Re: Amateur needs help with Reason
Posted: 30 Nov 2018
Awesome. Thank you.
If you want to perform live you need be clear about yourself how much flexibility and chance (and fails) you want to have and how your setup should be structured?BYRN wrote: ↑11 Dec 2018Ok, so now that you guys have helped me with working out all those little things, on to a new subject.
I want to begin to preform live. How do I go about setting up my computer and synth to be able to do that the most efficient way? I'm sure there is probably more than one way to do it, but what would be the simplest way? I am planning on buying a better midi interface so I can connect a drum pad/machine to the setup. But for now, it's just my laptop with reason 10, and my roland jdxi synth. What do you guys think? Thanks again.
Yes, I think it´s a good idea to first get familiar with the samplers in Reason before starting to think about live performances. Still - with that in mind - sampler devices like NN-XT, Kong, Redrum and Dr. Octorex together with sequencer devices will most likely play a role in the live performance setup lateron.BYRN wrote: ↑26 Feb 2019Artotaku
I don't just want to play one song After the other that's for sure. I wanted to be a mix so what I'm thinking about doing is getting a good set of songs together and learning to mix and properly on a turntable. Not to be honest if there is a way for me to hook up my sense with that so I can throw some live element in there with it that would be nice but I'm just going to have to see how that's done. Right now I have my hands full with just trying to figure out how to get samples to work the easiest way on reason.
For mixing and using compressors have a look at these clips. They use different DAWs but the principles are universal.
artotaku wrote:Since you have full control over the audio routing of devices in Reason there are different ways to build an FX chain which is up to personal taste
or organizational purposes.
Insert FX
You can attach them right after an instrument device or you can put them as insert FX into the mix channel that is attached to the instrument device.
Doing the latter has some advantages e. g. you can bypass all FX devices at once and change the order how the mix channel settings (compressor, insert FX, etc) are applied.
If you want to save the instruments with its FX chain in a patch you would put all devices in a combinator and save the combinator patch.
Send FX
Either add them as send FX to the mix channel (which is the same as in other DAWS) or to mixer devices (Reason specific).
I prefer the first or a mix of both, e .g if you want to build a complex instrument out of other instruments in combinator and the send FX should be inside the combinator.
Let me see if I can make it simple in text.vancityguy wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019Do you guys know of a tutorial (preferably video) that breaks down the difference between the two in good detail? Maybe with examples as well? I’m new to music production and sound design and can’t seem to wrap my head around it.
ScuzzyEye wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019Let me see if I can make it simple in text.vancityguy wrote: ↑01 Mar 2019Do you guys know of a tutorial (preferably video) that breaks down the difference between the two in good detail? Maybe with examples as well? I’m new to music production and sound design and can’t seem to wrap my head around it.
An Insert effect is inserted into the signal path. That instrument which is plugged into a mix channel. In the middle of the path between the instrument and the channel being summed into the master, there's an effect changing the signal.
A Send effect sits off to the side. For a signal to reach it has to be sent there. Say you have a reverb that's simulating a room. You're imagining multiple instruments in the mix are all sitting in that room. It wouldn't make sense to insert that reverb on every channel. Instead you can send multiple instruments to that one effect, and they'll all get mixed together. The send effect returns the processed audio.
Only one other little thing to note. When inserting an effect into the signal chain, you'll want to use the wet/dry mix knob to pick how much of the original signal is passed through, vs. how much of the effect is applied. On a send, the full original signal still passes through to the master. You choose what level is sent to the the effect. The effect should also be 100% wet, so no original signal is returned. More simply. Insert = adjust wet/dry to taste. Send = 100% wet.
100% dry??? That means you are bypassing the effect, what is the point?vancityguy wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019
Now is there really no way to get a 100% dry output of a Send Effect back into the mix channel? The reason why I want to do this is that I want to use a dry version of the same effect across many channels WITHOUT creating multiple instance of the effect for each instrument. If there's a way to do this, it'll save me processing power, won't clutter the rack too much and will save me the time to spent setting up the same effect component on multiple sources.
Not every effect is good at a send. Something like a compressor is best when it can target specifically the part of a track you want to affect, and you don't want any of the original passing through to the master. (There is of course exceptions to that rule, because parallel compression is a thing.)vancityguy wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019Now is there really no way to get a 100% dry output of a Send Effect back into the mix channel? The reason why I want to do this is that I want to use a dry version of the same effect across many channels WITHOUT creating multiple instance of the effect for each instrument. If there's a way to do this, it'll save me processing power, won't clutter the rack too much and will save me the time to spent setting up the same effect component on multiple sources.
Thank you! I've been trying to figure this out for weeks! I wanted to add the 'sidechain compression' effect across a few instruments using the same instance of the compressor, but wanted this to sit in the Send effects section because I wanted different effect levels for each instrument.ScuzzyEye wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019Not every effect is good at a send. Something like a compressor is best when it can target specifically the part of a track you want to affect, and you don't want any of the original passing through to the master. (There is of course exceptions to that rule, because parallel compression is a thing.)vancityguy wrote: ↑02 Mar 2019Now is there really no way to get a 100% dry output of a Send Effect back into the mix channel? The reason why I want to do this is that I want to use a dry version of the same effect across many channels WITHOUT creating multiple instance of the effect for each instrument. If there's a way to do this, it'll save me processing power, won't clutter the rack too much and will save me the time to spent setting up the same effect component on multiple sources.
Sends work best for effects you want to glue multiple tracks together. Effects that add a little something on top.
But if you want only the send effect, and nothing from the channel to make it to the master, you can hit the little "Pre" button under the Send number, and then turn down the channel fader all the way. That'll still send the audio from the channel, but not mix anything into the master.
vancityguy wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019Thank you! I've been trying to figure this out for weeks! I wanted to add the 'sidechain compression' effect across a few instruments using the same instance of the compressor, but wanted this to sit in the Send effects section because I wanted different effect levels for each instrument.