@GennadiosArvanitis do the same thing but instead of the master fader, use the fader for the device that's playing in the sequencer. So if you have a sequencer track for a Subtractor and that Subtractor is wired into a 14-2 mixer, then option click that channel fader in the 14-2 mixer and do the same thing I described above.
i haven't watched a reason video in a while, I've been experimenting on my own... and i love it to be honest! i've created some great bass synths from scratch and wild combinations with routing and sequencing. If you wanna make your music stand out and sound different, the best way to do it is this way. Key points, low oscillators usually create bass like sounds with all the filters and LFO and delay effects you can really use you imagination. Not mention you can go even deeper into it and hook up effects and rout certain wires to modulate something more specific. Another great way to learn new ways to use Reason (any version) is to read the Manual... I've learnt a lot of new things reading that manual. I even go back threw it cause sometimes you brain loops slow or you get tired and forget things. Great video! Prefect for beginners!
@GennadiosArvanitis Fade out the whole song? One way is to hold down the option key and click on your master fader. This will create an automation lane in the sequencer which you can now draw in a fade using the pencil tool.
@ItsDiegoDoes You definitely don't need a keyboard but some people (usually piano players, find it helps them). You can input notes with the mouse or even use your computer's keyboard (the one you type with) as a piano to play notes on.
There is a slider in the Audio Preferences called "Buffer." The smaller the value of the buffer, the lower the latency will be. But the lower the latency, the bigger the effort of your soundcard will be so the goal is to find a happy balance between low latency and efficient CPU performance. Many modern computers and soundcards, like our Balance audio interface, can operate fine at the fastest setting. But older computers or weaker soundcards might need a bigger buffer.
@kinkalani Sounds like you might be playing on a part of the keyboard that the Kong pads or Redrum isn't set up to use. Try shifting the octave range of your keyboard down lower to play lower notes. Kong and Redrum use low notes on a keyboard to play.
I don't there's a button that would say something like "show all patches." Click it. If you're using a Malstrom and you want to browse over to Thor patches, the folder will be blank if it's looking for Malstrom patches (since it's a Thor folder). If you click that button, it will show you all patches and clicking on each one will change the instrument to whatever the patch is so you can audition and select the one you want.
@vintertor Certainly not. There is an "onscreen keyboard" that you can play with your computer's keyboard keys. You can also just program notes in with your mouse to play back. A keyboard is useful only if you're a keyboard player who prefers to work that way. Thanks for asking.
I really like the idea here! I usually get kinda stuck in my ideas - don't want to throw something away. I love how he just goes Ctrl + Z without any hesitation at all. Great!
@kcarlile Agreed. It really stood out to me as a unique approach to tutorial videos. I really enjoy the camera changes, the subtle shading/highlight around the mouse cursor and many other small things.
@dioxide74 Really old JBL 4311b monitors... like.. from the 80's or possible late 70's. They are ridiculously heavy but I have mixed on them for over 20 years now so I know my sound with them (jeez.. I really am getting old...).
Hey! anybody know how to get my play, record, and metronome functions back on the main screen? I seem to have hit something to make them disappear and i'd like them back. Thanks!
you don't need a keyboard. you could draw the notes in on screen using a pencil tool or even use an on-screen keyboard which turns your computers QWERTY keyboard into a piano. lots of people prefer controller keyboards because they're either piano players already or they like the feel of those keys better but they're not required to make music, just ask any laptop producer who travels with Reason and no keyboard. :)
@pitolove71 Who is this question to? Propellerhead has no official position on which one you should use, obviously. We develop for both Windows and Mac and support them equally. I personally use a mac in my music and video work but that's just me. I'm sure anyone you ask will have a different opinion on which is best based on what they personally use. I'd say try them both from a friend's computer if necessary and see what works for you. Good luck!
This was just a tiny little part of experimentation and routing potential of Reason. And recently I figured out for myself that Reason is really fun to use - you create music without any brain pollution. Just creating.
OMG Thank you! im working on a little piece in my music com. class with reason 6 and i wanted to recorda little build up i made with the echo effect by turning up the feedback and i didnt know if i could record that bit. This may have just saved my project.
Well you can edit an automation on the tempo setting, but it will usually just sound weird when the tempo change, but there without a doubt different ways to change the tempo during your track.
is there a way to click the drum sound key with out a keyboard? like if you just have the computer, so you don't have to constantly keep clicking with the mouse
i just got reason yesterday and my midi keyboard will play the cords but it wont play the kong drum nor redrum what am i doing wrong thanks for the feed back in advanced
does anyone know why when i have thor open and then open kong kong wont play. if i have kong open and then open thor underneath its the same problem only thor wont play but kong will.
Yes that applies to drums too and guitar patches on the Reason instrument devices. I assume you don't mean real guitars because obviously those you just play yourself but I thought I'd make sure so nobody thinks I'm saying you can play a real guitar using the QWERTY keyboard in Reason. That would be some strange voodoo magic. :)
do you need a keyboard or anything to make somethiing like you did? can you just make it using the software or do you need something like that keyboard
Hey another 606 user, "like it" :) - how do you synchronize it with record? I'm searching to record it without a host sequencer with midi out, but midi out for record is another topic ;)
FINALLY!!! I found a decent tutorial for REAL NOOBS like me... I'm not saying I understand it, but I'm starting to understand something 😉 Freaking wasted in the 90's, played DJ at local cafe (retro house, techno, goa stuff) but had no money (as a student) to buy all the hardware... I had idea's in my head of how a beat/sample/song should be, but no equipement.... Now 20 years later I have the money, bought a midi controller, bought reason 7, 8, 9 and 10 only to discover I can't do sh*t with it... Can't even record something... I want to "build up" the song like in this video and it finally happened! I start to understand it!!! Alsmost 39 years old and finally starting to get it! DO MORE very low end/noob-style tutorials and explain HOW you do basic stuff like record 1 sound (say a bass), then how you record that 2nd sound (say a clap), etc etc until you got some sounds (where are they? How switching between them, how altering 1 sound at the time until you like it) etc... Oh yeah I'm Flemish (dutch speaking) so my English might be... a bit off 😜
Are there other rhythms, for example classic (orchestral), besides, can I add plugins that I once downloaded from the internet. I have the Nebulus, VSTSpeek, ANTI -TRANSPIRANT plugin, I use the MIDI controller Arturia MiniLab with Analog Lab4 and sometimes Analog Lab1 1
@774434 Indeed you do.. My trusty old TR-606.. still love it! @ herrgustav - I have an electribe EMX-1 that I use as the MIDI Clock Master and set Record to sync from MIDI Clock in.
Thanx you James. Which controller is the one placed between the Mac and the second screen ? the one white and blue with sliders. am on a controller search and am new to this.
What's up im trying to get my controller to un mute so I can hear some sounds can you help me out...I have an axiom 25 and wanted to get back into making beats using reason 6; can someone help me out?
Nice video.. No offense but finally something more interesting for me again (this and the latest "tips" on compression) :-) And how true this is; dare to make mistakes as well. That's the only way you'll learn. Be warned though; once you start seriously tweaking (patching) with Reason chances are you'll soon spend your entire evening in one flash :-) That stuff is just SO versatile and extensive... Just awesome.
I have my guitar plugged in via Focusrite solo and my signal is getting to Reason for recording, but while recording the guitar I want to hear how it sounds through the amp in reason?..... I want to hear the sound after it comes out of my selected reason amp and effects as I am playing?
neil groves you should be using the monitoring feature in reason and not on your focusrite. There’s a button on the top of the transport that says monitor. Click that with the mouse, then switch off the monitor button on your focusrite interface
I created two Redrum sequencers, first one for drum beat, and second one for bass guitar synth. Once I put all the bass sounds in the second Redrum I get this annoying high pitched sort of hum noise, like if in real life you were to bang up against a bass guitar and all the strings just ring out in that horrible noise, except for it never stops! Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this problem?
darrick steele your sample is too long so it overlaps it self. Try changing the red rum step sequencer to be longer and program hits on different steps so they don't overlap or draw it in the sequencer
Basically what is happening on your 16 step red rum sequence is the guitar playing and the red rum goes back to the beat and hits the guitar sound again as your other one still playing and it continues again and again which is why it goes high pitched and doesn't stop
@flylyflyly Hi there. It's a bit difficult to determine what issue you are having from your description. Maybe a link to a song file which exhibits the issue you are talking about would make it easier? Just email me at my propellerhead email (which you can find on most of my 52tips videos).
MegaDubst3p at least if you have reason 5 or higher, you can press F4 to show keyboard controls. Then you can play them with your keyboard. Good luck!!!
James Bernard this is your best Reason video ever
@GennadiosArvanitis do the same thing but instead of the master fader, use the fader for the device that's playing in the sequencer. So if you have a sequencer track for a Subtractor and that Subtractor is wired into a 14-2 mixer, then option click that channel fader in the 14-2 mixer and do the same thing I described above.
i haven't watched a reason video in a while, I've been experimenting on my own... and i love it to be honest! i've created some great bass synths from scratch and wild combinations with routing and sequencing. If you wanna make your music stand out and sound different, the best way to do it is this way. Key points, low oscillators usually create bass like sounds with all the filters and LFO and delay effects you can really use you imagination. Not mention you can go even deeper into it and hook up effects and rout certain wires to modulate something more specific. Another great way to learn new ways to use Reason (any version) is to read the Manual... I've learnt a lot of new things reading that manual. I even go back threw it cause sometimes you brain loops slow or you get tired and forget things. Great video! Prefect for beginners!
@zetsuXitachi Yes, Reason has an "on-screen" keyboard that lets you play chords from your computer or laptop keyboard.
@GennadiosArvanitis Fade out the whole song? One way is to hold down the option key and click on your master fader. This will create an automation lane in the sequencer which you can now draw in a fade using the pencil tool.
@ItsDiegoDoes You definitely don't need a keyboard but some people (usually piano players, find it helps them). You can input notes with the mouse or even use your computer's keyboard (the one you type with) as a piano to play notes on.
There is a slider in the Audio Preferences called "Buffer." The smaller the value of the buffer, the lower the latency will be. But the lower the latency, the bigger the effort of your soundcard will be so the goal is to find a happy balance between low latency and efficient CPU performance. Many modern computers and soundcards, like our Balance audio interface, can operate fine at the fastest setting. But older computers or weaker soundcards might need a bigger buffer.
@kinkalani Sounds like you might be playing on a part of the keyboard that the Kong pads or Redrum isn't set up to use. Try shifting the octave range of your keyboard down lower to play lower notes. Kong and Redrum use low notes on a keyboard to play.
I don't there's a button that would say something like "show all patches." Click it. If you're using a Malstrom and you want to browse over to Thor patches, the folder will be blank if it's looking for Malstrom patches (since it's a Thor folder). If you click that button, it will show you all patches and clicking on each one will change the instrument to whatever the patch is so you can audition and select the one you want.
@vintertor Certainly not. There is an "onscreen keyboard" that you can play with your computer's keyboard keys. You can also just program notes in with your mouse to play back. A keyboard is useful only if you're a keyboard player who prefers to work that way. Thanks for asking.
@liltirent54 James is using an M-Audio Axiom Pro 61. Thanks!
-ryan
I really like the idea here! I usually get kinda stuck in my ideas - don't want to throw something away. I love how he just goes Ctrl + Z without any hesitation at all. Great!
@kcarlile Agreed. It really stood out to me as a unique approach to tutorial videos. I really enjoy the camera changes, the subtle shading/highlight around the mouse cursor and many other small things.
@dioxide74
Really old JBL 4311b monitors... like.. from the 80's or possible late 70's. They are ridiculously heavy but I have mixed on them for over 20 years now so I know my sound with them (jeez.. I really am getting old...).
@zetsuXitachi you can use the keyboard on your computer or actually just put the notes in yourself with edit mode and the pencil tool
Have you checked the General preferences? There you can set ”Default Song” to ”Empty rack”.
Hey! anybody know how to get my play, record, and metronome functions back on the main screen? I seem to have hit something to make them disappear and i'd like them back. Thanks!
This is why I love this software!
you don't need a keyboard. you could draw the notes in on screen using a pencil tool or even use an on-screen keyboard which turns your computers QWERTY keyboard into a piano. lots of people prefer controller keyboards because they're either piano players already or they like the feel of those keys better but they're not required to make music, just ask any laptop producer who travels with Reason and no keyboard. :)
The song in the beginning is rad!
Is it from Reason? who made it?
@pitolove71 Who is this question to? Propellerhead has no official position on which one you should use, obviously. We develop for both Windows and Mac and support them equally. I personally use a mac in my music and video work but that's just me. I'm sure anyone you ask will have a different opinion on which is best based on what they personally use. I'd say try them both from a friend's computer if necessary and see what works for you. Good luck!
This stuff was very inspiring for me. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work mate :)
This was just a tiny little part of experimentation and routing potential of Reason. And recently I figured out for myself that Reason is really fun to use - you create music without any brain pollution. Just creating.
OMG Thank you! im working on a little piece in my music com. class with reason 6 and i wanted to recorda little build up i made with the echo effect by turning up the feedback and i didnt know if i could record that bit. This may have just saved my project.
Well you can edit an automation on the tempo setting, but it will usually just sound weird when the tempo change, but there without a doubt different ways to change the tempo during your track.
is there a way to click the drum sound key with out a keyboard? like if you just have the computer, so you don't have to constantly keep clicking with the mouse
Great video, It's given me loads of ideas.
What's the name of the patch you used at 5:00?
love all your tips James!
how do you make your screen a piano when you use a laptop? the f4 button has two functions
i just got reason yesterday and my midi keyboard will play the cords but it wont play the kong drum nor redrum what am i doing wrong thanks for the feed back in advanced
Greetings I have a question that only someone working at propellerhead can answer , hopefully . How can I set up reason to act as an mpc's pad banks ?
@jamesbernardmusic D'oh! It's just that you wield it so adeptly I thought you MUST be using those extra keys!! ;-)
@zetsuXitachi You could use your computer keyboard :)
*Check the options in reason to enable it :)
@TrIcKyBonez Yes it is. Thanks.
how do you map your midi to the kong drum and then onto the thor synth? i use a korg nano pad2 if that helps?
does anyone know why when i have thor open and then open kong kong wont play. if i have kong open and then open thor underneath its the same problem only thor wont play but kong will.
hey whats the patch synth you use for the loop track you add? sounds sick man
Yes that applies to drums too and guitar patches on the Reason instrument devices. I assume you don't mean real guitars because obviously those you just play yourself but I thought I'd make sure so nobody thinks I'm saying you can play a real guitar using the QWERTY keyboard in Reason. That would be some strange voodoo magic. :)
do you need a keyboard or anything to make somethiing like you did? can you just make it using the software or do you need something like that keyboard
does anyone know how to make the tempo slower or faster in a different part of the song??
Hey another 606 user, "like it" :) - how do you synchronize it with record? I'm searching to record it without a host sequencer with midi out, but midi out for record is another topic ;)
@PropellerheadSW What keyboard do you have in this video?
Thanks
Does that apply also to guitars, drums etc?
what are the faders in front of him(onthe desk) Whats the name of it and how much do they cost??
how come when i go to open up some patches, like you did creating a synth bass in thor, nothing shows up in the folder
FINALLY!!! I found a decent tutorial for REAL NOOBS like me... I'm not saying I understand it, but I'm starting to understand something 😉 Freaking wasted in the 90's, played DJ at local cafe (retro house, techno, goa stuff) but had no money (as a student) to buy all the hardware... I had idea's in my head of how a beat/sample/song should be, but no equipement.... Now 20 years later I have the money, bought a midi controller, bought reason 7, 8, 9 and 10 only to discover I can't do sh*t with it... Can't even record something... I want to "build up" the song like in this video and it finally happened! I start to understand it!!! Alsmost 39 years old and finally starting to get it!
DO MORE very low end/noob-style tutorials and explain HOW you do basic stuff like record 1 sound (say a bass), then how you record that 2nd sound (say a clap), etc etc until you got some sounds (where are they? How switching between them, how altering 1 sound at the time until you like it) etc...
Oh yeah I'm Flemish (dutch speaking) so my English might be... a bit off 😜
Now with new era of 3rd party VTS how reason does support them like keyscape plugins?
Please come back JB!
Is it possible to do the chords without an actual keyboard?
Excellent demo ! all is very understandable .
Thank you !!
I am unable to find the kong drum kit in my instruments
please help!
@adiosdaniel That would the same James Bernard you see in this video. Talented bloke, right?
Is it possible to use combinator to layer two different instruments in the same track?
Are there other rhythms, for example classic (orchestral), besides, can I add plugins that I once downloaded from the internet. I have the Nebulus, VSTSpeek, ANTI -TRANSPIRANT plugin, I use the MIDI controller Arturia MiniLab with Analog Lab4 and sometimes Analog Lab1 1
@774434 Indeed you do.. My trusty old TR-606.. still love it! @ herrgustav - I have an electribe EMX-1 that I use as the MIDI Clock Master and set Record to sync from MIDI Clock in.
@foljs Nah, I really did mean in playback. It feels like it has been quantized wrong, like 1/24 instead of 1/16, sounds bad :(
holy shit!
THANK YOU!
never knew about this. this is going to make it so much easier
Can anyone tell me what keyboard he is using?
Crazy man!! very impressive!!!
can you tell me what keyboard your using man?
@zetsuXitachi jip go preferences, then mod keybord
Nice TB-303! Oh, and good tutorial as well.
right click on the tempo and choose automation. Then draw in where you want the tempo change.
Thanx you James. Which controller is the one placed between the Mac and the second screen ? the one white and blue with sliders. am on a controller search and am new to this.
Great video
What's up im trying to get my controller to un mute so I can hear some sounds can you help me out...I have an axiom 25 and wanted to get back into making beats using reason 6; can someone help me out?
Nice video.. No offense but finally something more interesting for me again (this and the latest "tips" on compression) :-) And how true this is; dare to make mistakes as well. That's the only way you'll learn. Be warned though; once you start seriously tweaking (patching) with Reason chances are you'll soon spend your entire evening in one flash :-) That stuff is just SO versatile and extensive... Just awesome.
@PropellerheadSW
Actually... it's an Axiom Pro 49 Ryan... ;-)
What speakers are set up in your video?
THANKS!
You should made a video with the configuration of Axiom ;)
I have my guitar plugged in via Focusrite solo and my signal is getting to Reason for recording, but while recording the guitar I want to hear how it sounds through the amp in reason?..... I want to hear the sound after it comes out of my selected reason amp and effects as I am playing?
neil groves you should be using the monitoring feature in reason and not on your focusrite. There’s a button on the top of the transport that says monitor. Click that with the mouse, then switch off the monitor button on your focusrite interface
@ItsDiegoDoes use Bomes mouse keyboard! its the best...
@davo623 axiom pro
I didn't know Joe Rogan made dubstep
Joe "propellerhead kick" rogan
I created two Redrum sequencers, first one for drum beat, and second one for bass guitar synth. Once I put all the bass sounds in the second Redrum I get this annoying high pitched sort of hum noise, like if in real life you were to bang up against a bass guitar and all the strings just ring out in that horrible noise, except for it never stops! Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this problem?
darrick steele your sample is too long so it overlaps it self. Try changing the red rum step sequencer to be longer and program hits on different steps so they don't overlap or draw it in the sequencer
Basically what is happening on your 16 step red rum sequence is the guitar playing and the red rum goes back to the beat and hits the guitar sound again as your other one still playing and it continues again and again which is why it goes high pitched and doesn't stop
It's an M-Audio Axiom Pro keyboard.
Awesome.
Thanks bra! Appreciate your help..!
Thanks I tried your advice and it worked :D
THANK YOU!
@adiosdaniel It's me! It's a song called Laptop Love that I have not released yet... and yes.. it's all Reason/Record Duo.
If you go to window you can open on-screen piano keys
hey hey here is harlekin thanks for these wonderful tutorial best words HAVE FUN AND IMPROOVE BY YOURSELF THANK TO YOU AND PROPELLERHEAD HARLEKIN
@flylyflyly Hi there. It's a bit difficult to determine what issue you are having from your description. Maybe a link to a song file which exhibits the issue you are talking about would make it easier? Just email me at my propellerhead email (which you can find on most of my 52tips videos).
@zetsuXitachi yes
This entire guide: "Alright so we're gonna add this." 5 seconds later. "You know what, nevermind. Just we'll just put it back. Click undo."
Did anyone else notice the midi fighter on his desk next to his screen.
Still amazing
thanks man
At the age of 18, I could mock Reason for hours
Just bought into Reason Essentials software, do I need to upgrade to access all features and record song that I can save to my computer?
Damn inspiring.
it's so great...)
There were the times...
MegaDubst3p at least if you have reason 5 or higher, you can press F4 to show keyboard controls. Then you can play them with your keyboard. Good luck!!!
Anybody else notice the TR-606 next to him?
It sounded like Grime at the start
"From start to art". Fucking clever
VERY PRO MAN