Hey All

I recently switched over from Cubase to Reason(2.5), having great results with it and find it personally suits my needs much more than Cubase. Anyways the one thing im trying to work out at the moment is how or if its possible to wire up an effect such compression to multiple sound modules i.e subtractor, redrum etc

Any help would be great.
Thanks

Chris

There are several ways to do this:

1. Use the "Spider Audio Merger & Splitter" unit

Using the TAB key on your keyboard, flip the Reason rack. Now you are seeing the wires linking each machines together. Using the machine's outputs you want to pass through the same effect, connect them to the spider unit on the left side (Which is the merging part). Then you use the last pair of audio connectors on the far right of the left section of the spider audio to connect to your compression unit (or whatever unit).

If you need more than four inputs, you can link several Spider units together plugging the output of one, into one of the four inputs of the other.

2. Use your mixer's send effects channels

There are four channels that you can connect at the back of the mixer. You plug the output of the effects channels in the input of your effects units and you plug the output of your effects unit in mixers send return inputs.

Then, you use the red knobs at the top of each channel to send a part of your signal to the effects.

(Thought the results probably won't be what you're looking for with the compression effect)

3. You make a separate mixer for the machines you want to pass through the effect.

You plug all those machines in a separate mixer and you output the mixer to the compression unit. You then output the compression unit to a channel of your main mixer.

Hope that helped a bit,
Trancefered

Spot on, thanks mate. Ill give way 1 a shot

Also keep in mind that each way has it's down sides:

1. Once the signals are merged together, you can't split'em back... Which leaves you with way less room for mixing after that.

2. The return effects are not modifying the sound just adding a modified version of the sound to the original sound. (So if you're compressing you'll have a compressed version of the sound and a dry version of the sound mixed... Not a compressed version only which is probably what you want)

3. Hmmmmmmm... I never found any downside to that one.

If you want to merge more than four sounds together, I'd suggest using the third method... The end results is less messy and still mixable.

Peace bro,
Trancefered

(P.S.: If you have any other question, just ask. Maybe I could make a tutorial project if you need one)

putting a compression throught the sends of your mixer is not a good idea... every element of your track needs different compressions... for reverbs and delays it's cool but you shouldn't do this with the comp.