Sounds like there's a tambourine or a shaker in there. Something also sounds tuned differently (maybe a little xylophone?/toy piano sample) , like like whole-step down and whole-step up, but it's really buried in the mix. That's on top of the other suggestions in here like the closed, semi and open ...

I've got a fair few VST folders due to years of poorly planned plug-in additions(!) but with two DAWs reading them there is no way I'm going mess with anything. I can live with a delay :D Grum. I get the scanning window every time I open Reason, but I also have about 300 VSTs installed. Probably ha...

Great content, as usual, and the vocals sound MUCH better. What did you end up changing?

I'll prolly get called out for being lazy (which I totally am) but after building many of these types of things from scratch, I've become a fan of the dada life riser plugin. Route a few channels through it or duplicate them into it > fade those channels in with the drop > use the plugin > automate ...

I'll take it! Thank you!

Could this be another "lock keyboard focus to VST" issue? Maybe try this out and see what happens.

Click "Options" and scroll down and select "VST Windows Get Keyboard Focus". Then try the activation again?

Mornin'! I started playing random chords on the piano and ended up with this. Feedback welcome and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making it! Thanks!

I'm new to making Reason tutorials, so please let me know if you have any comments.. Hey Mike - just a suggestion... all of your voice overs in your reviews sound like low bit-rate MP3's from the late 90's. Not sure what's going on with your recordings, but you might want to look into that. Otherwi...

Solid feedback, thank you! Hadn't really done much outside of building the track together, but I can definitely go in for a mix down and see where it ends up!

Swapped the file for one with a little more of an... intro, I guess based on some advice from a friend.

Thanks! It was a fun track to make!

I'm trying to wrap my head around new genres outside of DnB, haha. This was an experiment I started two days ago and ended up with this. My buddy is a resident DJ at a dance club here and said it could be considered Future House, but leaning into Dance. May I present... FUTURE DANCE! Feedback welcom...

give up the FILEZ! Remix Party!

Edit, I got a little too excited... The piano is great and your vocals are awesome as usual. Question, was this played or sequenced on the piano?

Seems like a little mixing could go a long way here. I'd start by pulling the top tubed out synth back and bring that kick way up. Maybe tweak that synth for a little less bass and add a bass line separately, or fully commit it and crank the base up and add a little sidechain compression. It's a coo...

Wow! I don't think I've ever seen a more civil discussion about this. Kudos, RT! To the topic at hand; honestly, I see presets in the same family as samples. I've used both, haha. But I've also, and still continue to, spend hours from an init patch and dig in to make the sound I have in my head, or ...

Sounds awesome! Mixed really well and has a great feel to it! Who's on the vocals?

This is great, dude! It sounds simple on the surface, but listening in, you catch more and more subtle details rolling around in it. Outside of a little more mixie-mastery magic, I wouldn't touch a thing on there!

Stellar track, as usual! Punchy drums, great synths and the touches with the cello/guitar (maybe a little vox burried in there too?) were perfectly built into the track!

@aeox, yep! Massive! It's a pretty capable synth and it came free with Maschine!

@strangers, thanks for the feedback, glad to hear it was enjoyable!

Thanks! That's NI Massive making the pretty guitar noises, and the vocals are from the Exhale library by Output Sounds (I'm in love with their stuff). Thanks for the listen and feedback!

Trying to tinker with Battery in Reason and ended up with this. Thoughts and guidance welcomed! https://soundcloud.com/sys-crash-media/snow On a side note, any of you using Battery 4 in Reason? I'm trying to use the "automate" button in the wrapper, which works on stuff like Serum and Kontakt, but s...

It sucks! No, really though, this is mixed REALLY well! Sounds awesome! A. I love that lead synth (pls tell me about it) and 2. the piano breakdown is perfectly suited to the rest of the track and III. The drums are punchy, and not overly complicated which is awesome! I'd prolly call it chill step, ...

I use Ozone and I love how powerful it is...but... it eats up that DSP meter for breakfast if you have it in the master channel while running a few instances of Kontakt and Serum with some FabFilter stuff running along side them. I've made it more of a final mix step now. I bounce my kontakt/Serum/a...

I like the feel and flow of the song, but the drums could use a little more work. The beat is good, just need to bring the kicks up more. Maybe some light sidechain compression and a little more volume would make them more punchy.

Seconding the things said so far. It's a good track/composition, but it could use a little more mixing down, for my taste. Maybe it's my listening set up, but the highs on the piano are a bit too far over the mix for me, making it sounds a little tinny. A lot of that could be cut out with some eq wo...