REASON

In Reason’s preferences, in keyboards and control surfaces, click add to add the MIDI controller you are using. We are using the M-Audio Keystation 61es. Select the correct manufacturer and oxygen 61. For the IN, select the Mbox.

The top part of the window is called the rack. Hitting TAB toggles between the font and back of the digital gear you are using. There are virtual wires that you can draw signals paths with. They are used to make connections between devices, effects that are sends or inserts, and mixers. At the bottom is the transport with stop, record, rewind and play. Can adjust tempo, do over dubs, tap tempo. There is pre-roll option as well. Reason rewire allows reason to be used as a plug in with Pro Tools. There are up to 64 available tracks out of ProTools. Above the transport is the sequencer window. Each instrument has its own track. Each track has many lanes. With lanes you can record many takes on one track. In the track list is where you can mute, solo, and record enable. The tool window has 4 modes: Device Pallete, Sequencer Tools, Groove Settings, and Song Samples.
Propellerhead is the company that makes Reason and also makes Recycle. The company started chopping audio samples into discrete chunks, and the whole file is saved as a REX file. You can expand or retract the rex file, time stretch, and change pitch while maintaining tempo.
All the instruments run through the channel mixer, then to the Hardware Interface.
The Combinator: is similar to Xpand and Structure, but you can combine many more devices than the others can.
The mixer has 14 stereo channel, 4 stereo effects sends, and a 2 band EQ.
The Line Mixer 6:2 has 6 lines summed to a two channel stereo output.
The Subtractor is a modeled polyphonic analog synth.
Thor is a polysonic synth.
The Malmstrom – polyphonic synth
NN19 digital Sampler – Allows you to sample and load samples, and create multisample patches.
NN-XT Digital Sampler – a little more advanced that the NN19sample, load preset samples, and custom samples, modify them with the built in synthesizer.
Dr. OctoRex is a Loop Player.
ReDrum – 8 different programmable pattern and 4 different groups. Can program up to 64 different steps
Kong – is a drum synth, with 16 different instrument channel options.

Reverbs, Phasers, and Delays

SHIFT-RETURN brings you back to where you started, and twice in a row sends the playhead back to the beginning. Space Bar is play and stop.

To open an empty rack, Open- Reason folder – Templates – Empty rack. To add a piece of gear to the rack you can double click, click and drag, or click create.

In Subtractor, click the folder icon by the patch window to load a new patch. After selecting a group of patches, you can use the little arrows to browse through the

Difference between insert effects and send effects.

Insert effects: sends 100% of a signal through the device Device-Effects INSERT-Mixer
100%

Send effects: sends a portion of a signals-effects SEND-Mixer
Aux level knob


Starts at a MONO output going into the INPUT LEFT, but is then processed into a stereo and comes out a L and R.

A send leaves from the auxiliarys in the mixer as a mono signal, and returns from the UN-16 as a stereo signal into the AUX returns R and L.