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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS4

Introduction 29

Welcome! 30

About this chapter 30

About this manual 30

About the Reason operating system

versions 30

Conventions in the manual 30

The Authorization system 32

Registering Reason 32

Running Reason with Internet Verification 33

Authorizing your Computer/Ignition Key (for off-line use)

33

About deauthorizing the computer/Ignition Key 34

Running Reason on an authorized computer - or with an

authorized Ignition Key 34

Running Reason in Demo Mode 35

Managing additional content 36

Reassigning the Function Keys in macOS

37

About automatic program updates 38

Common Operations and

Concepts 41

About this chapter 42

Areas, windows and basic navigation 42

Song window overview 42

The Browser 43

The Main Mixer 44

The Tutorial area 44

The Rack 45

The Sequencer 46

The Transport Panel 46

The ReGroove Mixer 47

Navigating between the areas 47

Showing/hiding the Navigators 47

About different Themes 48

Using several Reason Song windows 49

The Tool Window 49

The On-screen Piano Keys window 50

General window techniques 51

Resizing 51

Scrolling 52

Zooming in the Sequencer 53

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 54

Editing parameters 55

Knobs 55

Faders and sliders 56

Buttons 56

Fold/Unfold buttons 57

Multi Mode selectors 57

Numerical controls 58

Alpha-numeric controls 58

Numerical segment displays 59

Tool Tips 60

Context menus 61

Parameter context menus 61

Device context menus 62

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 63

Rack “background” context menu 64

Main Mixer “background” context menu 64

Sequencer context menus 64

Undo and Redo 65

On-screen Piano Keys 67

About this chapter 68

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 68

Opening the Piano Keys window 68

Mouse mode 69

Computer Keys mode 70

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Audio Basics 73

About this chapter 74

How Reason communicates with your

audio hardware 74

Manual audio routing 75

Audio quality 75

Audio settings 76

About audio levels 78

System signal paths 81

Audio Track signal paths 81

Instrument Track signal paths 82

General information about audio and

computers 83

About latency 83

About processors 84

About RAM 84

Sequencer Functions 85

About this chapter 86

Introduction 86

Sequencer area overview 86

Song View and Edit Mode 87

Toolbar overview 88

Track List overview 88

Tracks overview 89

Lanes overview 89

Clips overview 90

Inspector overview 90

Ruler overview 90

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 90

Track scrollbar overview 91

Song Navigator overview 91

Transport Panel overview 91

Track details 92

Track definition 92

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 93

Master Keyboard Input 98

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

99

Track types 99

Track List elements 101

Creating tracks 101

Selecting tracks 105

Resizing tracks 106

Moving tracks 106

Deleting tracks 107

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 107

Coloring tracks 108

Naming tracks 109

Folding tracks 109

Muting tracks 110

Soloing tracks 110

Lane details 111

Audio lane 111

Note lane 112

Parameter automation lane 113

Pattern lane 114

Creating/adding lanes 115

Deleting lanes 117

Moving note lanes 118

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 118

Muting lanes 119

Clip basics 119

Clip types 119

Toolbar details 120

Toolbar tools 120

Alternate tools 123

Edit Mode buttons 123

Snap 123

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 125

Ruler details 126

Transport Panel details 126

Transport keyboard commands 130

About the Inspector 131

About subticks in the Position and Length displays 131

About the “Match Values” function 131

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Recording in the Sequencer

133

About this chapter 134

General recording functions 134

Record enabling 134

Click and Pre-count 138

Loop mode 140

General recording procedure 141

Undoing a recording 142

Recording tips 142

Audio recording details 142

Setting up the audio track 142

Recording audio 147

Recording audio in Loop mode 149

Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 150

Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 150

Recording over or into an existing audio clip 151

Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 152

Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 154

Note recording details 158

Setting up the instrument track 158

Recording notes 158

Recording notes in Loop mode 158

Recording over or into an existing note clip 159

Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 160

Parameter automation recording details

162

Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation

162

Recording performance controller automation 163

Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 164

Recording performance controller automation over or

into an existing clip 164

About performance controller automation on multiple

lanes 165

Recording parameter automation 165

Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 166

Recording parameter automation over or into an existing

clip 167

Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live

mode” 168

Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 168

Pattern automation recording details 169

Recording pattern automation 169

Tempo automation recording 170

Recording tempo automation 170

Arranging in the Sequencer

173

About this chapter 174

Clip handling 174

Creating Clips 174

Selecting clips 174

Setting audio clip Level and Fades 177

Deleting clips 178

Resizing (masking) clips 179

About masked recordings and events 180

Tempo scaling clips 182

Moving clips 184

About overlapping clips 186

Duplicating clips 186

Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 186

Naming clips 187

Coloring clips 187

Splitting clips 188

Crossfading audio clips 189

Joining clips 190

Reversing clips 192

Muting clips 192

Merging clips on note lanes 193

Bounce in Place 193

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 196

Inserting bars 198

Removing bars 198

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 199

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 201

About this chapter 202

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Edit Modes, Stretch & Transpose Types

and Clip Types 202

Edit Modes 202

Selecting Stretch and Transpose Type 202

Clip Types 203

Opening audio clips for editing 204

Editing audio in Slice Edit mode 205

Audio clip elements in Slice Edit mode 205

Slice Edit mode tools 205

Selecting Slices and Slice Markers 206

Adding Slice Markers 207

Deleting Slice Markers 208

Repositioning Slice Markers 208

Moving/stretching Slices 208

Nudging Slices 210

Quantizing audio 210

Split at Slices 211

Bounce Clip to REX Loop 211

Revert All Slices 212

Editing audio in Pitch Edit mode 213

Pitch Editor elements 213

Selecting notes 214

Auditioning notes 214

Correcting pitches 215

Changing transposition 215

Resetting pitches 215

Splitting the clip at notes 215

Reverting all notes 215

Attenuating pitch drift/vibrato 216

Editing transition times 216

Moving notes and changing note lengths 217

Quantizing notes 218

Splitting and joining notes 218

About switching from Pitch Edit mode to Slice Edit mode

219

Audio pitch editing in the Inspector 219

Editing audio in the Comp Editor 221

Audio clip elements in the Comp Editor 221

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 225

Comp Editor window handling 227

Comp Editor audio editing tools 227

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in a Single Take clip

228

Selecting Comp Rows 229

Deleting Comp Rows 230

Moving Comp Rows 230

Duplicating Comp Rows 230

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 231

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 231

Adjusting the Recording Offset 232

Comping audio 233

Adding Cuts 233

Adding Segments 234

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 234

Deleting Cuts 235

Moving Cuts 235

Changing Comp Row assignments 236

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 237

Creating a comped audio clip 238

Common audio editing functions 242

Delete Unused Recordings 242

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 242

Bouncing audio to MIDI notes 242

Normalizing audio clips 244

Reversing audio clips 245

Changing the tempo and transposition of

the audio 246

Tempo scaling Clips 246

Transposing Audio Clips 247

Audio and tempo matching 249

Matching imported audio to the song tempo 249

Editing audio using the Inspector 250

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 250

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 250

Note and Automation Editing

253

About this chapter 254

The Edit Mode 254

Selecting what to edit 255

Opening note and automation clips for editing 255

Edit Mode elements 257

Edit Mode window handling 259

Note Edit Modes 259

Creating empty clips 262

Tool Window editing tools 263

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Note editing 264

Selecting notes 264

Drawing notes 265

Deleting notes 268

Resizing notes 268

Muting notes 270

Splitting notes 271

Moving notes 272

Duplicating notes 275

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 276

Quantize 277

Pitch (Transpose) 280

Extract Notes to Lanes 281

Scale Tempo 284

Editing note velocity 285

Reverse 287

Multi Lanes editing 289

Overview 289

Selecting multiple lanes for editing 289

Editing notes in Multi Lanes mode 290

Automation editing 291

Overview 291

Editing parameter automation 291

Drawing parameter automation events 294

Creating curves between automation points 295

Deleting automation events 296

Reversing automation events 296

Editing performance controller automation 296

About Automation Cleanup 298

Editing pattern automation 299

Drawing pattern automation 300

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

301

Deleting pattern automation clips 301

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 302

Editing tempo automation 302

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 303

Automating time signature 304

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 305

Deleting time signature automation clips 305

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 306

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 306

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 306

Working with Blocks in the

Sequencer 309

About this chapter 310

Introduction 310

The idea behind Blocks 310

Arrangement Views 311

Song View (with Blocks disabled) 311

Song View (with Blocks enabled) 311

Block View 312

Editing Blocks in the Block View 312

Selecting a Block for editing 312

Renaming Blocks 313

Defining the Block length 313

Changing Block color 313

Recording in the Block View 313

Editing clips in the Block View 313

Arranging clips in the Block View 314

Arranging Blocks in the Song View 314

Creating Block Automation Clips 314

Resizing Block Automation Clips 316

Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 316

Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 317

Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 319

Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 321

Working with the Rack 325

About this chapter 326

Rack device procedures 326

Navigating in the rack 326

Resizing and detaching the rack 327

About Device Groups 328

Creating devices 330

Selecting devices 332

Deleting devices 334

Re-ordering devices 334

Re-routing devices 336

Creating new rack columns 336

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 336

Replacing devices 337

Duplicating devices 338

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Cut, Copy and Paste devices 338

Naming devices 339

Folding and unfolding devices 340

Working with Players 341

About this chapter 342

Overview 342

General recording methods 343

Using Players 344

Creating Players 344

Chaining Players 344

Replacing Players 344

Deleting Players 344

Naming Players 344

About Players in Combinators 345

Common Player device parameters 345

Dual Arpeggio 346

The Display sections 348

Note Echo 354

Scales & Chords 355

Scales 355

Filter Notes 356

Chords 357

Beat Map 360

Included content 360

The front panel 361

Map Select 362

Density 362

Lock Position 363

Mirror notes 363

Setting MIDI note numbers 364

Global settings 365

Beat Map and the sequencer 365

Editing the drum notes 367

Using CV 367

Tips & Tricks 368

Generating scale-correct arpeggios from single notes

368

Generating chord arpeggios 368

Creating parallel chords 368

Using a Scales & Chords device as a “MIDI Note monitor”

369

Working with Rack Extensions

371

About this chapter 372

What are Rack Extensions? 372

Future compatibility 372

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 372

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 372

Buying Rack Extensions 372

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 373

Using Rack Extensions in Reason 374

About missing Rack Extensions 376

Working with VST Plugins 377

About this chapter 378

About VST plugins 378

VST compatibility in Reason 378

Installing and enabling VST plugins 378

About VST licenses 378

Installing VST plugins under Windows 378

Installing VST plugins under Mac 379

Enabling VST plugins in Reason 379

Using VST plugins in Reason 380

Adding VSTs to the rack 380

The Plugin Rack Device 381

Front panel 381

Rear panel 382

About auto-routing of VSTs in the rack 383

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The Plugin Window 383

Editing the VST parameters 385

Automating VST parameters 385

CV modulation of VST parameters 386

Remote controlling VST parameters 389

Selecting VST programs 391

About saving songs that contain VSTs 391

Combining VST plugins in Combinator devices 391

About missing VST plugins 392

Managing VST plugins 392

Plugin Status 393

Defining custom VST folders 394

Sounds, Patches and the

Browser 395

About this chapter 396

About patches 396

Reason devices that use patches 396

Loading patches 397

Setting browse focus 400

Saving patches 401

Copying and pasting patches between devices 402

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 402

About ReFills 403

Using the Browser 404

Opening the browser 405

Browser elements 406

Navigating in the Browser 410

Using Locations and Favorites 412

Favorites Lists 412

Selecting and auditioning samples and REX loops 415

Selecting multiple files 415

Cross-browsing patch files 416

Create Instrument/Create Effect 417

About patch formats and sampler devices 417

Using the “Search” function 418

Loading files 418

About browse lists 419

Handling Missing Sounds 420

Reason file formats 422

Routing Audio and CV 425

About this chapter 426

Signal types 426

Audio signals 426

CV/Gate signals 426

P-LAN signals 427

About MIDI routing 427

About cables 427

Cable appearance 427

Checking and following cable connections 428

Cable color 429

Automatic routing 429

Auto-routing of audio input signals 429

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 430

Auto-routing of Effect devices 430

Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 431

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 431

About re-routing devices in songs created in Reason

Version 5 or earlier 432

Manual routing 433

Connecting cables 434

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 434

Disconnecting cables 435

Disconnecting devices 435

Using CV and Gate 436

Routing CV and Gate signals 436

About CV Trim knobs 436

The Main Mixer 437

About this chapter 438

Overview 438

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 439

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 440

The Master Section device and mixer strip 441

Navigating in the Main Mixer 442

Viewing the Main Mixer area 442

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 442

Showing and hiding channel strip sections 443

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Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

444

Managing mixer channels 445

Creating and deleting channels 445

Selecting channels 445

Moving channels 446

Copying and duplicating channels 446

Copy channel settings 447

Resetting channel settings 447

Naming mixer channels 447

Coloring mixer channels 448

The channel strip 449

Input section 449

Dynamics section 450

EQ section 453

The Spectrum EQ Window 454

Insert FX section 457

FX Sends section 458

Fader section 459

Channel Header section 461

The Master Section strip 462

Master Compressor section 463

FX Send section 464

Master Inserts section 465

FX Return section 466

Master Fader section 467

Master Section Header 468

Automating mixer parameters 468

Working with effects 468

Insert FX 468

Send FX 473

Output Busses 476

Creating an Output Bus 476

Deleting an Output Bus 478

Recording a sub-mix onto an audio track 479

Parallel Channels 480

Creating Parallel Channels 480

Deleting Parallel Channels 483

Naming Parallel Channels 483

Solo, Mute and Send FX logic 484

Solo and Mute logic 484

Send FX level and mute logic 486

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 488

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 488

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 488

Advanced routing tips and tricks 491

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

491

Using compression sidechaining 493

Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 494

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 495

Delay Compensation 499

About this chapter 500

About Delay Compensation in Reason

500

Activating the Delay Compensation 500

Delay Compensation rules and limitations 501

How the Delay Compensation works 504

Delay Compensation in individual mixer channels 504

Delay Compensation with Busses and Parallel Channels

508

Delay Compensation to Send FX busses 509

About the Master Insert FX 509

Problematic configurations 510

About using the Direct Out connections of the mixer

channels 514

About the Metronome Click 514

Recording with Delay Compensation 514

Playing and monitoring with Delay Compensation 514

About bouncing mixer channels 514

Song File Handling 515

About this chapter 516

Opening Songs 516

Opening a Reason or Record Song 516

Opening a Reason Demo Song 517

Opening the last Song at program launch 517

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Closing Songs 518

Closing a Song 518

Creating Songs 518

Creating a new Song 518

Setting up a Default Song 518

Creating a new Song from a template 519

Saving Songs 519

Saving a Song 519

Saving and optimizing a Song 520

Including Song Information 520

About Self-Contained Songs 521

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 522

A note about saving Songs as audio files 522

Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 523

About audio data in Song files 523

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 523

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 524

Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 524

Importing Standard MIDI Files 524

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 525

Importing and Exporting

Audio 527

About this chapter 528

Importing audio 528

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 528

About tempo matching imported audio 528

Importing audio to the sequencer 529

Exporting audio 532

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 532

Bouncing Mixer Channels 534

Bouncing Audio Clips 536

Sampling 539

About this chapter 540

Overview 540

One-click sampling 540

The Edit Sample window 540

About sample format, rate and resolution 541

General sampling functions 541

Setting up for sampling 541

Sampling 543

The Sample buttons 543

Sampling procedure 543

The Song Samples location 546

Editing samples 548

The Edit Sample window 548

Setting Sample Start and End 550

Cropping samples 552

Normalizing samples 552

Reversing samples 552

Fading in/out samples 553

Looping samples 554

Saving edited samples 556

Renaming samples 556

Sample management 557

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 557

Saving samples in a song 558

Deleting samples from a song 558

Loading samples into a device 559

Duplicating samples 560

Exporting samples 561

About self-contained samples 563

The ReGroove Mixer 565

Introduction 566

ReGroove basics 566

The ReGroove Mixer 567

Global parameters 567

Channel parameters 568

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 572

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Groove Settings 573

Working with grooves 576

Applying grooves to your music 576

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

579

Creating your own ReGroove patches 580

Groovy tips & tricks 581

ReGroove patches in the Factory Sounds

bank 582

Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 583

About the various MIDI inputs 584

About Remote 584

Setting up 585

Automatic set-up using the Easy MIDI Inputs function

585

Adding a specific control surface or keyboard 586

Other functions 589

Example Setups 589

Remote basics 590

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 590

About mapping variations 590

Locking a surface to a device 592

Locking a surface 592

Unlocking a surface 594

Remote Override 595

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 595

Remote Override mapping 596

Additional Remote Overrides... 599

Assigning Additional Overrides 600

Keyboard Control 601

Enabling Keyboard Control 601

Editing Keyboard Control 601

Saving Remote Setups 602

Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 603

About this chapter 604

Synchronization to MIDI Clock 604

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 604

Using Reason as MIDI Clock Host 604

Syncing Reason to an external MIDI application or

instrument 606

Syncing Reason to another program on the same

computer 606

External synchronization considerations 607

Synchronization using Ableton Link 609

About Ableton Link 609

Synchronizing Reason’s sequencer with Ableton Link

609

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 611

About the External Control Bus inputs 611

Routing MIDI to devices 612

Receiving Controller data via MIDI 612

About recording Pattern Changes 612

Optimizing Performance 613

Introduction 614

Checking Processing Power 614

Optimization and latency reduction 614

About Latency Compensation 615

Optimizing your computer system 616

Optimizing Songs 618

RAM requirements 620

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Hardware Interface 621

Introduction 622

Sampling Input section 623

Advanced MIDI Device 624

More Audio 624

The Big Meter 625

Kong Drum Designer 627

Introduction 628

Overview 628

The Pad Section 628

The Drum Control Panel 629

The Drum and FX Section 629

About using custom backdrops 629

About file formats 629

Using patches 630

Loading a Kit Patch 630

Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 631

Creating a new Kit Patch 631

Creating an empty Kit Patch 632

Saving Kit Patches 632

Pad Settings 633

Assigning Drums to Pads 633

Renaming Pads 634

Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 634

Assigning Hit Type to Pads 634

Muting and Soloing Pads 635

Working with Pad Groups 636

The Drum and FX section 637

Signal flow 638

The Drum Control Panel 640

Sampling in Kong 642

The Drum Module slot 642

The FX slots 643

The Drum modules 644

NN-Nano Sampler 644

Nurse Rex Loop Player 648

Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 653

Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 655

Synth Hi-hat 656

The Support Generator modules 657

Noise Generator 657

Tone Generator 658

The FX modules 659

Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX

parameters 659

Drum Room Reverb 660

Transient Shaper 660

Compressor 661

Filter 662

Parametric EQ 662

Ring Modulator 663

Rattler 664

Tape Echo 664

Overdrive/Resonator 665

Connections 666

Sequencer Control 666

Modulation Input 666

Aux Send Out 666

Gate In and Out 667

Audio Out 3-16 667

Main Audio Out 667

Using Kong as an effect device 667

Using external effects with Kong 668

Redrum Drum Computer 669

Introduction 670

Sampling in Redrum 670

About file formats 671

Using patches 672

Loading a patch 672

Checking the sounds in a patch 672

Creating a new patch 673

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Creating an empty patch 673

Programming patterns 674

Pattern basics 674

Pattern tutorial 675

Setting pattern length 676

Setting pattern resolution 677

Step dynamics 677

Pattern Shuffle 678

Flam 678

The Pattern Enable switch 679

The Enable Pattern Section switch 679

Pattern functions 680

Chaining patterns 680

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

681

Redrum parameters 682

Drum sound settings 682

Global settings 685

Using Redrum as a sound module 686

Connections 687

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 689

Introduction 690

ReCycled Loops 690

About REX file formats 691

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

691

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 691

About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex

devices 691

Playing Loops 692

Switching playback between Loop Slots 692

Adding Loops 693

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 694

Removing Loops 694

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 694

Playing individual Loop Slices 694

Creating sequencer notes 695

Slice handling 698

Selecting Slices 698

Editing individual Slices 698

Editing in the Waveform Display 699

The Slice Edit Mode 700

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 701

Pitch and Mod wheels 701

Trig Next Loop 701

Note To Slot 701

Loop Slot buttons 702

Enable Loop Playback and Run 703

Volume 703

Global Transpose 703

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 704

Select Loop & Load Slot 704

Loop Transpose 704

Loop Level 705

Oscillator section 705

Mod. Wheel 705

Velocity section 706

The Filter Section 706

Envelope section 708

LFO section 709

Pitch Bend Range 710

Setting number of voices - polyphony 711

Audio Quality settings 711

Connections 711

Modulation Inputs 712

Modulation Outputs 712

Gate Inputs 712

Gate Output 712

Slice Outputs 712

Main Outputs 712

Europa Shapeshifting

Synthesizer 713

Introduction 714

Panel overview 715

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Signal flow 716

Playing and using Europa 717

Loading and saving patches 717

Global output controls 717

Global performance and “play” controls 717

Panel reference 719

Sound Engines On/Off and Edit Focus section 719

The Oscillator section 719

The Modifiers section 722

The Spectral Filter 724

The Harmonics section 726

The Unison section 728

The User Wave and Mixer section 729

The Filter section 730

The Amplifier section 732

The Envelopes section 734

The LFO section 738

The Effects section 739

The Modulation Bus section 742

Connections 746

Sequencer Control inputs 746

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 746

Audio Output 746

Tips and Tricks 747

Creating an individual “pre amp envelope” for a Sound

Engine 747

Recording display movements in the sequencer 748

Grain Sample Manipulator 749

Introduction 750

A few words about granular synthesis 750

Panel overview 752

Playing and using Grain 753

Loading and saving patches 753

Global performance and “play” controls 753

Global output controls 754

Panel reference 755

The Sample section 755

The Playback Algorithms section 757

The Oscillator section 762

The Filter section 763

The Amplifier section 764

The Envelopes section 765

The LFO section 769

The Effects section 769

The Modulation Bus section 773

Connections 777

Sequencer Control inputs 777

CV Modulation inputs and outputs 777

Audio Output 777

Tips and Tricks 778

Automating sample playback parameters from the

sequencer 778

Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

781

Introduction 782

Loading and Saving Patches 782

Thor elements 783

The Controller panel 784

Using the Programmer 786

Basic connections - a tutorial 787

The Oscillator section 790

Mix section 797

Filter slots 797

Shaper 801

Amp section 801

LFO 1 802

Envelope sections 803

Global section 804

Modulation bus routing section 806

Step Sequencer 815

Basic operation 815

Connections 819

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Subtractor Synthesizer 821

Introduction 822

Loading and Saving Patches 822

The Oscillator Section 823

Oscillator 1 Waveform 823

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

825

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 825

Using Oscillator 2 825

Oscillator 2 Waveform 826

Noise Generator 826

Phase Offset Modulation 827

Frequency Modulation (FM) 829

Ring Modulation 830

The Filter Section 831

Filter 1 Type 831

Filter 1 Frequency 834

Resonance 834

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 834

Filter 2 835

Envelopes - General 836

Amplitude Envelope 837

Filter Envelope 837

Mod Envelope 838

LFO Section 839

LFO 1 Parameters 839

LFO 2 Parameters 840

Play Parameters 841

Velocity Control 841

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 842

Legato 843

Retrig 843

Portamento (Time) 843

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 844

About the Low Bandwidth button 844

External Modulation 844

Connections 845

Audio Output 845

Sequencer Control 845

Modulation Inputs 846

Modulation Outputs 846

Gate Inputs 846

Malström Synthesizer 847

Introduction 848

Features 848

Theory of operation 849

Loading and Saving Patches 849

The Oscillator section 850

Setting oscillator frequency 851

Controlling playback of the graintable 851

The amplitude envelopes 852

The Modulator section 853

Modulator parameters 853

Destinations 854

The Filter section 855

The Filters 856

The Filter Envelope 858

The Shaper 859

Routing 861

Routing examples 862

The output controls 865

The play controls 865

Polyphony - setting the number of voices 866

Porta (portamento) 866

Legato 866

The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 867

The Velocity controls 867

The Modulation wheel controls 868

Connections 869

Audio Output 869

Audio Input 869

Sequencer Control 869

Gate Input 870

Modulation Input 870

Modulation Output 870

Routing external audio to the filters 871

Monotone Bass Synthesizer

873

Introduction 874

TABLE OF CONTENTS18

Panel overview 875

Signal flow 876

Playing and using Monotone 877

Loading and saving patches 877

Global output controls 877

Global performance and “play” controls 877

Panel reference 878

The Oscillator section 878

The Filter section 879

The Amplifier section 881

Chorus 882

Delay 883

The LFO section 883

The Envelope section 884

Connections 885

Sequencer Control inputs 885

Modulation inputs 885

Audio Output 885

ID8 Instrument Device 887

Introduction 888

The Sounds 888

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 888

Using the ID8 889

Selecting Sounds 889

Controlling Sounds 889

About saving edited Sounds 890

Rytmik Drum Machine 891

Introduction 892

Panel overview 893

Signal flow 894

Global controls 894

Loading and saving patches 894

The Drum Channel sections 895

Auditioning samples 895

Selecting a Drum Channel 895

Muting and soloing Drum Channels 895

Setting the Drum Channel volumes 895

Setting the Send Effect levels 896

The Sample Playback section 896

Selecting Samples 896

Setting the Sample Start and End 897

Setting the Panning 897

Setting the Pitch 897

Setting Fade In and Fade Out 898

The Insert Effects section 898

Distortion 898

Low Cut and Hi Cut Filter 899

The Master FX section 899

Delay 900

Reverb 901

Compressor 902

Master Pitch 904

Master Reverb 904

Master Filter 904

Master Volume 905

Connections 906

Drum Gate In/Out 906

Separate Outputs 906

Main Output L & R 906

Radical Piano 907

Introduction 908

The pianos 908

Using Radical Piano 910

Loading and saving patches 910

Selecting piano sound sets 910

Character 910

Volume 911

Velocity Response 911

Tune 912

Sustain 912

Resonance 913

Envelope 913

Mechanics 914

EQ 914

TABLE OF CONTENTS19

Ambience 915

Output 915

Connections 916

Sequencer Control 916

Modulation In 916

Audio In 916

Audio Out 916

Additional external control 917

Klang Tuned Percussion 919

Introduction 920

Panel overview 920

Using Klang 921

Loading and saving patches 921

Global performance and “play” controls

921

Panel controls 922

The Instruments section 922

The Filter section 927

The Amp section 929

The Delay section 930

The Reverb section 932

Connections 933

Sequencer Control inputs 933

Modulation Inputs 933

Audio Out 933

Pangea World Instruments

935

Introduction 936

Panel overview 936

Using Pangea 937

Loading and saving patches 937

Global performance and “play” controls

937

Panel controls 938

The Instruments section 938

The Filter section 943

The Amp section 945

The Delay section 947

The Reverb section 948

Connections 950

Sequencer Control inputs 950

Modulation Inputs 950

Audio Out 950

Humana Vocal Ensemble 951

Introduction 952

Panel overview 952

Using Humana 953

Loading and saving patches 953

Global performance and “play” controls

953

Panel controls 954

The Instruments section 954

The Filter section 960

The Amp section 962

The Delay section 964

The Reverb section 965

Connections 967

Sequencer Control inputs 967

Modulation Inputs 967

Audio Out 967

TABLE OF CONTENTS20

NN-XT Sampler 969

Introduction 970

Sampling in NN-XT 970

Panel overview 971

The main panel 971

The Remote Editor panel 971

Loading complete Patches and REX files

972

Loading NN-XT Patches 972

Loading NN-19 Patches 972

Loading SoundFonts 973

Loading complete REX files as Patches 973

Using the main panel 974

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 974

The External Control wheel 974

High Quality Interpolation 975

Global Controls 975

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 977

The Key Map display 977

Sample parameters 978

Group parameters 978

Synth Parameters 979

About Samples and Zones 979

Selections and Edit Focus 980

Selecting Zones 981

Moving Edit Focus 983

Adjusting parameters 983

Adjusting Synth parameters 983

Adjusting Group parameters 983

Sample parameters 984

Managing Zones and Samples 985

Creating a Key Map 985

About file formats and REX slices 986

Adding more samples to the Key Map 986

Replacing a sample 986

Quick browsing through samples 987

Removing samples 987

Auditioning samples 987

Adding empty Zones 987

Duplicating Zones 988

Removing Zones 988

Rearranging Zones in the List 988

Working with Grouping 988

About Groups 988

Creating a Group 988

Moving a Group to another position in the List 989

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 989

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 990

The Group Parameters 990

Working with Key Ranges 990

About Key Ranges 990

Setting up Key Ranges 990

About the Lock Root Keys function 994

About the Solo Sample function 995

Sorting Zones by Note 996

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 997

About the Root Key 997

Setting the Root Note manually 997

Tuning samples manually 997

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

998

About changing the pitch of samples 998

Using Automap 998

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 999

Creating layered sounds 999

About velocity ranges 999

Setting velocity range for a Zone 1001

About Crossfading Between Zones 1001

Setting crossfading for a Zone 1003

Using Alternate 1003

About the Alternate function 1003

Sample parameters 1004

Root Note and Tune 1004

Sample Start and End 1004

Loop Start and End 1004

Play Mode 1005

Lo Key and Hi Key 1005

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 1005

Fade In and Fade Out 1005

Alt 1005

Out 1005

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