The unofficial propellerhead reason tutorial site
The unofficial propellerhead reason tutorial site
Reasonexperts.com is a Reason 6 tutorial site dedicated to the music program Propellerhead Reason.On this page you can find detailed Reason tutorials for versions Reason 4, Reason 5 and the latest Reason 6. We also provide free video tutorials about Propellerhead Reason. With these tutorials we provide music downloads, in mp3 and rns format / reason format ,which are made in Propellerhead Reason.
Reason is a popular music software program developed by Swedish software developers Propellerhead Software. It emulates a rack of hardware synthesizers, FM synthesis,Thor filter (Low Pass,Notch, Band Pass, High pass, Comb Filter and Formant), samplers, signal processors, sequencers and mixers. Propellerhead Reason can be used either as a complete virtual music studio, or as a collection of virtual instruments to be played live or used with other sequencing software (for instance Rebirth from Propellerhead).
Reason 6 is the latest version of Propellerhead Reason. With Propellerhead Reason 6 the Rack has changed in an overal look an feel. The latest version makes Propellerhead Record obsolete and since it has the SSL mixer, Audio recording and plugins from Record embeded inside Propellerhead Reason 6.
New in Reason 6 are the effect devices. These effects are called The Echo, Allegator and Pulveriser Demolition. Next to these effects the SSL mixer is now the mixer panel that comes with Reason. Further more the Factory soundbank has been expanded with new sounds. Reason 6 will support 64bit, which means you can run 64bit mode on any operating system that supports 64bit. Plus you can use 64bit rewire hosts. Exporting files has been improved to make colaborations a lot easier.
Welcome back to another reason tutorial. In this tutorial we'll be perfoming a few GOA like trance tracks. And personally I am in favor of the old school Astral Projection, so in this case most of the stuff I will be typing about is that specific style. Case and point would be, GOA trance has different angles, and one thing I would want to get of my chest before getting started: this is one type of angle. The typical BassDrum The goa like bassdrum is very 'weird' compared to other genres. House, ACID or Trance like genres would normally use a very low and hard punching type of bassdrum. While GOA Trance does something different. In most of the GOA tracks you will find a high pitched like bassdrum in these type of tracks. And there is a reason why this is. Most of the stuff which is ...
Read more:Setting up a goa trance bassline
Posted in:Reason Tutorials
Posted on:3 May 2012
Over the time, when Trance music started to evolve, it contained a few elements in that genre that would usually do a come back. The super saw trance lead would be one of them, one could find those in genres like hard style trance of in the new style trance (new house or dutch house if you will). The same thing is applicable to the so called "plucked", or plucky synth lead. The beauty usually lies in this lead that it is short of characteristics, clean and usually filling up the places when needed. Most often the lead itself is being used in some form of intermezzo where the lead is being used to tie 2 parts together. Download RNS Example file (Reason 4 and newer): Plucked How do we create this plucky lead? With reason there are multiple ways to setup this ...
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Posted in:Reason Tutorials
Posted on:13 Mar 2012
With having a larger article about the CV Merger & Splitter I can be really short about the Audio Merger & Splitter. Since it works the same way as the CV Merger & Splitter but the audio veriant only reroutes Audio signals (the main output of a device). While in a way the Audio merger splitter was handy with using a Combinator patch to connect all the other devices to eachother by using the splitter, the Audio merger kind of became obsolete with having a Line Mixer 6:2 in the reason Rack. Still there are some nice techniques that you can apply to use this device. Especially the split function can create these really dynamic sounds while having only one devices that triggers the notes. The rear of the Audio Splitter When
Read more:The spider audio merger and splitter tutorial in propellerhead Reason
Posted in:Reason Tutorials
Posted on:15 Feb 2012
Reason 6 Tutorial Stereo Reason 101 basics
In this reason tutorial I would like to write down some thoughts and guidelines how to get a stereo mix down through the complete process of a synth module, drums, effects and mastering suite for final processing. Eventually I will be using Reason 4 to demonstrate most of the inner workings, however they are also applicable to Reason 5 and Reason 6 in this case. Since all these examples I am ...
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Posted in: Reason Tutorials
Posted on:3 May 2012
Reason Subtractor Tutorial
In this Propellerhead Reason 6 tutorial we will be covering the most important features of the polyphonic synthesizer: The Reason Subtractor. The term subtractive synthesis is the main idea behind this synthesizer, since the Subtractor uses an an algorithm called Subtractive mode, which you can find in the Phase Mode (-). We we'll be going more in depth about what subtractive synthesis is, what ...
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Posted on:13 Mar 2012
The Redrum in Reason 6
The Redrum drum machine in Reason 6 is the ultimate drum computer for the Propellerhead Reason Rack (next to Kong Drumdesigner of course). As most of the devices that come with Propellerhead Reason, the redrum can be devided into a couple of smaller sections. I will go through those sections in a small introduction part and then I will start going in depth showing a couple of things that you can ...
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Posted on:15 Feb 2012
More control on Velocity in Reason
In this Reason tutorial I would like to continue with the versatile usage of velocity and what you are able to accomplish with velocity manipulation. In our previous reason tutorial we mentioned that velocity would normally be used to mimic the speed of triggering a sound (for instance a piano). However with synthesizer modules such as the Subtractor, Malstrom, Thor and the NN-XT it ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Thor Filter and the different Filter types
Thor has 4 different filter types that we can select from. Some filters are filters that we already know from previous versions of Reason (eg, the low pass filter, the bandpass filter and the high pass filter). However there are 2 new filter types that come with thor namely the Low Pass Ladder filter and the Formant Filter. 1. The Low Pass Ladder filterThe Low Pass ladder filter is in a way ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Scream Thor
Nope, you are not reading a typo here. This is just another experiment I have started to work on. So here goes.. a tutorial entry about the Scream Thor patch. Initially if you look at the Thor patch, it is an awesome synth to play with, yet a lot of people probably haven't found what its full potential is. Personally, I am also to blame here, since the only reasons why I use thor, additionally ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
The tremolo effect, sound sample stuttering
There are some texture methods onto shaping a specific sound. There are all kinds of different ways to shape a specific instrument. One could for instance go heavy on the reverbs, or just go for a simple Scream 4 sounds destruction unit. Yet, on of its most classic methods on making something "interesting" are effects like tremolo or tremolando (as it is also called). The old school ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
The basic about riffs inside Reason
The definition of a simple riff is using a short melody, and repeat that single melody. The melody itself is usually 1 or 2 bars long in length, thus being either 4/4 either 8/4 in pattern size. Offcourse it is up to the freedom of the muscisian to define what else can be an alternate riff. A common techinique that is often being used inside riffs, is make the notes go along with the chords ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Chords in propellerhead reason 4
since I haven't actually stood still with writing a simple guide about notes, chords and such, it has been brought up to my attention that I should actually write one! I mean, really.. duh! that I haven't actually done one yet, is simply put stupid in a way, since making music is everything about notes... we play midi sequences inside Reason and it all comes down to making this oblivious track ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Using vocals inside your house music productions
Here's probably one of the hardest topics to cover when it comes to making music in general. At least, it is hard for me.. let me put it this way. Using vocals inside your music productions is one of the hardest things to do, because they can go out of sync very fast. There are 2 common problems with vocals: timing and pitching the sample right. But since pitch also controls the runtime of a ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Leads inside your House music production
When it comes to setting up the main leads within a complete house music production, one could use a very wide range of instruments to pick from. It also depends on the flavor, the style, or just simply think what just sounds good. This is probably going to be the hardest topic to go indepth about because I personally could write books if I would cover everything about leads in a complete house ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
House music in reason, setting up the bassline
As mentioned with the previous section about setting up the drum track, the bassline itself will partially have an influence on how the overal mood is going to be like inside the complete house music production. One can go for some classic acoustic guitar like sounds (such as the pick basses, or fretless bases) to make a more funky or groovey feeling to it. On the other hand technique such as ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
House music inside reason setting up the drumtrack
Last time I lost the whole thing I was working on. To prevent it from happening it again, I will just post this just to make sure it is safe ;) It might also be that I will update these topics when I think it is needed. When I do so, I will add an updated date in the beginning of the topic. When looking back at the whole history of house broadcast, which I also have posted on youtube, but ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
The ReGroove mixer in Reason 4
The regroove mixer inside Propellerheads Reason 4 is more then just a device to create a shuffle method. In the old versions of reason, the only way we could create offbeat notes was using the shuffle method that came with the matrix pattern sequencer or the redrum computer. With the latest version of Propellerheads Reason 4 we have the power to create grooves really fast. Thanx to the whole new ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Stereo separation inside the reason rack
We all know by now that a stereo audio signal has 2 different signals. We have left and right. In most cases a complete song is usually based on a series of different instruments that are being blended together over the left and right audio signal. In this specific tutorial part, I just want to stand still at the power of stereo separation using Propellerheads Reason. Since, most 'default' stuff ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
Multiband compression
Even though I have been working on a small introduction video on youtube on how multicompression works. I think it would be a nice addition to make a full scale text tutorial and also go a bit more in depth about what else could be done using multiband compression. But lets just start of with the question: what is multiband compression? Multiband compression is splitting up the sound in to ...
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Posted on:1 Jan 1970
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Posted on:23 Mar 2012
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Posted on:21 Mar 2012
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Posted on:22 Dec 2011
Currently we are moving. Which means, we are moving the webserver from our dedicated box and moving the website towards a webhosting company. This ...
Posted on:14 Dec 2011
A picture says more then words... haha Today we ordered Reason 6
Posted on:28 Oct 2011
Here's a dr rex fun project I started to mess with today. It contains one dr rex loop file (factory sound bank) combined with a custom sequence ...
Posted on:31 Jan 2012
Now we all know that Dr Rex cannot toggle preview knobs using the midi keyboard and all that, since the system just normally does not allow that to ...
Posted on:26 Nov 2010
Time to fiddle with some airy sounding pads... These airy pads are ment to play high, long strokes and ehm... i think you can probably fill in the ...
Posted on:14 Sep 2010
This zip file contains 7 different combinators. They are all pad-like synths. Nothing more to say about this one. Enjoy :)
Posted on:7 Sep 2010
take the shaper stuff, throw in a new discovery (which i will clarify maybe tomorrow) and ehm.. malstrom for modulation (duH!), a bit of scream ...
Posted on:18 Aug 2010
hi the example files are missing so a little bit hard to follow. I tried to redo them, in the ...
after listening about 3 mins to the loop... turning the beat of again 3 mins ... again beat on now ...
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