new Reason Studios Player: Pattern Mutator

[guitfnky]

looks interesting!

https://www.reasonstudios.com/shop/rack ... n-mutator/

[Loque]

Interesting idea by RS and developed by Robotic Beans, which obviously do not like to have spare time...

It looks good and a bit unusual for a classic pattern generator.

Would be interesting how this compares to all the other "generators", even the "old" CV generators... Guess the main thing here is, I provide the basic pattern, which than can be mutated.

[Steedus]

Damn I was hoping the trailer’s wording of “now available in the Reason rack” (instead of “now available in the Reason Shop”) meant it was included with Reason Suite.. looks interesting.

[antic604]

This is seriously bonkers!

Hurry up Reason, release the high-res update so that I could go back to using Reason full time!

And please don't add Mutator + Friktion to v12 Suite, because I skipped v11 Suite as I already had 12 of the "extra" REs and wanted only 1 from the remaining 4. I'm not gonna pay for 18 devices of which I want now 3 Stop this Suite nonsense.

[guitfnky]

crafty with the timing on this one. conveniently dropped days after Black Friday to avoid the inevitable wIlL iT bE oN sAlE fOr BlAcK fRiDaY??? questions.

[antic604]

crafty with the timing on this one. conveniently dropped days after Black Friday to avoid the inevitable wIlL iT bE oN sAlE fOr BlAcK fRiDaY??? questions.

Hope it goes down to EUR/$50 around Christmas / NY

[guitfnky]

one PATTERN RS are MUTATING on is the music in their promo videos. it all sounds good, of course, but seems to always have the same feel. would be nice if they started to change that up--getting kind of boring always hearing the same uplifting midtempo dancetronica vibe in every demo.

[antic604]

one PATTERN RS are MUTATING on is the music in their promo videos. it all sounds good, of course, but seems to always have the same feel. would be nice if they started to change that up--getting kind of boring always hearing the same uplifting midtempo dancetronica vibe in every demo.

Isn't it because it's kind of neutral? If they used metal, jazz or hip-hop, people would quickly associate the tool with certain music style or genre. The "dancetronica" (great term, BTW!) has defacto became contemporary elevator music - a nice, neutral & emotionless background.

What I appreciate though, is that Tiger got rid of (or learned to control) her vocal fry. That was annoying

[bigguy1]

I like the idea of that new player and I think I will bu this one day, because I love players in Reason. Hope it will be on sale for XMAS .

But I have to say, that I would much more appreciate that kind of mutating with a pattern in the sequencer. Maybe there is drag and drop working to drag a midi clip on the player, mutate it and drag it back to the sequencer again. I'm gonna try out...

[visheshl]

too expensive for what it does...i think

[guitfnky]

I like the idea of that new player and I think I will bu this one day, because I love players in Reason. Hope it will be on sale for XMAS .

But I have to say, that I would much more appreciate that kind of mutating with a pattern in the sequencer. Maybe there is drag and drop working to drag a midi clip on the player, mutate it and drag it back to the sequencer again. I'm gonna try out...

there are some good options for this sort of thing built into the F8 options in Reason already. you can select the notes you want to mess with, and under Alter Notes, set a % for how much you want to change them, and get some interesting variations. I use it often for drum part variations, but it works just as well for melodies and the like.

[guitfnky]

this one looks more useful to me than a lot of the other Players that mainly do straight up randomization or require lots of manual data (note) entry. looks like you can record your own stuff into this one, and it'll create variations based on that--sort of a nice middle ground for me. could see myself using this, if it feels right after the demo.

[DougalDarkly]

there are some good options for this sort of thing built into the F8 options in Reason already.

I think their metrics must tell them that no-one presses F8, so they built an RE for us dumbasses instead!

Same with the recent RS Instruments too - I think they've realised we can't even set up a decent effects chain for ourselves, so now they build them in.

[buddard]

I like the idea of that new player and I think I will bu this one day, because I love players in Reason. Hope it will be on sale for XMAS .

But I have to say, that I would much more appreciate that kind of mutating with a pattern in the sequencer. Maybe there is drag and drop working to drag a midi clip on the player, mutate it and drag it back to the sequencer again. I'm gonna try out...

You can't drag MIDI to/from REs, but you can record a note clip into Mutator in realtime, mutate it, and then send the notes back to the track again!

[Loque]

I like the idea of that new player and I think I will bu this one day, because I love players in Reason. Hope it will be on sale for XMAS .

But I have to say, that I would much more appreciate that kind of mutating with a pattern in the sequencer. Maybe there is drag and drop working to drag a midi clip on the player, mutate it and drag it back to the sequencer again. I'm gonna try out...

You can't drag MIDI to/from REs, but you can record a note clip into Mutator in realtime, mutate it, and then send the notes back to the track again!

So, recording from another MIDI clip via a Player device like CVPT could work? I guess yes, but did not tried it yet...

[buddard]

You can't drag MIDI to/from REs, but you can record a note clip into Mutator in realtime, mutate it, and then send the notes back to the track again!

So, recording from another MIDI clip via a Player device like CVPT could work? I guess yes, but did not tried it yet...

Yes, of course! But you can also record clips that are on the same instrument track that Mutator is connected to. Remember that Players go between the MIDI track and its target instrument!

[Loque]

So, recording from another MIDI clip via a Player device like CVPT could work? I guess yes, but did not tried it yet...

Yes, of course! But you can also record clips that are on the same instrument track that Mutator is connected to. Remember that Players go between the MIDI track and its target instrument!

Lol, yes, you are right

[electrofux]

Omg, robotic bean did it again. That thing puts us really close to a cliplauncher. Super cool.

Now, that Record Button, has the SDK changed so that it is not exclusively mouseclickable?

[remo101]

I like the idea of that new player and I think I will bu this one day, because I love players in Reason. Hope it will be on sale for XMAS .

But I have to say, that I would much more appreciate that kind of mutating with a pattern in the sequencer. Maybe there is drag and drop working to drag a midi clip on the player, mutate it and drag it back to the sequencer again. I'm gonna try out...

You can't drag MIDI to/from REs, but you can record a note clip into Mutator in realtime, mutate it, and then send the notes back to the track again!

this thing is amazing. seriously it's a whole different ball game from using F8 tools to randomise stuff and I would advise everyone whose even vaguely interested to download the trial, play with it for 5 minutes and get lost in your own musical ideas... it's a lot of fun.

To buddard as the developer I wanted to ask if it would be possible to add a single "global knob" to scale all the different kinds of mutation - I mean so I could set "note length", "pitch", "velocity" knobs to levels I like and then use a single knob to scale them all back to zero or up to higher values while maintaining the same relative ratios?

[Sterioevo]

Omg, robotic bean did it again. That thing puts us really close to a cliplauncher. Super cool.

Now, that Record Button, has the SDK changed so that it is not exclusively mouseclickable?

No.
But it is possible with third party tools such as Bomes.

[electrofux]

Omg, robotic bean did it again. That thing puts us really close to a cliplauncher. Super cool.

Now, that Record Button, has the SDK changed so that it is not exclusively mouseclickable?

No.
But it is possible with third party tools such as Bomes.

How is that being done with Bomes? Does it react to keystrokes?

[buddard]

Omg, robotic bean did it again. That thing puts us really close to a cliplauncher. Super cool.

Well, to be fair I only wrote the code, the design is almost 100% Reason Studios.

Now, that Record Button, has the SDK changed so that it is not exclusively mouseclickable?

Nope, Rec buttons still have to be implemented using custom display scripts, so they need direct user interaction to work.

But I think we added Remote support for everything remotely (haha) possible, including Rest, Tie and Delete during step recording.

[Sterioevo]

No.
But it is possible with third party tools such as Bomes.

How is that being done with Bomes? Does it react to keystrokes?

You can create a mouse click/location and attach to midi.
Not ideal, has limitations of course, but can be achieved.

[antic604]

I'm a little confused by the manual.

1. Does setting it to "SEQ" mode means it'll ALWAYS play when transport is running, or only when appropriate pattern #1-8 is set in pattern lane of the Reason sequencer, like Matrix, Redrum, etc. It's not gonna be clear for someone who hasn't used Reason before.

2. The other thing is at the end of page #12 "Now you can continue mutating this pattern, maybe with other settings. Or go back to your original pattern and create other variations". Once the mutation is copied to pattern there's no orignal pattern (it gets overwritten), right? So how can I "go back to original" (other than re-record it)? Or maybe both the original & current mutation is saved in the pattern slot? Considering there's no picture where both orange and green "dials" are coloured (always one is gray) I imagine it's only one version that's stored. OK, the video explains it better - you choose the pattern slot you copy the mutation to, so you can overwrite the original or not.

[electrofux]

Omg, robotic bean did it again. That thing puts us really close to a cliplauncher. Super cool.

But I think we added Remote support for everything remotely (haha) possible, including Rest, Tie and Delete during step recording.

I really love that you allways put effort into that area.

This device is also a potential gamechanger for the already super perfect StepNote Recorder.

A function to quantize record start would come in handy though, to correctly record sequences on the fly.