Help with Reason 4 Anyone?

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Are there any producers looking to learn Reason 4. I've been using Reason since version 2.5 and I'm willing to help others to use it as well. I've also engineered as a hobby for quite sometime and I could also provide some helpful way to gain control your mix while using in Reason.
 
i know quite a bit of reason 4 but i'm always down to learn more in depth...link up with me...
 
I'm always down to teach what I know and I'm always learn new things with Reason 4 & Protools 8....what's your question?

and check the sigs all beats made with reason 4..
 
I want to design synths sounds like the nord, juno, ect. What u got?
 
i guess my questions concerning reason would have to be about mastering. i'm trying to get my drums sounding more "realistic". if i have my drums to the main mixer, what are some ways to add effects to the individual drums within a sequence? and also, i need a little more help with the other plug-ins such as the merger/splitter and how to effectively use them....
and any other little tips you may want to suggest would be great....
thanks in advance
 
yea me too i could always use some more knowledge on reason 4!! ive been using the program for couple months now...and ive been checking a lot of tutorials so...feed me knowledge!!!!
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Real drum sounds, uhmm..my best advice wou7ld be to either ( and back me up guys)..

1. Have a real drummer play the beat you have in mind and chop it up.
2. Have a good refill of drum sounds.
3. find a drum riff you like and put it in Recycle™ and chop it up.

those are my best suggestions...
 
I have only been using Reason 4 for a little while but I wanna learn as much as I can about it. If you don't mind posting something about how to work with Basslines and making melodies. Anything else you can say about mastering the mix in general would be a great help.
 
Not trying to undermine ebbownee, but concerning drums, here are my tips.

1. Use something like EZdrummers VST in any DAW that can handle VST plugins, the sounds in these VSTs are suprisingly realisitic. You don't particularly have to play them in the VST, you could just hit each one a few times and chop them up and re-play them in reason.

2. Use a second mixer to route each of your drum sounds to its own channel, this way, you can add FX to each indivisual drum, then route them back into the second mixer, then route the second mixer into the main mixer.

3. Be sure to use the regrove tools if you like to use the sequencer, if you use a midi, don't quantize hi hates and crashes ect.

This should help with the "realistic" sound.

Like i said, not trying to undermine anyone, but I am a bit of a realistic sound buff myself and these are a few tips i've picked up.
 
just using the nnxt to make your drum tracks can make them sound better and there is more control. and as for vst's, cant do that in Reason
 
Dave_C said:
just using the nnxt to make your drum tracks can make them sound better and there is more control. and as for vst's, cant do that in Reason
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Like i said, use another DAW to make the drums, chop them, and then import tham into reason and replay..
 
Milestone, he uses reason..that can't use VST's as far as I know...
 
Ebbownee said:
Milestone, he uses reason..that can't use VST's as far as I know...
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You're right. No VSTs in reason, but there are plenty of freeware apps out there that support VST's as far as i know.

You can CHOP them up OUTSIDE of reason, and then import them into reason. Infact, you could just make a wav with kick snare, hat, w/e you want to use. then put the wav into an NNXT and fiddle with the start or w/e knob untill you get the hit you want, like, kick, snare, hats, crash; all in 1 wav file. I wouldnt suggest this, but it can be done..
 
that should work...but me..i'm reall funny about what I put on my PC and my Macbook pro doesn't get hooked to the "interweb" as my grandma calls it, eheheh...I think the only software I use that works with DAWs is Prottols.
 
milestone said:
Not trying to undermine ebbownee, but concerning drums, here are my tips.

1. Use something like EZdrummers VST in any DAW that can handle VST plugins, the sounds in these VSTs are suprisingly realisitic. You don't particularly have to play them in the VST, you could just hit each one a few times and chop them up and re-play them in reason.

2. Use a second mixer to route each of your drum sounds to its own channel, this way, you can add FX to each indivisual drum, then route them back into the second mixer, then route the second mixer into the main mixer.

3. Be sure to use the regrove tools if you like to use the sequencer, if you use a midi, don't quantize hi hates and crashes ect.

This should help with the "realistic" sound.

Like i said, not trying to undermine anyone, but I am a bit of a realistic sound buff myself and these are a few tips i've picked up.
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word. i appreciate the tips. yeah i've tried adding a second mixer and got some good results also in the past...and i definitely feel you on not quantizing the hi hat and other drum patterns.

a good point you brought up was about the regroove. i honestly don't understand too much of it, mind explaining it a bit for me?

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milestone said:
You're right. No VSTs in reason, but there are plenty of freeware apps out there that support VST's as far as i know.

You can CHOP them up OUTSIDE of reason, and then import them into reason. Infact, you could just make a wav with kick snare, hat, w/e you want to use. then put the wav into an NNXT and fiddle with the start or w/e knob untill you get the hit you want, like, kick, snare, hats, crash; all in 1 wav file. I wouldnt suggest this, but it can be done..
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this was also another good suggestion, because the VST can be used in FL studio, then the sounds can be extracted via .wav or so.

very good suggestion Milestone
 
I don't really use regroove but I think it only works if you use the sequencer in redrum. You can load a preset up on the channel, like 1A or 1B. It tries to make the drums sound more natural. Someone here uploaded some really cool MPC presets. I can't remember who though, but you should definately take a look. It bascially adjust timing, velocity etc. to make it sound more hand played.
 
regroove doesnt only work with redrum sequencer. i use regroove on every single one of my tracks. it only takes experimentation to realize what it does.
 
Dave_C said:
regroove doesnt only work with redrum sequencer. i use regroove on every single one of my tracks. it only takes experimentation to realize what it does.
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Ah, my bad. I've never really used it, I used to use FL studio, then went to cubase, then reason. So i'm used to just using a MIDI.
 
regroove doesnt have to do with midi either. regroove allows you to put swing and shuffle on ur tracks, making them sound loose or less rigid. once you start using it, you will never turn back
 
Dave_C said:
regroove doesnt have to do with midi either. regroove allows you to put swing and shuffle on ur tracks, making them sound loose or less rigid. once you start using it, you will never turn back
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I know, lol. I just meant i usually just record with the midi with auto quantize on and never really needed to use regroove. I'll be sure to check it out in some more detail.
 
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