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by normen
27 Aug 2019
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Announcing Reason 11
Replies: 1514
Views: 346299

Re: Announcing Reason 11

So the Props are the Studs now? xD

Nice update - makes a lot of sense imo.
by normen
10 Oct 2018
Forum: Rack Extensions
Topic: Compressors. How many do you really need?
Replies: 53
Views: 8706

Re: Compressors. How many do you really need?

Man if yo want to learn the compressors, take one compressor and attempt tweaking all your necessary instances with that one only. You'll soon learn the character and reason why compressors are different, including their recovery, response times, transient detection, distortion, curves, and anythin...
by normen
08 Oct 2018
Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
Topic: Leveling / Mixing
Replies: 11
Views: 2201

Re: Leveling / Mixing

Idk, most of those sounds seemed resonanc-y to me, as if there was too much audible EQing on them. I wouldn't say masking is an issue there.
by normen
08 Oct 2018
Forum: The Kitchen
Topic: What if you would roadmap a song?
Replies: 13
Views: 1872

Re: What if you would roadmap a song?

Marco Raaphorst wrote:
08 Oct 2018
yes, except for audio recordings. only staff.
Well thats just added, right? I mean how to arrange it, what instrument to use, what brand of instrument to use, what miking technique to use, what mike to use - thats pretty much a straight line. :)
by normen
08 Oct 2018
Forum: The Kitchen
Topic: What if you would roadmap a song?
Replies: 13
Views: 1872

Re: What if you would roadmap a song?

Technically thats what for example traditionals are, right? :)
by normen
07 Oct 2018
Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
Topic: Leveling / Mixing
Replies: 11
Views: 2201

Re: Leveling / Mixing

I'd say arrangement would be a better solution. You have issues with things pushing each other away too much because they occupy the same "space-time" (i.e. masking). Usually these things are solved by actually playing - i.e. "making music". Say you have a synth and you want to keep up with the snar...
by normen
06 Oct 2018
Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
Topic: Leveling / Mixing
Replies: 11
Views: 2201

Re: Leveling / Mixing

That sounds like the multi-million dollar studio category, which is ready to record a whole orchestra, band, anything, really (especially "anything", and "really"). Where real-life authentic reproduction is desired. What I look at, is kind of like Jean Michel Jarre's philosophy when he made Oxygen,...
by normen
06 Oct 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Reason SSL Mixer Hardware Controller
Replies: 452
Views: 114459

Re: Reason SSL Mixer Hardware Controller

amcjen wrote:
04 Oct 2018
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Whoa, nice. And yeah, OLEDs are SO MUCH cheaper than an LED ring - crazy but true :/
by normen
05 Oct 2018
Forum: Rack Extensions
Topic: Compressors. How many do you really need?
Replies: 53
Views: 8706

Re: Compressors. How many do you really need?

I think these engineers with a butt load of compressors set and forget, that is to say they get a good setting and that's where they leave it. If it works, fine. If not, on to the next unit. At least this is what I've ascertained from reading interviews with Brauer, Blake et al. I will defer to any...
by normen
05 Oct 2018
Forum: Rack Extensions
Topic: Compressors. How many do you really need?
Replies: 53
Views: 8706

Re: Compressors. How many do you really need?

There is something I don't get in compressor's marketing technique. They always say it's a super fast compressor yeee. But I tend not to use very fast attacks as much as possible. Am I nuts ? It just sounds better to me. Back in the day it was actually technically hard to make a compressor fast. Bu...
by normen
05 Oct 2018
Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
Topic: Leveling / Mixing
Replies: 11
Views: 2201

Re: Leveling / Mixing

In my experience the better the results of engineers are the less they did to the material. It's about avoiding mistakes and using the devices to their maximum potential. Thats why engineers care about added headroom from balanced signals and low noise devices, why they buy expensive microphones whe...
by normen
04 Oct 2018
Forum: Rack Extensions
Topic: Compressors. How many do you really need?
Replies: 53
Views: 8706

Re: Compressors. How many do you really need?

selig wrote:
04 Oct 2018
Honestly, the ones I'm using the most these days are the crazy prototypes I'm building in Reaktor - very thankful for VSTs in Reason.
Selig************** compression on everything! ;)
Maybe make that underscores next time, I thought you were swearing at first ;)
by normen
04 Oct 2018
Forum: Rack Extensions
Topic: Compressors. How many do you really need?
Replies: 53
Views: 8706

Re: Compressors. How many do you really need?

Firmly in the „all of them“ camp. Compressors to me are the only „esoteric“ gear where I really want different devices because I know I can‘t achieve everything with one flexible device (like for EQ). And they often surprise me where some compressor I wouldn‘t have thought works on some source sudde...
by normen
04 Oct 2018
Forum: Hardware and Other Software
Topic: Behringer Studio 50USB 5" Powered Monitors with USB
Replies: 24
Views: 5036

Re: Behringer Studio 50USB 5

What to do folks consider a “small room” these days? I have 8” woofers and a 12” sub in a 9x10’ room that sounds great (considering the standing wave issues). I’ve never understood the “don’t pump low end into a small room” advice, since you want all frequencies possible on at least one of your sys...
by normen
01 Oct 2018
Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
Topic: Adding sub-bass to a snare?
Replies: 25
Views: 4822

Re: Adding sub-bass to a snare?

The oldschool way would be a constant sine signal on a channel with a gate that has it's sidechain fed by the snare signal. But nowadays you usually have the snare as a MIDI track anyway so just throw in a synth track to play a short low sine with the same pattern as the snare.
by normen
29 Sep 2018
Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
Topic: Sine energy experiment (Sound Design / Master)
Replies: 44
Views: 5974

Re: Sine energy experiment (Sound Design / Master)

Well... it didn't work the way I imagined it. T_T Seriously, this is heartbreaking. I would have already been happy, if I had found a way to at least make sound design more easy. Especially when we synthesize completely new sounds, things can go wrong very quickly on the frequency spectrum. How are...
by normen
29 Sep 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?
Replies: 54
Views: 11544

Re: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?

Yeah, so to compare apples with apples did you compare Bitwig and Reason with modulation? Would be interesting to know. What you mean by that? Do you want to compare Bitwig's vs. Reason's modular capabilities? Or compare performance of a VST that's modulated by e.g. Reason's Pulsar and Bitwig's LFO...
by normen
29 Sep 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?
Replies: 54
Views: 11544

Re: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?

Well I posted my results a long time ago. To really have comparable circumstances I opted to test the performance of the Softube plugins in Logic on a live channel and in series. The same in Reason. Result: Same instance count. That's great news - once Props release the VST-performance fix, I look ...
by normen
29 Sep 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?
Replies: 54
Views: 11544

Re: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?

If you'd like to take modulation and other settings into consideration, knock yourself out! I'd love to hear about your results. Well I posted my results a long time ago. To really have comparable circumstances I opted to test the performance of the Softube plugins in Logic on a live channel and in...
by normen
29 Sep 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?
Replies: 54
Views: 11544

Re: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?

EnochLight wrote:
29 Sep 2018
Just maybe not what people are thinking of when they want a basic "how many of VST-X can I get in Reason since I can get Y amount in DAW Z"?
Well I can get 100 or 10 instances of the same plugin in Logic - depending on the settings and them being played live etc. How do we account for that?
by normen
29 Sep 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?
Replies: 54
Views: 11544

Re: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?

EnochLight wrote:
29 Sep 2018
No, I haven't. I'm specifically interested in VST-performance (as in, "per count") with this particular poll.
But the poll refers to other DAWs and "comparable" performance?
by normen
28 Sep 2018
Forum: Reason General
Topic: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?
Replies: 54
Views: 11544

Re: Upcoming Reason 10.x update to address VST-Performance: how much is good enough for you?

The modular rack nature of Reason means that there is no way to directly compare "performance" with other typical DAWs. It is highly dependent on your style of routing/CV and the kinds of VSTs you use. So this poll isn't especially meaningful. i voted option 3, because i understand that the modular...
by normen
27 Sep 2018
Forum: Website Help and Suggestions
Topic: Dreadful face changing effects, never liked them.
Replies: 8
Views: 2286

Re: Dreadful face changing effects, never liked them.

Four guys are talking about this marketing image. I think it worked :)
by normen
27 Sep 2018
Forum: Website Help and Suggestions
Topic: Dreadful face changing effects, never liked them.
Replies: 8
Views: 2286

Re: Dreadful face changing effects, never liked them.

Careful, thats not a good view as an artist. It's the same as saying "Oh I recognize that chord pattern, it's so over-used and thats why it bores me". Not very practical attaching that to everything if you want to make music. The music doesn't care about your prejudices, it will just go back to the ...