Reason Help Thread for Begginers.

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Posted by Dave_Masters on Jul-25-2002 23:09:

Reason Help Thread for Begginers.

I have reason 2 now. And im finding it really friggin hard....

I have a few questions.

1. When I Use .Wav files, say for percussion, do i have to load a digital sampler for each sample?? This would mean the rack is full of samplers for each percussion noise.....

2. Also same sort of thing.. if i want to assign reverb to different samples... does each sample need its own reverb generator? As you cannot connect multiple samples to one reverb thingy...

3. Does anyone know any good tips of creating good bass synths in Subtractor? Or does anyone have any presets for it? hehe.

4. Same as question 3, but for main leads.

Posted by Nell on Jul-25-2002 23:37:

im new too, so help would be appreciated.

1) does anyone know of an online reason manual.. to help me get started?!

2) waht order should i contruct my tune in? im sarting with drums, then bass, is that a good idea?

Posted by Dave_Masters on Jul-26-2002 00:08:

I think this thread should be made Sticky as there are many people in need of help of this Prog.

Posted by Nell on Jul-26-2002 00:57:

yeah, good idea dave. ill PM a mod asking

ive had reason installed one day, im just trying to get the drums going little by little

Posted by Nell on Jul-26-2002 01:10:

a couple of more questions.....

1)I want to import a whole wave file (entire track) so i can play about, remix it etc. how and where do import the wav file. is this possible at all?

easier questions...

2)how do i assign a piece of reason (i.e. drum machine) to a specific mixer channel?

3)Once if finsihed makign my drum loop, how do i put it in to the sampler at the bottom so i can pres splay and listen to the track so far?!

may thanks... Nell

P.S. dave, ive pm'd starfox about making it sticky

Posted by Dave_Masters on Jul-26-2002 01:11:

I am very impatient lol, fuck little by little hehe

Posted by Nell on Jul-26-2002 02:38:

lol, i kow what you mean. i want to do the same.. "grrrrrr!"

Posted by Passiva on Jul-26-2002 09:57:

Re: Reason Help Thread for Begginers.

Hey!

I'll try to answer some of your questions..

quote:
Originally posted by DaveC

1. When I Use .Wav files, say for percussion, do i have to load a digital sampler for each sample?? This would mean the rack is full of samplers for each percussion noise.....

No, you can use the drum sampler to load more files. Just create another if you need one.

quote:

2. Also same sort of thing.. if i want to assign reverb to different samples... does each sample need its own reverb generator? As you cannot connect multiple samples to one reverb thingy...

Yes, you can assign the AUX 2 channel to different samples. In the mixer you have 4 knobs per channel, use the 2nd one for the reverb.

quote:

3. Does anyone know any good tips of creating good bass synths in Subtractor? Or does anyone have any presets for it? hehe.

4. Same as question 3, but for main leads.

Hehe, I'm still learning this..

Hope this will help you!

-ReGrOoVeD

Posted by Passiva on Jul-26-2002 10:03:

I'll try to answer your questions too..

quote:
Originally posted by DJ NEILSON
a couple of more questions.....

1)I want to import a whole wave file (entire track) so i can play about, remix it etc. how and where do import the wav file. is this possible at all?

No this ain't possible so far as I know. What you can do is cut some samples out of the track using a audio-editor like Sound Forge, and then load them into your project (*.rns file).

quote:

2)how do i assign a piece of reason (i.e. drum machine) to a specific mixer channel?

Press TAB, and you'll see the back of your setup with all the wires and stuff. Go to the sampler/synth or whatever you want to assign, and look for the "output". Right click on that, and you can assign it to a mixer channel, or even to other things like a reverb machine, or a delay machine.

quote:

3)Once if finsihed makign my drum loop, how do i put it in to the sampler at the bottom so i can pres splay and listen to the track so far?!

Go to the piano roll of the drum sampler, and add notes. Here you can create the drum loop and you'll see it below in the sequencer.

Hope this all will help you, as I'm still a beginner..

-ReGrOoVeD

Posted by Nell on Jul-26-2002 14:29:

thanks for the help! its hard work trying to figure it all out when you dont have a manual! ill try those tips out later when ive got a moment. much appreciated. this thread is definately a great idea.

Posted by Nell on Jul-27-2002 01:03:

im currently looking at sounds for redrum. ive come across a sample called "Tec12_Cologne_135_eLab.rx2" by hovering over it, it gives me an entire drum loop that i like and want to use. but when i select it, im brought to another sub folder which has all the different sounds that make up that drum loop. so obviosuly i want to import them all into redru, BUT how do i do this?

in redrum there is the grid, ABCD / 12345678 (situated at the bottom as buttons) and there are eight channel things, where you can change the sound of each beat.

could someone explain step by step how to get this loop into redrum? do i have to use a whole channel per beat? can i have more than redrum machine open/working. thanks, Nell

Posted by Matt on Jul-27-2002 04:41:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ NEILSON
im currently looking at sounds for redrum. ive come across a sample called "Tec12_Cologne_135_eLab.rx2" by hovering over it, it gives me an entire drum loop that i like and want to use. but when i select it, im brought to another sub folder which has all the different sounds that make up that drum loop. so obviosuly i want to import them all into redru, BUT how do i do this?

in redrum there is the grid, ABCD / 12345678 (situated at the bottom as buttons) and there are eight channel things, where you can change the sound of each beat.

could someone explain step by step how to get this loop into redrum? do i have to use a whole channel per beat? can i have more than redrum machine open/working. thanks, Nell

Rex loops need to be loaded into Dr. Rex. You can only load .wav files into Redrum.

As for the ABCD/12345678 controls at the bottom, they are there if you prefer TR style programming. You can do the same thing using the sequencer at the bottom of the window. Personally, I prefer using the sequencer for everything (I don't bother with rackmount sequencer controls, or the Matrix sequencer), but someone who has extensive use with real drum machines may prefer to use the sequencer controls directly on the Redrum.

Posted by sohaness on Jul-27-2002 05:09:

here's another question for you guys.

if i have a one minute vocal sample as a .wav, how do i load that into reason? the only module that acceptes wav is the drum machine, but im not going to load a long vocal into the drum machine...

any ideas?

thanks!
steve.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jul-27-2002 10:36:

quote:
Originally posted by sohaness
here's another question for you guys.

if i have a one minute vocal sample as a .wav, how do i load that into reason? the only module that acceptes wav is the drum machine, but im not going to load a long vocal into the drum machine...

any ideas?

thanks!
steve.

Try the NN-19

Posted by Nell on Jul-27-2002 16:46:

1)thanks mosaic, i really appreciate that answer its saved me hours of piddling about looks very useful! EDIT : ive got the dr rex going now. it states the current tempo is 135 BPM. can i increase this using dr rex, or do i do this prior to importing it to dr rex?

2)
quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery

Try the NN-19

i tried doing this, but i couldnt select wave files

3) has anyone bought the reason handbook from the propellerheads website for �15?? is it any good/worth the money?

4) off the topic now for one second...
mr mystery, ive seen you post on these boards for about2 months now and i have to say, i love your avatar (who is it?) makes me laugh, whoever it is, i think he should be called dave.. he looks liek a dave. funny.

p.s. no offence if its a picture of you lol

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jul-28-2002 15:49:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ NEILSON

i tried doing this, but i couldnt select wave files

You're pressing the wrong "Open" button.
There's 2 of them - other for opening Reason NN19 patch samples and other for wave files. I couldn't find the button first either but it is there - just keep looking.

quote:
Originally posted by DJ NEILSON
mr mystery, ive seen you post on these boards for about2 months now and i have to say, i love your avatar (who is it?) makes me laugh, whoever it is, i think he should be called dave.. he looks liek a dave. funny.

p.s. no offence if its a picture of you lol

LOL - I have no idea who it is... someone posted this to mp3.com boards about a year ago claiming it was a picture of a certain spammer person... and I stole it

I used to have an even better pic as my avatar but some people said it was too disturbing for some strange reason