Compression Tips for the Best Mixes
New tutorial from the Prop guys on compression
For many people, compressors are the biggest obstacle between them and a professional mix. But if you know how to use them, compressors are your best tool to achieve that professional mix. Most early interactions with compressors involve cranking them up until they sound horrible and then removing them – wondering why anyone would even want to use them in the first place. This week I’ll explain what a compressor’s actually doing and how to make it work the way you want.
Parallel Processing in Reason
The Props has yet another good tutorial out on parallel processing
The War of the Roses, the Cold War, or the Pepsi/Coke War… all these have come before us but we are currently locked in a much tougher battle known as “The Loudness War.” Producers everywhere are fighting with everything they have to out-blast each other on the radio, in clubs, and iPods earbuds around the world.
When you want to “go nuclear” in the loudness war, your best weapon of choice will be something known as parallel processing. It adds punch, bass, or crunch to your tracks while maintaining audio fidelity at the same time. This week I’ll show you how to do parallel processing in Reason/Record.
Comping Takes Together in Record
The prop guys delivers yet another high quality tutorial in music production
It’s nearly unimaginable to think about early music recording. Musicians had to record their songs in one take direct to wax/acetate records. 100 copies of an album meant recording 100 flawless takes for every musician playing together! Compare that to today and Record 1.5’s “Comp Editor.” You can cycle through recording, doing take after take after take, choosing the best parts of each, and stitching them together into one flawless performance. This week I’ll show you how.
FXPansion continues to tease us about Geist
More information on our forthcoming virtual instrument, Geist, to be released on November 17th 2010. The price will be $249 / £157 / €189.
It appears to be some kind of groove machine or a simplified DAW. The emphasize appears to be on sampling, re-sampling, slicing and sequencing! Perhaps they are heading for the Reason market segment??
Stretch to tempo in Reason/Record
The Prop guys continues to deliver good tutorials on their gear, here´s the latest one featuring “stretch to tempo”
The new “stretch to tempo” feature in Record 1.5 (AUDIO+MIDI) and Reason 5 (MIDI only) means that it’s easier than ever to take a WAV loop off your hard drive and bring it into your session – quickly employing Record’s excellent stretch algorithm along the way. In case you’re new to waveform editing and sample stretching, this week I’ll show you how it’s done. It’s easier than you may think and the production possibilities become vast.
Blocks mode in Reason 5
http://www.boyinaband.com – Go there for more reviews, tutorials and some free samples!
Dave shows you how blocks mode can really speed up your music making workflow!
Working with the Reason KONG
This is a custom made tutorial for those interested in learning how to customize Propellerheads Reason 5 Kong Drum Designers backgrounds. I was working on a beat instrumental for one of my R&B Hip Hop artist.
http://www.reason5tutorials.com, http://www.todaysbeats.net
Hip Hop Rap Beat InstrumentalReason 5 is a beast for beats! God bless Propellerhead for making us beat making heads and hip hop rap production instrumental heads this virtual Akai MPC station for PC users. Reason 5 and it’s powerful Kong Drum Designer is a heaven sent Beat making tool for Hip Hop Producers as well as R&B, House, Techno, Trance etc… I love The Kong Drum in Reason 5 so much that I decided to produce a track called “RAGING KONG”! I skinned it with pictures of King Kong so my production track will feel the wrath of the beast in it’s transistors. In this micro beat tutorial, I did not use Kong the way I would have liked because Im still trying to pry away from Redrum and the old Rex, plus, I don’t want to offend KONG, I’ll treat Kong with tender loving care it deserves. The Reason for this propellerhead endevour is to raise awareness, get you involved, train new heads and stimulate old ones, to become a subscriber man, we are about to do some grandious things far from micro here and I don’t want you to miss out. You also may be interested in going over to todaysbeats.net to download your free version of Beat Making tutorial Series “Hip Hop In Session Volume 22” for FREE!!! We’ve been getting it in since 2003 and we don’t intend to stop until 99.99% of you guys is super star producers of the GLOBE! Meanwhile, enjoy this Reason 5 – Kong Drum Designer tutorial, subscribe and let’s have some mad fun producing HITS!!!!! FOR THESE CRAZY RAPPERS!!!!!!! Remember, music sooths the savage beats, “KONG!”
Vocal tuning in Record
Propellerhead introduced the new Neptune Pitch Adjuster in Record 1.5.
This tutorial, via Propellerhead, takes a deeper look at Neptune.
Topics covered include how to:
- correct to scale
- correct single notes via MIDI
- use the Voice synth and
- the transpose function.
Ambient soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01
The patches include warm space pads, Berlin School arpeggios and organic sound effects suitable for ambient, cinematic and filmscore productions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjzjafGXG-M&feature=player_embedded
Audio demo of Luftrum 6 – Soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01 containing 64 ambient patches ranging from warm space pads over Berlin School arpeggios and organic sound effects – suitable for ambient, cinematic and filmscore productions. 32 of the 64 patches are spine-tingling ambient pads, lifting the GAIA up to the next level of sound!
Luftrum 6 is drawn out of inspirations from Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Biosphere and Steve Roach and is a follow up to soundbank successors released for Propellerheads Reason and lately the standalone Luftrum:Ambient for Camel Audio’s Alchemy – which cemented Luftrum’s signature as an ambient tone painter.
Luftrum 6 is available as download-only from luftrum.com
Beastie Boys on using Reason
It’s hard to fully comprehend the impact the Beastie Boys have had on popular music. In collaborations with Rick Rubin and The Dust Brothers, the Beastie Boys have birthed some of the most infectious and fun beats of the last 25 years. From the early 2000s, on a recommendation from band-mate Mike D, Adam Horovitz (Adrock) started making beats in Reason and instantly ditched his venerable SP1200. Reason has been at the heart of their beat laboratory ever since.
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