expressionPad for iPad wireless MIDI demo with Reason
expressionPad is a new kind of midi/synth controller. This video demos expressionPad connecting to Reason.
Continuous multi-touch support means you can control pitch bend, dynamics, and modulation with each touch, even as you change notes.
Tune your expressionPad in fourths, fifths, or in guitar tunings such as standard or Open C.
expressionPad features a built-in polyphonic synthesizer so you can start making music right away. Experience the flexibility of polyphonic portamento — an electronic music first!
Connect to your music studio via Wifi MIDI. With expressionPad and our free moxMidi tool enables you to control Reason, Ableton Live, Logic, Garage Band, and more!
expressionPad Features:
- Continuous multi-touch support means you can control pitch bend, dynamics, and modulation with each touch, even as you change notes.
- Tune your expressionPad in fourths, fifths, or in guitar tunings such as standard or Open C.
- expressionPad features a built-in polyphonic synthesizer so you can start making music right away.
- Connect to your music studio via Wifi MIDI. With expressionPad and the moxMidi tool, you can control Reason, Ableton Live, Logic, Garage Band, and more.
Pricing and Availability
expressionPad is available now for $2.99.
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Malström Graintable Synthesis
Time again for this weeks Reason tutorial:
If you think of last three weeks of Synth School as primary school, then this week we’re graduating up to Middle School. Don’t worry, though… there’s no detention or pop quizes. This week we’ll move onto the Malström Graintable Synthesizer which was introduced in Reason version 2.0.
I think you’ll be surprised with how comfortable you are switching to a new synth. You’ll be applying a lot of what you’ve learned already, like ADSR envelopes, oscillator pitch controls, etc. You’ll also be seeing new controls and knobs that come with the graintable synthesis territory, like Shift and Motion.
The Fairlight CMI Legacy MK II+ ReFill
Introduced friday, February 4th and free to all previous Fairlight MKII customers, the brand new refill contains new patches, new signature patches and a completely new structure, where everything is divided into virtual ‘machines’, like AIRBASS bass module, THE ORCH orchestral sounds and much, much more. Information will be posted on the site shortly. Entire Fairlight IIx library included, as well as a truckload of other things – everything outer-worldly skillfully programmed and edited. Completely new graphics on the Combinators and much much more. Compatible with Reason 4 and Reason 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRL1XIj8lM
A quick tutorial on how I use the BitleyTM ‘Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII+’ ReFill when creating music in Propellerhead Reason. All improvised!
The BitleyTM ‘Fairlight CMI Legacy MKII+’ sample library is the world’s largest collection of Fairlight recordings and is available in Propellerhead ReFill format and Kontakt format.
For more information on the library, please visit http://bitley.laconicsounds.net
Subtractor LFOs and Mods
More in-depth tutorials coming your way from the Propellerhead studio
After watching the first two Synth School videos you’ve probably realized that the entirety of synthesizer sound design is simply about taking a basic sound wave and reshaping it with basic tools like filters, amp envelopes, phase, other oscillators mixed in, etc. This week we’ll look at the final piece of the SubTractor puzzle: LFOs and Performance Modifiers. When you’re done this video you will have everything you need to start creating some seriously unique SubTractor patches. More importantly, you’ll be ready to tackle the more complicated Malström Graintable synthesizer.
Next week I think you’ll be surprised with how much you already know about it having built a strong foundation in a fundamental synth like SubTractor.
Reason tutorials: Subtractor Filters and Envelopes
In the second installment of my “Synth School” series I’ll be staying on the Subtractor synth but looking at the Filter sections, Amp Envelope, Filter Envelope, and Mod Envelope sections. The masters of synth production are masters of these tools. Something as simple as a Low Pass filter when paired with the right chord progression can lift the entire club crowd into a frenzy. The proper Amp Envelope can bring out the vibe in your song. These are powerful tools to conveying and even evoking strong emotion from what sometimes are rather sterile starting melodies or chords.
As always, I encourage you to play around with them on your own to get a feel for how they behave and interact with each other but today I’ll walk you through each slider and button and show you a little of my own experimentation.
In-depth on the Reason Combinator
macProVideo.com has released a new video tutorial on Reason’s Combinator Here’s what they have to say about it…
In this tutorial, G.W. Childs, one of the original Combinator sound designers for Reason 3 and Reason 4 will give you step by step examples detailing the “ins and outs” of the Combinator, while showing you how to create powerful, new Combinators using hot new instruments like Kong.
You’ll get in-depth examples of how to design your own elaborate and powerful instruments by combining instruments and FX together. Additionally, you’ll learn how to create your own FX presets by combining loads of different FX devices. You’ll even get cool examples in how to remix your own tracks using the Combinator!
This course also includes an exclusive Refill collection designed by G.W. exclusively for this course. You can use its presets to follow along, or just use the performance Combinators, drum Combinators, and FX Combinators for your own musical creations.
Pricing and Availability:
From $25.
More information:
Synth School with the Subtractor
As electronic music producers, we rely on synths as our bread and butter sounds for leads, bass lines, effects, textures, and so on. Knowing that, how crazy is it that so many of us don’t REALLY know how to use them?! I mean, it’s not our fault in some ways. The presets we get from the factory soundbank and ReFills are very good. Usually one of those with a couple random knob adjustments get us off and going just fine.
But imagine the power you’d have if you could sculpt a sound and control a sound with precise knowledge of what you’re doing and the effect it will have. Imagine if you had your own folder of custom patches that you created; your own stash of secret sauce that nobody else has. Imagine if you could think of a sound you’d like to create and to know instantly how to do it.
I’m going to embark on a multi-week exploration of synthesis theory to do just that for you. This week we’re starting with the most basic synth there is – the Subtractor. But don’t let its simplicity fool you. It’s capable of some amazing sounds.
Plughugger brings you Nerd Electro
Plughugger has announced the release of Nerd Electro, a new loop and sample library in Kontakt 3, SFZ, Reason and WAV formats.
Before house, acid, techno and trance – there was a magical world often referred as ‘the 80s’. In the eighties the unicorns roamed free on the streets and people had hairstyles that defied style, sense and gravity. Before house – and particularly the nasty acid house – came and destroyed everything, and made everybody so incredibly hip, life was cute, poppy and quite naive.
Nerd Electro is the Plughugger take on the eighties, when synthesizers were expensive as hell, weighted a ton, were impossible to program, and sounded just slightly better than the keyboards for Very Small Children.
Nerd Electro features
- Nerd Electro is built around ten construction kits that includes loops, individual sounds and ready to go sampled instruments.
- All loops have a fixed tempo of 128 BPM.
- All drums both come as complete loops and individual stems.
- If a sound source is heavily processed, it also comes dry (if it makes sense).
- Everything was originally created in 24 bits and later resampled and dithered down to 16 bit.
- The Kontakt versions of the sounds comes with a special interface for quick editing of the most common parameters.
- Formats: Kontakt 3, Reason, SFZ and WAV.
Nerd Electro is available to purchase for €9.90 EUR.
More information: Plughugger / Nerd Electro
Stereo Width w/ The Haas Effect
New tutorial from Propellerhead
This week I’m going to show you one of the most tried and true methods we have to add stereo width and depth to our mixes: The Haas Affect.
Named after Dr. Helmut Haas for his early research into the effect, the Haas Effect essentially uses short delays to fool your brain into perceiving a stereo sound from a mono source. In mixing we can exploit your brain’s gullibility to carve out wide stereo fields and provide our mixes enough room for center elements like lead vocals or bass guitar.
I’ve made a combinator patch that accompanies this tutorial and it can be downloaded here:
http://www.propellerheads.se/stuff/JB…
Reason Key Commands to Speed up Your Work
Wanna impress all your friends with your mad Reason skillz? This weeks episode will give you all the tools you need to have you blazing around your Reason sessions and make you the envy of all your friends.
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