native Instruments website. After fielding a lot of the same questions over and over on the forums, I decided to whip up this simple little website with a FAQ to help new users along, and to share a bit of my Reaktor knowledge with all you folks out there in internet-land.

I got into electronic music back around 1990, and began dabbling with production in '92. I went through a phase in the late '90's during which I built several hardware analog synths - by hand (I know, I have some messed up hobbies). You can read some more about that here; http://www.mindspring.com/~clist/ (WARNING: that site is even more pathetic looking than this one!).

I started using Reaktor casually when it was still called Generator, back in maybe 1999 (?) and got much more serious about it with release 3.0 in the summer of 2002. In fact, after R3 came out, I got full-on obsessed with it, and proceeded to make and share several instruments that became rather popular with the user community ( Reaktor User Library - Top 100).

Since becoming a moderator and starting this FAQ, NI has invited me to co-host a couple of Reaktor demo events in New York. I've also had several students from the New School's Contemporary Music Program hire me to give them private lessons.

For better or worse I don't really enjoy making music as much as I enjoy making instruments. I live in New York City and make my living writing business software and database systems (things like this website for the Rockefeller Foundation). I'm always up for meeting Reaktor users and talking shop over drinks, so feel free to email me if you're in NYC.


Disclaimer: I know it's dorky to post a picture here, but I felt kind of obligated since most people who have read some of my more technical posts on the forums seem to assume that I look like Peter Jackson in real life. ...which is not really the kind of mythology one wants to reinforce.