Sounds fantastic and really interesting. I'm normally into my classic progressive house, acid breaks/techno and 'oldskool' - but I do appreciate interesting electronica compositions that are always a bit more special than the usual run of the mill stuff. There's something about the northwest that sp...

I've found some demo songs on the Reason Studios site - so I think that will do the trick.

Thanks all. I've tried to do all I can with the above settings, except for altering the BIOS, which I'm a bit uncomfortable about tackling. I've spent about two and a half hours on this now and I'm still not too sure how it is going to pan out in the long term. At the moment, I have a reason file wi...

I haven't - and Ive never even heard of that being a thing. I hope it is something that's possible as otherwise this attempt at getting back into music again could be over before it even really got started. Surely my laptop spec should cream this kind of stuff and last month or so this sound card wa...

Hi. I managed to get the thing going and hooked up to my other gear and speakers - but at the moment I think I've made a mistake buying the Focusrite. I set it up in Reason to use the focusrite Asio driver and despite dropping the audio quality to 44.1 the latency is still pretty shocking. These are...

Cheers guys. I ended up going for a focusrite 2/2 - but took advantage of the prices being slashed for the 3rd gen model now that the 4th has just come out. It should be arriving some time later today, so I hope it does what I think it will do. The 4th gen did have a few better features to be fair, ...

The key differences between 3 and 4 seem to be the moved input locations, a general 10db gain improvement, a separate headphone level control and some nifty things to auto-detect a good gain level from a live instrument and a means to try and avoid clipping of input audio. I've found the gen 3 at an...

Many thanks for that. I appreciate your update, checking it out - and also what you seem to do in general around here (from what I can see so far).

I have downloaded the file and will try and give it all another go tomorrow.

I don't really understand the code or how to go about it, but I kind of understand how getting one thing wrong in one of the maps may throw the whole thing out the window and cause a failure. Is this what has happened? That there is something programmed wrong on "line 28" of the file I downloaded? O...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions. When you haven't been remotely into the scene for a long time, when you try and get back to it its like starting from scratch. I don't understand the difference between a "Arturia MiniFuse 2 2-In / 2-Out USB Audio & MIDI Interface" and the new "Focusrite Solo 4th...

Thanks. It is good to know there isn't a fault with the keyboard. It was quite alarming when I switched it on and it kept happening. I don't have any booklet or starter guide as it's second hand, so I wasn't expecting it to happen. The low level clunking/clockwork ticking noise is annoying though. I...

Hi. It's been a long time since I've been making music. I bought a new laptop this year in the January sales. I recently upgraded to Reason 12 I have just bought a 2nd hand Nektar P4 and I'm pottering about trying to just get things playing any old how for now. I'm struggling to get my brain into ge...

Hi. I'm new to Reason 12 (I used to use 5 a decade ago) and I'm new to a Nektar P4 which I bought this week. To be honest, this entire thread is making my head hurt because I don't understand maps or coding or even a third of the stuff that the software and the gear are capable of. I managed to get ...

Thanks....although it seems to be the news I didn't want to hear. I guess that if I keep it I will have to find a new way of working as I've never based my music on recording takes of audio - its always been a matter of controlling everything via information. I'm disappointed that I've thrown £100 o...

Hi. I used to use Reason 5, I didn't make any music for years then bought Reason 10, but ended up not doing much with it, so I'm now very rusty in all matters audio. I recently got myself a TD-3 acid clone in the sales as I love the acid sound and I wanted to try and regenerate some interest in maki...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUkyt2pbh8 https://www.arturia.com/products/audio/minifuse/minifuse2#en That's the one I have my eye on. There are better looking devices, in my view, but, most reviews are excellent, it has the USB and MIDI and it is equal roughly in sonic spec to the Focusrite........

So the interfaces do have drivers and provide the lower latency? That's reassuring. I need something capable of this, both for reason and for potentially getting back into trying Traktor DJ and my Pioneer DDJ console, as well as making sure I record my vinyl collection in a decent, future-proof, qua...

Hah! Went the same route myself. I think getting hardware outside of the basics - headphones, audio interface and a midi controller (why not Nektar t4 by the way?) - would be an unnecessary waste of your money, time and effort. Hardware 303 is just a fetish at this point, unless you're planning on ...

Just a quick note from Captain Pedantic about terminology… The term "sound card" lasted a lot longer that it had any right to. It came from the era of inserting a circuit board into a desktop computer by means of an edge connector, with another edge of the board partially exposed outside the comput...

https://youtu.be/nuUuF9vZ5cM https://youtu.be/8LgCxDqjCtc Wow... What a beast! :thumbup: If you can you should try the Nektar keybed in a store and see if you like the feeling, and compare it to your (broken) Sirius. I almost bought a P4 the year it was released, but did not like the mushy way it f...

In regards to speakers / monitors, I have some that I use for the turntables and DJ mixer. They are Kali Audio LP6's - and my thoughts were to somehow get an output back into my DJ mixer from the interface or the output jack on the laptop. I don't think I plan to record any actual instruments like a...

Budget-wise, that's a bit of a hard one to answer. I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford some decent gear - but I also balk at the idea of wasting too much money on what could be a mistake or a fad that doesn't last (ie, I am still ending up rubbish, uninspired, or not as interested as I hope I ...

Hi all, I was just hoping to bounce some ideas around in here and wondered what peoples thoughts may be on some stuff I'm thinking about doing. In my 20s and early 30's I used to try and make music. I can't say I was much good at it, but I was seriously keen and tried my best. I made some half-decen...

Thanks for all the quick responses! I'm not really into computer specifications these days, I kind of lost touch about 12 to 15 years ago. I'm kind of hoping that it all comes down to "new generations" making the needed difference, as I do already have an "i7" quad core and 16GB of RAM. I could make...

Hi all. I used to do quite a lot of music making just for my own amusement, along with Dj'ing and 3D CAD design work. Over the last 10 years that has dropped quite significantly for various reasons. I did by Reason 10 when it came out in an effort to try and revive things, but its been sat pretty mu...