Reason & Hardware deep dive! Explore hybrid setups for live and studio with Beyun
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- Join Rotterdam-based producer and DJ, Beyun, in her studio as she dives deep into the details of her hybrid hardware + Reason setup outlined previously in her ADE Masterclass. This talk explored using Reason and hardware in a live set-taking the tangibility and immediacy of hardware sequencing workflows, coupled with the accessibility and flexibility of software as a source of sound. Additionally, Beyun shares a few creative workflow ideas for the studio, outlining setups for quickly sketching ideas as well as a mobile setup powered by Reason players.
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Chapters:
00:00 - What if…?
00:18 - Introduction
00:58 - Overview of the Live Setup
02:30 - Advanced MIDI Panel and External MIDI
03:45 - The Mixer
04:02 - Combinator Overview - setup with external gear
05:55 - Timeline & Automation
08:20 - (Future) Automation Improvements
09:16 - Octatrack Combinators
10:30 - RE-303 FX
11:06 - Live Jam
14:31 - Overview of the Studio Workflow
15:32 - Syncing Gear / Hardware With Reason Using the ERM Multiclock
17:37 - Sending Elektron RYTM’s MIDI to Reason
18:44 - RYTM Combinators Using XLN Audio XO VST
20:48 - RYTM MIDI Note Configuration for XLN Audio XO VST
21:48 - Recording Multiple MIDI Lanes Simultaneously from Hardware
24:32 - Studio Jam
27:50 - Reviewing Recorded MIDI Data & Automation
28:22 - Jamming on the Go
30:22 - What’s next?
31:00 - Thank you!
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Thank you so much, Reason fam, for having me and for all the kind words in the comments! ^_^
Many thanks to you and congrats on such a quality video.
This is my favourite Reason video to date, the level of thought and integration is astounding and ive been building live performance devices for years. More like this please.
100 percent!
Wow, thank you for such a wonderful compliment! Yep, yep, I'm on it ^_^
I just saw this pop up in my inbox, and I can’t agree more. I’ve always been curious about how one would integrate Reason with hardware, this video stands apart from the other Reason tutorials with the amount of detail it goes into. Cheers!
This is next level, best reason vid I’ve seen in ages.
Incredibly well explained and thorough technically speaking video.
I think one of the best video published by Reason
Great video! I have been using Reason for years and this is the first video I’ve seen I a long time that taught me something new. Keep it up!
Easiest video to follow by far! What's more, you nailed it that even the newest people who have started with Reason are not just at home but getting to look forward and getting people thinking about how they can use this great software live!
Hey B❤ love seeing you smile and geek out about quantization 😁 brings back awesome memories and conversations
awww! thank you 😁 yea i remembered when you first set yours up and was thinking i wish i had this video then to demo how to do it
@@beyun303 totally! I was thinking about that last night. Lol
Cannot wait for the project you are developing! I’ve been looking so long for a rackable screen to have Reason be able to blend in with my hardware, but no luck with finding anything that would be practical. Please keep us updated
That would be FKKN AWESOME
Nice Work, this is top level reasoning 😆
Quality info here for everyone using external gear with Reason or versa! Really good video!!
This is so beautiful than all work of all people sync together into one person live stream, this is like time travel, aaaand this is so good that we have it.
Great video and explanation. You have a broadcaster’s voice! Beautifully done. I have to say it is also the single most complex process I’ve seen other than Beardyman (whose rig is a whole other level of complexity). I learned a lot from this and I’ve been a Reason user since v1 and I’ve also used Elektron gear for a few years now.
Thanks Beyun and Reason! I really love seeing other artists explain their modes and methods.
My very first live rig was run off Reason 2.5 (back in 2004!), so well before any external VST support etc. But it was just so stable, particularly for the time. These days I chop and change between Ableton, Mainstage, iPad (Drambo/AuM), and pure DAWless, all sequenced from a Squarp Hapax, but this has me tempted to fire up Reason again and see how I like it.
Great stuff! As a fellow Reason "live jammer" this has given me a tonne of ideas! Thanks Beyun!
you are special Ron, you are special!!
What a wonderful display of ingenuity. Develop a setup if it doesn’t exist.
This is a perfect exmple of know your gear and not looking for
a magic piece to solve , what appears a deficiency.
My ancient ass still hasn’t figured out how to sync an old sequncer/drum machine linn9000 to Reason.
Ive seen some people just hand play the pads or play a small
Bar pattern and just copy.
I’ll keep looking online…
Thank you for giving us a peek at how elite musicians think and work.
Reason KEEP Beyun for making these great videos! Beyun what screen are you using for Reason here ? :-)
Whoa - nice to see some deeper topics like this!
Wow! An entirely different way to work in Reason. Amazing!
Finally, something really useful for Reason. I will have to watch it a few more times to digest fully how to couple it properly with the Elektron boxes. The obvious thing that I am missing ATM is the external MIDI clock. Thank you for the insight!
I hope Reason Studios will make her life a bit easier with some MIDI and Remote improvements.
Reason - лучшее,что существует на рынке DAW. Огромное спасибо Вам за труд!
The Reason Rack deserves it's own dedicated hardware. There's not much else I would change about the Rack and it's sonic potential I just feel it's begging for a more tactile experience. Imagine creating combinator patches to be used with a dedicated Reason Rack hardware 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I knew I would love this video when I saw properly labeled cables and the multiclock. And I was not disappointed. 😀It WAS tons of information, and it opened an entire new world to me! Thank you so much, @beyun303!
Instantly love her! Meteen verliefd! Smart girl, looking good, does whats making life livable
best vid reason have ever put out, they're often technical but the music is usually a bit shit for my taste, but this vid showed technicality resulting in cool music, some complex shit from Beyun, great vid
Thanks! glad you enjoyed the music too!
Great & inspiring video, thanks!
Not al all what I am looking for in my workflow but ... Very well thought and smart implementation. Awesome video, thanks for sharing this experience.
Very cool setup there 👍 Looks very complex. But I guess it’s working in a way that once setup it’s easy for you to control everything. I’ll need to watch this two or three times and load up on coffee to get my head around it though! 🤪
Excellent tutorial.
That's an impressive setup! I'm trying to do something similar, but I think the missing piece for me is the Multiclock. I use an RK008 as a MIDI hub with clock, but adjusting the sync on each individual port is a bit tedious. I want to be able to jam DAWless as well as recording into Reason which makes the setup a bit more complex.
From all DAW manufacturers, Reason clearly has be best and greatest videos.
Interesting and I dont think I have seen a Reason set up like this before, this must of been the result of lots of expanding and experimenting over time.
Great video for sure... But I need that sweet Reason 13 preview😅
That's why I had come to visit the chanel!
Got a few weeks to wait for that.
love the setup as i saw the Rotterdam-Session! I run a similar Combination of external Hardware and we´re doing also synched live Sessions with it with other Musicians. But i using it a little different, because i have an selfmade Hardware-Midiclock (which i assign in the Settings > Sync > Clock-Sync IN") and use the Koshdukai-Maps & -Lua-Codecs, so that i can record every Note and Automation on every Channel at once in Reason. This works without Advanced Midi, because i register just new Midi-Controllers (Koshdukai) in the Settings which have a fixed Midi-Channel - when i assign this "Midi-Controller" to a Track in the Timeline it makes it possible to record ALL Tracks at once. I also assigned my Akai-Midimix fix to the SSL-Mixer, so that i can Dubmix 8 Channels with 3 Send-FX each live.
So Reason is great to use it as an Live-Instrument on one Hand, and at the same time it´s my Recorder for all live Jams which gives me the opportunity to fix Automations (or whatever) for every Instrument in retrospect. 👍
here an example with 5 other musicians which are in synch because of the Clock (by the way: i have a Click on Audio-Channel 3+4 so that the Audience never hears a Click) th-cam.com/video/HFmN92dykC0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lcpLV2H5RwpslVXA&t=88
Fresh .. 👌🎶 all the possibilities.
Ok just started watching this and am in complete awe! Especially when you get into the Python scripting as well 😮 And have wondered about a rock solid config to use Reason live. But def feels like a geek solution that works. I was more heading towards using Reason for sound scaping and dropping loops into something else (Logic Pro Loop Grid) but maybe this gives a few more safe options when live.
Lol. Got suckered by the title. Thought this was about hybrid in the analogue/digital (mixing) sense (with outboard). Didn't even think about using external sequencers. Nice setup.
Bravo!
This video was kinda epic
Perfect!
wow a reason in a box used like gear take all my money thanks this helps out a lot I have been wanting to use an mpc with reason. Time to go experiment.
Does that custom device imply Reason will have touchscreen support? Thatd be great.
Great video thank you
Crazy amount of learning with little morsels between the main courses
Great Video , I am wondering connecting a Roland d2 Groove box as pattern sequencer and using Megamix mode (mixing mindinotes with / and patches sending Midi Sysexfor Reason Combinator for patch change. And using any midi mixer for controlling combinators.
Excellent work! Especially the scripting! Curious though why a Beatstep Pro would not work in a slightly less elaborate way with Reason and do everything you use the Electron for?
You can certainly use the Beatstep Pro. 😊 I had my Elektron gear, which I've used for many years, and I'm super used to the Elektron sequencer (pages with multiple lengths, conditional trigs), which is far more advanced than the Beatstep Pro (which I've used, but don't own). Additionally, the Octatrack can send program change MIDI, set up scenes, complex chains of patterns, etc-such a POWERFUL device. I use these more advanced features later, but didn't cover them here.
I originally started my live set journey going DAWless, but I ran into a few things: 1) my "sound" requires a lot of lush effects, which I didn't want to buy a bunch of expensive pedals for. 2) I was disappointed with the Octatrack's sound, which completely ruins certain samples. 3) I missed having Analog Lab with me and didn't want to buy (and maintain!) a bunch of vintage synths and somehow store them in my tiny studio. By that point I already had the studio workflow setup done between my hardware and Reason, so moving to using it for a live set made sense.
@@beyun303 Thanks, yes that makes perfect sense :) I’m old (skool lol) I had the Elecktron Sidstation when it was released, but the output was so noisy you had to have a gate on it so it would cut the output when it wasn’t actually playing! I should try some of their other instruments sometime. Thanks again :)
I def need to spend some time on better understanding all the MIDI routing functionality of Reason. My current ideas are more about external triggering rather than external sequencing, so I'll be leaving Reason as sync master, but I need to sort out how to have many different controllers sending midi notes and other data all at know and have them trigger different Reason devices, and making them switch control between Reason devices/combos on the fly.
dope.
Nice Setup, but why don´t you use the Midiclock Audio-VST to use Reason as a Masterclock to control Reason & all your external devices? Then you can also use the Reason Sequencer Midi Lanes in sync to control your Hardware in parallel.
yes, please
🔥🔥🔥
Why no one have a video about analog outboard mixing in Reason? How to use multiple compressors , Eq’s or effects on one single track..
Ryan, this is a grid video. But can you find someone that can do a video to setup a hybrid for outboard gear for the DAW side? I.e. to run the daw out into hardware and run it back into Reason to use something like an External comp, eq, or Coloring box. Well, a current video.
hi i want to know if i can use Behringer Xenyx QX2442USB in reason controlling the equalizer and faders from the mixer thorugh reason as it is usb is that possible ? thanks for reply in advance
Hi, only if your Device sends Midi-CC - i can´t see that it does. I use the Akai-Midimix, you can also use the Novation LaunchcontrolXL and shurely some othes Midi-Mixing-Controllers. When you assigned it in the Settings Midi-Section you can right-click on the Reason Mix-Console assign it to your Midi-Mixer. Then right-click each Knob/Fader/Poti you want to control. Don´t forget to save this to a new Default Template, so that you have always this functions, when you create a new Song
i've always thought this was how reason should be used for live performance. though i'd considered routing it though ableton channel for channel for more useful sequencing abilities
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After adding a virtual midi port it's not connected to anything. How do you map actual devices to the virtual ports?
The virtual MIDI devices are only used for locking the recording lanes, so you can simultaneously record multiple lanes of MIDI information. 22:07 explains it. Physical MIDI devices are added to Reason in the usual way in Preferences > MIDI > Auto-detect surfaces. MIDI devices are usually automatically recognized and appear in the Easy MIDI Inputs list below. To send MIDI _from_ Reason, you use the "MIDI Out Device" instrument in the Rack. To direct MIDI from an external device to a specific instrument in Reason (which has a locked recording lane and player with Direct Record enabled see 24:17), you use the Advanced MIDI Device in the Rack 02:30
@@beyun303 got it! Thanks for the explanation, what a clever hack! :D
I hope Reason makes more live performance tools in the next version. I think reason as a DAW is just too perfect not to use for live performances.
yes, the Midi-Out-Device shoul be like the Combinator, so that we could control differnet CCs on the external Device :) But also it would be important that Reason sends (and saves) SysEx-Infos
🤯
It’s like they knew I was a Reason owner with an Octatrack and Focusrite interface . . . .
Midi in and routing?
I legit want to marry this woman. ❤❤❤
I think her soulmate should be Ronheadback 😊
Hah, finally a setup with more control gear than mine.... ehhee
303 you say? i'm all ears
all this sound design power but no MPE *_*
No, the more important aspect of a live setup is: RELIABILITY. Latency is pointless if your audio interface drivers are crap. It's why RME rules. Then you have the reliability of Reason itself since tryin to integrate VST. Reason was 100% rock solid before that.
More beautiful women teaching audio concepts please :)
As cheap as things are these days! Again why hasn't reason built controllers based off actual rack devices? Why can't we have a a rack in hardware format vs spending money on a OctoTrack I'm never gonna use ,imo! Do better reason!
Look.. reason is great, used it as my daw for many years. BUT one thing its the worst at is latency. And I'll never again use it for a live performance. Reaper exists for that.
Guess that's why she uses the multiclock
When there’s a will, there’s a way.
Most if not all the sounds She is using comming from that hardwarel Reason has so in turms of sound I dont see the point of gear and all the effort to get that to work.
@@HOLLASOUNDS the fact is she built her set up how she wanted to , not built for your approval
Hey there - I 100% disagree. I have been using Reason Live and showing people how to use it live on my TH-cam channel for years and have had nothing but success. What is your setup like?
What if we looked at Reason as a software you can pirate? A virtual software of paid lifetime subscriptions and happy customers.
Thanks @beyun303
I like so much how you explain intricate tasks like programming 303 😊