090909 – Propellerhead Record finally released
Propellerhead Software says that Record “has the feel of a million dollar recording studio with the streamlined simplicity of a tape deck”. For guitar players, the built-in virtual POD from Line 6 brings a wide range of guitar amps and cabinets. Record’s software mixer’s sound is faithfully modeled after the renowned SSL 9000K hardware with flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, advanced effects handling and complete automation. With its dynamic multicore audio handling, Record uses a computer’s processing power to its fullest.
Seamless integration with Reason
Owners of Propellerhead Software’s Reason have seamless integration in Record with their Reason instruments and devices. Not only will Record open Reason files directly, if Reason is installed and registered, all Reason devices appear in Record’s rack without plugging-in or launching a second application. For Reason owners, Propellerhead offers a special sidegrade called Record for Reason Owners that provides a complete copy of Record and updates any version of Reason to work with Record. For new users who want to buy both together, Propellerhead offers Record + Reason Duo, a bundle of both programs in a single package.
Propellerhead Software today released for sale worldwide Record, its new recording software that aims to put the musician in focus. Record, software for both Mac and Windows, combines “effortless recording” and a “stunning software mixer console” with a “limitless rack of audio processing gear that builds itself or can be infinitely customized”.
Over 50,000 users tested Record during its beta test period, which began in May. Including myself 
Pricing & Availability
Record is available for sale worldwide today from authorized Propellerhead dealers and through Propellerhead’s online store:
- Record standalone software: MSRP of $299 / €279.
- Record + Reason Duo bundle: MSRP of $629 / €535.
- Record for Reason Owners sidegrade: MSRP of $149 / €129.
“We figured it was time that someone took a fresh look at recording from a musician’s perspective. Not needing to bolt music features onto an aging audio application, we truly started from scratch with full knowledge of today’s computer architectures and capabilities. Record is the result,” says Ernst Nathorst-Böös, CEO. “In short we wanted to do what we’ve always done—help people make more and better music.”
Reason 4 real time performance effect combis
I have been exploring live performances in Reason for the past few months and I was pretty amazed when I saw that Peff was into the same thing some time back, so instead of having to make a video of my own on the subject I show to you here:
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Salad Bar continues to grow
Salad Bar’s patches will cover all kinds of music styles showing you the very best Soundcells has to offer. It’s a great refill to get to know Soundcells’ work, introducing you to their signature dimension in designing sound.
• Over 140 combinator patches (currently 23 ‘Salad Bar Only’ ones).
• 8 different folders: Atmospheres & Textures, Bass, Keys, Leads, Miscellaneous, Pads, Rhythmic, SaladBar_exclusive.
• The modules folder contains the basic synth and NNXT patches which were used for the combinator sounds.
• 160 well balanced patches for Thor, Malstroem, Subtractor, NNXT and ReDrum.
• 40 new rex loops.
• 8 tracks in RNS format – inspiring with highl ‘tutorialesque’ value.
Happy midsummer everyone!
Btw do not forget to check out some nice new Refills over at Propellerheads, some nice free stuff to spice up your next song with >>
Cheers Ola
Good Reason tutorials to enjoy
I got a tip on these nice tutorials that are really good. They are mostly for propellerheads reason, but can easily be applied to other synths. The Bodyrox Yeah Yeah synth [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT3u6HNWsi0] Dirty Electro Bassline In Reason Tutorial [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0LP5S3UwpU] Wobble/Wow/Fidget Effect In Reason [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZZER6SukpY]
In-depth on Propellerheads Record
Three nice tutorials on yesterdays announcement on Record – audio recording the thing the whole music production community that enjoys Reason has been dreaming of for the past 5 years.
This series of videos offers a very in-depth look at Propellerhead Record, a recording application for Windows and Mac.
Propellerhead Software’s Gerry Bassermann digs deep into Record, without layering on a lot of hype.
Part 1:
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Part 2:
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Part 3:
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Record – new product from Propellerhead
Propellerhead Software has announced Record, a new recording software for Windows and Mac.
Record is Propellerhead Software’s brand new recording software. Record gives you unlimited audio tracks, world class effects and mixing gear, and a whole new take on music recording.
With an intuitive, straightforward interface and a hands-on approach to capturing performances, Record was designed for musicians – not audio engineers. This is recording done right.
Record features
* Multi-core — Record makes use of extremely efficient multi-core audio rendering, making the software very lightweight, even with large projects. Record’s dynamic multi-core audio rendering improves performance without introducing any latency. It is future proof, making use of as many processors or processor cores as your operating system can handle.
* Plenty of ins and outs — More ins and outs than you can shake a wand, baton or even a cane at. Got a multi-channel audio interface? With Record you can use up to 64 input channels simultaneously – and up to 64 simultaneous output channels. Should you ever feel the need.
* Works with any audio interface — Record’s rock solid audio implementation will support any audio card with Core Audio drivers on Mac OS X or ASIO drivers on Windows.
* Big Meter — Big Meter sits at the top of Record’s leftmost rack and gives you a detailed view of your input and output levels with plenty of different options for visualizing your performance, or for guidance when mastering your finished song.
* 64-bit mix bus — Record’s mixing console uses a 64-bit mix bus, resulting in high precision channel summing for highest possible audio quality.
* Reason integration — If you have Reason registered and installed on your computer, all your favorite Reason devices will automatically be available within Record’s ever-expandable, multiple racks. No setting up. It just works. Read more about Reason integration.
* ReWire synth application — Use Record as a ReWire slave. Record interfaces with most audio applications on the market through Propellerhead Software’s ReWire technology. ReWire is a virtual multi-cable that handles up to 64 channels of streaming audio, as well as MIDI, sync and transport controls between applications.
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ReCycle gets a needed facelift
Propollerhaeads has just updated the ReCycle product DVD and website!
ReCycle now ships with a detailed, hour-long tutorial from ASK video to help users get started with the ReCycle toolkit. In the tutorial, ASK Video’s Mike Baggley takes users step by step from installing and setting up ReCycle to turning concrete-rigid loops into musical modeling clay in no time.
About ReCycle
Imagine that you have a sample of a drum loop that you want to use in a track you are working on. The loop is 108 bpm and your track is 90 bpm. What do you do? You can of course pitch down the loop, but that will make the loop sound very different, and what if there are harmonies in the loop that you want to match to your song. You can also time stretch it. That will keep the pitch, but will make the loop sound different. Usually it means that you loose some ‘punch’ in the loop.
Enter ReCycle and the smart way to make loops tempo independent. Instead of stretching the sample, ReCycle REX files are sliced into little pieces so that each drum hit (or whatever sound you are working with) gets its own slice. When you then change the tempo of the loop, the time between the slices is stretched, instead of the slices themselves.
When you load a sound into ReCycle, the program will “look” at the file, analyze it, and break it up into its rhythmic components. The process itself is fully automated, but the slices are yours to move, audition or delete, using the programs on-screen tools and controls.
Other tools allow you to set the length, attack and decay of the slices, and to change your groove’s overall tempo or pitch, without one affecting the other. It’s not magic, but it’s probably as close as you can get.
Slicing a loop also gives you individual control over both the sound of the slices and the timing. You can rearrange the loop, change the feel of it, replace parts of the loop with other samples, pitch it, and much more.
ReCycle turns concrete-rigid loops into musical modeling clay, allowing you, the loopist, to do pretty much what you desire.
Nice Recycle tutorial on the Prop-site
An in-depth introduction to ReCycle 2.1 and Reason Adapted version 4 for ReCycle. This video tutorial, courtesy of ASK Video, will help you get started with the ReCycle toolkit in no time.
In the tutorial, ASK Video’s Mike Baggley will take you step by step from installing and setting up ReCycle on your system, to slicing your samples and turning concrete-rigid loops into musical modeling clay.
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KORG Polysix – Free Reason Refill from Lizard
Lizard has released yet another Refill for Reason – his previous releases has been highly acclaimed and I have used them a lot myself. I have not tried this one and judging from the ad below I am not sure what we are supposed to expect from this one.
This synthesizer was released in 1981, and features six voice polyphony (as if anyone didn’t guess that by its name), a 5 octave keyboard (61 keys, not touch sensitive), 32 programmable memory slots, 1 VCO per voice, 24 dB/octave VCF’s & normal ADSR controlled VCA, a cool arpeggiator and a quite useful effect section. The VCO is square, PW or PWM with controls for octave(pitch) and speed. The VCF has controls for cutoff, resonance, EG (envelope generator) intensity and keyboard tracking.
The Polysix is full of knobs and buttons, that gives you instant access to all of the parameters and effects. It was the last Korg to have that, since its successor the Poly-61 introduced DCO’s and digital programming. No more hands on knobs when playing, and more tedious programming. The Polysix have 3 different play modes. Normal – as any polyphonic synth, Unison – makes all 6 voices play the same note, and Chord – memorizes a played chord and transposes this when a key in the desired pitch is played.
It also has a sub oscillator, like many single VCO synths, that adds depth to the sound. They say it sounds fatter and warmer then the 2 DCO Poly-61, although this synth has twice the number of oscillators.
The Polysix have SSM chips for its filters and envelopes, and some say this explains its warm sound. It also has a special self-tuning function. In unison mode the six voices are adjusted a little bit out of tune from each other, giving you a real fat monophonic lead sound. There are separate wheels for pitch bend and modulation. The Polysix was one of the last Korgs to have this instead of the (in my opinion) cheaper joystick.
Combinator HQ advertisement below:
This is a refill have been reluctant to release for a long time. There have been several reaons behind not doing so but primarily I felt it didn’t offer much that Thor couldn’t do. It was in partial completion stage when R4 was introduced and I had decided to shelve it at that time. And quite honestly, there are a few P6 refills out there already. The community risked being poly-ed out.
However this set of samples was dear to me since the Polysix was the very first synth I owned when I purchased it way back in 1983. In review of this work, I felt that it made a conscious effort to capture some of the abilities that the original unit had including unision/mono mode and chord memory. As it may not have a huge impact in the average refill library, it does offer authenticity, programing examples and a few interesting layered patches.
So now it’s out there. I also had a few patches in there that were R4 and decided to omit them. This one I believe to be R3 freindly containing no devices that are native to the newest version of Reason. This has variances on 60+ sampled patches. Over 150 Combis in all. Hope it has some value to some one.
DATAMASKIN
