NEW reason book

**bhunt** · 01-02-2006

We are planning on doing a reason book geared towards hip hop. Of coure this will not be done overnight and I'm looking for help from a few keyboard players. It will be in electronic format and will include a refill. I just wanna know what are people intrested in seeing. So far we have this.

1. configuration
2. Basic rack setup
3. Drums
4. Sampling 1 point of view
5. Samlping from another point fo view
6 keyboards 1 point of view
7. keyboard from another point of view

I plan on making this book subjective like the mixing engineers handbook. So what I plan on putting in here is not the gospel. I'm going to try to get diffrent point of view abut the basic topics we cover. Recycle will be covered in here 2. any more ideas. So far I have the basic ideas layed out and the basic chapers done. If you wanna help out with this PM me.

**daze84** · 01-02-2006

i think alot of ppl stumble on using sounds (instruments) that compliment each other. for example the right bass with drums, paino/pizz/guitar what ever. it can make or brake a track. though im not sure you can teach that. id be intrested on working on it. its deffo a good idea.

deffo needs market research... this is the perfect place for it. find out what ppl what to know about reason... what they stuggle with.... etc etc

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**bhunt** · 01-02-2006

yeah this is going to take a few months to finish and I really want to see what people want and need. I know nothing of keyboard beats thats why I'm enlisting the help. If you are intrested hit me up on PM

**cash10** · 01-02-2006

definitly a great plan!

**Sohail288** · 01-02-2006

reason is a vast program, a book that teaches u how to choose instruments is not a reason book, or even a section in a book, maybe u can include not to overdo the rack, keep it at a minimum u no no wat i meen.

**bhunt** · 01-02-2006

yes reason is a vast program. but I'ma gonna go over things like setting your Reason up to function like a MPC. making drum modules, adding effects, making the sound dirty a few different things.

**SmoothKuik** · 01-02-2006

thats cool u doin that, i use reason and mainly a keyboardist.

**jnoobiam** · 01-02-2006

man thats really cool what your doing!!! im a noob and just getting started and I really wanna learn how to make hip hop beats with reason 3.0. When you get done making the book hit me up! i mite wanna purchase it =D

**Morning_Star** · 01-02-2006

You should include combinator patches with a ReDrum and eq./fx for all of the channels. I could probally put together a comb. for hard hitting dirty drums and a club boomy set-up with a bass eq to match the drums so that your mix doesn't get muddy. And I have some nice hip-hop style synth patches. Something needs to be done with this. There is very few resources for the hip-hop potential of Reason.