VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE Reason 3 FOR WINDOWS AND MAC [Electronic resources]

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

What's in the box?

Who Is This Book For?

What Does Reason Do?

Using Reason with Other Programs

Recording "Outside" Sound

What's New in 3.0

Digital Audio Basics

Chapter 2. Installation

Before You Start

Audio Hardware

Setting Up MIDI

Installing Reason

Changing Preferences

Setting Up Control Surfaces

Chapter 3. Reason Overview

Getting Around in Reason

The Reason Work Process

Switching Windows

The Sequencer Edit Mode

Introducing Controllers

The Back of the Rack

Understanding Control Voltage (CV)

Getting Rid of the Demo Song

Chapter 4. Getting Started

Starting Your First Song from Scratch

The Reason 14:2 Mixer

The Redrum Machine

Loading Samples

Getting the Redrum to Play

Making a Beat Loop

Writing a Drum Track

Mixing the Drums

Changing Drum Sounds

Copying and Moving Notes

Moving Beyond the Loop

Editing Timing in Reason

Using an External MIDI Input Device

Custom Quantization: User Groove

Saving Your Work

Chapter 5. Building a Song

Adding a SubTractor

Synth Basics

Oscillators

Phase Modulation

The Noise Generator

Keyboard Tracking

Adding Frequency Modulation

Using Filters

Adding a Second Filter

Using Envelopes

Low-Frequency Modulation

The Modulation Envelope

Using the Velocity Section

Other Play Parameters

Putting It All Together

Adding a Malström

Changing Malström Waveforms

Creating a Pad

Making a Slow Pad with the Malström

Routing Signals in the Malström

The Malström Filters

Malström Play Parameters

The Malström Outputs

The Malström Audio Inputs

Chapter 6. Working With Samplers

Creating an NN-19 Sampler

Writing Your First Sampler Track

Writing Multiple Parts

Creating Your Own Instruments

Multisampled Instruments

Creating Multisampled Instruments

Mapping Multiple Key Zones

Using Unpitched Instruments

Mapping Unpitched Samples

Writing an Unpitched Track

Using the NN-19 Controls

Controller Automation

The NN-XT Advanced Sampler

NN-XT Patch Anatomy

Creating an NN-XT Instrument

Layering Samples

Setting Up Groups

The Group Parameter Knobs

Copying Samples Between Two NN-XTs

Modifying NN-XT Parameters

Advanced Maps: Reverse Drums

The Dr. Rex Loop Player

Dr. Rex Dance Guitar

Bouncing a Loop

Modulating a Bounced Loop

Rearranging Slices in Your Sequencer

Slice Files and the NN-XT

Chapter 7. Patterning

The Redrum Pattern Sequencer

The Pattern Bank

The Matrix Pattern Sequencer

Chapter 8. Effects

Adding Echo

Adding Reverberation

Creating a Master Effect

Exploring Reverb Types

Adding Distortion

The Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit

Using the Other Scream 4 Controls

Phase Effects

The CF-101 Chorus/Flanger

The PH-90 Phaser

The UN-16 Unison

EQ Effects

The PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ

The BV512 Vocoder

Vocoding

Chapter 9. Cabling Setups

Introducing the Combinator

Creating Multi-Instruments

Using Gated Reverb

Chaining Effects

Chapter 10. Arranging and Mixing

Grouping Sections

Editing Groups

Mixing

Chaining Mixers in Parallel

Submixing with a Combinator

Setting Signal Levels

Automating a Mix

Rack Remixing with the Combinator

Exporting Audio

Importing Audio

Chapter 11. Mastering

Before You Start Mastering

Adding an MClass Mastering Suite

Using the MClass Equalizer

Using the MClass Stereo Imager

Usine the MClass Compressor

Using the MClass Maximizer

Creating a Multiband Compressor

Using Sidechains

Outputting Your Song

Appendix A. Rewire, Recycle!, Rebirth

Reload

ReWire

ReCycle!

ReBirth

Appendix B. Resources

Information sites

Reason forums

Samples and ReFills

Creating Your Own ReFills

Index