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Reason - Using the Combinator

Nice tutorial showing you how to use the Reason Combinator - how to play many Reason instruments together. Invent fantastic new sounds and maek your music totally unique!

Reason 4 - ReGroove Tutorial

NYC music producer stoni presents ReGrove, a realtime, 32-channel timing and groove handling mixer. Applies non-destructive, freely editable grooves to Reason’s sequencer tracks.

Want your music to sound less rigid, less programmed? Need your drums to move and groove as if played live by actual musicians? If you want your tracks to flow with that loose, yet tight feel, a regular shuffle control just doesn’t cut it. That’s why Reason created the ReGroove mixer - a realtime groove management device.

The ReGroove mixer in Reason 4 gives you more than just a set of sequencer swing parameters - this is a unique device dedicated to one thing: the groove.

The ReGroove Mixer applies its timing magic non-destructively and in realtime, giving you freedom to adjust its settings - and fine-tune your groove - as your music is playing.

You can lock all your tracks together into one unified feel. Or you can apply different settings to up to 32 musical elements in your song, for ultimate control. Each of the groove channels feature controls for groove amount, slide and shuffle plus more detailed settings. The Reason soundbank comes with a great selection of groove patches, many of them created from analyzed recordings of real musicians as well as classic groovy tracks.

Reason Hip Hop Tutorial

Learn how to set up and route your drum sounds - in a hip hop style.

A Guy Called Gerald - Reason Interview

A Guy Called Gerald shows how he makes music with Reason

Reason RPG-8

RPG-8 is the new arpegiator in Reason 4. This great tutorial shows you some of what it can do.

Reason version 4 ships with RPG-8, a brand new unit dedicated to the art of arpeggiation. Some arpeggiators are quite content with simply transforming chords into wandering rhythmic melody lines. The RPG-8 monophonic arpeggiator is not. With a wide range of on-panel controls and mode selectors, a pattern section for muting selected notes in an arpeggio and a large display showing values and positions, this device gives you full creative control over your arpeggios. Although very hands-on and user friendly, the RPG-8 boasts some very advanced features under the surface. Features that will change how you play Reason’s instruments.

The ‘Single Note Repeat’ function engages the arpeggiator only when two or more simultaneous notes are held down - letting you add sudden bursts of arpeggio to your melody lines. The ‘Manual’ mode will arpeggiate notes strictly in the order they were input, for realtime arpeggio control. The RPG-8 monophonic arpeggiator is a creative workhorse that can - and should - be used with all of Reason’s sound sources; try arpeggiating your breakbeats, your orchestra samples, or your ReCycled vocals.

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Reason 4 - Intro to Thor

Thor is a multi-synthesis synthesizer with six oscillator types, four different filters, a step sequencer and a modulation matrix. Fully routable. Fully automatable. Fully everything.

Propellerhead Reason 4 is a complete music system with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. The Propellerheads REASON 4 latest features are a new polyphonic Thor synth (with six different oscillator types), analog style step sequencer, RPG-8 arpeggiator with single note repeat (switches on the arpeggiator only when, at least, two notes are played together) and manual (real-time arpeggios) mode, ReGroove mixer (real-time groove fine-tuning) with up to 32 channels, signature patches and a new improved tool window to provide better access to all the huge quantity of program options. Making music should be as easy as powering up a computer, loading up a powerful piece of music software, and getting down to business. And it is. Reason version 4 is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it’s more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It’s a complete music system. Step into the age of Reason. Synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable all-in-one music production environment, complete with its own realtime sequencer. For a Reason user, the journey from musical idea to full production is a short one. With an intuitive, self-expaining user interface and quick access to instruments and effects, Reason’s learning curve is anything but steep. Reason is so direct you’ll learn it in minutes. With Reason, picking up where you left off - be it last night or last month - is as simple as turning the power on. When you save your music, your whole studio setup is stored along with it. You can even include your samples, loops and drum kits in the Reason file, for easy web publishing or email collaboration with other Reason users.