Reason tutorial – Using granular effects and timestretching
Since I have been asked quite a bit about granular synthesis in Reason I thought I’d share a couple of good tutorials on the subject
A demonstration of a custom granular audio manipulation system in Reason 4.0. A variety of patches based on this system are currently in development.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAw7nsslmqs]
Tutorial making use of Reason’s NN19 Sampler to simulate the effects of timestretching and granular synthesis by increasing the length of a sound without changing it’s pitch.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3cf9NwqWM]
Download free demo refill of the NES-001
No, this is not the emulation of Nintendo’s nextgen gameconsole. This is AES, our ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM ! Start the engine and your music will receive this extra portion of 8 bit flavour. 1200 samples taken straight from the Nintendo NES-001, the most popular game console produced in the 80`s. This essential sample collection is usefull for every producer who likes to give his sound that 80`s arcade character, suitable from old school NES music to modern electro or pop productions.
The original arcade gamesounds + keysampled waveforms combined with Reason’s powerfull tools -> ready for you to use as Combinator, NN-XT and ReDrum patches. As always, in our products, the Combinator patches are designed to easily change the character of sounds in a wide range.
Facts
- 169 NN-XT patches
- 45 Combinator patches
- 17 ReDrum Kits
- 1200 Samples
- Refill file count: 1431
- ReFill size: 85 MB
- all samples have been recorded 16 or 24 bit through an Terratec PhaseX24FW audiointerface
- created by e-toy (e-toy/Switzerland)
Here´s where you can download the 18Mb demo >>
Live drum sounds for Reason – tutorial
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875-d0wHPDk]
This drum kit produced by the Propellerhead team offer something above and beyond simple one-shot samples of drum sounds with features such as:
- Multi-samples of expensive drum kits so that notes played at different velocities reflect the nuance of the real thing.
- Drum hits recorded with different sticks, brushes, mics and mic placements with the ability to mix between mics allowing you to tweak mic and room dynamics for each channel.
Below is a video showing Josh Mobley aka Neoverse drumming away with Reason Drum Kits 2.0. Shot while taking a break during production of MPR4
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J9in1JgigU]
Virus TI Refill and VSTi
Viral Outbreak Released! + Demo Refill and Demo Plugin Downloads ---------------------------------------------------------------- Viral Outbreak is a new soundware product based on the sounds of the Virus TI hardware synthesizer. Using the power of extensive 96khz multisampling, manual looping and professional preset design, Nucleus SoundLab brings this powerful electronica sound to your productions! Viral Outbreak is available both as a VSTi plugin, and a Reason 4.0 Refill. Viral Outbreak contains all manner of TI-based sounds. Classic wavetables, raw saw and pulse waveforms (sampled at multiple pulsewidths), unison dance leads, breathtaking pads, bizarre formant effects, massive supersaws and even punchy synth drumkits. Details: * No sampler required! Viral Outbreak is powered by a full copy of the amazing WusikEngine V4 by Wusik.com. You can even use this engine to load our other Wusikstation libraries! * Nearly 3.5GB of multisamples comprising 180+ soundsets. * Sampled at 32-bit 96khz quality! For resource efficiency, then carefully downsampled to 24-bit 48khz. * Comes loaded with nearly 950 presets by the best preset designers out there: Pro-Sounds, Teksonik, Tim Conrardy, Jeremy Janzen, rsmus7 and more! * An amazing, TI-inspired skin by Vera Kinter. The Refill details: * Nearly 2GB compressed in Refill format! (contains the exact same samples as the VSTi) * 235 unique Reason Combinators included by a variety of talented Reason sound designers included Adam Fielding, Tom Pritchard, Nick Hutton, and Shaun Wallace. * Large variety of additional individual patches for Reason's modules. * Programmed for Reason 4, and as such makes good use of Thor and RPG-8. Listen to what Viral Outbreak offers by downloading the MP3 demos at http://www.viraloutbreak.net For a taste, here are some direct links - *many* more are available on the product page (clear your browser cache if you can't see any new mp3s) Refill: http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo/Infekted.mp3 http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo/Contagion.mp3 http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo/Atmospheric.mp3 http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo/Dazzled.mp3 VSTi: http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo/Whispers%20and%20Shouts.mp3 http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo1/Virulent%20Strain.mp3 http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo1/Im%20ever%20so%20sorry.mp3 http://www.nucleus-soundlab.com/mp3s/vo/Paradisiac.mp3
ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM – Reason Refill :-)
New ReFill- AES 001 No, this is not the emulation of Nintendo's nextgen gameconsole. This is AES, our ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM ! Start the engine and your music will receive this extra portion of 8 bit flavour. 1200 samples taken straight from the Nintendo NES-001, the most popular game console produced in the 80`s. This essential sample collection is usefull for every producer who likes to give his sound that 80`s arcade character, suitable from old school NES music to modern electro or pop productions. Sound Demo: http://youproduce.net/soundshop_demos/demosong_aes_1_hq.mp3 ReFill Demo: http://youproduce.net/soundshop/demorefills/ASS008_YOUPRODUCE.NET_AES_Demo.zip Product Page: http://youproduce.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1880&Itemid=106
Taiko Japanese Drums Refill
Nine Volt Audio releases: Action Drums: Taiko Edition in several formats
+ Don´t miss to get the free demo refill from their homepage >>
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Nine Volt Audio say that Action Drums: Taiko Edition brings the power, thunder and excitement of Japanese taiko drums to the REX, Stylus RMX, ACID wav and Apple Loop formats.
Here’s the details in their own words…
Recorded in a concert hall with microphones from stage to balcony, Action Drums: Taiko Edition captures the energy resonating from every strike, boom and cinematic blow. With suite names like Alley Sprinter, War Elephants and Lost Temple, Action Drums matches big sounds with grand imagery.
Action Drums focuses on a tempo range of 120-200 BPM. But as with all of Nine Volt Audio’s BPM Flex Series libraries, every REX-based loop can be used at virtually any tempo without artificial stretching or unwanted audio artifacts!
Whether setting the mood for an epic clash, scoring an adrenalin-charged chase scene or creating a conqueror’s anthem, Action Drums: Taiko Edition provides the sonic impact necessary for a wide range of compositional needs.
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Audio input for Reason – Introducing Hammer
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For those of you who have not come across Hammer before
Hammer is an audio input tool for Propellerhead’s Reason. It finally lets you route ASIO audio inputs into Reason rack for live processing: just adding a reverb, doing cool voice vocoding or guitar distorsion. |
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Here are two sample files recorded using Hammer and some effect patches included in the Hammer ReFill… Check them out! |
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New nice Reason Refill from Travis Huckins
Travis Huckins once again has provided CombinatorHQ the ability to display his wonderful talent for sound design in his newest refill “Alien Music Factory”.
This refill is packed with Combinators clearly organized for easy navigation such as Bass, Pads, Organs, Leads, Arps and many more. It stays amzingly true to it’s theme having Pads sounding spacey, Drums being synthetic and mechanical and Strings awkwardly eerie and sometimes serene.
This is a very pleasureable and meaty refill at just over 200MB!
Weekend Reason Refills from "youproduce" to enjoy
Over 390 Combinator Patches! A powerfull Combinator refill pack. This refill has more then 300 Combinators. Bass, leads, pads, strings and a lot of other stuff. http://youproduce.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4500&Itemid=1 NORD ReFill The Free Vol. 01. - NORD REFILL is a collection of great Clavia Nord Modular G2 multisamples for your NN-XT sampler. These highly optimized presets all use the specific features of your Reason NN-XT advanced sampler. This free ReFill contains 24 NN-XT patches separated into categories: you may find here some nice mega-pads, basses, ultra-sharp arpeggios and leads. Just register yourself, get your FREE REFILL and… do not forget to move the modwheel! http://youproduce.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4521&Itemid=1 Microlab ReFill Pack 1 Featuring sounds and samples from the following microLAB Studios tracks: - Crash Dance - Krak - Crash Dance - Watcha Do - Crash Dance - Fresh Fried - Crash Dance - Krom - Crash Dance - Water - Spasmo - Velodrome - Spasmo - (Let's have a) Riot - Spasmo - (Let's have a) Riot - v2 rmx - 8 Subtractor patches - 4 Malstroem patches - 5 ReDrum patches - 7 NN19 patches - 18 Rexfiles - 74 Drumsamples - 13 Extra samples For use with Propellerhead Software Reason™ http://youproduce.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4587&Itemid=1
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