Reason Tricks

[clineaudio]

Originally Posted by Nubus

That spider is great. Lately I've been playing reason backwards. The best part about reason is Rewire. Using the sequencer in reason totally blows.

Spider?

[Nubus]

isn't that what it's called? the little box you can merge and split and mult with

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by Nubus

That spider is great. Lately I've been playing reason backwards. The best part about reason is Rewire. Using the sequencer in reason totally blows.

thumbs up. onboard sequencer blows.

[clineaudio]

Originally Posted by Nubus

isn't that what it's called? the little box you can merge and split and mult with

You are correct, I must learn to utilize this!

Spider Audio & Spider CV
If you ever feel the need to merge or split some Audio or CV signals, these two 8-legged utilities are perfect for the job.

No knobs, no buttons and no display. Spider Audio may not be much to look at, but if you're a seasoned Reason producer, it might be just the thing you've been searching for. The Spider Audio utility has 2 purposes in life: to merge and to split audio. All this splitting and merging brings more of the hardware studio's patching capabilities into the software realm. Try merging multiple audio signals and process them with the same insert effect, as in sending 3 of Redrum's toms to the same compressor. Or try splitting an instrument's output into four, and send them to four different effect processors. Like brother Audio, Spider CV lacks all the visual trademarks of an effect device, because just like Spider Audio, it isn't one. Spider CV is exactly the same kind of utility as Spider Audio, but here the splitting and merging is performed on CV and gate signals. Which lets you get very scientific about your music: split the CV signals from the Matrix Pattern Sequencer to trigger several synths with the same pattern. Or merge the outputs of several LFO's to create some very complex modulation patterns.

[mrtunes]

This is a great book on experimenting with reason. Here's a trick - on the ReDrum unit each channel has individual outs. You can give each drum sound it's own spot on the mixer.

Another trick is if you have a ton of one-shot samples that you want to put in the NN-XT the automap function doesn't work right. Load in all the samples into the NN-19, then perform an Automap in NN-19. Save the patch and then import the patch in NN-XT.

Here's one more that uses Recycle- Take a track you've already completed but mute the drums in it. Render a 2 bar loop or something and then import that into Recycle which in turn gets imported into Dr. Rex. Play it back on your keyboard in a weird way. It's Good way to mash up a previously finished song.

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by mrtunes

Here's one more that uses Recycle- Take a track you've already completed but mute the drums in it. Render a 2 bar loop or something and then import that into Recycle which in turn gets imported into Dr. Rex. Play it back on your keyboard in a weird way. It's Good way to mash up a previously finished song.

I thought I invented that.

[mrtunes]

Originally Posted by Nubus

I thought I invented that.

It's a tip I snagged from SGX
http://www.sgxmusic.com/tipsandtricks.htm