Do we have an all-purpose Reason thread yet?

yeah maybe try actually paying for it and reading the manual this time before deciding it doesn't suit your needs

people take the piss out of me for using reason. Apparently due to it apparently having an 'inferior' sequencer. Hate the logic one so my mac based music production has to make do. Anyone else come across this view?

i find that kind of sequencer interface infuriating, but who cares? if you can get the results you want, then it's good.

So I have a question about Reason, actually two questions:

Is there a way of affecting the post-effect sound a delay or reverb make? I have this little piano flourish with a long long tail at the end. I want the echo to slowly bend down in pitch, but I can't find a way to do it since Reason is not plug-in oriented. (I'm using Reason 4).

Also - is there an easy way to create a gapper/snipper? I have a noisey ride cymbal played through redrum with a long release that I want to simply pepper my drum patterns with ie. Rather than going "TTTTSSSCCCCHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh" I want it to go "TT_SS_CC_CC_HH_HH_HH_hh_hh" (or variations on this). I have tried using the Matrix to affect a Filter insert, but this isn't really cutting it enough. Anyone got any experience in doing this?

PROBLEM TWO: Various ways of doing that, but here's the first one to mind -- take whatever Redrum slot the cymbal is in and route its output directly into a mixer channel. Use a Matrix to control the level of that mixer channel.

PROBLEM ONE: This is stumping me a little -- I can't think of a "proper" solution offhand. If it's just one flourish, I guess my dirty shortcut solution would be to export it, load it back up in an NN19 sampler, and use the pitch wheel to bend the echo. I think there might be a real solution, though, and next time I've got the program open I'll think on it.

thanks nabisco!

problem two sounds better suited to a wav editer imo

editor

Problem two - if you want it to tt ss hhh hhh in time with the beat, you're better off sidechaining the kick drum to it. (or whatever drum has the accent you want to mute)

is there an easy way to copy and paste an entire section of a song (ie all the instruments/tracks)? I want to double the length of one section.

If your section you are wanting to copy is (say) 16 bars long, move the left marker to the place you want it to repeat and the right marker to 16 bars later. Then you can select "add bars between section" which will create a 16 bar gap and move everything after it along. Then just highlight the entire section in the sequencer window you want to copy and past it into the gap. It's easy enough to select more than one lane at once.

It should be easy enough, but I'm just saying this from memory without reason if front of me at the moment.

Is there a good book or guide to using Reason for the intermediate user? What woudl be really useful is something that has diagrams of setups for things like vocoders, ducking compressors, multi-delays etc...

Not sure about a book, but this site is useful for video tutorials:

http://vimeo.com/user3205543

Go to arrange view (button in the top left of the sequencer window that looks like a layer cake) highlight the whole section you want to copy (you can edit -> group the whole section if you want to be able to grab the whole thing and manipulate it more easily) then copy, put your cursor where you want it to go, then paste.

Is there any way to manually change the colour of groups you have already assigned, rather than just let Reason colour it whatever colour it likes? I find this really irritating, as if you have two groups you want to serve the same function, if you make one tiny edit, it irritatingly changes the colour of the changed group.

Not sure what you're asking there, but I thought if you highlight a chunk of stuff you can right click on it and change the colour? Or is that not the same thing?

There is no right click on a Mac. I'll try various apple-clicks and alt-clicks and see if anything lets me do it.

Irritating that my Reason upgrade arrived in the post this morning, but I can't use it before I enter my licence number, which I can only get on the Propellerheads website, which is currently refusing to load.

Oh, I said I'd buy Record when Reason 5 came out though OMG, jumping straight from Reason 3 to Reason 5 is gonna make my head spin, isn't it?

I have no reason (heh) not to. I have the money. I wants it. I said I'd buy it as a reward for the past 2 months worth of 750days.com monthly challenges. I need to just do it. It will make me so happy. I think. If it frustrates me, I still have the discs for Reason 3 and I can just reinstall that.

Someone kick me and make me do it.

Do eet

Do it! I found the jump from Reason 3 to 4 so rewarding (in fact I found it all "clicked" much quicker as a novice using 4). Plus Record and 5 look amazing!!! And if I had the money, that's what I'd spend it on.

OK, I have just ordered. Having it shipped to work so I don't have to play the "when are they gonna deliver it, do I have to sign for it?" game. Eeeeep, exciterated.

Especially as I am in the middle of working on a song that really needs a lot of vocal treatment and therefore will be perfect for testing Record's capabilities on it.

So jealous! I'm sure you won't be disappointed - get involved Karen! Also wouldn't mind hearing the results.

what do you all use as your Reason controller? I've been using my Novation keyboard which is obviously great to play the keyboard instruments but I've had trouble mapping stuff to the knobs for adjustment, wondering if there's something better I could be using to control effects and percussion

pfff... some old crumby midi controller keyboard with a loose connection. I play keys so badly, I generally just automate as much as poss these days.

so when i have a song i want to pull a sample from, my usual process is to load the song into garageband, cut it down to the part i want to sample, export it as an aif, pull the aif into recycle, set the parameters of the sample, then export it so i can play it in reason.

now all of a sudden garageband isn't properly loading songs in, it says "importing file" or whatever but doesn't actually pull the song in. but i'm wondering if there's better software i should be using or an easier way to cut the song down and then export it as an aif before pulling it into recycle. preferably cheap/free for mac.

What version you using?

looks like Audacity is available for mac. i've used it at work (both for job-related audio editing and to prep a sample for music at home) and it's pretty good/easy/free.

Yeah, I use Audacity for this on my Mac. No problems.

ok cool I've used audacity before

Getting Reason 7 next week!! So excited, I'm booking a day off to play around with it.

All I need now is a copy of Soundforge (I miss Soundforge). That's still the best self-contained audio editor right?

I've been using Reason Essentials for a few years, but I had to reinstall it recently because I had my hard drive replaced. It was working fine for a couple of weeks, but now it's doing this thing where it's trying to stretch all of the tracks to the tempo, even though I'm not using the stated tempo. It makes everything sound choppy and off-beat. I tried hitting disable stretch for the tracks but it doesn't help. Even if I start a new song and record in audio live, it tries automatically to stretch it and it sounds shitty. I can't find a way to universally disable stretch. I feel like since it started out of nowhere I must have accidentally changed a setting but I'm not sure what setting it would be. Any ideas?