i'm not a reason user so i can't really judge your workflow, but do you really don't use compressors at all? i thinkt that's one thing that make your sounds MUCH more tighter. and it looks that you don't use too much eq..

like i said, i can't check if my points are really true, but i can't find this in your effect description and for me EQ and compressors are my key effects for a tight tune.

I don't use compressors in reason, no. What I do is export each track to a wav file, import into Cubase, and master it there. I throw on compressors and eq that way (waves plugins, blue tubes, tracks, etc).

I just don't like the compressors they have in reason. Maybe it will be improved with reason 3.0's mastering capabilities.

cool mate will take a look when i get time

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Awesome. As a newbie to production it's nice being able to follow the final track along on the timeline.

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Cant judge by the way u work. But I like the tune u made.

Since as U talk about ur Drum that U wan mute/ solo it. Why not attach all of ur Redrum to Mixer? Just tab it. PLug all the ReDrum 1-10 channel to each channel in the mixer

THats what I thought so.

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hehe nice song, very original, nice bass.

Ya nice guide , i also use with NN-19 with my samples and kicks.

I don't use compressors at all , not sure how they work still..can only use them on claps so far.

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Originally posted by Octanesyco Greetings. My name is Casey. You can call me Moose. -Moose

Yeah I set up songs like that too, except I just use NN19 for all my samples (kick, perc, fx, whatever) but I just don't like the way Redrum works (it's fun to play about with but when making a full track I find just using samplers easier). I like to see everything that's going on just by looking at the sequencer, but I understand not everyone likes having about 1/4 of their screen taken up by just hi-hats

Just shows that with this type of program, everyone can do things their own way

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Nice work, Chrono
I do everything the same way (pretty much) except for percussion. I use a LOT of percussion in my tracks and I usually set it up like so:

one redrum for kick (usually 3 or 4 samples go into making the kick), and that redrum goes into the percs mixer channel 1

then i have a redrum for all cymbals, which i export each channel of the redrum through an PE2-EQ and whatever other fx modules which then go into a separate channel of the mixer

then i have however many "whatever-other-percs-i-want" (snares, bongos, et al.) redrums doing the same thing as the cymbals one.

on the percs mixer I have a simple large hall reverb on aux 1 and a compressor on aux 2. I don't even know how to learn to master stuff and I've looked for guides on the forums and they all start a little too complex... i need a noob guide I don't even really understand what it is yet. SO, I just use my little reason compressor, with which I turn the right three knobs all the way down and the first knob about 2/3 - 3/4 up and adjust the aux2 knob of my channels :P

wow, great post!!!! I was wondering what all the various "colours" meant in the timeline. I havent gotten that far yet in Reason

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Originally posted by Euphorica wow, great post!!!! I was wondering what all the various "colours" meant in the timeline. I havent gotten that far yet in Reason

The colours are just different loops that have been created. Reason will randomly assign a colour to different loops so you can tell the difference between things. Each loop can contain MIDI information like notes and controller envelopes. The little red verticle lines in some boxes represent a note being played.. while the darker section on the bottom shows that there is a controller envolope that is currently being adjusted (ie. a knob on one of the rack pieces is turning). I had to zoom out pretty far to get the full song in the timeline, but if you were to zoom in you would see the different coloured blocks more clearly and be able to see what I mean.

how did you find you learned best? playing around with it or reading the manual?

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