Propellerhead Reason 6.5 User manual

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Table of Contents

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Introduction 23

Welcome! 24

About this chapter 24

About this manual 24

About the Reason operating system

versions 24

Conventions in the manual 24

Authorization 26

Registering and authorizing Reason 26

Running Reason with the Ignition Key hardware 28

Running Reason with Internet Verification 28

Running Reason in Demo Mode 29

Reassigning the Function Keys in Mac

OS X 30

Common Operations and

Concepts 33

About this chapter 34

Areas, windows and basic navigation 34

Song window overview 34

The Main Mixer 35

The Rack 36

The Sequencer 37

The Transport Panel 38

The ReGroove Mixer 38

Navigating between the areas 39

Showing/hiding the Navigators 39

Using several Reason Song windows 39

The Tool Window 40

The On-screen Piano Keys window 41

General window techniques 42

Resizing 42

Scrolling 43

Zooming in the Sequencer 44

Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 45

Editing parameters 46

Knobs 46

Faders and sliders 46

Buttons 47

Fold/Unfold buttons 47

Multi Mode selectors 48

Numerical controls 48

Alpha-numeric controls 49

Numerical segment displays 50

Tool Tips 51

Context menus 52

Parameter context menus 52

Device context menus 53

Main Mixer channel strip context menu 54

Rack “background” context menu 55

Main Mixer “background” context menu 55

Sequencer context menus 55

Undo and Redo 56

On-screen Piano Keys 59

About this chapter 60

Using the On-screen Piano Keys 60

Opening the Piano Keys window 60

Mouse mode 61

Computer Keys mode 62

Audio Basics 65

About this chapter 66

How Reason communicates with your

audio hardware 66

Manual audio routing 67

Audio quality 67

Audio settings 68

About audio levels 70

System signal paths 73

Audio Track signal paths 73

Instrument Track signal paths 74

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General information about audio and

computers 75

About latency 75

About processors 76

About RAM 76

Sequencer Functions 77

About this chapter 78

Introduction 78

Sequencer area overview 78

Song View and Edit Mode 79

Toolbar overview 80

Track List overview 80

Tracks overview 81

Lanes overview 81

Clips overview 82

Inspector overview 82

Ruler overview 82

Edit/Arrangement Pane overview 82

Track Navigator overview 83

Song Navigator overview 83

Transport Panel overview 83

Track details 84

Track definition 84

The relationship between the track, the rack and the

Main Mixer 85

Master Keyboard Input 89

The relationship between tracks, lanes, clips and events

90

Track types 90

Track List elements 92

Creating tracks 92

Selecting tracks 96

Moving tracks 97

Deleting tracks 97

Duplicating/copying tracks and devices 98

Coloring tracks 99

Naming tracks 99

Folding tracks 99

Muting tracks 100

Soloing tracks 100

Lane details 101

Audio lane 101

Note lane 102

Parameter automation lane 103

Pattern lane 104

Creating/adding lanes 105

Deleting lanes 107

Moving note lanes 109

Copying (duplicating) note lanes 109

Muting lanes 110

Clip basics 110

Clip types 110

Toolbar details 111

Toolbar tools 111

Alternate tools 113

Snap 114

Sequencer Toolbar keyboard shortcuts 115

Ruler details 115

Transport Panel details 116

Transport keyboard commands 119

About the Inspector 120

About subticks in the Position and Length displays 120

About the “Match Values” function 120

Recording in the Sequencer

121

About this chapter 122

General recording functions 122

Record enabling 122

Click and Pre-count 126

Loop mode 128

General recording procedure 129

Undoing a recording 130

Recording tips 130

Audio recording details 130

Setting up the audio track 130

Recording audio 135

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Recording audio in Loop mode 137

Overdubbing audio using the “Dub” function 138

Duplicating audio tracks using the “Alt” function 138

Recording over or into an existing audio clip 139

Recording audio from Mix Channel outputs 140

Recording a mixdown of several audio tracks 142

Note recording details 146

Setting up the instrument track 146

Recording notes 146

Recording notes in Loop mode 146

Recording over or into an existing note clip 147

Recording notes using the “Dub” and “Alt” functions 148

Parameter automation recording details

150

Performance controllers vs. track parameter automation

150

Recording performance controller automation 151

Recording parameter automation into Note Clips 152

Recording performance controller automation over or

into an existing clip 152

About performance controller automation on multiple

lanes 153

Recording parameter automation 153

Recording parameter automation in Loop mode 154

Recording parameter automation over or into an existing

clip 155

Adjusting automated parameters during playback - “Live

mode” 156

Recording parameter automation on multiple tracks 156

Pattern automation recording details 157

Recording pattern automation 157

Tempo automation recording 158

Recording tempo automation 158

Arranging in the Sequencer

161

About this chapter 162

Clip handling 162

Selecting clips 162

Setting audio clip Level and Fades 164

Deleting clips 165

Resizing (masking) clips 166

About masked recordings and events 167

Tempo scaling clips 169

Moving clips 171

About overlapping clips 173

Duplicating clips 173

Cutting, Copying and Pasting clips 173

Naming clips 174

Coloring clips 174

Splitting clips 174

Joining clips 176

Muting clips 178

Merging clips on note lanes 178

Matching clips using the “Match Values” function 179

Inserting bars 181

Removing bars 181

About removing bars that contain audio recordings 182

Audio Editing in the

Sequencer 183

About this chapter 184

The Edit Mode 184

Opening audio clips for editing 185

Edit Mode elements for audio clips 187

The relationship between Clips, Comp Rows and

Recordings 190

Edit Mode window handling 192

Audio editing tools 193

Razor (Cut) Tool 193

Speaker Tool 193

Editing audio clips 194

Selecting a Comp Row for playback in Single Mode 194

Selecting Comp Rows 195

Deleting Comp Rows 195

Moving Comp Rows 196

Duplicating Comp Rows 196

Cutting, copying and pasting Comp Rows 197

Adjusting the Comp Row Level 197

Adjusting the Recording Offset 198

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Delete Unused Recordings 198

Bounce Clip(s) to New Sample(s) 199

Normalizing Clips 200

Reversing Clips 201

Tempo scaling Clips 201

Transposing Audio Clips 203

Editing audio in Comp Mode 205

Adding Cuts 205

Adding Segments 206

Adding Crossfades to Cuts 206

Deleting Cuts 207

Moving Cuts 207

Changing Comp Row assignments 208

Bounce Clip(s) to New Recording(s) 209

Creating a comped audio clip 210

Audio and tempo matching 214

Matching an imported audio clip to the song tempo 214

Moving a snare hit 215

Editing audio using the Inspector 218

Editing recordings and cuts in the Inspector 218

Matching audio values using the "Match Values"

function 218

Note and Automation Editing

221

About this chapter 222

The Edit Mode 222

Selecting what to edit 223

Opening note and automation clips for editing 223

Edit Mode elements 225

Edit Mode window handling 227

Note Edit Modes 227

Creating empty clips 230

Tool Window editing tools 231

Note editing 232

Selecting notes 232

Deleting notes 232

Drawing notes 233

Resizing notes 235

Moving notes 238

Duplicating notes 241

Using Cut, Copy and Paste 242

Quantizing notes 243

Pitch (Transpose) 246

Extract Notes to Lanes 247

Scale Tempo 250

Editing note velocity 251

Automation editing 253

Overview 253

Editing parameter automation 253

Drawing parameter automation events 256

Deleting automation events 257

Editing performance controller automation 257

About Automation Cleanup 259

Editing pattern automation 260

Drawing pattern automation 261

Moving, resizing and duplicating pattern automation clips

262

Deleting pattern automation clips 262

The “Convert Pattern Automation to Notes” function 263

Editing tempo automation 263

About tempo changes and tempo automation of audio

tracks 264

Automating time signature 265

Moving, resizing and duplicating time signature

automation clips 266

Deleting time signature automation clips 266

Note and automation editing in the

Inspector 267

Editing notes and events in the Inspector 267

Matching notes or events using the “Match Values”

function 267

Working with Blocks in the

Sequencer 271

About this chapter 272

Introduction 272

The idea behind Blocks 272

Arrangement Views 273

Song View (with Blocks disabled) 273

Song View (with Blocks enabled) 274

Block View 275

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Editing Blocks in the Block View 275

Selecting a Block for editing 275

Renaming Blocks 276

Defining the Block length 276

Changing Block color 276

Recording in the Block View 277

Editing clips in the Block View 277

Arranging clips in the Block View 277

Arranging Blocks in the Song View 277

Creating Block Automation Clips 277

Resizing Block Automation Clips 279

Reassigning Blocks in Block Automation Clips 279

Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips 280

Converting Block Automation Clips to Song Clips 282

Combining Block Automation Clips with Song Clips 284

Working with the Rack 287

About this chapter 288

Rack device procedures 288

Navigating in the rack 288

Resizing and detaching the rack 289

About Device Groups 289

Creating devices 291

Selecting devices 293

Deleting devices 294

Re-ordering devices 294

Creating new rack columns 296

About the “Sort Selected Device Groups” function 296

Duplicating devices 297

Cut, Copy and Paste devices 297

Naming devices 298

Folding and unfolding devices 299

Working with Rack Extensions

301

About this chapter 302

What are Rack Extensions? 302

Future compatibility 302

Trying and buying Rack Extensions 302

Trial versions of Rack Extensions 302

Buying Rack Extensions 302

Installing and managing Rack

Extensions 303

Using Rack Extensions in Reason 304

About missing Rack Extensions 306

Sounds and Patches 307

About this chapter 308

About patches 308

Reason devices that use patches 308

Loading patches 309

Saving patches 310

Copying and pasting patches between devices 311

Initializing patches and resetting device parameters 311

About ReFills 312

Using the Browser 313

Opening the browser 314

Browser elements 315

Navigating in the Browser 318

Using Locations and Favorites 320

Favorites Lists 320

Selecting and auditioning patches 323

Selecting and auditioning samples 323

Selecting multiple files 323

Cross-browsing patch files 324

Create Instrument/Create Effect 325

About patch formats and sampler devices 325

Using the “Search” function 326

Opening files 327

About browse lists 327

Handling Missing Sounds 328

The Missing Sounds dialog 329

Reason file formats 331

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Routing Audio and CV 335

About this chapter 336

Signal types 336

Audio signals 336

CV/Gate signals 336

About P-LAN signals 337

About MIDI routing 337

About cables 337

Cable appearance 337

Checking and following cable connections 338

Cable color 339

Automatic routing 339

Auto-routing of audio input signals 339

Auto-routing of Instrument devices 340

Auto-routing of Effect devices 340

Auto-routing of CV/Gate signals 341

Auto-routing devices after they have been created 341

About re-routing devices in Reason Version 5 (or earlier)

songs 342

Manual routing 343

Connecting cables 344

Connecting cables using pop-up menus 344

Disconnecting cables 345

Disconnecting devices 345

Using CV and Gate 346

Routing CV and Gate signals 346

About CV Trim knobs 346

The Main Mixer 347

About this chapter 348

Overview 348

The Audio Track, its device and mixer channel strip 349

The Mix Channel device and channel strip 350

The Master Section device mixer strip 351

Navigating in the Main Mixer 352

Viewing the Main Mixer area 352

Scrolling and navigating in the Main Mixer 352

Showing and hiding channel strip sections 353

Switching between channels, rack devices and tracks

354

Managing mixer channels 355

Creating and deleting channels 355

Selecting channels 355

Moving channels 356

Copying and duplicating channels 356

Copy channel settings 357

Resetting channel settings 358

Naming mixer channels 358

Coloring mixer channels 358

The channel strip 359

Input section 359

Dynamics section 360

EQ section 363

Insert FX section 364

FX Sends section 365

Fader section 366

Channel Header section 367

The Master Section strip 368

Master Compressor section 369

FX Send section 370

Master Inserts section 371

FX Return section 372

Master Fader section 373

Master Section Header 374

Automating mixer parameters 374

Working with effects 374

Insert FX 374

Send FX 378

Remote controlling the Main Mixer 381

Remote controlling a single mixer channel 381

Remote controlling multiple mixer channels 381

Advanced routing tips and tricks 384

Chaining Send effects from Redrum or Mixer devices

384

Splitting signals using the Insert FX Out 386

Using compression sidechaining 387

Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct

Outs 389

Creating an input channel for recording with effects 389

Creating a sub-mixer 391

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Song File Handling 395

About this chapter 396

Opening Songs 396

Opening a Reason or Record Song 396

Opening a Reason Demo Song 397

Opening the last Song at program launch 397

Closing Songs 397

Closing a Song 397

Creating Songs 398

Creating a new empty Song 398

Setting up the Default Song 398

Creating a new Song from a template 398

Saving Songs 399

Saving a Song 399

Saving and optimizing a Song 399

Including Song Information 400

About Self-Contained Songs 401

Making a Song appear as a Template Song 402

A note about saving Songs as audio files 402

Audio data and Scratch Disk settings 403

About audio data in Song files 403

Changing Scratch Disk folder location 403

About “Orphan Audio Streams” 404

Importing and exporting Standard MIDI

Files 404

Importing Standard MIDI Files 404

Exporting Standard MIDI Files 405

Importing and Exporting

Audio 407

About this chapter 408

Importing audio 408

Audio formats, sample rates and tempo matching 408

About tempo matching imported audio 408

Importing audio to the sequencer 409

Exporting audio 411

Exporting Songs or parts of Songs 411

Bouncing Mixer Channels 413

Bouncing Audio Clips 415

Sampling 417

About this chapter 418

Overview 418

One-click sampling 418

The Edit Sample window 418

About sample format, rate and resolution 419

General sampling functions 419

Setting up for sampling 419

Sampling 421

The Sample buttons 421

Sampling procedure 421

The Song Samples tab 424

Editing samples 426

The Edit Sample window 426

Setting Sample Start and End 428

Cropping samples 430

Normalizing samples 430

Reversing samples 430

Fading in/out samples 431

Looping samples 432

Saving edited samples 434

Renaming samples 434

Sample management 435

About Assigned and Unassigned samples 435

Saving samples in a song 436

Deleting samples from a song 436

Loading samples into a device 437

Duplicating samples 438

Exporting samples 439

About self-contained samples 441

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The ReGroove Mixer 443

Introduction 444

ReGroove basics 444

The ReGroove Mixer 445

Global parameters 445

Channel parameters 446

Copy, Paste and Initialize ReGroove channels 450

Groove Settings 451

Working with grooves 454

Applying grooves to your music 454

Commit to Groove - making the grooves “permanent”

457

Creating your own ReGroove patches 458

Groovy tips & tricks 459

ReGroove patches in the Factory Sound

Bank 460

Remote - Playing and

Controlling Devices 461

About the various MIDI inputs 462

About Remote 462

Setting up 463

Adding a control surface or keyboard 463

Other functions 465

Example Setups 465

Remote basics 466

About Standard vs Remote Override mapping 467

About mapping variations 467

Locking a surface to a device 468

Locking a surface 468

Unlocking a surface 470

Remote Override 471

Activating Remote Override Edit mode 471

Remote Override mapping 472

Additional Remote Overrides... 475

Assigning Additional Overrides 476

Keyboard Control 477

Enabling Keyboard Control 477

Editing Keyboard Control 477

Saving Remote Setups 478

ReWire 479

About this chapter 480

Why use Reason with ReWire? 480

Introducing ReWire! 480

In ReWire version 1 480

In ReWire 2 480

How does it work? 480

Terminology 481

About system requirements 481

About synchronization 481

Launching and quitting applications 481

Using the Transport and Tempo controls

482

Routing audio 482

Preparations in Reason 482

Routing in the ReWire host application 483

Routing MIDI via ReWire 2 483

Converting ReWire channels to audio

tracks 484

Details about various ReWire hosts 484

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Synchronization and

Advanced MIDI 485

About this chapter 486

Synchronization to MIDI Clock 486

ReWire users – read this! 486

What is synchronization and MIDI Clock? 486

Slaving Reason to an external MIDI application or

instrument 486

Slaving Reason to another program on the same

computer 487

Synchronization considerations 487

Advanced MIDI - The External Control

Bus inputs 489

About the External Control Bus inputs 489

Routing MIDI to devices 490

Sending Controller data via MIDI 490

About recording Pattern Changes 490

Optimizing Performance 491

Introduction 492

Checking Processing Power 492

Optimization and latency reduction 492

About Latency Compensation 493

Optimizing your computer system 494

Optimizing Songs 496

RAM requirements 498

Hardware Interface 499

Introduction 500

About using ReWire 501

Sampling Input section 501

Advanced MIDI Device 502

More Audio 502

The Big Meter 503

The Combinator 505

Introduction 506

Creating Combinator devices 507

Combinator elements 508

About internal and external connections

509

About External Routing 509

Adding devices to a Combi 511

About the Insertion line 511

Creating new devices in a Combi 511

Adding devices using drag and drop 512

Adding devices using copy/paste 513

Adding a Combi to a Combi 513

Combining two Combis 513

Combining devices in a Combi with devices in the rack

513

Combi handling 513

Moving the entire Combi 513

Moving devices within a Combi 514

Moving devices out of a Combi 514

Deleting devices in a Combi 514

Uncombining devices 514

Sequencer tracks and playing Combis

514

The Controller panel 515

Select backdrop... 516

Using the Programmer 517

Key Mapping instrument devices 518

Setting Velocity Ranges for instrument devices 519

Using Modulation Routing 520

CV Connections 523

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Mixer 14:2 525

Introduction 526

The Channel Strip 526

Channel Strip Controls 527

The Mixer signal flow 528

About the EQ modes 528

The Auxiliary Return Section 529

The Master Fader 529

Connections 529

Chaining several Mixer 14:2 devices 531

The Line Mixer 6:2 533

Introduction 534

Channel parameters 534

The Auxiliary Return section 534

Master level 534

Connections 535

ID8 Instrument Device 537

Introduction 538

The Sounds 538

The ID8 and Standard MIDI Files 538

Using the ID8 539

Selecting Sounds 539

Controlling Sounds 539

About saving edited Sounds 540

Subtractor Synthesizer 541

Introduction 542

Loading and Saving Patches 542

The Oscillator Section 543

Oscillator 1 Waveform 543

Setting Oscillator 1 Frequency - Octave/Semitone/Cent

545

Oscillator Keyboard Tracking 545

Using Oscillator 2 545

Oscillator 2 Waveform 546

Noise Generator 546

Phase Offset Modulation 547

Frequency Modulation (FM) 549

Ring Modulation 550

The Filter Section 551

Filter 1 Type 551

Filter 1 Frequency 554

Resonance 554

Filter Keyboard Track (Kbd) 554

Filter 2 555

Envelopes - General 556

Amplitude Envelope 557

Filter Envelope 557

Mod Envelope 558

LFO Section 559

LFO 1 Parameters 559

LFO 2 Parameters 560

Play Parameters 561

Velocity Control 561

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 562

Legato 563

Retrig 563

Portamento (Time) 563

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 564

About the Low Bandwidth button 564

External Modulation 564

Connections 565

Audio Output 565

Sequencer Control 565

Modulation Inputs 566

Modulation Outputs 566

Gate Inputs 566

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Thor Polysonic Synthesizer

567

Introduction 568

Loading and Saving Patches 568

Thor elements 569

The Controller panel 570

Using the Programmer 572

Basic connections - a tutorial 573

The Oscillator section 576

Mix section 583

Filter slots 583

Shaper 587

Amp section 587

LFO 1 588

Envelope sections 589

Global section 590

Modulation bus routing section 592

Step Sequencer 601

Basic operation 601

Connections 605

Malström Synthesizer 607

Introduction 608

Features 608

Theory of operation 609

Loading and Saving Patches 609

The Oscillator section 610

Setting oscillator frequency 611

Controlling playback of the graintable 611

The amplitude envelopes 612

The Modulator section 613

Modulator parameters 613

Destinations 614

The Filter section 615

The Filters 616

The Filter Envelope 618

The Shaper 619

Routing 621

Routing examples 622

The output controls 625

The play controls 625

Polyphony - setting the number of voices 626

Porta (portamento) 626

Legato 626

The Pitch Bend and Modulation wheels 627

The Velocity controls 627

The Modulation wheel controls 628

Connections 629

Audio Output 629

Audio Input 629

Sequencer Control 629

Gate Input 630

Modulation Input 630

Modulation Output 630

Routing external audio to the filters 631

NN-19 Sampler 633

Introduction 634

General sampling principles 634

Background 634

Multisampling vs. single samples 634

About audio file formats 635

Loading a Sample Patch 635

Loading REX Files as Patches 636

Sampling in NN-19 636

About Key Zones and samples 637

Loading a Sample into an empty NN-19 637

Loading SoundFont samples 638

Loading REX slices as samples 638

Creating Key Zones 638

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Selecting Key Zones 639

Setting the Key Zone Range 639

Deleting a Key Zone 639

About Key zones, assigned and unassigned samples

640

Adding sample(s) to a Key Map 640

Setting the Root Key 640

Removing sample(s) from a Key Map 641

Removing all unassigned samples 641

Rearranging samples in a Key Map 641

Setting Sample Level 641

Tuning samples 641

Looping Samples 641

About the Solo Sample function 642

Automap Samples 642

Mapping samples without Root Key or Tuning

information 642

How Mapping Information is saved 643

NN-19 synth parameters 643

The Oscillator Section 643

The Filter Section 644

Envelope Section 646

LFO Section 647

Play Parameters 648

Velocity Control 649

Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheels 649

Legato 650

Retrig 650

Portamento (Time) 650

Setting Number of Voices - Polyphony 650

Voice Spread 651

Low Bandwidth 651

Controller Section 651

Connections 651

Audio Outputs 652

Mono Sequencer Control 652

Modulation Inputs 652

Modulation Outputs 652

Gate Inputs 652

NN-XT Sampler 653

Introduction 654

Sampling in NN-XT 654

Panel overview 655

The main panel 655

The Remote Editor panel 655

Loading complete Patches and REX files

656

Loading NN-XT Patches 656

Loading NN-19 Patches 656

Loading SoundFonts 656

Loading complete REX files as Patches 657

Using the main panel 658

The Pitch and Modulation wheels 658

The External Control wheel 658

High Quality Interpolation 659

Global Controls 659

Overview of the Remote Editor panel 661

The Key Map display 661

Sample parameters 662

Group parameters 662

Synth Parameters 663

About Samples and Zones 663

Selections and Edit Focus 664

Selecting Zones 665

Moving Edit Focus 667

Adjusting parameters 667

Adjusting Synth parameters 667

Adjusting Group parameters 667

Sample parameters 668

Managing Zones and Samples 669

Creating a Key Map 669

About file formats and REX slices 670

Adding more samples to the Key Map 670

Replacing a sample 670

Quick browsing through samples 671

Removing samples 671

Auditioning samples 671

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Adding empty Zones 671

Duplicating Zones 671

Removing Zones 672

Rearranging Zones in the List 672

Working with Grouping 672

About Groups 672

Creating a Group 672

Moving a Group to another position in the List 673

Moving a Zone from one Group to another 673

Selecting a Group and/or Zones in a Group 674

The Group Parameters 674

Working with Key Ranges 674

About Key Ranges 674

Setting up Key Ranges 674

About the Lock Root Keys function 678

About the Solo Sample function 679

Sorting Zones by Note 680

Setting Root Notes and Tuning 681

About the Root Key 681

Setting the Root Note manually 681

Tuning samples manually 681

Setting the Root Note and Tuning using pitch detection

682

About changing the pitch of samples 682

Using Automap 682

Layered, crossfaded and velocity

switched sounds 683

Creating layered sounds 683

About velocity ranges 683

Setting velocity range for a Zone 685

About Crossfading Between Zones 685

Setting crossfading for a Zone 687

Using Alternate 687

About the Alternate function 687

Sample parameters 688

Root Note and Tune 688

Sample Start and End 688

Loop Start and End 688

Play Mode 689

Lo Key and Hi Key 689

Lo Vel and Hi Vel 689

Fade In and Fade Out 689

Alt 689

Out 689

Group parameters 690

Key Poly 690

Legato and Retrig 691

LFO 1 Rate 691

Portamento 691

Synth parameters 692

The Modulation controls 692

The Velocity controls 694

The Pitch section 695

The Filter section 696

The Modulation Envelope 697

The Amplitude Envelope 699

The LFOs 700

Connections 702

Sequencer Control 702

Modulation Input 702

Gate Input 703

Audio Output 703

Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player 705

Introduction 706

ReCycled Loops 706

About REX file formats 707

Loading and saving Dr. Octo Rex patches

707

About the Dr. Octo Rex patch format 707

About opening songs that previously used Dr. Rex

devices 707

Playing Loops 708

Switching playback between Loop Slots 708

Adding Loops 709

Loading Loops “On the Fly” 710

Removing Loops 710

Cut/Copy and Paste Loops between Loop Slots 710

Playing individual Loop Slices 710

Creating sequencer notes 711

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Slice handling 714

Selecting Slices 714

Editing individual Slices 714

Editing in the Waveform Display 715

The Slice Edit Mode 716

Dr. Octo Rex panel parameters 717

Pitch and Mod wheels 717

Trig Next Loop 717

Note To Slot 717

Loop Slot buttons 718

Enable Loop Playback and Run 719

Volume 719

Global Transpose 719

Dr. Octo Rex synth parameters 720

Select Loop & Load Slot 720

Loop Transpose 720

Loop Level 721

Oscillator section 721

Mod. Wheel 722

Velocity section 722

The Filter Section 723

Envelope section 724

LFO section 725

Pitch Bend Range 726

Setting number of voices - polyphony 727

Audio Quality settings 727

Connections 727

Modulation Inputs 728

Modulation Outputs 728

Gate Inputs 728

Gate Output 728

Slice Outputs 728

Main Outputs 728

Redrum Drum Computer 729

Introduction 730

Sampling in Redrum 730

About file formats 731

Using patches 732

Loading a patch 732

Checking the sounds in a patch 732

Creating a new patch 732

Creating an empty patch 733

Programming patterns 733

Pattern basics 733

Pattern tutorial 735

Setting pattern length 736

Setting pattern resolution 737

Step dynamics 737

Pattern Shuffle 738

Flam 738

The Pattern Enable switch 739

The Enable Pattern Section switch 739

Pattern functions 740

Chaining patterns 740

Converting Pattern data to notes in the main sequencer

741

Redrum parameters 742

Drum sound settings 742

Global settings 745

Using Redrum as a sound module 746

Connections 747

Kong Drum Designer 749

Introduction 750

Overview 750

The Pad Section 750

The Drum Control Panel 751

The Drum and FX Section 751

About using custom backdrops 751

About file formats 751

Using patches 752

Loading a Kit Patch 752

Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch 753

Creating a new Kit Patch 753

Creating an empty Kit Patch 754

Saving Kit Patches 754

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Pad Settings 755

Assigning Drums to Pads 755

Renaming Pads 756

Copying & Pasting Drums between Pads 756

Assigning Hit Type to Pads 756

Muting and Soloing Pads 757

Working with Pad Groups 758

The Drum and FX section 759

Signal flow 760

The Drum Control Panel 762

Sampling in Kong 764

The Drum Module slot 764

The FX slots 765

The Drum modules 766

NN-Nano Sampler 766

Nurse Rex Loop Player 770

Physical Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 775

Synth Bass Drum, Snare Drum and Tom Tom 777

Synth Hi-hat 778

The Support Generator modules 779

Noise Generator 779

Tone Generator 780

The FX modules 781

Using CV modulation of Bus FX and Master FX

parameters 781

Drum Room Reverb 782

Transient Shaper 782

Compressor 783

Filter 784

Parametric EQ 784

Ring Modulator 785

Rattler 786

Tape Echo 786

Overdrive/Resonator 787

Connections 788

Sequencer Control 788

Modulation Input 788

Aux Send Out 788

Gate In and Out 789

Audio Out 3-16 789

Main Audio Out 789

Using Kong as an effect device 789

Using external effects with Kong 790

The MClass Effects 791

The MClass effects 792

The MClass Equalizer 793

The MClass Stereo Imager 794

The MClass Compressor 795

The MClass Maximizer 798

Line 6 Amps 799

Introduction 800

About the Amp Tones patch format 800

Basic usage 800

Front panel 801

Using the Line 6 Amps 802

Selecting Patches (Amp Tones) 802

Selecting Amp and Cabinet model 803

About the Amp/Cabinet models 804

Amp Parameters 804

Additional parameters 804

Additional Line 6 Amp Models 805

Connections 806

Scream 4 Sound Destruction

Unit 807

Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit 808

Parameters 808

CV inputs and outputs 812

Screamy tips and tricks 813

TABLE OF CONTENTS

19

Pulveriser 815

Introduction 816

About the Patch format 816

Parameters 816

Common effect device parameters 816

Signal Routing selector 817

The Squash section 818

The Dirt section 818

The Filter section 819

The Tremor section 820

The Follower section 821

Blend 822

Volume 822

Modulation inputs and outputs 823

CV Modulation inputs 823

Audio Modulation inputs 823

CV Modulation outputs 824

Demolition tips and tricks 824

Beef up your sounds 824

Make your pads tremble 824

Alligator Triple Filtered Gate

825

Introduction 826

About the Patch format 826

Overview and signal flow 826

Parameters 828

Common effect device parameters 828

Pattern section 828

Gate and Amp Envelope 829

Filters and Modulation 830

Effects 832

Mix controls 834

Audio connections 835

Main Inputs and Outputs 835

Separate Outputs 835

CV connections 836

Gate inputs 836

CV Modulation inputs 836

Gate Outputs 836

LFO CV Out 836

The built-in patterns 837

Methods and Tips 838

Playing the Alligator live 838

Playing the gates from Matrix patterns 838

Controlling other sounds and effects 838

RV7000 Advanced Reverb 841

The RV7000 Advanced Reverb 842

Reverb algorithms and parameters 844

The EQ section 850

The Gate section 851

CV Inputs 852

The Echo 853

Introduction 854

About the Patch format 854

Parameters 854

Common effect device parameters 854

The Mode section 855

The Delay section 856

The Feedback section 857

The Color section 858

The Modulation section 859

The Output section 860

CV/Gate inputs 861

The Breakout Jacks 861

Tips and Tricks 862

Using the Roll function 862

Creating “pitched” delay 862

Distorted external feedback 862

TABLE OF CONTENTS

20

BV512 Vocoder 863

Introduction 864

How does a vocoder work? 864

Setting up for basic vocoding 865

Vocoding vocals in real-time 865

Vocoding an existing audio track 867

Using the BV512 as an equalizer 869

BV512 parameters 870

Connections 871

Automation 872

Tips and tricks 873

Choosing a carrier sound 873

Choosing a modulator sound 874

Using the modulator as carrier 875

Controlling the Hold function 876

Using the individual band level connections 876

“Playing” the vocoder from a MIDI keyboard 878

Using the BV512 as a reverb 878

Neptune Pitch Adjuster and

Voice Synth 881

Introduction 882

Typical use cases 882

Overview and basic concepts 883

Sections overview 883

The display 884

Setting up for pitch processing 884

Setting up for pitch processing of recorded audio tracks

884

Setting up for pitch processing of “live” audio 885

Using pitch correction 885

Basic settings for pitch correction 886

Using automatic pitch correction 887

Using manual pitch correction 891

Using pitch shifting (Transpose) 892

Using Formant control 893

What are formants? 893

Using the Formant function 894

Using the Voice Synth 894

Panel parameters 895

Level Meter and Bypass/On/Off switch 895

Bend and Vibrato wheels 895

Input signal type 896

MIDI Input 896

Pitch Adjust section 897

Transpose section 898

Formant section 898

The Output Mixer section 898

Connections 899

Sequencer Control 899

CV In 899

CV Out 900

Audio In 900

Voice Synth Out 900

Audio Out 900

Pitch adjustment tips and tricks 901

Using automation for temporary pitch correction 901

Hard pitch correction of a vocal track 902

Pitch correction with changed voice character 902

Octave dub 902

Pitch-shifting drums (non-pitched input) 902

Speech effects 903

About “freezing” pitch adjustments on audio tracks 903

Half-Rack Effects 905

Common effect device features 906

DDL-1 Digital Delay Line 908

CF-101 Chorus/Flanger 909

Spider Audio Merger & Splitter 911

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