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April 22, 2006 at 8:23 am #1037624
Just got reason on my pooter, and its taking me bloody ages to figure out how everything works! dont suppose anyone has any fast track tips on how to figure it all out a little faster so i can start making some filthy noise?
Also know anywhere thats good to download free samples?
Heeeeelp!:weee: :head_bang
April 22, 2006 at 9:40 am #1071511the instruction manual is like a large phone directory
people go to college for two years to start to learn how reason works
my handy hint would be; use some simpler software :surprised
April 22, 2006 at 10:13 am #1071516globalloon wrote:my handy hint would be; use some simpler software :surpriseddont be silly that would be the easy option!:lol_fast:
April 22, 2006 at 1:33 pm #1071520Type in “Reason tutorials” into Google. There’s a lot of good and helpful tutorials on the net, with step by step pictures to make following it alot easier.
April 22, 2006 at 1:38 pm #1071521Here’s a few Places to download some samples …….
http://www.partyvibe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=16971#post16971
April 22, 2006 at 2:11 pm #1071515I think with reason its so easy to follow the formulas that the tutorials give you but to truely master it you need to sit down and just try things. It means you’ll get a far more personal sound and with any art form you need to find how you like to do it. Play about with it and if theres anything specific you get stuck with post up here and I’m sure me or acidfairy for sure couldgiveyou some pointers.
I’m no expert like…..but heres what I’ve been working on lately using mainly reason running with ableton live.
http://www.infexious.net/infx/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=2231
April 22, 2006 at 2:24 pm #1071504To begin with get yourself some decent drum machine samples – http://machines.hyperreal.org/samples.html
All the Roland TR series are there and the 909 and 808 kits are huge with lots of different parameters recorded for each drum sound along with a few lesser known machines.
April 22, 2006 at 2:29 pm #1071505globalloon wrote:the instruction manual is like a large phone directorypeople go to college for two years to start to learn how reason works
my handy hint would be; use some simpler software :surprised
This is why I think it’s an advantage to start with cheap hardware, you’re not blinded by technology so to speak and you can concentrate on each aspect of music making seperately. One cheap drum machine, one cheap analogue type synth and just learn what every button and knob does, after that everything else is pretty much the same. I actually read and learned about subtractive synthesis before I had any equipment, and that was a definate advantage.
April 24, 2006 at 8:21 pm #1071512i couldnt hack using reason, just bought my first proper bit of hardware (yam rm1x) and have got further in the last week or so than i ever got with reason!
April 25, 2006 at 3:50 pm #1071523Well cant really offer any particular advice but I was wondering how the pattern sequencer (a1) ect works in reason?I am now using logic which is much easier
Ive had to get battery which is a drum machine to be able to make drum patterns
and then use a few softsynths aswell Ive also got Halion which is a sampler
April 25, 2006 at 4:05 pm #1071508CT23 wrote:Well cant really offer any particular advice but I was wondering how the pattern sequencer (a1) ect works in reason?I am now using logic which is much easier
Ive had to get battery which is a drum machine to be able to make drum patterns
and then use a few softsynths aswell Ive also got Halion which is a sampler
Forget the A1. Just use the sequencer like any other.
It works on a similar basis to most other software sequencers out there. Do you use hardware/midi or are you just using the softsynths and samples?
If you are using the softsynths/samples then select the device you want to use on the sequencer then hit “edit mode” which is up in the top left hand corner of the sequencer.
Depending on the device/instrument you are using it will then bring up a piano roll, drum roll or cut roll (for the Dr. Rex). You can then just get your pencil tool and draw the notes in. Adjust the velocity in the red area with the pen or ruler tool.
Or if you are using midi then just whack the locator at the beginning of the loop and hit record and play your notes in then you can edit and quantize after if necassary.
From the edit screen you can also automate the controls on each and every part of a decvice.
Stay in edit mode on the device you want and then click “show controller lanes” (the blue button next to the piano roll and drum roll buttons) and the lanes will pop up. You can then select which control you want to automate from the button next to it. Once you select something a lane will pop up where you can edit the automation (again, use the pen/pencil tool and the ruler tool)
Hope that makes sense and helps.
April 25, 2006 at 5:34 pm #1071517yeah cheers guysthat has helped! managed to make my first tuine last night but is so uber simple, just used redrum, but i must say for someone who hasnt a clue whatthey are doing its almost passable! i wont embarras myself by posting it on here tho (not that i know how)
hopefully it will all make sense soon enough.Have started investing in some hardware too, got a mixing desk…now lookin for a fairy cheap synth…any suggestions?
April 25, 2006 at 6:24 pm #1071513what sort of music/sound are you producing?
April 25, 2006 at 11:50 pm #1071506missMushed wrote:yeah cheers guysthat has helped! managed to make my first tuine last night but is so uber simple, just used redrum, but i must say for someone who hasnt a clue whatthey are doing its almost passable! i wont embarras myself by posting it on here tho (not that i know how)
hopefully it will all make sense soon enough.Have started investing in some hardware too, got a mixing desk…now lookin for a fairy cheap synth…any suggestions?
What kind of budget you got? Analogue or digital? keyboard or rackmount?
April 27, 2006 at 10:01 am #1071518i wanna write gabber at the mo. then once i have more of a feel to things wanna write psytrance/mind bending dirty techno.
budget is low, and want everything to link to computer if poss. so far got a beringher eurorack 802.
April 27, 2006 at 10:41 am #1071507Any particular price range you have in mind?
April 27, 2006 at 8:10 pm #1071519bout 50quid?
u know how i can put a tune up here? i made a half deacent techno tune today! its well basic, but isnt too bad considering! wouldnt some mind constructive feedback if ne one can be arsed!
April 28, 2006 at 2:23 am #1071522missMushed wrote:bout 50quid?u know how i can put a tune up here? i made a half deacent techno tune today! its well basic, but isnt too bad considering! wouldnt some mind constructive feedback if ne one can be arsed!
There may be an easier way but ..
Save it as a wave or mp3 file then upload it using http://www.yousendit.com or http://www.megaupload.com,
Incase you don’t know, in Reason go into file and export song as audio file 🙂
April 28, 2006 at 1:52 pm #1071524JE:5 wrote:This is why I think it’s an advantage to start with cheap hardware, you’re not blinded by technology so to speak and you can concentrate on each aspect of music making seperately. One cheap drum machine, one cheap analogue type synth and just learn what every button and knob does, after that everything else is pretty much the same. I actually read and learned about subtractive synthesis before I had any equipment, and that was a definate advantage.Cant say I could agree with that simply because if your new you will have learn either way anyway – I know software so found using a korg drum machine tricky
and the software is literally based on the hardware , so theyre very similar with the software being more flexible/easily editable in my opinion
I can see the advantage in sound quality but invest in a usb/midi controller and it is much easier to use software
Cant justify the high cost of hardware to a non studio enviroment/ newbie
April 28, 2006 at 1:54 pm #1071525missMushed wrote:bout 50quid?u know how i can put a tune up here? i made a half deacent techno tune today! its well basic, but isnt too bad considering! wouldnt some mind constructive feedback if ne one can be arsed!
Fukin hell that was quick!
took me years to manage to get round to finishing a tune
Cause I used fruityloops and just made 1 bar loops messing around live for far too long
April 28, 2006 at 2:10 pm #1071526Are u using reason 3 which supports vsts?
If yes then here are sum recomended vst instruments
battery – 128 sample drum machine – prob is you cant automate the parameters if you change a sample it stays like that but I needed it for logic
Dr-008 another drum machine I havent got hold of this 1 but I hear its good
Vangaurd – very good synth 4 trance riffs/ everything
Halion 2/3 – sampler useful for the keyboard/ live stuff ect (3rd needs dongle protection cracked but works fine)
Audio realism bassline – tb 303 emulator cool
Tbl bass line
bass station
native instruments gold is an effect package (reverb, delay, filters ect)
who know some cool 1s?
Im looking 4 1s that take in samples and can modulate them like a synth with sample graintable stuff ect
April 28, 2006 at 3:30 pm #1071509Novation V Station is a goodun.
April 30, 2006 at 8:40 pm #1071527BioTech wrote:Novation V Station is a goodun.Oh yeah ive got that zipped sumwhere , 4got to reinstall it thats a good 1
nice 4 acid aswell
April 30, 2006 at 8:44 pm #1071514CT23 wrote:Are u using reason 3 which supports vsts?If yes then here are sum recomended vst instruments
battery – 128 sample drum machine – prob is you cant automate the parameters if you change a sample it stays like that but I needed it for logic
Dr-008 another drum machine I havent got hold of this 1 but I hear its good
Vangaurd – very good synth 4 trance riffs/ everything
Halion 2/3 – sampler useful for the keyboard/ live stuff ect (3rd needs dongle protection cracked but works fine)
Audio realism bassline – tb 303 emulator cool
Tbl bass line
bass station
native instruments gold is an effect package (reverb, delay, filters ect)
who know some cool 1s?
Im looking 4 1s that take in samples and can modulate them like a synth with sample graintable stuff ect
Reason doesn’t support vsts mate.
May 1, 2006 at 8:49 pm #1071528Reason 3 does You Muppet!Wait does It? I thought it did :you_smart
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