messing with reason 3

[eraser]

Was just messing about in reason, getting used to the program... quickly came up with this. Meh, I'm used to flstudio.

http://download.yousendit.com/E63EB1501C739FA7

 

[CrazyHarij]

nice little piece.. boc inspired I assume? try using something other than the basic ambientchord wave in the malstrom. theres some horrible midrange humming. make more stuff!

 

[eraser]

nice little piece.. boc inspired I assume? try using something other than the basic ambientchord wave in the malstrom. theres some horrible midrange humming. make more stuff!

Haha, yeah, I guess you could call it boc inspired. I still gotta work out all the mastering and shit in this... I'm loving some of the sounds I'm getting out of the Malstrom, it's great. Thanks.

 

[eraser]

Bored again http://download.yousendit.com/0AD88DDB11B51C92

 

[CrazyHarij]

nice! you should make it into a whole song. i imagine you're a big fan of idm?

 

[eraser]

nice! you should make it into a whole song. i imagine you're a big fan of idm?

yeah, great stuff.

i didn't save it, sorreh. i'll work on a full song though, that was just a 5 minute thing. don't know how long it'll take, hah. thanks.

 

[CrazyHarij]

ah cool, i'm a huge fan of some idm! I just posted a thread with some tracks ive made the latest couple of days. check them out mate.

 

[Absinthe]

I used to use FL Studio. Prior to that, I was just plugging in and arranging samples in Acid.

With FL Studio, I had absolutely no knowledge of synthesis, routing, or anything. So I just played it by ear with hit-and-miss results. Reason struck me as an arguably more powerful product, and so it kind of forced me to start learning about the craft.

The real tricks with Reason start coming out with routing methods. Gating your reverbs, modulating flanger delays, making funky patterns with the Matrix device. Took me about half a year to really nail the basics down. After that, everything else comes gradually.

 

[CrazyHarij]

The real tricks with Reason start coming out with routing methods. Gating your reverbs, modulating flanger delays, making funky patterns with the Matrix device.

haha don't confuse him mate. but yeah. Reason is really powerful, great tool because it's so confined to itself, it really makes you skip all the VST-searching stuff and work on making music with the elements you have. limitations can be great. i love the kind of rhytmic sounds you can get out of the malstrom connected to matrix'es. the scream 4 distortion is far better than most VST distortion units as well.

 

[knut]

We have Reason on one of the computers in my Music Tech class. It's always a challanging race to who can get to it first. Beats the hell out of Cubase. The hell. Is it only for Mac or what? I wouldn't mind having it, would make my music making so much nicer.

 

[eraser]

I used to use FL Studio. Prior to that, I was just plugging in and arranging samples in Acid.

With FL Studio, I had absolutely no knowledge of synthesis, routing, or anything. So I just played it by ear with hit-and-miss results. Reason struck me as an arguably more powerful product, and so it kind of forced me to start learning about the craft.

The real tricks with Reason start coming out with routing methods. Gating your reverbs, modulating flanger delays, making funky patterns with the Matrix device. Took me about half a year to really nail the basics down. After that, everything else comes gradually.

I agree, Reason is much more powerful. Gonna keep working of course, I'm learning how to use it more and more each day. Thanks for the reply.

edit - Don't get me wrong, I know of gating, modulating shit, the matrix etc.. I still consider myself a newbie to this stuff, of course. I still have much, much more to learn.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Is it only for Mac or what? I wouldn't mind having it, would make my music making so much nicer.

It's for PC too

Cubase is supposedly really powerful and inituitive once you get into it, but it really hogs CPU.

Personally I'm Ableton Live's bitch at the moment.

 

[knut]

I thought it might be. I'll see what my freind can.. uh, do.. about that.

Ahem.

Cubase is good, but some of the instruments sound really bad at times. And the Proteus plug-ins and stuff are an absoloute bitch. The software has messed me around so much in school it's not even funny.

 

[Vegeta897]

That's it. For the 4th and hopefully final time, I'm going to install Reason and figure this shit out once and for all. (With the help of Eraser)

 

[Absinthe]

Have you read through the tutorial and manuals for the instruments? They really can help a lot.

 

[Vegeta897]

****ing done that tutorial 3 times, hasn't worked once. Somewhere around the end it doesn't play or something, I never have any idea wtf to do and... I just gave up.

But like I said I'm giving it another try soon.

 

[Absinthe]

The tutorial is pants tbh. Real newbie stuff. The actual meat is in the manual. Teaches you everything the tutorial does, plus the ins and outs of all the instruments/devices.

 

[Vegeta897]

I've tried looking everywhere. Plus no matter who the tutorial is for, there's no reason it shouldn't work... I have no idea why. I try looking in the manuals for how to actually MAKE a song, and figure out that sequencer thing at the very bottom but I can't find ANYTHING on that. Just the different hardware pieces.

I'm hoping with Eraser's guidance over IM will work.

 

[Absinthe]

You reading the official manual? Should all be in there.

If you don't have that, I could... help you acquire it.

 

[Vegeta897]

Sounds like a... "plan".

 

[Absinthe]

We'll rendezvous at 0800 hours by the train station. You'll spot me with by black bowler hat and Mickey Mouse boxers. Wait for me to give the code. I'll light up a cigarette, lean over to tie my right shoe, and then assault the nearest senior citizen within the vincinity.

I will ask you "Fine weather, innit?"
You will respond "Eat glass, meatpumper."

At that point, transactions will take place.

 

[Vegeta897]