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Midi keyboard necessary for Reason?
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| snowboarder45 |
I was just wondering if a midi keyboard is necessary to produce a trance track in Reason 3 or if you can just use the program by itself to produce a song.
Another question, I was wondering what a midi interface is. Thanks in advance for anyone's replies. |
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| mzvirbulis |
to be honest you will be better with a MIDI keyboard, you cant produce music without it because it just becomes annoying. i never had the problem but its more fun with reason with a keyboard! just manual and matrix should do the trick for now
cheers |
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| davidjames |
Hey,
I used Reason for a while with no midi conroller, and it works just fine. Its easy to simply draw the notes in where you need them.
I just bought a pretty cheap controller though, a m-audio ozonic and its opened a whole new dimension to the software. I mainly use it for the knobs which you can assign to any Synth knob, filters/release etc etc...
Just having slightly more control over the synths in realtime rather than having to automate and then playback makes it more fun for me personally..
Plus its real handy when writing in parts like strings, pads..
..So, no, you dont need one, and you can do everything without one. But if you do get chance to get one, its much more interesting.
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| elecmfreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by mzvirbulis
to be honest you will be better with a MIDI keyboard, you cant produce music without it because it just becomes annoying. i never had the problem but its more fun with reason with a keyboard! just manual and matrix should do the trick for now
cheers |
True.. you will do better with a MIDI keyboard.. try M-Audio |
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| Lepanto |
| what you do with "penciling" for an hour you can do with a MIDI keyboard in a few mins if not seconds :) |
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| snowboarder45 |
| I appreciate everyone's replies. This has been most helpful, I will probably end up getting a keyboard as it sounds like a more efficient way to produce. |
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| RIPassion |
| Might I suggest the M-audio Radium 61-Key? Has nice synth-action like feel, 8 faders, 8 knobs, mod and pitch wheels, octave control, not to mention flawless integration with reason. :) |
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