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- 08 Dec 2021
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: 5 Things to Do Every Song in Reason
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3014
5 Things to Do Every Song in Reason
Hey folks, Feel like you've hit a plateau with your mixing? Or maybe you just feel like your mixes sound amateurish and lacking in polish? Maybe you're mixing pretty well, but things just don't seem to fit together cohesively? Well here are 5 easy things to do every mix to bring your songs to life s...
- 25 Jan 2020
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Reason 11 Mixing Template
- Replies: 1
- Views: 371
Reason 11 Mixing Template
Hey folks, I wanted to share a new mixing template I've cooked up for Reason 11! It includes all sorts of powerful features like properly routed send effects, parallel channels setup in advance, bussing, color coding, song parts, and easy high passing for the mix-bus compressor. You can download the...
- 04 May 2019
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: Reason's "Hidden" Effects
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1725
Re: Reason's "Hidden" Effects
I like that video. Here are a few things that i regular use and are missing: The Echo * Limiter, Overdrive, Tube and so on * Frequency (pitch) Modulation * Auto-Bending The Pulverizer: * Has a FM and AM input on the backside ^^ Malström * Wave-Shaper * And some kind of stereo spread (not the best, ...
- 04 May 2019
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: Reason's "Hidden" Effects
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1725
Re: Reason's "Hidden" Effects
One hidden effect I'm fond of is using the CF-101 Chorus/Flanger as a vibrato or pitch-destabilizer. Set feedback to 0, turn on Send mode, and make sure both the inputs and outputs are a stereo pair. Then use the LFO (or feed it any CV modulation you want) to control the pitch wobble. Nice tip! Goi...
- 04 May 2019
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: Reason's "Hidden" Effects
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1725
Reason's "Hidden" Effects
Hey guys, wanted to share something that may be obvious for some of you, but I think a lot of us have ignored. There are a lot of effects hidden around Reason that initially seem like they can only be used in one way - for example the Rattler in Kong. However, there's usually a way to use patching t...
- 05 Dec 2018
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Going stock
- Replies: 91
- Views: 17523
Re: Going stock
Hey guys, sorry it took me so long to get see this thread, but I've got some advice for you (and I've learned so much from Giles and Marco over the years that I'm only too happy to help). And everything that Daniel says on his Youtube channel is super helpful too, he's a great guy. Trying to start w...
- 01 Mar 2018
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Changing the Pre-Count Bars
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4556
Changing the Pre-Count Bars
So I just realized you can change the number of clicks before Reason starts recording. Go to Options -> Precount Bars. This quick video explains it:
- 10 Jan 2018
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Open call for ReasonTalk article/video contributors!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9762
Re: Open call for ReasonTalk article/video contributors!
I'm happy to help as well. Could do something on sidechaining, music licensing, arranging?
- 04 Oct 2017
- Forum: Reason Music
- Topic: (Electronica\PoohBear Style ) Poly Madness (video)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2924
Re: (Electronica\PoohBear Style ) Poly Madness (video)
This is definitely a track with a solid vibe! I'd have liked the drums to come in a little sooner. It might also benefit from a melodic hook in addition to the arpeggios.
- 04 Oct 2017
- Forum: Reason Music
- Topic: (triphop) Mirror
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1373
Re: (triphop) Mirror
Love it. Great vocal take, and the samples are super low and gritty. Maybe there's a bit too much low end rumble on the kick.
- 03 Oct 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Help? resized midi notes when resizing region
- Replies: 3
- Views: 648
Re: Help? resized midi notes when resizing region
Holding control rescales everything, so it can also change your curves elsewhere in the track, i.e. it could make fade ins faster. A slightly more complete fix is to double click on the track and edit the underlying data to fit.
- 03 Oct 2017
- Forum: Reason Music
- Topic: Stranger Things Style Album
- Replies: 1
- Views: 482
Stranger Things Style Album
So with Halloween coming up, I just released a synthwave album inspired by folks like Jean-Michel Jarre and the guys behind the Stranger Things soundtrack. It was recorded entirely in Reason, and use a lot of the Skrock synths and the Analog Machine Komplete VST. Would love to hear your thoughts! Yo...
- 03 Oct 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Question about delay compensation / parallel processing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 712
Re: Question about delay compensation / parallel processing
It works most of the time, but I've also encountered some circumstances where the delay compensation doesn't work right when I've had different effects on the left and right channels summer back together. You definitely need to use your ears to make sure that it's doing its job.
- 14 Jul 2017
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: How to get that Lo-Fi Sound
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2595
Re: How to get that Lo-Fi Sound
Haven't checked out Dusty Brown. Being added to a playlist now. Audomatic can do part of this, but the big takeaway I have for getting lo-fi sounds is that you have to both make the sample sound lo-fi AND make the sampler introduce some distortion. Most of the old skool songs we love were made on sh...
- 13 Jul 2017
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: How to get that Lo-Fi Sound
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2595
How to get that Lo-Fi Sound
I'm a huge fan of Tycho (you guys should check out Dive if you haven't heard it yet) and also old skool hip hop, so I really have been trying to figure out how to get lo-fi sounding tracks for a while. I think I've finally cracked it. Every sample is going to be different, but it involves lot of tim...
- 15 Jun 2017
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: A simple sidechain technique for killer groove
- Replies: 1
- Views: 514
A simple sidechain technique for killer groove
A lot of folks are familiar with sidechain compression, where you use one sound source to duck the volume of a second sound source. Taking this to the next level, and create reverbs, pads, and synths that really breath rhythmically is super easy in Reason. Instead of having an actual track in the so...
- 03 Jun 2017
- Forum: VST Plugins
- Topic: How to get multiple output channels in Kontakt
- Replies: 0
- Views: 374
How to get multiple output channels in Kontakt
Here's a quick video on setting up multiple outputs in Kontakt. Great for the drummer VSTs they've got.
- 30 Mar 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: What's the best way to get a warm sound in Reason using Reason effects?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7589
Re: What's the best way to get a warm sound in Reason using Reason effects?
I don't think there's a magic bullet to "warmth" unfortunately. But it's totally achievable. It's about being strategic and not trying to cover everything in a warm blanket, but just the most jarring parts. The cheapest way to do it is to add just a few percents of the Softube saturation knob to eac...
- 30 Mar 2017
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: Falling in love with samples
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3375
Re: Falling in love with samples
The Converse Rubber Tracks is chock a block with great, free samples.
- 30 Mar 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Reason Sounds Sound Dated
- Replies: 135
- Views: 17925
Re: Reason Sounds Sound Dated
3 quick points. First, if you're doing most genres of hip hop, they're classics that you're trying to emulate are all sample based. The trick to making your tracks sound fresh involves re-sampling your midi tracks, throwing a bunch of "dust" on them and then manipulating them as samples, not notes. ...
- 30 Mar 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Learning Reason's back wiring? Any good way?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3872
Re: Learning Reason's back wiring? Any good way?
Also if you're trying to learn about CVs, it may be easier in the beginning to use the Combinator and run the CV through it. The benefits of this are that you actually program in what the CV is doing which helps reinforce the learning. Moreover, when you use the combinator to do it, the knobs become...
- 23 Feb 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Reason 9 and NI Komplete 11
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3775
Re: Reason 9 and NI Komplete 11
You can also use Reason 9's external midi instrument to control Komplete and then send Komplete's audio into Reason and record it. This maybe slightly more stable than the 2 DAW solution, but there will be a *slight* sound degredation as gets converted. On the plus side, if you have any outboard har...
- 17 Feb 2017
- Forum: Tutorials and Techniques
- Topic: Sidechaining
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1343
Re: Sidechaining
Here's a pretty epic ~2000 word article and 30 minute video I did on how to trigger a sidechain in Reason http://www.reasonguide.com/reason-tutor ... mpression/
- 17 Feb 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Strategies for beating complexity?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3095
Re: Strategies for beating complexity?
Great tips. I've got a few to add: * I create mix channels for all my send effects and route them to a master send effects bus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7WioPzKFwo&t=191s) * I keep all my busses together on the right side of the mixer. This prevents clutter while doing detail mixing and allo...
- 17 Feb 2017
- Forum: Reason General
- Topic: Saturation on individual instruments
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2425
Re: Saturation on individual instruments
You can always induce delay on the original track by patching in the same effects used on the parallel track, but just turning them all the way down. E.g. you would use a compressor on both, but the original track would have a threshold set so that it doesn't trigger, or the Softube saturation knob ...