Reason Tutorial
Digital Audio Production At Home!
Reason tutorial to get you started with digital audio production at home! Learn about the most powerful & complete virtual studio rack!
 Want to setup a Powerful virtual studio rack on your Computer?
Want an Infinitely Expandable all-in-one music production environment?
Looking for capabilities which can extend to complete Mastered tracks?
Looking for a fully functional Trial-version of the product?
Don't want to spend a lot of time learning various tools and products?
Want to create your music ASAP?
Have a look at Propellerhead's Reason!
And here you will find Reason Tutorials to help you get a quick understanding of this product.
Reason 4 is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. It's a complete music system!
Note: If you do not intend to record audio tracks, this product should be a perfect fit for your requirements. It provides you all the tools to create your mix and burn to a CD. In case you wish to record audio tracks as well, you will also need a sequencer like Cubase / Sonar.
Reason Tutorials - The Various Reason Components
The Propellerhead Reason software is designed to look like a hardware rack. In fact, as you add the different components of reason, you will see that it actually resembles a hardware rack with actual hardware instruments.
Just press "tab" and you can see the rack turn over. You can actually see the connections, the wiring, between the various instruments.
If you want each component in Reason to have a separate channel in Cubase, then press the tab key to flip the rack over and plug the cables for each component directly into the numbered channels on the back of the hardware interface.
If you now go back to Cubase, the channel numbers correspond to the channel numbers in the rewire panel (in Cubase go panels->rewire to see this).
Let us now quickly look at the different Reason components and their uses.
DR Rex
Don't want to spend time creating your own drum tracks? Then load from the available loops (known as rex files) in this instrument.
If you want to edit any loop and create your own rex files, you will need another tool called Recycle from propellerhead.
You can add the loops to a track within the sequencer.
ReDrum
Create your own drum track! Reason synth provides lots of drum kits; just load them into this instrument and create your own patterns using the pattern sequencer at the bottom.
You can then add those patterns to a track within the sequencer.
Subtractor synth
Once you have the drum loops sorted out, you will need a bass track.
Use this instrument to create basslines!
Just add this instrument to the rack, select a bass sound that you like, select the Rec (record) button and start playing the keyboard. The notes will be added on a separate track on the sequencer.
NN-19 digital sampler
Once your drum and bass tracks are in place, you will need more tracks… for chords and for working out the other parts of your arrangement. The Reason synth provides you this instrument, which is a sampler, to add those tracks.
Add this instrument to the rack and load an instrument like piano, guitar, string or anything you want.
Select the Rec (record) button and start playing the keyboard. The notes will be added on a separate track on the sequencer.
Rewire – Using Reason within Cubase / Sonar
This is the most important topic of this Reason Tutorial!
Want to use Reason within Cubase as a VST instrument? It’s simle!
You just need to load Reason after you have launched Cubase; the necessary connections would already be made.
Using Propellerhead Reason in this way i.e. within a sequencer like Cubase / Sonar is also referred to as Rewire.
Ideally, you should have each instrument within Reason on a separate channel within Cubase so that you can mix efficiently.
To do this, press the "tab" key. You will see the rack flip over. You need to now manually plug the cables for each instrument into the numbered channels on the hardware interface.
You will find the hardware interface at the top of the rack.
Now if you go back to cubase and check the main mixer, you will see the Reason components on separate channels.
This is simple & cool. Just use Reason for recording the sound/instrument tracks and Cubase for recording the vocals. Finally mix it within cubase to produce your final output!
Final Thoughts – Reason Tutorial
Propellerhead Reason 4 is one of the most powerful software synthesizers around. It provides you a host of different sounds/tools and can be used on its own to create your music.
Using Reason 4 in combination with a more powerful sequencer like Cubase, will efficiently handle all your audio production requirements.
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