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Hi All

I figured I'd start with a list of all the articles and Tutorials I posted at PUF. Just in case

Composition

1. Writing a Piece of Music – simple Theory – very basics of chord progression and chord notes
2. Arranging a Piece of Music – simple Theory – the sense of story
3. Re-Voicing & Arranging Music – a real life example

Sounds

1. Reason Synths – a quick comparison
2. Signal Routing & simple Logic – if you wire it, they will dance
3. Why Making Drums Sound BIG is Difficult – basics of drum creation
4. Compressing Drums – squishdy squidge
5. Build Your Own Reverb Unit – this is your space + Patch
6. Creating External FM in Reason – nasty, nasty, oh you nasty boy! + Patch
7. Korg MonoPoly RE v.s. Thor – my cloth ears + Patch
8. Korg MS-20 Mini v.s. Reason 7 – kinda silly but hey
9. Doepfer Dark Energy v.s. Thor – ooh to be ah + Patch
10. Making Reason more Analog – Reason v.s. KingKORG + Patch
11. Samplers as Synthesizers – and why it can be so good (or bad)
12. Blamsoft Distributor in Reason 7 – maybe I oversold it but it is still cool

Mixing

1. Mixing In Stere-erio – get the balance right
2. Mixing in Stere-erio – conclusion – making stereo out of nothing at all
3. Mixing in Mono – now the stereo is gone, I’m just one
4. Compressing Drums – how to get ‘em to sit in the mix and not DESTROYer it
5. Bet you didn’t know BASS is the Enemy in Mixing Music – when too much is just too much and how to fool the kids all the time
6. Mixing with Groups in Propellerheads Reason – out of date now but still good to know
7. How to Mix Well – the Zen of being a Master
8. Mastering – Master & Servant, the Final Fantasy

Others

1. How to transfer a Vinyl Record to Digital (CD, mp3 etc.) – get it right!
2. Novation Bass Station – a passing folly
3. Gear Lust – don’t do it, get away from the gun
4. The Post-Album Slump – writer’s block and how to tear down the wall

UPDATE: by now there are a lot more articles including a complete suite on basic music marketing. They are all under this link
http://benedictroffmarsh.com/tutorials/

UPDATE: people seem confused over what I offer, this may help: https://benedictroffmarsh.com/2020/01/1 ... w-i-do-it/

UPDATE: I run a series of videos where I take in a track and mix it. In the video, I A/B the changes, play the new mix and then walk through all the decisions I made in creating my mix. I am open for submissions. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... mXIauoJraq

Excellent resource, Benedict! Thank you for taking the time to put this together and sharing.

Thank you, Benedict! Glad you made it over here as well!

D.

Benedict wrote:Hi All

I figured I'd start with a list of all the articles and Tutorials I posted at PUF. Just in case

Composition

1. Writing a Piece of Music – simple Theory – very basics of chord progression and chord notes
2. Arranging a Piece of Music – simple Theory – the sense of story
3. Re-Voicing & Arranging Music – a real life example

Sounds

1. Reason Synths – a quick comparison
2. Signal Routing & simple Logic – if you wire it, they will dance
3. Why Making Drums Sound BIG is Difficult – basics of drum creation
4. Compressing Drums – squishdy squidge
5. Build Your Own Reverb Unit – this is your space + Patch
6. Creating External FM in Reason – nasty, nasty, oh you nasty boy! + Patch
7. Korg MonoPoly RE v.s. Thor – my cloth ears + Patch
8. Korg MS-20 Mini v.s. Reason 7 – kinda silly but hey
9. Doepfer Dark Energy v.s. Thor – ooh to be ah + Patch
10. Making Reason more Analog – Reason v.s. KingKORG + Patch
11. Samplers as Synthesizers – and why it can be so good (or bad)
12. Blamsoft Distributor in Reason 7 – maybe I oversold it but it is still cool

Mixing

1. Mixing In Stere-erio – get the balance right
2. Mixing in Stere-erio – conclusion – making stereo out of nothing at all
3. Mixing in Mono – now the stereo is gone, I’m just one
4. Compressing Drums – how to get ‘em to sit in the mix and not DESTROYer it
5. Bet you didn’t know BASS is the Enemy in Mixing Music – when too much is just too much and how to fool the kids all the time
6. Mixing with Groups in Propellerheads Reason – out of date now but still good to know
7. How to Mix Well – the Zen of being a Master
8. Mastering – Master & Servant, the Final Fantasy

Others

1. How to transfer a Vinyl Record to Digital (CD, mp3 etc.) – get it right!
2. Novation Bass Station – a passing folly
3. Gear Lust – don’t do it, get away from the gun
4. The Post-Album Slump – writer’s block and how to tear down the wall

Glad you made it over Benedict. Awesome post.

Thanks guys

Thanks Benedict.

Two of mine:

"Subtractive" Tonewheel Organs
Practical Frequency Modulation

Great stuff. Benedict is a great resource. I look forward to getting into these tutorials more in depth.

Fantastic.

Here one I made for reason an mpc renaissace/studio users
http://youtu.be/z-N9zd3UGbo
And another one to rewire vst inside mpc software
http://youtu.be/V0GhZBhASX8

Good job _

Thanks Benedict!
Is it possible to make tutorials list sticky? Or just add new links to one, common list.

It would probably be better to make a new thread for each tutorial or if everything is in this one it will become crazy.

Of course if everyone keeps replying to my post I will get to feel pretty special 

Benedict wrote:It would probably be better to make a new thread for each tutorial or if everything is in this one it will become crazy.

Of course if everyone keeps replying to my post I will get to feel pretty special 

Benedict we've done this thing on our forum ( reason france )
one topic with all tuto. ( all link for each topic/entry)
http://forum.reasonfrance.fr/tous-les-t ... t5252.html

and on the sub-category Tutorials & techniques
all users can open a topic per entry for a tuto.

the best way to keep it this forum section clean et helpfull is to have a system which user can submit a tuto then moderator and admin can create the topic with all purpose by users like this
http://forum.reasonfrance.fr/minibrute- ... 17730.html

but need more management and works for the admin and moderator

Bravo Reason France! Great tutorial list with structure. Tres bien!

We must not forget the excellent tutorials by Hydlide over at ReasonExperts

Tons on his youtube channel..

https://www.youtube.com/user/reasonexperts

Read some of the links and very good information in them, so thanks a lot

All your tutorials, tips and articles in one place!! NICE

Hey Benedict, 

I'm very happy to see you here, and glad to see you settling in and creating some structure for this forum already!
I'm thinking this should probably be a sticky, but don't know if this forum software allows it. 
[edit - it's called "pinning", and this thread has now officially been pinned!]

But welcome, thank you, and hope to see you dig in and make this your new home for tutorials etc. Anything I can do to help, just let me know!

Benedict!  Thank you.
This place wouldn't be complete without you.  Glad you're on-board mate.

Good start there Benedict. Always a wealth of knowledge you are.

Thanks Benedict

Thank you for posting! I was actually about to search for your article on arranging as I'm a bit stuck and I need some fresh perspective arranging some of my stuff, and there it is.. right at the top 

Thanks guys. I mean to write a few more articles but I distract myself.

New album is mostly done (just the shouting left to do) and then maybe I can do some. Requests considered.