Okay, I don't know if this is the initial red tape of becoming a producer, but breaking the ice is just far harder than I've ever expected... Becoming a dj was back and forth almost everyday, but this is just worse because I have the inspiration, and I can't motivate it because every time I open Reason it just ends up being closed 5 minutes later.

Can anyone that uses Reason help me produce a simple bass line? I tryed that Bren-F tutorial or something, it still didn't help me. Anyways, thanks for reading

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lmao...u poor basterd...

no one in there right mind starts with Reason...and doesnt expect to get frustrated as hell...

bro try FL STudio...its ALOT more user-friendly.

with creation of basslines...

try www.serious-sounds.net in the forums...theres at least 20 different genre basslines tutorials

best of luck

Seb.

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am sorry, but subtractor is the king of bass sounds, especially for trance.

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are 2 great examples.

only vst i would like for bass is albino 2.

And yes, don't expect you can produce magical sounds in Reason , takes a month or 6 before you start to understand it.

At least thats how long it took for me.

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Originally posted by djdustx lmao...u poor basterd... no one in there right mind starts with Reason...and doesnt expect to get frustrated as hell...

Yeah, whatever...

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Originally posted by Leon Oziel I have the inspiration, and I can't motivate it because every time I open Reason it just ends up being closed 5 minutes later. Can anyone that uses Reason help me produce a simple bass line? I tryed that Bren-F tutorial or something, it still didn't help me. Anyways, thanks for reading

Plain nonsense. Of course you aren't able to make any good sound if you close your sequencer after 5 minutes each time. You thought producing was easy ???
If you want to improve, go to your synths/sequencer and try hard.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Yeah, whatever...

agreed.. MANY people start with Reason.. it takes just as much time to learn Reason as it does to learn FL or Cubase (if not less time).

The reason you can't produce a good bassline isn't because of the software you're using, it's because you've never done it before. Just keep working at it.

If you're closing it after 5 mins, perhaps producing isn't for you since you obviously find it boring.

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I don't think he is bored with it. I think he closes it down because he feels overwhelmed. Just keep trying...don't give up. Its worth all the frustration in the world just to write music, and produce it.

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Originally posted by UphoricNitemare I don't think he is bored with it. I think he closes it down because he feels overwhelmed. Just keep trying...don't give up. Its worth all the frustration in the world just to write music, and produce it.

yes, while I was on the shitter thinking about my post, I thought bored/frustrated would of been a better term

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Originally posted by djdustx no one in there right mind starts with Reason...and doesnt expect to get frustrated as hell...

My ass! I didn't know anything about music production at all, not even what a frequency was, and I bought reason and had no problems. You don't just read a manual and then expect to have "madskillz;" you take it one problems at a time. I have dabbled hardly at all with other production programs, but learning to use reason was far from difficult for me.

Back to the main person of the thread: 5 minutes? Don't get frustrated. At first, opening the "create" menu can be a lot for the mind, considering you have no idea what anything does, but don't be freaked out about it. Learn to use the mixer first, (duh), then learn to use the redrum and samplers (and see the similarities/differences), then learn to use the synthesizers (keep all similarities/differences from the samplers/redrum in mind for the synths), and THEN you can learn to reverb/delay/eq/etc.

If you really are eager to learn to make synths, then fine, open up a subtractor, but I gurantee the knowledge you get from using an nn-19 will knock out about half of the knobs on the subtractor for you, and it'll be easier to learn the nn-19.

As for the sequencer, if there's anything that isn't self explanatory, open up the demo songs and figure out what does what. (just change stuff and play around, nothing wrong with that).

Above all, good luck.

I know how to use these things, it's just the lack of experience and failure to achieve what I want to hear.

So HEY! I don't know what happened, but it happened, and in like 10 minutes I had a crazy bassline going down... it's weird but it just came into place, but shekthisout! :S

http://digital-menace.com/ug/yaybassline.mp3

edit: .om :/

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Last edited by Leon on Feb-20-2005 at 22:48

Wow, that bassline is so good it broke the link :0

That bassline was pretty good.

Just a tip: Use the Subtractor for your basslines. I love to use it for that.

I made a little bassline with the use of 2 Subtractors.
One for the rolling bassline and one for the offbeat bass.

Sample: http://www.lnctv.com/~a41154a/sampl...ractor-bass.mp3